US3866366A - Non-symmetrical tension-integrity structures - Google Patents

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US3866366A
US3866366A US386302A US38630273A US3866366A US 3866366 A US3866366 A US 3866366A US 386302 A US386302 A US 386302A US 38630273 A US38630273 A US 38630273A US 3866366 A US3866366 A US 3866366A
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    • E04B—GENERAL BUILDING CONSTRUCTIONS; WALLS, e.g. PARTITIONS; ROOFS; FLOORS; CEILINGS; INSULATION OR OTHER PROTECTION OF BUILDINGS
    • E04B1/00—Constructions in general; Structures which are not restricted either to walls, e.g. partitions, or floors or ceilings or roofs
    • E04B1/18—Structures comprising elongated load-supporting parts, e.g. columns, girders, skeletons
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    • E04B2001/1924—Struts specially adapted therefor
    • E04B2001/1927—Struts specially adapted therefor of essentially circular cross section
    • E—FIXED CONSTRUCTIONS
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    • E04B—GENERAL BUILDING CONSTRUCTIONS; WALLS, e.g. PARTITIONS; ROOFS; FLOORS; CEILINGS; INSULATION OR OTHER PROTECTION OF BUILDINGS
    • E04B1/00—Constructions in general; Structures which are not restricted either to walls, e.g. partitions, or floors or ceilings or roofs
    • E04B1/18—Structures comprising elongated load-supporting parts, e.g. columns, girders, skeletons
    • E04B1/19—Three-dimensional framework structures
    • E04B2001/1924—Struts specially adapted therefor
    • E04B2001/1945—Wooden struts
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    • E04B1/00—Constructions in general; Structures which are not restricted either to walls, e.g. partitions, or floors or ceilings or roofs
    • E04B1/18—Structures comprising elongated load-supporting parts, e.g. columns, girders, skeletons
    • E04B1/19—Three-dimensional framework structures
    • E04B2001/1981—Three-dimensional framework structures characterised by the grid type of the outer planes of the framework
    • E—FIXED CONSTRUCTIONS
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    • E04B—GENERAL BUILDING CONSTRUCTIONS; WALLS, e.g. PARTITIONS; ROOFS; FLOORS; CEILINGS; INSULATION OR OTHER PROTECTION OF BUILDINGS
    • E04B1/00—Constructions in general; Structures which are not restricted either to walls, e.g. partitions, or floors or ceilings or roofs
    • E04B1/18—Structures comprising elongated load-supporting parts, e.g. columns, girders, skeletons
    • E04B1/19—Three-dimensional framework structures
    • E04B2001/1996—Tensile-integrity structures, i.e. structures comprising compression struts connected through flexible tension members, e.g. cables
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    • E04B1/00—Constructions in general; Structures which are not restricted either to walls, e.g. partitions, or floors or ceilings or roofs
    • E04B1/32—Arched structures; Vaulted structures; Folded structures
    • E04B2001/3235—Arched structures; Vaulted structures; Folded structures having a grid frame
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  • FIG. 10 is an enlarged fragmentary view of the upper and lower vertical columns together with related columns and tension elements, there being five of each around the periphery;
  • FIGS. 3, 4, 5, and 6, for purposes of description, the general relation of the column-like members before they are joined together with the tension elements is shown.
  • the top pentagonal configuration, illustrated in FIG. 3 is oriented in a clockwise configuration as compared with the counterclockwise configuration of the bottom pentagonal configuration shown in FIG. 6.
  • the upper substructure base lesser circle pentagon Configuration of FIG. 4 is twisted in the final assembled structure relative to the lower base lesser circle pentagon configuration of FIG. 5.
  • Upwardly extending member 64 has end 643 connected to member 44 of the lower lesser circle pentagon by tension element 44A-64B-44B. End 64B of member 64 is also connected to end 308 of upper lesser circle pentagon member 30 and end 64A by tension element 64B-30B-64A as well as to lesser circle member 34 by tension elence 64B-30B-64A. The upper end 64A of 64 also is connected to the ends of the upper pentagonal configuration member 20 by tension element 20A-64A-20B. The end 508 of member 50 connects to member 44 by tension element 44A-50B-44B. There are five lower and five upper vertical columnlike members repeated in a similar manner. The term vertical means generally vertical when the structure is oriented as shown.
  • each of the column-like members between the substructures has tension elements connecting one of the ends thereof to pentagon lesser circle configurations at the base of a first substructure and the other end thereof connected to a pentagonal-like configuratuion of column-like members outside of said lesser circle of the substructure other than said first substructure.

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GB3420974A GB1477009A (en) 1973-08-07 1974-08-02 Building structures
IT7425974A IT1021097B (it) 1973-08-07 1974-08-05 Struttura asimmetrica del tipo tensione integrita
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US4583956A (en) * 1984-11-02 1986-04-22 Nelson William A Rigid and telescoping strut members connected by flexible tendons
US4614502A (en) * 1985-03-11 1986-09-30 Nelson William A Telescoping strut members and tendons for constructing tensile integrity structures
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US4340217A (en) * 1980-12-22 1982-07-20 Gillis Robert E Monkey maze
US4548004A (en) * 1983-08-08 1985-10-22 Chastain Lemuel J Space frame construction with mutually dependent surfaces
US4583956A (en) * 1984-11-02 1986-04-22 Nelson William A Rigid and telescoping strut members connected by flexible tendons
US4614502A (en) * 1985-03-11 1986-09-30 Nelson William A Telescoping strut members and tendons for constructing tensile integrity structures
US4844213A (en) * 1987-09-29 1989-07-04 Travis William B Energy absorption system
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