HexDome
Essays
Catenary domes
- the ideal shape of a dome in a gravitationl field;
Stability
- on what it means to be stable;
Wheel stability
- minimum number of spokes in a wire wheel;
Minimal stable system
- the minimal way to stabilise an object;
Triangulation
- on triangles and stability;
Tent rings
- diffusing pressure in tensile fabrics;
Honeycomb domes
- how to build a big dome;
Dome optimisation
- optimising dome topology and structure;
Isometric struts
- making domes with struts of identical lengths;
Eden fabric stability
- a fabric with two types of degrees of freedom;
Bridge page
- index to this site's "bridges" material;
Stronger struts
- improving strut strength;
Tensegrity Tetrahedron
- minimal configurations;
Greenhouse conjectures
- conjectures about making Goldberg greenhouses;
Vertical fallacy
- on skyscrapers;
Tube loop tensegrities
- tensegrities with no grooves or holes;
Close packing
- sphere packing of variable-size spheres;
Stability tests
- investigation of the stability of hexagon-based tensegrity domes;
Polytunnels
- polythene grow houses;
Pentagonal prism
- a simple tensegrity;
Dimpled domes
- why dual layer domes will often have dimples;
Prototype hubs
- for constructing hexagonal domes;
Floating bones
- do bones
really
'float'?;
The essays about suspension can now be found [
here
].
Tim Tyler
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