Sentences with word «tensegrity»

Griffis adds that air - supported structures such as the Metrodome are a particular class of tensegrity structures supported by differential air pressure.

In fact, according to Wikipedia, it is «also the largest Tensegrity structure in existance.»

«This is the first study, to our knowledge, that demonstrates the mechanical continuity, strain transfer, and conformational changes that result from chemical energy release from the atomic scale up through the whole - cell level, as well as how tensegrity guides those changes to drive cellular movement,» says Ingber.

In addition, building something in tensegrity means that less material is needed to create an exceptionally rigid structure — an intriguing way to approach greener building.

The structural relationship of the bones and myofascia is characterized by a term called Tensegrity (the word derived from the combination of Tensional and Integrity).

The research, reported in Extreme Mechanics Letters, further elucidates the importance of tensegrity as a fundamental tenet of biology.

In their newest article, they show that this same model reveals tensegrity at work across multiple size scales in the hierarchical structure of a living cell.

This week the world's largest tensegrity pedestrian and cycle bridge was officially opened in Brisbane, Queensland.

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Architect Buckminster Fuller coined the term tensegrity, short for «tensional integrity,» to describe a method he developed for constructing surprisingly strong and flexible buildings that seem to float in space.

The idea that tensegrity dictates the shape and organization of living cells was initially controversial, but as a result of experimental validation in multiple systems, it has gained greater acceptance over time.

Further investigations suggested that the higher prevalence of enzyme molecules on the inner versus outer folds of the mitochondrial cristae could, in fact, contribute to the physical properties of the microenvironment as well, implying that tensegrity also stabilizes structures at the scale of complex multi-molecular interactions.

The researchers then modeled a new system with the same process: the mitochondrial enzyme ATP synthase, which also exhibits a distinct conformational change that is dictated by the application of force to the enzyme structure, which is propagated via tensegrity.

Now that we have a modeling approach that validates and incorporates tensegrity, we hope to be able to study and employ it in entirely new and unexpected ways.»

«For example, working with [Founding Core Faculty member and Molecular Robotics co-lead] William Shih, we built tensegrity - based DNA nanodevices that can be programmed to change shape on demand for biomedical applications, and with [Core Faculty member and Bioinspired Robotics co-lead] Radhika Nagpal, we engineered a self - deforming, modular robot that can perform a variety of maneuvers more quickly than traditional robots.

Ingber became convinced that tensegrity applied to cells as well.

«We've probably seen the last of air - inflated tensegrity domes.»

Our bodies possess internal tensegrity, meaning that our structure can support itself more efficiently when we are properly aligned.

Without Tensegrity, our bones would be crushed under the impact of running or jumping.

Second Snelson tensegrity structure to the right.

So when your sculpture flexes right back into shape, you'll know just what principles of tensegrity you've demonstrated.

While the man - made world is built using either tension (for example, suspension bridges) or compression (brick walls), the biological architecture of our cells uses a combination of both called tensegrity.

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Their work also revealed how tensegrity - based changes in molecular shape can drive the motion of cellular parts.

In Tensegrity, the bones are compressive elements that are suspended (not stacked upon each other) within the myofascia that are tension elements.

«Tensegrity is a good example of a biological design principle that we have been inspired by here at the Wyss Institute, and that we leverage to create new technologies,» adds Ingber.

Donald Ingber, M.D., Ph.D., Founding Director of the Wyss Institute at Harvard University, started investigating this «architecture of life» over thirty - five years ago, and discovered that Nature uses an architectural principle known as «tensegrity» (short for «tensional integrity») to stabilize the shapes of living cells and to determine how they respond to mechanical forces.

Based on these properties, Ingber also proposed in a «Scientific American» article in 1998 that tensegrity could apply beyond the cellular level to all size scales of life, from atoms to whole organisms.

Tensegrity can also be hierarchical, in that each structural element can itself be a tensegrity structure at a smaller scale, with tensional integrity being maintained both locally and globally.

Recent work by Ingber and others has provided experimental support for that hypothesis by demonstrating that tensegrity is used at the scale of cellular nuclei, cytoskeletal elements, and individual molecules.

His tensegrity sculptures look like three - dimensional exploded diagrams built of metal poles and tensioned wire: beautiful to look at, but a cold and distant beauty.

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It was built according to the principles of an architectural concept known as tensegrity, in which an object's structural stability arises from the tension among its parts.

For example, Noguchi adapted into his own sculptures Fuller's «tensegrity» system, a term the inventor coined to denote structural integrity created by tension.

A primary motivator for the decision will, arguably, be the stadium's outdated roof design — its inflatability rather than the tensegrity aspect.

Tensegrity is a term coined by the futurist inventor Buckminster Fuller to describe structures that balance compression with tension, but need not specifically apply to inflatables.

More recently, some stadiums with air - inflated supported «tensegrity» domes — a structural system that is still commonly used for other sports facilities such as tennis courts — are being shuttered.

Tensegrity structures, however, can be self - supporting without the use of air pressure by employing cables, interior vertical pipe struts and / or a perimeter concrete compression ring.

(Tensegrity structures are supported primarily by high - strength cables whose tension forces are balanced either by air or other support structures, Griffis says.)

Fascia demonstrates «tensegrity» or tension and integrity, as it is a tension - structure that envelops our entire body.

SI offers concepts like flexor - extensor balance, core - sleeve balance, rectus - psoas balance, rhomboid - psoas balance, the Line, tensegrity (you can find a lot of this explained in my book Stack Your Bones btw) and has brilliant ways of illustrating mobility and stability....

In this workshop we will understand the pelvis from the lens of tensegrity, or integrity of tension.

This training for yoga teachers, yoga therapists and serious yoga students is designed to refine your ability to observe subtleties of anatomical alignment, «tensegrity» (don't worry if this term is new to you — all will be explained), the movement of breath and even the elusive «flow of prana» in a wide variety of asana.