Optimal prestress design of the band gap dynamics in tensegrity metamaterials

摘要

This work analytically and numerically investigates the presence of frequency band gaps in the wave dynamics of tensegrity-based metamaterials. The given results show how it is possible to design metamaterials formed by chains of tensegrity units and lumped masses, which will be tunable by varying the unit's parameters for both the initial static pre-compression of the constituent units and the whole structure.