Welcome to tnsgrt’s documentation!

This package contains classes and functions that facilitate the design and analysis of tensegrity structures. It started as a matlab toolbox many years ago written by Mauricio de Oliveira and Joseph Cessna, which is now been ported to Python.

It relies heavily on numpy, scipy, pandas, and cvxpy for computations.

Visualization is supported via matplotlib and vispy.

User guide

• Quick start
  • Installation
  • Source code
  • Hello World
  • Prisms, lots of prisms
  • Plotting with VisPy
• The structure of Structures
  • Construction
  • Nodes and members
  • Properties
  • Tags
  • Member and node properties
• Transformations
  • Geometric transformations
  • Merging Structures
• Material and structural properties
  • Equilibrium
    • Unloaded
    • Loaded
  • Stiffness
  • Node constraints
    • Fixed node constraints
    • Node constraints with 2 degrees of freedom
    • Node constraints with one degree of freedom
• Examples
  • Minimal Snelson 3-Prism
  • Non-minimal Snelson 3-Prism
  • Bicycle wheel

Reference

• Modules
  • tnsgrt.prism
  • tnsgrt.michell
  • tnsgrt.structure
  • tnsgrt.plotter
  • tnsgrt.stiffness
  • tnsgrt.utils

Indices and tables

• Index

• Module Index

• Search Page