Strut, Nucleated
Strut, Nucleated[edit]
Nucleated struts are one morphology of strut: others are straight, curved, or ring.
Overview[edit]
In a nucleated strut, the strut radiates in multiple directions, and integrates its compression in a nucleated core. Snelson's x-extender and Levin's spinal nucleated tetrahedron are both examples of nucleated struts. The V-Expander is an example of a partically nucleated strut, as only two struts from its core.
In Fuller's most far-reaching conception, the nucleated strut is the mass center of the atom, held in place by the tension of gravitation.
Nucleated Struts in Motro's Writings[edit]
Motro discusses Anthony Pugh's nucleated models. He wrote, "A first one comprised four triangular compressed components inside a net of tensile ones. The overall geometry was organized according to a cuboctahedron, one of the semi regular polyhedra. The second model was very surprising since the struts constituted a single circuit with 15 nodes and 15 compressed components. For this model, the cables are the edges of a polyhedron with two pentagonal bases. The third one is a twenty-strut four-layer circuit pattern system. There are represented on Figure 15. This presentation concerns only the second cell."
Nucleated Strut Picture Gallery[edit]
Rafael F. Moreno (Falo), a Spanish-born Canadian artist, created a tensegrity based on 4 nucleated triangles. This module is repeated 3 times.
Links and References[edit]
See also Strut, Strut, Curved, or Strut, Ring.