Distribution and level of self-stress has a profound impact on the structural behavior of tensegrity systems. The problems associated with self-stress implementation preclude designing tensegrity structures for civil engineering application. To achieve the feasible self-stress state of a tensegrity shell structure, an efficient procedure based on solving an optimization problem in conjunction with multi constraint equations on group subdivisions is presented in the current study. Several tensegrity shell configurations are utilized to demonstrate the capability of the proposed procedure. The method provides superior performance compared with the other conventional methods of obtaining desired self-stress distributions. For a given shell configuration, group division is of paramount importance with respect to the regularity and uniformity of self-stress distributions.

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张拉整体壳结构的有效自应力设计

自应力的分布和水平对张拉整体系统的结构行为有着深远的影响。与自应力实施相关的问题排除了为土木工程应用设计张拉整体结构。为了实现张拉整体壳结构的可行自应力状态，本研究提出了一种基于求解优化问题并结合群细分的多约束方程的有效程序。几个张拉整体壳配置被用来证明所提出的程序的能力。与获得所需自应力分布的其他传统方法相比，该方法提供了优越的性能。对于给定的外壳配置，