So again I like what you built here! As someone who also likes to build stuff, when I look at a structure I try to imagine the forces on top and how they transfer into the ground to make it stand. With your stand, it appears (correct me if im wrong) that the main support is the 4 rods in the middle. The cooker on top is trying to squish them but since they are bound in the center it transfers to outward force at the ground. You've got stuff at the bottom to make it hold its shape and a solid binding mid way which supports everything. Some guy cables to balance it since it isn't a uniform load.
Fun construction but nothing under tension thats increasing the integrity of the structure.
4 rods act as main piles and respective cables are in tension like you can hear a guitar string sound when picked. But I made wrong cable configuration so I added waist ring to make the tensile element maintains the stress. Yes if you remove the middle black ring belt everything will collapse. Tighten it will gain extra torsion so slanted cable now stressed enough. Bottom and top (probably you can't see here) cable ring are there to keep rods tip in their place.
Nifty! My wife calls this when I do it napkin engineering lol. As far as tensegrity goes the main distinction is how the load is transferred into the ground. If the load you used on top were perfectly centered and balanced you would be able to remove all the cable pieces and just have the rods in place. The cables you have used keep the load centered so the rods can carry the structure without it falling over. For it to be a tensegrity structure you need the load to be transferred through somthing under tension instead of compression. Some tensegrity structures use solid rods to distribute the load in different directions to balance everything in certain way but if you removed the piece under tension it would be unable to stand at all.
Im loving the ingenuity, but I feel like this is more balance than tensegrity?
You can't be wrong since tensegrity is all about balancing force between compression & tension.
So again I like what you built here! As someone who also likes to build stuff, when I look at a structure I try to imagine the forces on top and how they transfer into the ground to make it stand. With your stand, it appears (correct me if im wrong) that the main support is the 4 rods in the middle. The cooker on top is trying to squish them but since they are bound in the center it transfers to outward force at the ground. You've got stuff at the bottom to make it hold its shape and a solid binding mid way which supports everything. Some guy cables to balance it since it isn't a uniform load. Fun construction but nothing under tension thats increasing the integrity of the structure.
4 rods act as main piles and respective cables are in tension like you can hear a guitar string sound when picked. But I made wrong cable configuration so I added waist ring to make the tensile element maintains the stress. Yes if you remove the middle black ring belt everything will collapse. Tighten it will gain extra torsion so slanted cable now stressed enough. Bottom and top (probably you can't see here) cable ring are there to keep rods tip in their place.
Nifty! My wife calls this when I do it napkin engineering lol. As far as tensegrity goes the main distinction is how the load is transferred into the ground. If the load you used on top were perfectly centered and balanced you would be able to remove all the cable pieces and just have the rods in place. The cables you have used keep the load centered so the rods can carry the structure without it falling over. For it to be a tensegrity structure you need the load to be transferred through somthing under tension instead of compression. Some tensegrity structures use solid rods to distribute the load in different directions to balance everything in certain way but if you removed the piece under tension it would be unable to stand at all.
Good insight. But at least the rods doesn't touch each other at all