| SELECTED IDEAS OF BUCKMINSTER FULLER | |
| OCTETS: CURVED | |
| CURVED OCTET TRUSS STRUCTURES: MODELS | |
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| Rigid | Tensegrity |
R Buckminster Fuller patented the octet truss in 1961. |
Octet trusses can not only be flat but formed into all sorts of curved shapes, such as cigar-shaped hulls for use in airplanes, ships, submarines, cars, trains, silos, tanks, or any other volume-enclosing shapes. |
The tension and compression elements may be separated out to reduce the weight and cost. |
| Octet Truss | R B. Fuller | US Patent | 2,986,241 | 05-30-61 |
| Dome Builders' Handbook No.2 | W. Yarnall | - | p 112 | 1978 |
| Tensegrity Module Structure/Method of Interconnecting the Modules | C. J. Kitrick | US Patent | 4,207,715 | 06-17-80 |
| Inventions | R B. Fuller | - | pp 286-93 | 1983 |
| Ultimate Load Behaviour of a Barrel Vault Space Truss (vol 2, #1) | Hoe/Schmidt | Space Structures | pp 1-10 | 1986-7 |
| The Bombers | Robin Cross | Index/Wellington | pp 88-89 | 1987 |
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