Tensegrity frameworks in one-dimensional space

  • Authors:
  • András Recski;Offer Shai

  • Affiliations:
  • Budapest University of Technology and Economics, Department of Computer Science and Information Theory, H-1521 Budapest, Hungary;Tel-Aviv University, Department of Mechanics Materials and Systems, Faculty of Engineering, Tel-Aviv, Israel

  • Venue:
  • European Journal of Combinatorics
  • Year:
  • 2010

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Abstract

The edge set of a graph G is partitioned into two subsets E"C@?E"S. A tensegrity framework with underlying graph G and with cables for E"C and struts for E"S is proved to be rigidly embeddable into a one-dimensional line if and only if G is 2-edge-connected and every 2-vertex-connected component of G intersects both E"C and E"S. Polynomial algorithms are given for finding an embedding of such graphs and for checking the rigidity of a given one-dimensional embedding.