How to design a climbing tree in tensegrity?

Published on October 2, 2023 – Updated on February 22, 2024

As part of the transdisciplinary project TRAN-H-201 organized during the 2022-2023 academic year by the construction section, the BATir department welcomed 3 groups of students.

As part of the transdisciplinary project TRAN-H-201 organized during the 2022-2023 academic year by the construction section, the BATir department welcomed 3 groups of students: in total, 17 boys and 8 girls stuying in the 2nd year of their Bachelor in Engineering Sciences. The challenge was to build a climbing tree with a 3 m span using cables and bars and capable of supporting a load of 80 kg at mid-span; all with a tensegrity structure design! This resulted in three very different and original projects that have been built and tested inside the civil engineering laboratory at real scale! This was a very successful project for all the students allowing them to get a first experience in the field of structural design in construction and also for the accompanying team composed by young PhD students (Maïté Lacante and Chaimae Bouiyed) and technicians (Gilles Van Hooren and Guillaume Deneyer) from LGM and LGC coordinated by Stéphanie Staquet.

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on the October 2, 2023