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red: wormscrew(with gears on the ends)
magenta: turnable ring:gear on the outsidethread on the inside
yellow: the "puller housing"holds the wormscrew(s)
cyan: quantizing lock spring
compact high mechanical gainquantized reinforcement chainspanner device
guide rack - side
plane segments
orange: the "pusher piece"thread outsidechannel for chain inside(channel possibly noncircular)
possible connection points forother compression rodsor shape locked tension chains
outside
cut open
The Chain Reinforcement Method
multi chain reinforcement(example with two chains)
guide rack - top view
grey: example core chain design(many are possible)
alternative core chain designs:
conventional (side view)
conventional (top view)
minimalistic hooks (low symmetry)
Author: Lukas M. Süss aka mechadenseLicense: CC BY SA 4.0 / GFDLDate: 2016-04-22Short Description: A method to make large stiff and strong structures from many small segment parts by using a combination of shape locking and the principle known from reinforcement of concrete. The number of elastic energy clip locks is minimizedas much as possible.
the segmented rods can be used to build big deltahedron trussworks