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Tetrahedral-Octahedral Truss Analysis

This homework assignment involves analyzing the static indeterminacy and internal mechanisms of a tetrahedral-octahedral truss. Students are asked to: 1) Develop the deformation-displacement matrix for a 3D truss member, 2) Modify code to assemble this matrix for the whole truss, 3) Compute the rank to determine static indeterminacy and mechanisms, 4) Find representations of the mechanisms via the null space, and 5) Identify internal mechanisms versus rigid body motions.

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Tetrahedral-Octahedral Truss Analysis

This homework assignment involves analyzing the static indeterminacy and internal mechanisms of a tetrahedral-octahedral truss. Students are asked to: 1) Develop the deformation-displacement matrix for a 3D truss member, 2) Modify code to assemble this matrix for the whole truss, 3) Compute the rank to determine static indeterminacy and mechanisms, 4) Find representations of the mechanisms via the null space, and 5) Identify internal mechanisms versus rigid body motions.

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CIE515 Advanced Structural Analysis

Homework #2 Stability and Static Indeterminacy


Assigned: September 22, 2015; Due: October 01, 2015

A tetrahedral-octahedral truss consists of two identical square grids in two horizontal planes, with the joints
of the top grid being vertically aligned with the centers of the squares in the bottom grid. Each joint of the
bottom grid is connected to the nearest neighboring joints in the top grid. The simplest possible tetrahedraloctahedral truss, with two squares each in the bottom and top grids, is shown in the figure below.

A 3D view of a tetrahedral-octahedral truss

Top view of a tetrahedral-octahedral truss

The geometry of the truss is easier to understand from the PDF version of this document posted on
UBlearns, where the above pictures are in color. These pictures were generated using a MATLAB script,
CreateTetraOctaTruss.m, which is also posted on UBlearns. The goal in this homework is to
determine the static indeterminacy and the internal mechanisms of this truss.
1. Develop the deformation-displacement matrix

for a 3D truss member.

2. Modify our truss analysis MATLAB code, so that it assembles the deformation-displacement matrix
for the whole truss, rather than the stiffness matrix
3. Compute the rank of

, and hence the degree of static indeterminacy and number of mechanisms.

4. Find representations of the mechanisms, i.e. a basis for the null space of

5. Which of these mechanisms are internal mechanisms, i.e., do not involve displacement of the entire
truss as a rigid body? (Hint: Review section 6 of Pellegrino and Calladine (1985), also posted on
UBlearns).
6. Find representations of the pre-stress modes of the truss, i.e., a basis for the null space of

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