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UT-Austin Engineering
Undergrads Pursue Cutting-Edge Research
Jacinda Collins of Sugarland, Tex., and Robert Hermosillo of El Paso, both architectural engineering majors, have worked several semesters with Dr. Katherine Liapi on her "tensegrity" project. Tensegrity, a word coined by geodesic dome inventor Buckminster Fuller, is a contraction of "tensional " and "integrity." It refers to a type of structure consisting of cables and bars, such that bars are connected only to cables, and not to each other. As a result, bars look like they are floating inside a network of cables. |
