Personal information

Gunnar Tibert

PhD, Docent
Phone: int+46 8 790 79 61
Fax: int+46 8 796 98 50
E-mail: gunnart@mech.kth.se
WWW: Personal homepage

Education

MSc in Civil Engineering, KTH 1997
PhD in Structural Mechanics, KTH 2002
Docent in Flexible Structures, KTH 2009

PhD student (Excellenstjänst) at KTH Structural Engineering, 1997-1999
Jr visitor at Cambridge University, Engineering Department, 2000
PhD student (Excellenstjänst) at KTH Mechanics, 2001-2002
Research associate at KTH Mechanics, 2003-2006
Researcher at KTH Mechanics, 2007-2009
Associate professor at KTH Mechanics 2010-

Teaching activity

Leader for the following list of courses.
For the complete list of courses at mechanics, see the course page

Course	Prog.	Title	Studiehandbok
SG2802	S	Mebrane, Plates and FEM	[swe] [eng]
SG2870	All	Non-linear FEM	[swe] [eng]
SG2805	T	Rymdfarkost Dynamik	[swe] [eng]

Publications

Please note that this list might not be complete. Follow each article link for additional authors.

Year	Title
2012	Improving Bending Stiffness of Tensegrity Booms International Journal of Space Structures
2012	Design and analysis of tensegrity power lines International Journal of Space Structures
2012	Optimum pre-stress selection for tensegrity structures 10th WORLD CONGRESS ON COMPUTATIONAL MECHANICS (WCCM 2012)
2012	Parametric study of various tensegrity modules as building blocks for slender booms
2011	Application of flexibility analysis for design of tensegrity structures Structural Engineering World Congress (SEWC)
2011	Sensitivity analysis of Snelson-type tensegrity booms due to member loss 24rd Nordic Seminar on Computational Mechanics, Finland, 3-4 November, 2011
2010	Flexibility-based pre-stress design of tensegrity structures International Journal of Solids and Structures
2010	Stiffness visualization for tensegrity structures 23rd Nordic Seminar on Computational Mechanics, Stockholm, Sweden, 21-22 October, 2010 130-133
2010	Random vibration stress analysis of the BepiColombo boom deployment system 23rd Nordic Seminar on Computational Mechanics, Stockholm, Sweden, 21-22 October, 2010 108-111
2010	The Suaineadh project: A stepping stone towards the deployment of large flexible structures in space 61st International Astronautical Congress, Prague, Czech, 27 September - 1 October, 2010 IAC-10-C3.4 Paper ID 7448
2009	Deployment Control of Spinning Space Webs Journal of Guidance, Control, and Dynamics 32 40-50
2009	Optimal Deployment Control of Spinning Space Webs and Membranes Journal of Guidance, Control, and Dynamics
2008	Deployment Simulations of Inflatable Tensegrity Structures Int J Space Struct 23 63-77
2008	Computational Challenges for Highly Flexible Space Structures 21st Nordic Seminar on Computational Mechanics, Trondheim, Norway, 16-17 October 43-46
2008	Bending-Stiff Tensegrity Masts: Do They Exist? Proc. 6th International Conference on Computation of Shell & Spatial Structures, 28-31 May, Ithaca, NY, USA paper F-3-E-3
2007	A Comparison of Rotation-Free Triangular Shell Elements for Unstructured Meshes Comput Methods Appl Mech Engrg 196 5001-5015
2007	Design Considerations and Deployment Simulations of Spinning Space Webs 48th AIAA/ASME/ASCE/AHS/ASC Structures, Structural Dynamics, and Materials Conference, Honolulu, HW, 23-26 April AIAA-2007-1829
2007	Deployment Simulations of Space Webs 6th European LS-DYNA Conference, Gothenburg, 29-30 May 2007 1.111-1.120
2007	Lessons from Structural Design of a Highly-Flexible Space Structure: the Space-Tow Solar Sail Spacecraft Structures, Materials and Mechanical Testing (part of the 1st European Air and Space Conference), Berlin, Germany, 10-13 September
2007	Surface Accuracy Analysis of Torus-Supported Inflatable Reflector Antennas Structural Membranes 2007, International Conference on Textile Composites and Inflatable Structures, Barcelona, Spain, 17-19 September 133-136
2007	Deployment Control of Space Webs 20th Nordic Seminar on Computational Mechanics, Gothenburg, Sweden, 23-24 November 3.5-3.8
2006	Redundant and force-differentiated systems in engineering and nature Comput Methods Appl Mech Engrg 195 5437-5453
2006	Teaching Principal Stresses by Truss Analogies 19th Nordic Seminar on Computational Mechanics, Lund, Sweden, 20-21 October 147-150
2005	Distributed indeterminacy in frameworks Proc. 5th International Conference on Computation of Shell & Spatial Structures, 1-4 June 2005, Salzburg, Austria
2005	Evaluation of triangular shell elements for thin membrane structures Proc. 5th International Conference on Computation of Shell & Spatial Structures, 1-4 June 2005, Salzburg, Austria
2005	Plate based tensegrity structures Proc. IASS 2005, International Symposium on Shell and Spatial Structures, 6-9 September 2005, Bucharest, Romania
2005	Deployment of Tensegrity Frameworks using Inflatable Tubes Proc. Structural Membranes 2005, Int. Conf. on Textile Composites and Inflatable Structures, 2-4 October, Stuttgart, Germany
2005	Finding the most efficient rotation-free triangular shell element Proc. 18th Nordic Seminar on Computational Mechanics, 27-30 October 2005, Silja Serenade
2005	Flexibility evaluation of prestressed kinematically indeterminate frameworks Proc. 18th Nordic Seminar on Computational Mechanics, 27-30 October 2005, Silja Serenade
2004	Optimisation of Pretensioned Triangulated Cable Nets Proc. 17th Nordic Seminar on Computational Mechanics, 15-16 Oct 2004, Stockholm, Sweden
2004	Force Density Methods for Form-Finding of Pneumatic Structures 2nd European Workshop on Inflatable Space Structures, 21-23 June 2004, Tivoli, Italy
2004	NSCM-17: Proceedings of the 17th Nordic seminar on computational mechanics KTH Mechanics
2003	Deployable Tensegrity Masts Proc. 44th AIAA/ASME/ASCE/AHS Structures, Structural Dynamics, and Materials Conference, 7-10 April 2003, Norfolk, VA, USA AIAA-2003-1978
2003	Optimal Design of Tension Truss Antennas Proc. 44th AIAA/ASME/ASCE/AHS Structures, Structural Dynamics, and Materials Conference, 7-10 April 2003, Norfolk, VA, USA AIAA-2003-1629
2003	Review of Form-Finding Methods for Tensegrity Structures Int J Space Struct 18 209-223
2002	Deployable Tensegrity Reflectors for Small Satellites Journal of Spacecraft and Rockets 39 701-709
2001	Furlable Reflector Concept for Small Satellites Proc. 42nd AIAA/ASME/ASCE/AHS Structures, Structural Dynamics, and Materials Conference, 16-19 April 2001, Seattle, WA, USA AIAA-2001-1261
2001	Form-Finding of Tensegrity Structures - A Review 14th Nordic Seminar on Computational Mechanics, Lund, Sweden, 19-20 October 133-136

Internal reports

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Year	Title	Type
2002	Deployable Tensegrity Structures for Space Applications	Doctoral thesis

Projects