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Gunnar Tibert

PhD, Docent
Phone: int +46 73 765 22 22
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Professional History

Since 2015, I work at the Department of Aeronautical and Vehicle Engineering.

Publications

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

Internal Reports

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YearTitleDocument Type
2002Deployable Tensegrity Structures for Space Applications Doctoral thesis

Projects

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PeriodTitleArea
2003-Simulation of Flexible StructuresTheoretical and computational mechanics