ABSTRACT
At present, the research of tensegrity structure mainly concentrates on form finding (Juan & Tur 2008, Tibert & Pellegrino 2011) and structural behavior (Fu 2005, Ge et al. 2011); however, the research on the sensitivity of cable length error and control criteria is rare. Quirant et al. (2003) studied the effect of cable length error on tensegrity gird by the Monte Carlo method. Gao (2004)
1 INTRODUCTION
In recent years, tensegrity systems have attracted much attention of engineers and become popular as roofs for arenas and stadiums because of their lightweight and architectural impact. Cable dome is the first civil structure inspired by the tensegrity principle (Richard 1962), and its engineering applications include two forms: Geiger type (Geiger et al. 1986, Zhang et al. 2012) and Levy type (Levy, 1994), as shown in Figure 1.
