Flashcards in Tensegrity Deck (14):
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What is tensegrity?
The characteristic property of a 3D structure consisting of members under tension that are contiguous and member under compression that are not
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What does tensegrity allow us to do? (2)
The ability to yield increasingly without ultimately breaking
Move
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How does tensegrity apply to cells?
Interations between cells and ECM similar
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How are biological structures made strong?
By unison of tensioned and compressed parts
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How are the units of a tensegrity system arranged?
So that each cconnecting member are connected by the shortest distance
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What are the two categories of tensegrity structures?
Ones with frameworks made of rigid struts
Ones that stabilize through prestress (only through tension)
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What are bones in the tensegrity model?
the compression struts
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What are muscles/tensons in the tensegrity model?
The tension bearing members
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What are the struts in the cell? Tension members?
Struts = microtubules
Tension members = actin, microfilaments
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What connects all the various tensegrity systems of the body?
Fascia
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What is self-assembly?
A phenomenon in which components join together to form lager, stable structures having new properties that could not have been predicted from the characteristics of their individual parts
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What is mechanotransduction?
The transduction of outside signals to the cell to generate biochemical responses
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What are the changes that occur in transitional areas?
Hypomobility hat is compensated by hypermobility elsewhere
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