... constraints. Local failure includes buckling and material yielding of individual members in the tensegrity. Global failure refers to global buckling of the tensegrity, where it loses stability without undergoing local failure at its individual members. The formulation and numerical approach to determine...

... limitation is that the serpentine structures are required to have sufficient bending stiffness such that they can overcome the adhesion with the underlying substrate to fully buckle into the 3D shape (global buckling). This note introduces the use of cellular substrate in place of conventional homogeneous...