The rigidity of periodic body-bar frameworks on the three-dimensional fixed torus

Philos Trans A Math Phys Eng Sci. 2013 Dec 30;372(2008):20120112. doi: 10.1098/rsta.2012.0112. Print 2014 Feb 13.

Abstract

We present necessary and sufficient conditions for the generic rigidity of body-bar frameworks on the three-dimensional fixed torus. These frameworks correspond to infinite periodic body-bar frame-works in with a fixed periodic lattice.

Keywords: body–bar frameworks; gain graphs; generic rigidity; inductive constructions; infinitesimal rigidity; periodic frameworks.