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The cable structures composed of compression members and tension members, such as the tensegrity structures, have been developed by a lot of experimental and analytical studies. Their structural characteristics are influenced by the structural forms and the distribution of prestressing force. In this paper, simple structural models of three types, which have few modes of the self-equilibrated prestressing force, are tested to investigate the static response of composite cable structures under symmetric and anti-symmetric loads. And, by using the finite element method with geometrical and material nonlinearities of which unknown quantity is nodal coordinates, the numerical analyses are performed for the three models. The comparisons between the experimental results and the analytical results are shown, and their adequacy is verified.
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