Tapered structure construction

Patent · 13 April 2021

OSTI ID:1823828

Smith, Eric D.; Takata, Rosalind K.; Slocum, Alexander H.; Nayfeh, Samir A.

Feeding stock used to form a tapered structure into a curving device such that each point on the stock undergoes rotational motion about a peak location of the tapered structure; and the stock meets a predecessor portion of stock along one or more adjacent edges.

• Research Organization: Keystone Tower Systems, Inc., Denver, CO (United States)
• Sponsoring Organization: USDOE
• DOE Contract Number: SC0006380
• Assignee: Keystone Tower System, Inc. (Denver, CO)
• Patent Number(s): 10,974,298
• Application Number: 15/851,472
• OSTI ID: 1823828
• Country of Publication: United States
• Language: English