Resonant frequency of coronavirus: The tensegrity approach.

[Display omitted] • An alternative to vaccination to combat the attack of coronavirus. • First simple model to determine the frequency range for coronavirus inactivation. • First to use the tensegrity concept to model the coronavirus. • Coronavirus inactivation by envelope fracturing is evident in model failure mode. • First natural frequency map for coronavirus vs healthy human cells as reference. COVID-19 is a worldwide health hazard. In discovering a fully efficient vaccination for continually evolving viruses, alternatives such as the sonication treatment methods, which have seen encouraging outcomes in disinfection and medical therapies, are worth exploring. Such treatments incapacitate microbes or diseased cells by selectively invoking large deformation at the resonant frequency that initiates structural failure. Nevertheless, due to biodiversity, the precise range of resonant frequencies for different biological bodies can be widely varying, its determination of which is best achieved with the cost-effective computational simulation approach. The paper proposes, therefore, the numerical determination of the resonant frequency of the coronavirus employing the tensegrity method, due to its efficacy in modeling various biomechanical behaviors of different biological bodies and systems. Initiating from successfully verifying the resonant frequency with existing findings, the model then determines the operative sonication frequencies range for the resonant state of the virus. At these sonication frequencies, the modal analysis exhibits a large structurally destructive deformation of the coronavirus. For practical convenience, the operative range of sonication resonant frequencies of the coronavirus has been mapped alongside healthy human cells. These findings offer an alternative technological avenue in combating the COVID-19 progressive threat. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]