In this paper the concept of energy increment map is presented for stability judgement of elastic truss structures under arbitrary dynamic excitations. The modified member theory is adopted to establish the equilibrium equations of the structures. The motion trajectories of structures are numerically solved in time domain and the corresponding stability states are studied according to the energy increment map. Numerical examples show that the method of this paper can lead to satisfactory results in dynamic stability analysis of elastic truss structures.
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