Overview

This book collects state-of-the-art research and technology for design, analysis, construction and maintenance of textile and inflatable structures. Textile composites and inflatable structures have become increasingly popular for a variety of applications in -- among many other fields -- civil engineering, architecture and aerospace engineering. Typical examples include membrane roofs and covers, sails, inflatable buildings and pavilions, airships, inflatable furniture, airspace structures etc. The book contains 18 invited contributions written by distinguished authors who participated in the International Conference on Textile Composites and Inflated Structures held in Barcelona from June 30th to July 2nd, 2003. The meeting was one of the Thematic Conferences of the European Community on Computational Methods in Applied Sciences (ECCOMAS). The different chapters discuss recent progress and future research directions in membrane and inflatable structures built with new textile composite materials. Approximately half of the book focuses on describing innovative numerical methods for structural analysis of such structures, such as new nonlinear membrane and shell finite elements. The rest of the chapters present advances in design, construction and maintenance procedures.

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Author:   Eugenio Oñate ,  Bernd Kröplin
Publisher:   Springer
Imprint:   Springer
Edition:   Softcover reprint of hardcover 1st ed. 2005
Volume:   3
Dimensions:   Width: 16.00cm , Height: 1.70cm , Length: 24.00cm
Weight:   0.525kg
ISBN:  

9789048168347

ISBN 10:   9048168341
Pages:   322
Publication Date:   28 October 2010
Audience:   Professional and scholarly ,  Professional & Vocational
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   Manufactured on demand  
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Table of Contents

On the Design Process of Tensile Structures.- Systems for Lightweight Structure Design: the State-of-the-Art and Current Developments.- Recent Developments in the Analytical Design of Textile Membranes.- Finite Element Analysis of Membrane Structures.- Applications of a Rotation-Free Triangular Element for Finite Strain Analysis of Thin Shells and Membranes.- FE Analysis of Membrane Systems Including Wrinkling and Coupling.- Wrinkles in Square Membranes.- F.E.M. for Prestressed Saint Venant-Kirchhoff Hyperelastic Membranes.- Equilibrium Consistent Anisotropic Stress Fields in Membrane Design.- Efficient Finite Element Modelling and Simulation of Gas and Fluid Supported Membrane and Shell Structures.- Widespan Membrane Roof Structures: Design Assisted by Experimental Analysis.- Fabric Membranes Cutting Pattern.- Inflated Membrane Structures on the Ground, in the Air and in Space - A Classification.- Post-Tensioned Modular Inflated Structures.- Experiences in the Design Analysis and Construction of Low Pressure Inflatable Structures.- Recent Advances in the Rigidization of Gossamer Structures.- Form-Optimizing Processes in Biological Structures. Self-generating structures in nature based on pneumatics.- Making Blobs with a Textile Mould.

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