The focus of this paper is on the form and materialization of membrane moulding. There has been an impressive and long tradition in research on geometry and form finding of membranes. The use of membranes for moulding has ...

This paper is aimed to assess the non-linear elastic response of an inflatable cylindrical beam through a simple mechanical model recently proposed by the authors1 to study the equilibrium shapes of highly pressurized ...

This paper presents extensions to optimized cutting pattern generation through inverse engineering regarding structural requirements. The optimized cutting pattern generation through inverse engineering is a general approach ...

Simultaneous control is an incremental technique that can be applied to shape analysis with soap film elements, when the shape has large volume and high rise. Furthermore, the tangent stiffness method is a clear and strict ...

Minimal surfaces, characterized by the property of a minimal area within a fixed boundary, offer an interesting design option for membrane structures, since they are uniquely defined and provide economy of material and ...

Besides glass, a variety of other translucent and transparent materials are just as highly attractive to architects: plastics, perforated metal plate and meshing, but maybe most of all membrane materials which can also ...

The paper considers the effects of the shear deformations on the loaddisplacement response of pressurized thin-walled cylindrical beams of circular shape, subject to lateral loads. In order to schematize the nonlinear ...

This work deals with the numerical study of inflatable fabric structures. As implicit integration schemes can lead to numerical difficulties, such as singular stiffness matrices, explicit schemes are preferred. Since the ...

This work concerns the behavior of inflatable beams subjected to bending loads. Some authors have worked on this subject and strength of materials theories have been written. In this paper, we first propose to calculate ...

This work describes the design and construction of lanterns and their application in tent structures by looking at four projects in chronological order that have been developed by the Structures Laboratory of the Faculty ...

Shade design is a new discipline that was originally developed in Australia and New Zealand, where high rates of skin cancer have been a key factor driving innovation. It combines climatic comfort under shading structures ...

This paper presents the preliminary activity from which the fabrication of a new kind of ETFE foil fully integrated with a Smart, Organic, Flexible and Translucent Photovoltaic building component (named SOFT-PV) begins. A ...

With this document you get an overview about textile membrane structures used for flood barriers in case of emergency. This project creates a connection between membrane construction and environmental technologies. It is ...

Typical for single layer membrane structures is the less isolation against temperature and sound. A de monstration building is de veloped to dem onstrate the possibilities of membrane structures being more environmental ...

This document provides information and instructions for preparing a Full Paper to be included in the Proceedings of MEMBRANES 2011 Conference.

Inflatable structures or pneumatic structures are air-supported structures and find application in a variety of new engineering projects. By these structures the gas gives shape and strength to the structure in such a way ...

The German Federal Waterways and Shipping Administration operates about 280 weirs, half of which are more than 50 years old. Many of these weirs will therefore need to be refurbished in the near future, even though budget ...

Second skin façades are used to improve the building physics of a façade not for structural reasons. This research at the Eindhoven University of Technology focuses on the structural advantages of form-active lightweight ...

This paper presents and describes a series of studies into the use of flexible fabrics as formwork for concrete structures as alternative to conventional rigid formwork.

This paper introduces engineering design and analytical modeling techniques providing the design community with an alternative means for forming concrete structures by using flexible fabric formwork.

The paper presents the comparative analysis of cable net roofs supported by truss arches with block and tackle suspension system. The effect of the friction (between the pulley and its shaft) on the internal forces of the ...

The paper presents a system, made out of foldable ‘kinked’ beams and a membrane skin, based on a concept referring to origami. The anticlastic curvature of the membrane is obtained by transforming flat triangular parts ...

This paper describes the structural beha viour of m embrane restrained colum ns. Initial experiments on tensile restrained columns are presented and discussed. FE-analysis has been carried out and the structur al behaviour ...

Within this work, direct minimization approaches on static problems of membranes are discussed. In the first half, standard direct minimization methods are discussed. Some form-finding analyses of tension structures are ...

It is a fact that the available budget is one of the main driving factors for the architectural design. Therefore it is beneficial for designers to know, how to control the costs with the help of their design. Traditionally ...

For the mechanical modeling and simulation of the heterogeneous composition of a fiber structured material, the material properties at the micro level and the contact between the fibers have to be taken into account. The ...

A simplified model of an anticlastic membrane is that of two perpendicular ropes, which meet at a point. If the ropes are tensed in opposite directions, the meeting point becomes is fixed. As we increase the tension in the ...

Tensegrity structure, which consists of cables and struts, are expected to be used as systems for cosmological, foldable and/or inflatable structures. The equilibrium shape of the tensegrity can be determined by iteration ...

Mechanics of a local buckling, which is induced by wrapping fold of a creased membrane, is discussed experimentally, theoretically, and numerically in this paper to examine the condition for the local buckling. The theoretical ...

The non-linear load-deform ation behaviour of textile m embranes highly depends on the ratio of the applied m embrane forces in warp and weft direct ion (called load ratio hereafter). In practice, usually for each membrane ...