Textile Composites and Inflatable Structures / Edition 1

by Eugenio Oïate, Bernd Krïplin

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 30^th to July 2^nd, 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.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781402033162
Publisher:	Springer Netherlands
Publication date:	08/05/2005
Series:	Computational Methods in Applied Sciences , #3
Edition description:	2005
Pages:	322
Product dimensions:	6.10(w) x 9.25(h) x 0.03(d)

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.