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Textile Composites and Inflatable Structures

  • Discusses recent progress and future research directions in membrane and inflatable structures built with new textile composite materials
  • Focuses on describing innovative numerical methods for structural analysis of such structures, such as new nonlinear membrane and shell finite elements
  • Presents advances in design, construction and maintenance procedures

Part of the book series: Computational Methods in Applied Sciences (COMPUTMETHODS, volume 3)

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Table of contents (18 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-vii
  2. On the Design Process of Tensile Structures

    • Rosemarie Wagner
    Pages 1-16
  3. Recent Developments in the Analytical Design of Textile Membranes

    • Lothar Gründig, Dieter Ströbel, Peter Singer
    Pages 29-45
  4. Finite Element Analysis of Membrane Structures

    • Robert L. Taylor, Eugenio Oñate, Pere-Andreu Ubach
    Pages 47-68
  5. FE Analysis of Membrane Systems Including Wrinkling and Coupling

    • Riccardo Rossi, Vitaliani Renato, Eugenio Onate
    Pages 89-108
  6. Wrinkles in Square Membranes

    • Y.W. Wong, S. Pellegrino
    Pages 109-122
  7. Equilibrium Consistent Anisotropic Stress Fields in Membrane Design

    • Kai-Uwe Bletzinger, Roland Wüchner, Fernass Daoud
    Pages 143-151
  8. Fabric Membranes Cutting Pattern

    • Bernard Maurin, René Motro
    Pages 195-212
  9. Post-Tensioned Modular Inflated Structures

    • Romuald Tarczewski
    Pages 221-239
  10. Experiences in the Design Analysis and Construction of Low Pressure Inflatable Structures

    • Javier Marcipar, Eugenio Oñate, Juan Miquel Canet
    Pages 241-257
  11. Recent Advances in the Rigidization of Gossamer Structures

    • B. Defoort, V. Peypoudat, M.C. Bernasconi, K. Chuda, X. Coqueret
    Pages 259-283
  12. Making Blobs with a Textile Mould

    • Arno C.D. Pronk, Rogier Houtman
    Pages 305-322

Editors and Affiliations

  • Centro Internacional de Métodos Numéricos en Ingeniería (CIMNE), Universidad Politécnica de Cataluña, Barcelona, Spain

    Eugenio Oñate

  • Institut für Statik und Dynamik der Luft- und Raumfahrtkonstruktionen, Stuttgart, Germany

    Bern Kröplin

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eBook USD 129.00
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Softcover Book USD 169.99
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