Overview
- Includes state of the art contributions written by international experts in the field of design, analysis and construction of textile composites and inflatable structures
Part of the book series: Computational Methods in Applied Sciences (COMPUTMETHODS, volume 8)
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Table of contents (14 chapters)
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Front Matter
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Back Matter
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About this book
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 ability to provide numerical simulations for increasingly complex membrane and inflatable structures is advancing rapidly due to both remarkable strides in computer hardware development and the improved maturity of computational procedures for nonlinear structural systems. Significant progress has been made in the formulation of finite elements methods for static and dynamic problems, complex constitutive material behaviour, coupled aero-elastic analysis etc.
The book contains 14 invited contributions written by distinguished authors who participated in the Second International Conference on Textile Composites and Inflated Structures held in Stuttgart, 2-4 October 2005. The meeting was one of the Thematic Conferences of the European Community on Computational Methods in Applied Sciences (ECCOMAS, www.eccomas.org ).
The different chapters discuss recent progress and future research directions in new textile composites for applications in membrane and inflatable structures. Part of the book focuses in describing innovative numerical methods for structural analysis, such as new non linear membrane and shell finite elements. The rest of the chapters present advances in design, construction and maintenance procedures.
This volume contains state-of-the-art research and technology for design, analysis, construction and maintenance of textile and inflatable structures and will be of interest to civil engineers, architects, and materials scientists.
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Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Textile Composites and Inflatable Structures II
Editors: Eugenio Oñate, Bernard Kröplin
Series Title: Computational Methods in Applied Sciences
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4020-6856-0
Publisher: Springer Dordrecht
eBook Packages: Engineering, Engineering (R0)
Copyright Information: Springer Science+Business Media B.V. 2008
Hardcover ISBN: 978-1-4020-6855-3Published: 21 December 2007
Softcover ISBN: 978-90-481-7739-4Published: 02 January 2013
eBook ISBN: 978-1-4020-6856-0Published: 09 September 2010
Series ISSN: 1871-3033
Series E-ISSN: 2543-0203
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: VIII, 272
Topics: Materials Science, general, Solid Mechanics, Building Construction and Design