TEXTILE COMPOSITES AND INFLATABLE STRUCTURES II

By ISABELLA DAVIS

TABLE OF CONTENTS INNOVATIVE DEVELOPMENTS IN FIBER BASED MATERIALS FOR CONSTRUCTION FINITE ELEMENT SIMULATION OF THE MECHANICAL BEHAVIOUR OF TEXTILE COMPOSITES AT THE MESOSCOPIC SCALE OF INDIVIDUAL FIBERS A PREDICTIVE FABRIC MODEL FOR MEMBRANE STRUCTURE DESIGN INTRODUCING CUTTING PATTERNS IN FORM FINDING AND STRUCTURAL ANALYSIS KINEMATICS IN TENSIONED STRUCTURES PNEUMATIC FORMWORK FOR IRREGULAR CURVED THIN SHELLS STATIC ANALYSIS OF TAUT STRUCTURES ANALYSIS OF FREE FORM MEMBRANES SUBJECT TO WIND USING FSI MODELLING FABRIC-REINFORCED MEMBRANES WITH THE DISCRETE ELEMENT METHOD MEMBRANE STRUCTURES FORMED BY LOW PRESSURE IN?ATABLE TUBES NEW ANALYSIS METHODS AND RECENT CONSTRUCTIONS NONLINEAR FINITE ELEMENT ANALYSIS OF IN?ATABLE PREFOLDED MEMBRANE STRUCTURES UNDER HYDROSTATIC LOADING ADVANCED CAPABILITIES FOR THE SIMULATION OF MEMBRANE AND IN?ATABLE SPACE STRUCTURES USING SAMCEF STRUCTURAL AIR – PNEUMATIC STRUCTURES RECENT DEVELOPMENTS IN THE COMPUTATIONAL MODELLING OF TEXTILE MEMBRANES AND IN?ATABLE STRUCTURES