TEXTILE COMPOSITES AND INFLATABLE STRUCTURES

By CHARLOTTE MARTINEZ

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 FEM FOR PRESTRESSED SAINT VENANT-KIRCHHO?HYPERELASTIC MEMBRANES EQUILIBRIUM CONSISTENT ANISOTROPIC STRESS FIELDS IN MEMBRANE DESIGN E?CIENT 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 IN?ATED MEMBRANE STRUCTURES ON THE GROUND IN THE AIR AND IN SPACE - A CLASSI?CATION POST-TENSIONED MODULAR IN?ATED STRUCTURES EXPERIENCES IN THE DESIGN ANALYSIS AND CONSTRUCTION OF LOW PRESSURE IN?ATABLE 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