Textile composites and inflatable structures have become
increasingly popular for a variety of applications in a" among many
other fields a" 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 andmaintenance of textile and
inflatable structures and will be of interest to civil engineers,
architects, and materials scientists.
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