Barcelona: Textile structures X 5

A new Post "Barcelona: Textile structures X 5" was written on the January 11, 2012 at 10:25 pm on "Textile Global - Textile and Fashion News".

!! Fabric Architecture | January 2012 !!

!! By Josep L. De Llorens !!

Structural Membranes 2011, the Fifth International Conference on
Textile Composites and Inflatable Structures [1], was held in
Barcelona, Spain, in October 2011. Organized by the International
Centre for Numerical Methods in Engineering [2] (CIMNE), the
conference was the fifth of a series of symposiums that began in
Barcelona in 2003 and will continue in Munich in 2013.

At the three-day conference, eight lectures and 85 presentations in 15
technical sessions were given to 118 participants from 25 countries
and three continents. The main topics were textile composites and
inflatable structures, which have become increasingly popular for a
variety of applications in civil engineering, architecture, aerospace
engineering and other fields. Typical examples include membrane roofs
and covers, sails, inflatable buildings and pavilions, airships,
inflatable furniture and airspace structures.

The ability to provide numerical solutions for increasingly complex
membrane and inflatable structures is advancing rapidly because of
remarkable advances in the development of nonlinear structural
systems. Significant progress has been made in the formulation of
finite element methods for static and dynamic problems, complex
constitutive material behavior and coupled aero-elastic analysis.
Structural Membranes 2011 addressed both the theoretical bases for
structural analysis and the numerical algorithms necessary for
efficient and robust computer implementation.

Main lectures in the plenary sessions were devoted to inflatable
structures for space vehicles, zoomorphism and bio-architecture,
tensairity structures, Expo Axis (Shanghai, China), parachutes,
membrane molds, shape optimization and tubular inflatable structures.

Specialized technical sessions (organized by guest experts) focused on
design, test methods, thermal properties and photovoltaics, inflatable
structures, applications and realizations.

In keeping with its objectives, Structural Membranes 2011 collected
and disseminated state-of-the-art research and technology for the
design, analysis, construction and maintenance of textile and
inflatable structures. A significant part of the conference presented
advances in new textile composites for membrane structure
applications, as well as in innovative design, construction and
maintenance procedures.

!! Dr. Arch. Josep I. De Llorens Is A Professor At The School Of
Architecture, Technical University Of Catalonia, Barcelona, Spain, And
A Frequent Contributor To Fabric Architecture. [3] !!

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Barcelona: Textile structures X 5

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[1] http://www.iass-structures.org/index.cfm/events.details?eventID=145
[2] http://its.cimne.com/cdl1
[3] http://www.membranestructures.de/index.php?id=22

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