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Many of the TensiNet Members were involved in the COST ACTION TU 1303 NOVEL STRUCTURAL SKINS.
By facilitating networking between partners and encouraging researcher mobility, this COST Action aims to harmonize the research on membrane and foil structural skins, to standardise testing and analysis approaches within Europe, and to stimulate and deliver innovation and development of new and energy efficient structural skin products and applications in the urban environment. The COST Action does not fund research itself, but provides support for networking activities, such as meetings, short-term scientific missions, training schools, etc.
Five Strategic Research Clusters (SRC) are considered, each managed by the corresponding Working Group (WG).
WG 1 - new applications of structural skins and new concepts
WG 2 - sustainability and Life Cycle Analysis of structural skins
WG 3 - building physics and energy performance of structural skins
WG 5 - from material to structure and limit states: codes and standardisation
End of the Action
This COST Action was a four-year project funded by the European framework COST and has officially ended on November 4th 2017. The final meeting was held on October 17th 2017 in Brussels. All Working Group leaders are now working hard to finish the last deliverables. After the end of this Action, all documentation will be made public through a dedicated dissemination webpage. Stay tuned…
Meanwhile, we would like to thank all members of this Action for their valuable contributions! Many thanks!
Leader: Jean-Christophe Thomas
Mission: The aim of this WG is to write a Guide to promote Pneumatic Structures through the recommendation of best practise ‐ which will hopefully improve standards, reliability, reputation and open up new markets to this form of construction. It is the intention of the WG to publish in the near future the Design recommendations for pneumatic structures - Appendix A6 of European Design Guide for Surface Tensile Structures.
Documents for the WG Pneumatic Structures
Leader: Peter Gosling
Mission: The driver behind this WG is the linking together of testing and analysis, such that each are supportive and inform each other, rather than being considered independently as is generally the current practice. Several Round Robin exercises were launched. The WG is currently preparing a submission for aH2020 ETN.
Documents for the WG Analysis and Materials
