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TensiNet publishes the TensiNews newsletter twice a year.
TensiNet Members have access to the digital versions of latest 8 TensiNews issues. Non-members can consult issues older than 2 years and see a preview of the latest 4 issues. Members can email info@tensinet.com to receive a digital version of TensiNews issues published more than 4 years back.
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Every two years the International Centre for Numerical Methods in Engineering (CIMNE) organises the International Conference on Textile Composites and Inflatable Structures "Structural Membranes".
Structural Membranes 2023 will be held at Valencia, Spain from 2nd till 4th October.The previous conferences of these series were held in Barcelona (2003, 2007, 2011, 2015), Stuttgart (2005, 2009) and Munich (2013, 2017). The edition 2019 of the Structural Membranes conference took place in Barcelona, in conjunction with the conference commemorating the 60th anniversary of the Imternational Association for Shell and Space Structures (IASS). In 2021, due to COVID 19, a virtual edition was organised.
The objectives of Structural Membranes 2023 are to collect and disseminate state-of-the-art research and technology for design, analysis, construction and maintenance of textile and inflatable structures. The conference will address both the theoretical bases for structural analysis and the numerical algorithms necessary for efficient and robust computer implementation. A significant part of the conference will be devoted to discuss advances in new textile composites for applications in membrane and inflatable structures in the building and construction sectors, as well as in innovative design, construction and maintenance procedures.
Structural Membranes 2023 aims to be a forum for discussing recent progress and identifying future research directions in the field of textile composites and inflatable structures.
Structural Membranes 2023 will be a Thematic Conference of the European Community on Computational Methods in Applied Sciences (ECCOMAS) and a Special Interest Conference of the International Association for Computational Mechanics (IACM).
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Book reviews published in the TensiNews issues.
The TensiNet partners are the editors of the European Design Guide for Tensile Surface Structures. TensiNet continues to publish reference documents, Working Group publications and proceedings. TensiNet Members can order the publications at a reduced price.
EUROPEAN DESIGN GUIDE FOR TENSILE SURFACE STRUCTURES (2004): All chapters are online available for TensiNet members and for non members the chapter on "Engineering Fabric Architecture"
Working Group ETFE: Design recommendations for ETFE foil structures - Appendix A5 of European Design Guide for Surface Tensile Structures (2013). This publication is available for TensiNet members. Publication
Working Group Specification & Eurocode: Prospect for European guidance for the Structural Design of Tensile Membrane Structures (2022)
Working Group Sustainability & Comfort: PCR Guidance-Texts for Building-Related Products and Services / From the range of Environmental Product Declarations of Institute Construction and Environment e.V. (IBU) / Part B: Requirements on the EPD for structural membranes
Symposia:
Proceeding 2023 (Nantes): Membrane architecture: the seventh established building material. Designing reliable and sustainable structures for the urban environment - E-book
Proceeding 2019 (Milano): Softening the Habitats: Sustainable Innovations in Minimal Mass Structures and Lightweight Architectures - E-book
Proceeding 2016 (Newcastle): Novel Structural Skins (online proceeding Elsevier Procedia – E-book
Proceeding 2013 (Istanbul): [RE]THINKING Lightweight structure
Proceeding 2010 (Sofia): Textile Architecture: Connecting Past and Future
Proceeding 2007 (Milano): Ephemeral Architecture, Time and Textiles
