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Research database

BELTS in textile Architecture.	Rosemarie Wagner	Karlsruher Institut für Technologie (KIT) Institut für Entwerfen und Bautechnik, Germany	TensiNews 22 (2012)
Bending-active membrane structure.	Julian Lienhard	Institute of Building Structures and Structural Design, University of Stuttgart, Germany	TensiNews 22 (2012)
Environmental Impact of Membrane Materials and Structures.	Jan Cremers	Hightex GmbH, Germany Hochschule für Technik Stuttgart, Germany	TensiNews 23 (2012)
Research on hybrid form- and bending-active structure systems. Textile Hybrid M1 at La Tour de l’Architecte.	Sean Ahlquist Julian Lienhard	Institute for Computational Design (ICD), Germany Institute of Building Structures and Structural Design (ITKE), Germany	TensiNews 24 (2013)
The Wind Response on Horn-shaped Membrane Roof and Proposal of Gust Effect Factor for Membrane Structures.	Yuki Nagai	Sasaki Structural Consultants	TensiNews 24 (2013)
S(P)EEDKITS. Disaster shelter ‘clever roof’.	Jan Roekens, Marijke Mollaert Vincent Virgo	Vrije Universiteit Brussel, Belgium Red Cross, Luxemburg	TensiNews 26 (2014)
From membrane form to rigid shell.	Henning Duerr	IMS e.V. (Institute for Membrane and Shell Technologies, Building and Real Estate), Germany Institute at Anhalt University of Applied Sciences, Germany	TensiNews 27 (2014)
MULTITEXCO. High performance smart multifunctional technical textiles for the construction sector.	Pieter Heyse, Guy Buyle Paolo Beccarelli	Centexbel Maco Technology srl	TensiNews 30 (2016)
Project S(P)EEDKITS	Guy Buyle, Ine De Vilder, Pieter Heyse Marijke Mollaert, Jan Roekens, Jimmy Colliers, Lars De Laet, Evi Corne Alessandra Zanelli, Salvatore Viscuso, Marta Barozzi Vincent Virgo Bert Groenendaal	Centexbel Vrije Universiteit Brussel, Belgium Politecnico di Milano, Italy Red Cross, Luxemburg Sioen, Belgium	TensiNews 30 (2016)
Conceptual smart textile and bending-active architectural module. The case of Paços dos Duques de Bragança	Luani Costa, Raul Fangueiro, Luís F. Ramos	Department of Civil Engineering, University of Minho, Guimarães, Portugal	TensiNews 32 (2017)
Integrated sensors for the detection of ammonia and hydrogensulfide in biogas plants.	Paolo Beccarelli	Maco Technology srl	TensiNews 32 (2017)
KINEMATIC FORM-ACTIVESTRUCTURES FOR ARCHITECTURALAPPLICATIONS. Design, Analysis andExperimental Verification	Silke Puystiens	Vrije Universiteit Brussel, Belgium	TensiNews 33 (2017)
SHELTAIR PAVILION at Aedes Metropolitan Laboratory in Berlin	Gregory Quinn	Universität der Künste Berlin, Germany	TensiNews 34 (2018)
BACTERIAL CELLULOSE BIOFILMS. A possibility for architectural membrane applications?	Bastien Damsin, Elise Vanden Elsacker, Marijke Mollaert	Vrije Universiteit Brussel, Belgium	TensiNews 37 (2019)
grINdoor. A college on the roof. The light house for students and plants!	Giulia Procaccini	Politecnico di Milano	TensiNews 39 (2020)
BeTA PAVILION. CNC Knitted Textile Performance for a Bending-Active Biotensegrity Assembly	Rui Liu, Diane Davis-Sikora Linda Ohrn-McDaniel Christian Carloni	College of Architecture and Environmental Design, Kent State University School of Fashion, Kent State University School of Engineering, Case Western Reserve University	TensiNews 40 (2021)
FIRE SAFETY PERFORMANCE OF MEMBRANE STRUCTURES. ETFE in particular	Carl Maywald	Vector Foiltec	TensiNews 40 (2021)
Structural Behaviour of Bending Active Structures. THE IMPACT OF LOAD DISTRIBUTION, GEOMETRY, TEMPERATURE AND WIND LOADS ON THE STRUCTURAL PERFORMANCE	Mohammadmahdi Barari Reshtehroudi	Nottingham University	TensiNews 41 (2021)
THE SUSTAINABILITY OF TENSILE SURFACE STRUCTURES	Marijke Mollaert, Lars De Laet, Zehra Eryuruk	Vrije Universiteit Brussel	TensiNews 42 (2022)