Educational & Dissemination
General
New Applications Of Structural Skins And New Concepts
- Flexible formwork
- Adaptive membrane structures
- Bending-active structures
- Bending-active structures: a review of design principles
- Exploring Software Approaches In Simulating Bending-active Systems – resume of the Training School
- Exploring Software Approaches In Simulating Bending-active Systems
- Modelling, Analysis and Construction of Bending Active Tensile Membrane Hybrid Structures
- Designing CNC Knit For Hybrid Membrane And Bending Active Structures
- Hybrid Tower, Designing Soft Structures
Sustainability And Life Cycle Analysis Of Structural Skins
- Basic literature available on the topic
- Life Cycle Design and efficiency principles for membrane architecture: towards a new set of eco-design strategies
- Application and validation of eco-efficiency principles to assess the design of lightweight structures: case studies of ETFE building skins
- The Sustainability of Adaptive Envelopes: Developments of Kinetic Architecture
- Structural Membranes for Refurbishment of the Architectural Heritage
- Characterization of aged textile for archeological shelters through thermal, optical and mechanical tests
Building Physics And Energy Performance Of Structural Skins
- The use of textile membranes in architectural acoustics. An overview.
- Analysis of the Acoustic Conditions in a Tent Structures
- Acoustic comfort in atria covered by novel structural skins
- Influence Of Transparent Roofing Systems On Room Acoustic Properties Of Large Atria
- Perception of acoustic comfort in large halls covered by transparent structural skins
From Material To Structure And Limit States: Codes And Standardisation
- Introduction to the Eurocode framework for membrane structures
- Background to the Science and Policy Report for Tensile Membrane Structures
- State-of-the-Art in Wind Loading on Tensile Surface Structures
- Science and Policy Report (SaP-Report) ‘Prospect for European guidance for the Structural Design of Tensile Membrane Structures’
- From uncertainties to partial safety factors calibration: application to tensile membrane structures – Discover the birth of a Eurocode
External collaborations / resources
- Many of the TensiNet Members were involved in the COST ACTION TU 1303 ‘Novel Structural Skins’ (and vice versa :) )
- Information about tensile architecture projects
- TensiNews issues