Lightweight and flexible membranes offer different façades for buildings (suitability,
competitive costs, durability, and other benefits) compared to traditional building materials …

Temporary structures necessitate lightweight, easy transportation, and rapid deployment.
However, conventional metal temporary bridges are often constrained by weight and scale …

Concrete-filled fiber-reinforced polymer (FRP) tubes (CFFTs) are seeing increasing use in
various infrastructure applications. This paper investigates the bending response of CFFTs …

This study presents a novel tensegrity tent based on the parameters of a certain military tent.
Firstly, we derive the framework of the tent with the optimal complexity and the geometric …

Air-inflated fabric arch structure has obvious advantage of being light-weight, able to
accommodate large spans, low cost, easy mobilization and reusable. It has been widely …

This paper presents experimental and numerical studies on the structural behavior of an air-
inflated frame consisting of arches and coupling beams. In the experimental study, a full …

This paper details the experimental assessment and nonlinear finite-element analysis of the
flexural behavior of inflated drop-stitch panels. Coupon-level fabric tests as well as panel …

A model is proposed based on a Fourier series method to analyse the interactive bending
wrinkling behaviour of inflated beams. The whole wrinkling evolution is tracked and divided …

Inflatable structural members have military, disaster relief, aerospace and other important
applications as they possess low mass, can be stored in a relatively small volume and have …

This paper presents experimental research that continues the development of inflatable
hybrid structures for space applications. Inflatables provide a concept with much scope for …