Buildings with ETFE foils: A review on material properties, architectural performance and structural behavior

J Hu, W Chen, B Zhao, D Yang - Construction and Building Materials, 2017 - Elsevier
Buildings with ethylene tetrafluoroethylene (ETFE) foils have attracted considerable
attention due to excellent material properties, good architectural performance and structural …

Ethylene tetrafluoroethylene (ETFE) material: Critical issues and applications with emphasis on buildings

C Lamnatou, A Moreno, D Chemisana… - … and Sustainable Energy …, 2018 - Elsevier
The present article is a critical review about ETFE (ethylene tetrafluoroethylene) material,
with emphasis on building applications since ETFE is promising for the building sector …

Energy performance of ETFE cushion roof integrated photovoltaic/thermal system on hot and cold days

J Hu, W Chen, D Yang, B Zhao, H Song, B Ge - Applied energy, 2016 - Elsevier
This paper concerns energy performance of ETFE (ethylene tetrafluoroethylene) cushion
roof integrated photovoltaic/thermal system (CIPV/T system). An experimental set-up …

A nonlinear uniaxial stress-strain constitutive model for viscoelastic membrane materials

B Zhao, J Hu, W Chen, J Chen, Z Jing - Polymer Testing, 2020 - Elsevier
Membrane materials with the excellent thermal, optical, electrical and chemical properties
have attracted significant attention in numerous research fields recently. However, while …

Effects of on-axis and off-axis tension on uniaxial mechanical properties of plain woven fabrics for inflated structures

J Hu, C Gao, S He, W Chen, Y Li, B Zhao, T Shi… - Composite …, 2017 - Elsevier
The use of enhanced plain woven fabrics for aerospace engineering needs essential and
accurate mechanical parameters for analyzing structural behavior and performing numerical …

Uniaxial tensile mechanical properties and model parameters determination of ethylene tetrafluoroethylene (ETFE) foils

J Hu, W Chen, B Zhao, K Wang - Construction and Building Materials, 2015 - Elsevier
This study concerns the uniaxial tensile mechanical properties and model parameters
determination of ethylene tetrafluoroethylene (ETFE) foils used in structural engineering for …

Rate-dependent mechanical properties and elastic modulus of ETFE foils used in inflated forming of transparency air-inflated cushion membrane structures

B Zhao, W Chen - Engineering Structures, 2021 - Elsevier
ETFE (ethylene tetrafluoroethylene) air-inflated cushion structure has become one of the
primary choices for being roofs and facades of large-span structures. Prior to the load …

Study of acoustic transmission losses in particle-reinforced rubber-based membrane-type acoustic metamaterials

J Li, R Jiang, D Xu, Q Huang - Applied Acoustics, 2023 - Elsevier
In this work, the mechanical properties of particle reinforced ethylene propylene diene
monomer (EPDM)/ethylene tetrafluoroethylene (ETFE) copolymer material were determined …

An innovative methodology for measurement of stress distribution of inflatable membrane structures

B Zhao, W Chen, J Hu, J Chen, Z Qiu… - Measurement …, 2015 - iopscience.iop.org
The inflatable membrane structure has been widely used in the fields of civil building,
industrial building, airship, super pressure balloon and spacecraft. It is important to measure …

Mechanical properties of ETFE foils in form-developing of inflated cushion through flat-patterning

B Zhao, W Chen, J Hu, J Chen, Z Qiu, J Zhou… - … and Building Materials, 2016 - Elsevier
This present paper focuses the main effort on the mechanical properties of ETFE (ethylene
tetrafluoroethylene) foils during the form-developing process of inflated cushion structure …