Membrane structures are increasingly in demand due to their lightweight properties and
expressive architectural shapes. However, there does not yet exist a unified design …

Coated fabric is utilized extensively across sectors like public buildings, emergency rescue,
aerospace, industry, and military, attributed to their advantages such as lightweight nature …

Dielectric elastomer membrane has been applied in a wide variety of engineering fields for
their excellent dynamic performances. Functionally graded graphene nanoplatelet …

This study investigates the puncture resistance behaviors of architectural coated fabric. The
effects of boundary condition, penetrator shape, yarns angle, puncture rate, weight …

Compared to traditional textile composites, the coated fabric used in fabric membrane
structures is much more flexible. Its macroscopic mechanical behavior is highly nonlinear …

Auxetic behavior is critical to determining the deformation and mechanical performance of
materials. Auxetic mechanisms of the woven fabric have previously not been well …

A recently proposed orthotropic nonlinear material model for general classes of woven
fabrics is adapted to glass-PTFE and PES-PVC fabrics. The nonlinear model contains three …

This paper presents a simplified analytical model for predicting nonlinear mechanical
responses of flexible composite sheet (FCS) subjected to out-of-plane loading. New …

Besides material and geometric stiffness, usual components affecting tension structures in
general, pneumatic structures are endowed with a pneumatic stiffness, which corresponds to …

The orthotropic membrane structures have been popular in architectural structures.
However, because of its lightweight and small stiffness, large nonlinear deflection vibration …