Membrane structure engineering design

Author: Chen Wujun
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Publish Date: 2005-02-01
Features: This book includes eight chapters of main content and Appendices A~F.
Chapter 1: A brief history and overview of membrane structure development.
Chapter 2: The composition of membrane materials, fiber types, coating types, and performance, membrane material types and characteristics, building physical properties, unidirectional and bidirectional mechanical characteristics, etc.
Chapter 3: The building physical properties of membrane architecture, membrane architecture forms and membrane structural units, membrane architecture lighting, thermal environment, acoustic design, design elements of membrane architecture, and application fields and characteristics.
Chapter 4: Membrane structure systems and their characteristics, supporting structure systems and features, structural design content and methods.
Chapter 5: The system, design analysis, nodes, maintenance, and use of inflatable air-supported membranes, forms and characteristics of airbag membranes, airship design and analysis, structural characteristics.
Chapter 6: Basic theories of membrane design analysis, including shape-finding, load analysis, and cutting analysis theories and methods.
Chapter 7: Cable forms, construction, mechanical characteristics, anchor forms, features, design methods, and cable suspension analysis.
Chapter 8: Node forms, construction, and characteristics of membrane structures, node design.
Appendices A~F provide some commonly used material parameters for membrane structure design, including parameters of common membrane materials, cable parameters, anchor bolt design parameters, steel pipe size table, Beaufort wind scale and wind pressure, and unit conversion table, for easy design reference.