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 …

New hyperelastic orthotropic models are proposed for the simulation of textile membranes
used in civil engineering applications. In contrast to published models, part of the new …

Tearing failure is the key factor affecting the safety of tension fabric structures, but there is a
lack of material damage models and numerical methods needed to simulate tearing failure …

Membrane structures have the advantages of excellent mechanical behaviors and beautiful
forms, and have been widely used in large-span buildings. The constitutive model of coated …

Owing to their excellent physical characteristics of lightweightiness, compactness and rapid
deployment, the inflated membrane structures satisfy the demands of maritime salvage and …

The nonlinear orthotropic material model describing the biaxial tensile behavior of PVC
coated fabrics is developed in this paper. Based on energy function, the general nonlinear …

A simple and effective damage constitutive model for PVC-coated fabrics be developed,
which could be used to predict the nonlinear mechanical response of membrane structures …

The impact of water-induced degradation on the mechanical properties of the chosen two
PTFE-coated, glass threads woven fabrics is investigated in this paper. The paper begins …

The analysis of membrane structures is heavily reliant on numerical calculations and is
characterized by significant material and geometric nonlinearity. Currently, there is limited …