CONTENTS
Foreword Preface 1
Introduction
1.1The importance of manufacture and erection
1.2 Ambition, aim and scheme of the book ........ 2
2 Materials for tensile surface structures ...... 5
2.1 Introduction ................................... 5
2.2 Structural composition and manufacture ....... 6
2.2.1 Linear load-bearing elements .................. 6
2.2.2 Surface load-bearing elements ................ 26
2.3 Material behaviour of coated fabrics ........... 39
2.3.1 Mechanical properties ........................ 39
2.4 Fabrication of coated fabrics .................. 51
2.4.1 Development ................................. 51
2.4.2 Compensation, strip layout .................... 53
2.4.3 Criteria for the patterning ..................... 53
2.4.4 Cutting out the pieces ........................ 63
2.5 Methods of jointing surfaces .................. 65
2.5.1 Permanent surface joints ...................... 65
2.5.2 Reusable surface joints ........................ 71
2.6 Methods of transferring force at the edge ..... 73
2.6.1 Geometry of the edging and effect
on bearing behaviour ......................... 73
2.6.2 The detailing of edges and their anchorage
at corners ..................................... 74
2.6.3 Edge details ................................... 75
2.7 Corner details ...............................81
3 Construction of tensile surface structures 85
3.1 Introduction ..............................85..
3.2 Construction management .................87
3.2.1 Aims and tasks of construction management 87
3.2.2 Scheduling .............................88
3.2.4 Construction engineering .............. 95
3.2.5 Design detailing for erection practicality 97
3.3 Erection eguipment and machinery .... 99
3.3.1 Cranes and lifting devices .............. 100
3.3.2 Tensioning devices and eguipment 111
for ropes ............................... 112
3.3.3 Tensioning devices and aids for membrane sheets ........114
3.3.4 Scaffolding working platforms and
temporary construction ................116
3.4 Erection procedure ....................116
3.4.1 Criteria affecting the erection procedure
3.4.2 Remarks about the erection of the
primary structure ......................116
3.4.3 Erection procedures for membrane
structures ..............................116
3.5 Construction ...........................
3.5.1 Preparation work and preassembly .....
3.5.2 Lifting and hanging
structural elements
3.5.3 Introduction of loads-pretensioning ..
3.6 Control of the forces in flexible
structural elements .
3.6.1 Determination of force in ropes
3.6.2 Measurement of membrane
Summary and outlook
References .
Illustration acknowledgements ..
Projects (1989-2007
Modelling erection procedures