CONTENTS
CONTENTS .1
L1ST OF FIGURES 4
ACKNOWLEDGMENT 14
PREFACE 15
BOOK OUTLINE 18
CHAPTER 1 TRANSFORMABLE STRUCTURES: HISTORY,
IACKGROUND AND DEVELOPMENT 21
1.1. TRADITIONAL TRANSFORMABLE STRUCTURES 21
1.2. TECHNOLOGICAL INNOVATION IN THE AREA OF TRANSFORMABLE STRUCTURES 1.2.1 Transformable or affiliated transformable structures with rigid elements 26
1.2.2. Transformable or affiliated transformable structures with deformable elements 34
1.3. SUMMARY 44
CHAPTER 2 CLASSIFICATION OF TRANSFORMABLE ARCHITECTURAL STRUCTURES 47
2.1. EXISTING CLASSIFICATIONS AND APPROACHES FOR TRANSFORMABLE STRUCTURES 48
2.2. CLASSIFICATION OF TRANSFORMABLE ARCHITECTURAL STRUCTURES 50
2.3. STRUCTURE AND ORGANISATION OF THE CLASSIFICATION 51
2A DESIGN EVALUATION CRITERIA 54
2.5. USE OF DESIGN EVALUATION CRITERIA IN THIS BOOK 57
CHAPTER 3 TRANSFORMABLE TENSILE ARCHITECTURAL STRUCTURES
3.1. DEVELOPMENT AND MAIN STRUCTURAL PRINCIPLES 59
3.2. FORM-FINDING OF TRANSFORMABLE TENSILE MEMBRANES 61
3.3. THE CLASSIFICATION OF TRANSFORMABLE TENSILE MEMBRANE 62
3J.7. Transformable integrated forms 66
3.3.2. Transformable non-integrated forms 66
3.3.3. Form variations 66
3.3.4. Transformation mechanisms and morphology 67
3.3.5. Material
3.3.6. Evaluation of transformable tensile membranes 103
3.4. TRANSFORMABLECOMPRESSIVE-TENSILE STRUCTURES 108
3.4.1. Tensegrity structures 109