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Product Description: Tension structures-structures whose members transmit loads to supports by tensile stresses-can be made of cables, membranes, or both. They include air-support structures, pneumatic shells, prestressed membranes, cable networks, tethers, suspension cables, guyed towers and tents, ocean platforms, and breakwaters...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)
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9780070372269 | McGraw-Hill, October 1, 1987, cover price $63.00 | About this edition: Tension structures-structures whose members transmit loads to supports by tensile stresses-can be made of cables, membranes, or both.
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9783764353520 | Birkhauser, April 1, 1996, cover price $65.00 | About this edition: This volume documents the usage and possibilities of "tensile architecture", demonstrating projects from the last 20 years.
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9780750612821 | Routledge, July 1, 1996, cover price $70.00
Product Description: This book addresses the development towards the urban use of membrane and cable-net structures. Through the study of conventional historical examples which also have non-linear geometric, the authors show how traditional buildings can be used as an inspirational source when searching for ways to combine rectilinear and curvilinear forms...read more
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9780750604383 | Butterworth Architecture, August 1, 1996, cover price $44.99 | About this edition: This book addresses the development towards the urban use of membrane and cable-net structures.
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9783764354503 | Birkhauser, June 1, 1997, cover price $70.00
9780817654504 | Birkhauser, May 1, 1997, cover price $55.01
Product Description: For years, architects have enjoyed the challenge of incorporating lightweight structures -- fabrics, tents, canopies, membranes, and so on -- into their designs.Such materials are a welcome boon to architectural creativity, allowing designers to envision spaces that take innovative shapes and interact with their surroundings in ways unattainable with conventional materials...read more
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9780060567569 | Harper Design Intl, May 1, 2004, cover price $35.00 | About this edition: For years, architects have enjoyed the challenge of incorporating lightweight structures -- fabrics, tents, canopies, membranes, and so on -- into their designs.
Product Description: The book focuses on the recent innovations in computational techniques, material and digital fabrication technology that are revolutionizing the design, analysis and construction of surface structures. Powerful analysis tools now enable the accurate prediction of structural behaviour and manufacturing processes...read more
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9780415419666 | 1 edition (Taylor & Francis, March 26, 2008), cover price $180.00 | About this edition: The book focuses on the recent innovations in computational techniques, material and digital fabrication technology that are revolutionizing the design, analysis and construction of surface structures.
Product Description: The book focuses on the recent innovations in computational techniques, material and digital fabrication technology that are revolutionizing the design, analysis and construction of surface structures. Powerful analysis tools now enable the accurate prediction of structural behaviour and manufacturing processes...read more
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9780415419673 | 1 edition (Taylor & Francis, March 18, 2008), cover price $58.95 | About this edition: The book focuses on the recent innovations in computational techniques, material and digital fabrication technology that are revolutionizing the design, analysis and construction of surface structures.
Product Description: The first major book on the history of the tent and its use, along with an international survey of the most exciting and wide-ranging contemporary fabric structures.The tent is one of the oldest man-made structures. Prized for its lightness, mobility, small footprint, and structural elegance, it has been used for centuries by nomadic cultures...read more
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9780500342435 | Thames & Hudson, June 1, 2008, cover price $60.00 | About this edition: The first major book on the history of the tent and its use, along with an international survey of the most exciting and wide-ranging contemporary fabric structures.
Product Description: A breathtaking view of state-of-the-art technology for projects ranging from simple awnings to dome stadiums.Architects, landscape architects, interior designers, fabricators, and owner/developers seeking creative, green solutions for a wide array of structures-shelter, shade, and water protection; outdoor and indoor; permanent and temporary-will find a broad array of ideas in this visual catalog of the latest materials and methods for designing canopies, tents, umbrellas, facades, signage, walls, and ceilings...read more
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9780393732368 | 1 edition (W W Norton & Co Inc, September 30, 2008), cover price $75.00 | About this edition: A breathtaking view of state-of-the-art technology for projects ranging from simple awnings to dome stadiums.
Product Description: Tensile surface structures are the visual expression of an intensive rethinking of the topic of building envelopes by designers. Advances in design methods, materials, construction elements and assembly and erection planning in the field of lightweight construction are enabling ever more exacting applications of tensile structures with envelope and structural functions, especially in roofing over large clear spans without internal support...read more
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9783433029220 | Ernst & Sohn, August 11, 2009, cover price $140.00 | About this edition: Tensile surface structures are the visual expression of an intensive rethinking of the topic of building envelopes by designers.
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9780415335959 | CRC Pr I Llc, September 1, 2004, cover price $243.00
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9780415511353 | CRC Pr I Llc, November 25, 2011, cover price $42.95
Product Description: Tensile Fabric Structures: Design Analysis and Construction summarises the range of tensile membrane structure forms and their applications and documents the current state of knowledge regarding loading form finding and nonlinear analysis of membrane structures...read more
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9780784412893 | Amer Society of Civil Engineers, June 11, 2013, cover price $90.00 | About this edition: Tensile Fabric Structures: Design Analysis and Construction summarises the range of tensile membrane structure forms and their applications and documents the current state of knowledge regarding loading form finding and nonlinear analysis of membrane structures.
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