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Membrane structures are spatial structures made out of tensioned membranes. The structural use of membranes can be divided intopneumatic structures,tensile membrane structures, and cable domes. In these three kinds of structure, membranes work together with cables, columns and other construction members to find a form.
Membranes are also used as non-structural cladding, as at theBeijing National Stadium where the spaces between the massive steel structural members are infilled with PTFE coated glass fiber fabric and ETFE foil. The other major building on the site, built for the2008 Summer Olympics, is theBeijing National Aquatics Center, also known as the Water Cube. It is entirely clad in 100,000 square metres of inflated ETFE foil cushions arranged as an apparently random cellular structure.
The common membranes used in membrane structures include:
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TheInternational Centre for Numerical Methods in Engineering (CIMNE) in Barcelona biannually holds the international conferenceTextile Composites and Inflatable Structures (Structural Membranes).[1] The conference has been taking place in Barcelona, Stuttgart and Munich. The tenth edition of the conference will be organized in 2021 in Munich.[2]
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