Tensile Structures - book

["Ken G. Brown" <kbrown at tnc dot com>]

This may bring you happiness. :)
There are a ton of interesting tension surfaces detailed along with 
calculations, etc..
   Ken
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Tensile Structures, Design Structure and Calculations of Buildings of 
Cables, Nets and Membranes
   -- edited by Frei Otto
Two volumes in one cover
Volume 1 - Frei Otto: Pneumatic Structures
           Rudolf Trostel: Calculation of membranes
           Frei Otto: Tension Anchoring in the Foundations
Volume 2 - Frei Otto: Basic Concepts and Survey of Tensile Structures
           Friedrich-Karl Schleyer: Analysis of Cables, Cable Nets, 
and Cable Structures
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At 10:38 AM -0600 1/16/01, Charles J Knight wrote:
> I'm trying to do the same thing, but from fabric...it's such an
> interesting
> way to build, but patterning has to be very precise.  (like domes don't
> require precision and math...)  Unfortunately, noone that I'm aware of
> has published a book called "tensile math and how to use it," as Hugh
> Kenner did for geodesics.
>
> >  ...again, thanks, i'm learning a lot about structures now...
>
> That's what this list is for!  Have fun.
>
>       -- Chuck Knight