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STRUCTURALMEMBRANES 2021X International Conference on Textile Composites and Inflatable Structures

http://congress.cimne.com/membranes2021

13-15 September 2021, Munich, Germany

Location Structural Membranes 2021 will be held at the premises of the Technical University of Munich (TUM), located downtown. For details visit the conference website.

Munich (“München”) is the capital and largest city of the German state of Bavaria (third largest city, after Berlin and Hamburg). Back to the 12th century a monastery ran by monks of the Benedictine order became the Old Town of Munich. Nowadays, Munich is a leading location for science and research, home to major universities (such as the Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München and the Technische Universität München), and Max Planck institutes.

Munich and closer suburbs have a comprehensive public transportation system that includes the Munich U-Bahn (underground railway), the Munich S-Bahn (suburban trains), trams and buses.

Registration Fees

FEES

(in Euros)

Early Bird

If paid by

June 11, 2021

Late Bird

If paid after

June 11, 2021

A- Delegates 690 € 790 €

B- Students presenting a paper 540 € 610 €

C- Students not presenting a paper 290 € 350 €

ECCOMAS and IACM members will have a 5% reduction on the delegates fees.

Supporting Organizations• Technical University of Munich (TUM), Germany

• International Centre for Numerical Methods in Engineering (CIMNE)

• Universitat Politècnica de València (UPV), Spain

• European Community on Computational Methods in Applied Sciences (ECCOMAS)

• International Association for Computational Mechanics (IACM)

ECCOMAS, IACM and IASS Support Structural Membranes 2021 is a Thematic Conference of the European Community on Computational Methods in Applied Sciences (ECCOMAS). www.eccomas.org

Structural Membranes 2021 is a Special Interest Conference of the International Association for Computational Mechanics (IACM).www.iacm.info

Structural Membranes 2021 will be supported by the International Association for Shell and Spatial Structures (IASS)iass-structures.org

SUPPORTED BYSUPPORTED BY

Objectives The tenth edition of the conference on Textile Composites and Textile Composites and Inflatable Structures (STRUCTURAL MEMBRANES 2021) Inflatable Structures (STRUCTURAL MEMBRANES 2021) will be organised on 13-15 September 2021 in Munich, Germany13-15 September 2021 in Munich, Germany. The previous conferences of these series were held in Barcelona (2003, 2007, 2011, 2015), Stuttgart (2005, 2009) and Munich (2013, 2017). The nineth edition of the Structural Membranes conference took place in Barcelona on October 2019, in conjunction with the conference commemorating the 60th anniversary of the Imternational Association for Shell and Space Structures (IASS).

The objectives of Structural Membranes 2021Structural Membranes 2021 are to collect and disseminate state-of-the-art research and technology for design, analysis, construction and maintenance of textile and inflatable structures. The conference will address both the theoretical bases for structural analysis and the numerical algorithms necessary for efficient and robust computer implementation.

A significant part of the conference will be devoted to discuss advances in new textile composites for applications in membrane and inflatable structures in the building and construction sectors, as well as in innovative design, construction and maintenance procedures.

Structural Membranes 2021Structural Membranes 2021 aims to be a forum for discussing recent progress and identifying future research directions in the field of textile composites and inflatable structures.

Structural Membranes 2021Structural Membranes 2021 will be supported by IASS. It will also be a Thematic Conference of the European Community on Computational Methods in Applied Sciences (ECCOMAS) and a Special Interest Conference of the International Association for

Computational Mechanics (IACM).

Organizers CommitteeKai-Uwe Bletzinger (Chair)Technical University of Munich (TUM), Germany

Eugenio Oñate CIMNE / Univ. Politècnica de Catalunya (UPC), Barcelona, Spain

Roland WüchnerTechnical University of Munich (TUM), Germany

Carlos LázaroUniversitat Politècnica de València (UPV), Spain

Scientific Committee• J.M. Adam, Spain• G. Arun, Turkey• O. Baverel, France• P. Beccarelli, UK• A. Behnejad, UK• H. Bögner-Balz, Germany• D. Campbell, USA• E. Carrera, Italy• M. Cervera, Spain• J. Chilton, UK• F. Cirak, UK• J. Coenders, The

Netherlands• P. J. S. Cruz, Portugal• L. Datashvili, Germany• C. Douthe, France• G.H. Filz, Finland• C.J. Gantes, Greece• A.J. Gil, UK• P. Gösling, UK• M. Grohmann, Germany• J. Hu, China• J.J. Jorquera-Lucerga, Spain• S. Kato, Japan• S.-D. Kim, South Korea• H. Kloft, Germany• S. Krishnan, USA• A. Kunze, Germany

• W. Lang, Germany• J.I. Llorens, Spain• R. Maffei, Italy• M. Majowiecki, Italy• J. Marcipar, Spain• M. Mollaert, Belgium• J. Monjo-Carrió, Spain• S. Monleón, Spain• K. Moritz, Germany• M. Ohsaki, Japan• J.G. Oliva Salinas, Mexico• R.M. Pauletti, Brazil• S. Pellegrino, USA• B. Phillip, Germany• O. Popovic-Larsen,

Denmark• A. Pronk, Netherlands• A. Pugnale, Australia• A. Rein, Germany• R. Rossi, Spain• J. Sánchez-Sánchez, Spain• R. Sastre, Spain• L. Schiemann, Germany• E. Simiu, USA• E. Soriano, Spain• R. Tarczewski, Poland• Y. Yoshino, Japan

Important Dates Deadline for presenting a one page abstract March 15, 2021

Acceptance of the contributions April 12, 2021

Deadline for submitting the full paper (not mandatory), completing author’s registration(*) and early payment

June 11, 2021

(*) Presenting authors are required to finalize their registration before June 11 2021 in order to get the presentation included in the Conference Program.

Conference TopicsThe conference topics will include (the list is not exhaustive):

• Adaptivity• Bio-inspired Membranes• Climate Impact• Construction Methods• Design Methods • Energy Aspects• Environmental Aspects • Hybrid Structures• Maintenance Techniques• Manufacturing• New Membrane Materials• Numerical Methods for Structural Analysis • Pressure Management • Smart Membranes• Testing Procedures

Applications:Applications: airships, airspace structures, ballons, bio-membranes, building and construction, facades and covers, furniture, high altitude platforms, ice shelters, inflatable antennas, inflatable pavilions and

buildings, membrane roofs, parachutes, sails, textiles for clothes, etc.