Tensinews

Time: from 16.00h to 18.00h, Location: Allegretto Room (Block C - Service Center at the SAIE SPRING - BOLOGNA FAIR, Costituzione Square, Bologna)

- Minutes of the previous Partner Meeting
- Reports of the TensiNet Working Groups:
o Specifications
o Website and Database
o Research and Development
o ETFE …
- The status of the founding partners
- Dates for the next meetings
- Upcoming events
- Misc.

TensiNet Partners Meeting at Techtextil 2005
8 June 2005

Agenda

Location: Room "Aspekt" in hall 3, level C west.
The general objective of the meeting is to review TensiNet’s aims and activities.
Start: 16.00h
1 Member list
1. 1 State after 6 months
1. 2 How to increase the number of members

2 Design Guide
2. 1 Price (Libraries ...)
2. 2 Promotion in professional organizations/ journals

3 Symposium - Plenary meeting
3. 1 Structural membranes 2005 (2-10 > 4-10) Stuttgart
3. 2 Contributions

4 TensiNews 9
4. 1 Contents
4. 2 Comments

5 Database/website
5. 1 Demo
5. 2 How to stimulate members to enter data?

6 General discussion
6. 1 Strategies
6. 2 Further objectives


End: 19.00h

The TensiNet Annual General Meeting will take place during the Structural Membranes Conference 2005 http://congress.cimne.upc.es/membranes05. The conference will take place at the the Institute for Statics and Dynamics of Aerospace Structures (ISD), Universität Stuttgart http://www.isd.uni-stuttgart.de/, Pfaffenwaldring 27, 70569 Stuttgart.

A special TensiNet session is planned on the 3rd of October at 2.00 p.m.

Biological Architecture for Medical Research University Queen Mary Medical School - London
A. Heslop

From the Cargolifter to the Tropical Islands Building Physics, Structural Analysis and Realization of the New ETFE Roof
B. Stimpfle

Tropical Islands - Implementation of the New ETFE Film Cushion Roofing
W. Rudorf-Witrin

Membrane Structures - Skin and Bones
K. Göppert

A one day congress fee is 120 euros.
If you are interested in a one day registration, please contact the secretariat of Structural Membranes at membranes05@cimne.upc.edu.

The TensiNet Annual General Meeting will take place on the 3rd of October at 4.30p.m. in the 'Lesesaal' of the Institut für Statik und Dynamik der Luft- und Raumfahrtkonstruktionen (ISD) at the University of Stuttgart, following the TensiNet session.

Agenda:
• Review of the association's activities in the past year
• Current financial condition of the TensiNet Association
• Cooperation with the Working Group of Textile Architecture and the organization of the Student Competition at Techtextil
• General discussion about strategies

After the Annual General Meeting TensiNet Members are invited for a drink.

Please confirm your participation for the Annual General Meeting to Marijke Mollaert (Marijke.Mollaert@vub.ac.be).

Second Partners Meeting 2006

The TensiNet Annual General Meeting will take place during the Structural Membranes Conference 2005. A special half-day session will be planned.

On the occasion of Frei Otto's 80th birthday the Architekturmuseum of the TU München at the Pinakothek der Moderne is preparing an extensive retrospective on the lifework of this great architect, designer, scientist and visionary. Frei Otto's systematic research of a lightweight and adaptable construction, his early dedication to environment and ecology as well as his impressive personality turned him into an outstanding architect in the second half of the 20th century. His works offer an inexhaustible source of inspiration and reflexion.

'Frei Otto – Lightweight Construction, Natural Design' is the first major survey on this universal architect. Scientifically compiled at the Technische Universität München it shows the span of his 50 years of work by means of drawings, sketches, models and historic documents. Frei Otto will provide the complete original material for this exhibition, thus making it possible to experience the astonishing variety of his works for the first time. Along with the exhibition a film on Frei Otto will be shown, initiated and supported by the Architekturmuseum and produced by Louis Saul in a coproduction of Südwestfunk and arte.

With approx 50 000 visitors every month the Pinakothek der Moderne is the most frequently visited German museum. The presentation reflects Frei Otto's essential concern: naturalness and lightness and culminates in Frei Otto's vision: 'How do we have to live on in the future? – We must think more, research, develop, invent and dare more to allow all human beings a peaceful life in a nature protected by themselves.'
For the first time an extensive publication (German and English version) by Birkhäuser Verlag will show the complete works of Frei Otto.

The TensiNet Partners Meeting will take place at Monday evening, 16th of April.
The room will be announced during the first day of the symposium.

The prospects of developing new materials that can function with greatly enhanced performance in applications ranging from aerospace engineering to bioengineering are motivating the search for novel experimental, theoretical, and computational methods. Special attention is being directed to biomimetics and materials that incorporate filaments and fiber networks.

This SES symposium intends to provide researchers from various backgrounds opportunities for exchanging and discussing state-of-art techniques for experimental testing, modeling, and design of fibrous materials, fiber networks and their applications.

IFAI Expo 2005 will do more to advance your business in three days than multiple trade shows, expositions and conferences can do throughout the year. IFAI Expo is the only event you need to attend in 2005 to meet your business, education and networking needs.

IASS - IACM 2005 is the 5th conference of a series of meetings initiated by Working Group No 13 of Numerical Methods for Shell and Spatial Structures of IASS.
It follows the very successful 4th colloquium, held in June 4-7, 2000 in Chania-Crete, Greece, organised and chaired by Professor Manolis Papadrakakis/ Athens, Greece. The conference will be organised under the auspices of the
- International & German Associations for Computational Mechanics (IACM/GACM)
- International Association for Shell & Spatial Structures (IASS)

The symposium aims at offering opportunities to debate some special and actual topics in the field of shells and spatial structures in order to enhance their availability towards high performances.

Accurate theoretical and practical motivations within the engineering approach are expected in the field of analysis, design and construction technique valuation and maintenance of this structural family.

The symposium addresses to theoreticians, designers and practitioners so as to debate some up to date items concerning the structural engineering approach in the wide perspective of the new millennium.