Membrane construction

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Water Cube in Beijing - membrane construction with 100 tons of ETFE foils

Under Membrane refers to the construction of membrane materials as a building material. So are skin-like, d. H. This means thin, flat materials that are easily plastically deformable and can only be subjected to static loads under tension, but not under pressure. Membrane can be made different, they can in particular be foils or (coated or uncoated) textiles ( woven , knitted and other flat textile materials), z. B. polyester fabric with PVC coating, glass fiber fabric with PTFE coating, PVC foil , ETFE foil. In traditional tent construction, animal skins or leather and furs were also used as membranes.

The terms membrane construction and textile architecture are often used almost synonymously in specialist discourse. But they differ from the word origin. For example, membranes made of fiber-free foil or leather are not textiles in the strict sense of the word, and conversely, rope nets can be attributed to textile architecture, but not to membranes.

The areas of application of membrane construction are diverse, membranes are often used in temporary architecture , wide-span roofs , for example for flight roofs (over stadiums, petrol stations, etc.) as well as roofs over halls and in pneumatic structures (e.g. air domes ).

A prominent example of ETFE membrane construction is the Allianz Arena in Munich. Another example, the Water Cube in Beijing, is famous for an entire cover made of multilayer ETFE pillows.

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