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In recent years, a quiet revolution has been unfolding within the construction industry. Modular fabric structures—once confined to temporary military tents or seasonal warehouses—are now emerging as ...

A paper by D. Veenendaal et al. 1 gives a detailed historical perspective of innovators who have proceeded us using fabric as part of their building forming systems, as hydraulic and geotechnical ...

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ClearSpan's Fabric House Building utilizes the Hybrid Building frame but is covered completely in fabric for faster turnaround time ClearSpan's Fabric House Building utilizes the Hybrid Building frame ...

Researchers at the Institute of Building Structures and Structural Design in Stuttgart, Germany, are developing flexible composite fiber structural assemblies for the Elytra pavilion, a domed ...

Seating furniture is frequently not designed for long-term use or simple assembly and disassembly and has a tendency to break ...