Statistic Analysis of Tensile Fabric Structures Features

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Today, by the diversity of advanced structural systems, structures are guided to lighter designs, more efficient and stunning, tensile fabric structures are getting popular more and more everyday because of their lightness, quickly and easily installation, cheapness and also durability improvement of materials. Due to the necessity of recognizing the types of these structures, in this paper authors have tried to present a comprehensive review and appropriate analysis for these kinds of structures. In the first phase, after describing the desired topic, 52 case studies of Tensile Fabric Structures and their general features have been deliberated. At last all case studies were classified based on location, year of construction, base structure, material and form. Assessing these items, classified case studies could have been analysed. In this article, with focus on structural form, Tensile Fabric Structures were analysed in 3 categories: Hypar, Conic and Barrel. The method and results of analysis based on the structural information will be presented and discussed.

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