Objectives

Structural Membranes Conference is the 13th in the series of International Conferences, organized since 2003 on Textile Composites and Inflatable Structures.

The previous conferences of these series were held in Barcelona (2003, 2007, 2011, 2015, 2019, in conjunction with the conference commemorating the 60th anniversary of the International Association for Shell and Space Structures (IASS)), Stuttgart (2005, 2009) and Munich (2013, 2017), online on September 13-14, 2021 and Valencia, Spain on 2-4 October 2023 and Munich on 8-10 October 2025.

The main objective of Structural Membranes 2027 is to collect and disseminate state-of-the-art research and technology for design, analysis, construction and maintenance of textile, tensile and inflatable structures. Contributions on other lightweight structural systems are also very welcome. The conference will address all aspects related to design, analysis, planning, manufacturing, testing, construction and maintenance of tensile structures. Contributions including advances in materials, life-cycle analysis, environmental conditions, monitoring and applications of machine learning and artificial intelligence are encouraged.

Structural Membranes 2027 aims to be a forum of experts of all different fields related to tensile and lightweight structures for discussing recent progress and identifying future research directions within a relaxed environment.

Structural Membranes 2027 will 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).