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Lookup NU author(s): Alex Colman, Professor Ben BridgensORCiD, Professor Peter Gosling
This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 International License (CC BY-NC 4.0).
Broad assumptions are made in the testing and simulation of architectural fabrics used for tensile fabric structures. In particular, fabric shear behaviour is poorly understood and is not routinely determined. Tensile structures are continuously subject to a combination of biaxial tensile stress and shear stress, yet there is no accepted method for accurately determining shear behaviour in a tensioned fabric. A novel picture frame shear test design and associated test protocol is described here that aims to provide a practicable solution for the accurate determination of the in-situ shear stiffness of architectural fabrics. Results of shear tests on fabrics subjected to increasing levels of biaxial prestress are presented and the implications for analysis are discussed. (C) 2014 Elsevier Ltd. All rights reserved.
Author(s): Colman AG, Bridgens BN, Gosling PD, Jou GT, Hsu XY
Publication type: Article
Publication status: Published
Journal: Composites Part A: Applied Science and Manufacturing
Year: 2014
Volume: 66
Pages: 163-174
Print publication date: 01/11/2014
Online publication date: 04/08/2014
Acceptance date: 20/07/2014
Date deposited: 02/02/2015
ISSN (print): 1359-835X
ISSN (electronic): 1878-5840
Publisher: Pergamon Press
URL: http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.compositesa.2014.07.015
DOI: 10.1016/j.compositesa.2014.07.015
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