Measurements For The Control Of Textile Membranes

Project Information

MESCOME II

Grant agreement ID: IN20543I

Start date

End date

Funded under

• Specific programme for the dissemination and exploitation of the results of activities in the field of research, technological development and demonstration, 1994-1998

Total cost No data

EU contribution No data

Coordinated by

TEXSYS SARL
France

Objective

The Mescome project concerned the implementation of a complete and specific measurement system suited to lightweight architecture with fabrics or films. It was in response to a real need of producers of tensile structures, to control tensions in the membrane during erection, to optimise the membrane construction, and to guarantee security during life time of the structure. This would lead to an increase in competitiveness in the area of membrane manufacture with regards to the main market that is outside Europe. Typical aplications would have been stadium type structures (e.g. the UK's Millennium Dome!).

The two project partners were:
- Koch Hightec GmbH Konstruktive Membranen (Germany), which builds architectural membranes for all over the world, is interested in such a system in order to control the quality of membranes produced.
- teXsYs (France), which developed new sensors for soft materials, with a complete data processing system that allows to measure stretches and strains on soft materials during their use in real conditions.

Objectives of this project were to

- validate the use of new sensors, initially developed for competition sails and scientific balloons on tensible membrane structures
- improve a bi-axial machine used for the calculation of material strength: this improvement was necessary in order to bring accurate data (relative to membrane materials) to the measurement system
- study and set up means and methods of measurements,
- test the new measurement methods before diffusion.

The project was stopped by the bankruptcy of Koch Highex Gmbh.

Fields of science

Not validated

• engineering and technology › materials engineering › textiles
• engineering and technology › electrical engineering, electronic engineering, information engineering › electronic engineering › sensors
• natural sciences › computer and information sciences › data science › data processing

Keywords

• Adaptation
• Basic Industries
• Chemicals
• Hardware
• Materials
• SME

Programme(s)

• FP4-INNOVATION - Specific programme for the dissemination and exploitation of the results of activities in the field of research, technological development and demonstration, 1994-1998

Topic(s)

• 1.3 - VALIDATION AND SPIN-OFF OF EARLIER COMMUNITY RTD RESULTS

Call for proposal

Data not available

Funding Scheme

CSC - Cost-sharing contracts

Coordinator

TEXSYS SARL

• EU contribution: No data
• Address: 55 AV. LOUIS BREGUET, BAT. ARIANE ; 31400 TOULOUSE ; France
• Total cost: No data

Participants (1)

KOCH HIGHTEX KONSTUKTIVE MEMBRANE

Germany

• EU contribution: No data
• Total cost: No data