Measurements For The Control Of Textile Membranes

Informations projet

MESCOME II

N° de convention de subvention: IN20543I

Date de début

Date de fin

Financé au titre de

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

Coût total Aucune donnée

Contribution de l’UE Aucune donnée

Coordonné par

TEXSYS SARL
France

Objectif

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.

Champ scientifique

CORDIS classe les projets avec EuroSciVoc, une taxonomie multilingue des domaines scientifiques, grâce à un processus semi-automatique basé sur des techniques TLN.

• 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

Mots‑clés

• 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

Thème(s)

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

Appel à propositions

Data not available

Régime de financement

CSC - Cost-sharing contracts

Coordinateur

TEXSYS SARL

• Contribution de l’UE: Aucune donnée
• Adresse: 55 AV. LOUIS BREGUET, BAT. ARIANE ; 31400 TOULOUSE ; France
• Coût total: Aucune donnée

Participants (1)

KOCH HIGHTEX KONSTUKTIVE MEMBRANE

Allemagne

• Contribution de l’UE: Aucune donnée
• Coût total: Aucune donnée