...Jia Lu; Xuefeng Zhao We present an innovative method for characterizing the distributive elastic properties in nonlinear membranes. The method hinges on an inverse elastostatic approach of stress analysis that can compute the wall stress in a deformed convex membrane structure using assumed elastic...

... of pressurized configurations, and a surface mesh that corresponds through all the deformed states is derived using a camera-based three dimensional reconstruction technique. In each configuration, the wall tension is computed by the finite element inverse elastostatic method, and the in-plane stretch relative...