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Fig. 6.Structural model: cable isometric view.
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Fig. 7. Structural model: cable lateral view.
5 Numerical Example: Membrane
This example is considered in [24]. It is a square plane membrane initially prestressed.
The edges of the membrane are completely fixed. The side length is 240
in and the thickness is measured as 0.004167 in. Mechanical properties for the ma-
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