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Abstract
Concrete wall panels have traditionally been cast using a rigid formwork. Straight-forward methods of analysis and design are available for the traditionally cast concrete wall or floor panel. This is not so for the panel cast in a flexible fabric formwork. The purpose of this report is to develop a design procedure that allows one to design a fabric cast concrete panel.
A four-step procedure for analytically modeling the fabric formwork is developed in order to determine the final shape of the concrete wall panel. The structural analysis program ADINA was employed to analyze the complexities of a flexible fabric formwork and the concrete panel cast in it.
Analytical modeling and design techniques are developed in this report that will allow the design community another way to express themselves through the use of flexible fabric formwork.