Fabrication and Construction - Tensile Fabric Structures: Design, Analysis, and Construction - page 142

Figure 9-4
Fabric Pattern
Figure 9-5
Biaxial Pre-Stress in Fabric
9.1.2 Non-Developable Surfaces
Tensile membrane surfaces are, generally, not planar or surfaces of revolution. As
such their geometric description is relatively complex. Beyond that, the resulting
geometric description, for patterning purposes, will be an approximation rather than