On the Design Process of Tensile Structures Dividing the surface by Separating the strips Flattening of the strips compensation geodesic lines along the geodesic lines Fig.7.Generation of cutting pattern [16 KIIIIININIIIN fI EITI I1I1I1101I1E1110181 DININIOINIIIOIIIIIOI HINENIN TEI IIE INI I I 0OD0O000011000110000 Fig.8.Shear deformation of woven fabric [17] maximum shear deformation is depended by the thickness of the yarns,the distance of the yarns and the flexibility of the coating.If the rotation of the yarns is larger than the required distortion to flatten the doubled curved strips the flattening is only a process of strainless deformation. If the process is invert and still definite needs further examination because the manufacturing of membrane structures is from the flat and assembled strips into the double curved and pretensioned structure.Already known is the shear deformation which is used to build double curved surfaces with cable nets.The cable net can be put onto the doubled curved surface just by changing the angles between the cables; the distance between the nodes is kept as constant.The rotation of the two layers of cables against each other is related to the curvatures of the surface. Plane net with square meshes Plane and double curved net Double curved net Fig.9.Shear deformation from the plane into the double curved netOn the Design Process of Tensile Structures 7 Fig. 7. Generation of cutting pattern [16] Fig. 8. Shear deformation of woven fabric [17] maximum shear deformation is depended by the thickness of the yarns, the distance of the yarns and the flexibility of the coating. If the rotation of the yarns is larger than the required distortion to flatten the doubled curved strips the flattening is only a process of strainless deformation. If the process is invert and still definite needs further examination because the manufacturing of membrane structures is from the flat and assembled strips into the double curved and pretensioned structure. Already known is the shear deformation which is used to build double curved surfaces with cable nets. The cable net can be put onto the doubled curved surface just by changing the angles between the cables; the distance between the nodes is kept as constant. The rotation of the two layers of cables against each other is related to the curvatures of the surface. Fig. 9. Shear deformation from the plane into the double curved net Dividing the surface by geodesic lines Separating the strips along the geodesic lines Flattening of the strips compensation Plane net with square meshes Plane and double curved net Double curved net