The V Conference on“Textile Composites and Inflatable Structures” (Structural Membranes 2011) will be organised on 5-7 October 2011 in Barcelona, Spain.

The previous conferences of these series were held in Barcelona (Spain) on 30 June – 3 July 2003, in Stuttgart (Germany) on 2 - 4 October 2005, in Barcelona on 17 - 19 September 2007 and in Stuttgart (Germany) on 5 - 7 October 2009

The objectives of Structural Membranes 2011 are to collect and disseminate state-of-the-art research and technology for design, analysis, construction and maintenance of textile and inflatable structures. The conference will address both the theoretical bases for structural analysis and the numerical algorithms necessary for efficient and robust computer implementation. A significant part of the conference will be devoted to discuss advances in new textile composites for applications in membrane and inflatable structures, as well as in innovative design, construction and maintenance procedures.

In summary, Structural Membranes 2011 aims to be a forum for discussing recent progress and identifying future research directions in the field of textile composites and inflatable structures.

Plenary Lectures will be complemented by Invited Sessions organised by recognised experts in targeted research areas of particle-based techniques as well as by contributed papers received from the general Call for Papers.