The fabric formwork book : methods for building new architectural and structural forms in concrete

Part 1. About flexible formworks : On flexibility : Control 
 New language of form --
The history of fabric formwork / Diederik Veenendaal : The inventions of the fabric-formed floor 
 The wider potential of fabric formwork 
 The Ctesiphon system and its legacy 
 Shell structures and the cost of formwork 
 Architectural expression 
 Marine and geotechnical applications of fabric formworks 
 Contemporary fabric-formed architecture --
Structural intelligence in flexible materials / Edward Allen, John Ochsendorf, and Mark West : Funicular forms 
 Flow of forces in solids 
 Following curved force flows in fabric-formed structures 
 Pressurized membranes: a co-incidence of skin 
 Materials savings in flexible fabric moulds --
Part 2. Construction : Introduction : Flat-sheet moulds 
 Models 
 Subtly different skills --
Textiles : The basics : General considerations 
 Material behavior (mechanical properties) 
 Textile structure 
 Preferred formwork fabric types (woven polyethylene (PE) and polypropylene (PP) fabrics) 
 Coated vs. uncoated PP and PE textiles 
 Fabric handling 
 Slack-sheet moulds 
 Energized (tensioned) formwork sheets 
 Sewing 
 Concrete\'s constituent parts: mix designs 
 Special considerations with permeable fabric moulds --
Connections / Mark West and Ronnie Araya : General considerations 
 Fabric-to-fabric connections 
 Fabric-to-frame connections 
 Other connections 
 Edge-frame connections against curved fabric sheets 
 Scaffolding strategies 
 Reinforcing --
Tips & tricks : Water tests 
 Welding burns 
 Drawing on plastic fabrics 
 Captured fabric 
 Undercut or \"keyed\" rigidified fabric moulds 
 Cutting, and finishing plastic rope 
 Cutting plastic fabrics 
 Heat-setting thermoplastic sheets 
 Air bubbles (bug holes) 
 Fitting rigid frames to fabric-formed concrete surfaces 
 Rope tricks for mechanical advantage in pre-tensioning 
 Complex surface geometry made simple 
 On shaping impactos 
 A note on tape 
 Flexible mould edges 
 External vibration 
 A note on filling permeable moulds 
 On filling coated-fabric moulds 
 External manipulations of a pressurized mould 
 Fragility of recently set concrete in flexible moulds 
 On the robustness of flexible moulds: repair during casting --
Cast-in-place column moulds : Pressure and fabric-tension in a column mould 
 Commercially available column moulds 
 Custom-made column moulds --
Cast-in-place wall moulds : \"Quilt-point\" method 
 Frame-restraint method 
 Zero-waste wall formwork 
 Bulge-wall method --
Open trough moulds : Foundation formworks 
 Variable-section open trough moulds --
Non-pressurized moulds / Mark West and Ronnie Araya : Open pan fabric formworks 
 Vibrating concrete in permeable, open pan moulds 
 Hanging sheet moulds 
 Funicular vaults and thin-shells, double curvature in shells --
Truss and branching forms : Naturally formed branching shapes 
 Summation: construction with fabric formworks.