<html><head><style> body {height: 100%; color:#000000; font-size:12pt; font-family:Times New Roman;}</style></head><body>Desde: 09-10-2013<br>Hasta: 11-10-2013<br>Lugar: <font size="2"><font size="3"><strong style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal"><span style="COLOR: black" lang="IT">Munich, Germany</span></strong></font></font><br><br><title></title><font size="2"><p style="MARGIN: 0pt" class="MsoNormal"><strong><span style="COLOR: black; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB" lang="EN-GB"><font size="3">STRUCTURAL MEMBRANES 2013 </font></span></strong></p><p style="MARGIN: 0pt" class="MsoNormal"><strong><span style="COLOR: black; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB" lang="EN-GB"><font size="3">Announcement of the VI International Conference on <br></font></span></strong></p><p style="MARGIN: 0pt" class="MsoNormal"><font size="3"><strong><span lang="IT">Textile <br>Composites and Inflatable Structures </span></strong><strong><span style="COLOR: black; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB" lang="EN-GB"></span></strong></font></p><p style="TEXT-ALIGN: justify; MARGIN: 0pt; mso-layout-grid-align: none" class="MsoNormal"><font size="3"><strong><span style="COLOR: black" lang="IT">October 9-11, <br>2013, </span></strong><strong style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal"><span style="COLOR: black" lang="IT">Munich, Germany</span></strong></font></p><p style="MARGIN: 0pt" class="MsoNormal"><font size="3"><span lang="IT"> </span><span style="mso-ansi-language: EN-GB" lang="EN-GB"></span></font></p><p style="MARGIN: 0pt" class="MsoNormal"><span lang="IT"><font size="3">Dear <br>Colleague,</font></span></p><p style="MARGIN: 0pt" class="MsoNormal"><span lang="IT"><font size="3"></font></span> </p><p style="MARGIN: 0pt" class="MsoNormal"><font size="3"><span lang="IT">We are pleased <br>to announce the<strong></strong></span><strong><span style="COLOR: black; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB" lang="EN-GB">VI International <br>Conference on </span></strong><strong><span lang="IT">Textile Composites and Inflatable <br>Structures </span></strong><strong><span style="COLOR: black; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB" lang="IT"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </span></span></strong><strong><span style="mso-ansi-language: EN-GB" lang="EN-GB">(STRUCTURAL MEMBRANES <br>2013)</span><strong><span lang="IT">,</span></strong></strong><span lang="IT"> <br>that will take place in <strong><em>Munich, Germany, on October 9-11, <br>2013</em>.</strong></span><strong><span style="COLOR: black; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB" lang="EN-GB"></span></strong></font></p><p style="TEXT-ALIGN: justify"><span style="mso-ansi-language: EN-GB" lang="EN-GB"><font size="3">The previous conferences of these series were held in <br>Barcelona (Spain) on 30 June - 3 July 2003, in <span style="COLOR: black">Stuttgart</span><span style="COLOR: black"> (</span>Germany<span style="COLOR: black">) on </span>2 - <br>4 October 2005, <br>in Barcelona <br>(Spain) on 17 - 19 September <br>2007, <br>in Stuttgart <br>(Germany) on 5 - 7 October <br>2009 and in Barcelona (Spain) on 5-7 <br>October 2011<span style="COLOR: black"></span></font></span></p><p style="TEXT-ALIGN: justify"><span style="mso-ansi-language: EN-GB" lang="EN-GB"><font size="3">The objectives of <strong>Structural Membranes <br>2013</strong> are to collect and disseminate state-of-the-art research and <br>technology for design, analysis, construction and maintenance of textile and <br>inflatable structures. The conference will address both the theoretical bases <br>for structural analysis and the numerical algorithms necessary for efficient and <br>robust computer implementation. A significant part of the conference will be <br>devoted to discuss advances in new textile composites for applications in <br>membrane and inflatable structures, as well as in innovative design, <br>construction and maintenance procedures.</font></span></p><p style="TEXT-ALIGN: justify"><span style="mso-ansi-language: EN-GB" lang="EN-GB"><font size="3">In summary, <strong>Structural Membranes 2013</strong> <br>aims to be a forum for discussing recent progress and identifying future <br>research directions in the field of textile composites and inflatable <br>structures.</font></span></p><p style="TEXT-ALIGN: justify"><font size="3"><strong><span style="mso-ansi-language: EN-GB" lang="EN-GB">Structural Membranes <br>2013</span></strong><span style="COLOR: black; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB" lang="EN-GB"> is one of the Thematic Conferences of the European Community on <br>Computational Methods in Applied Sciences (ECCOMAS). It is also an International <br>Association for Computational Mechanics (IACM) Special Interest <br>Conference.</span></font></p><p style="MARGIN: 0pt" class="MsoNormal"><strong><span style="COLOR: black; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB" lang="EN-GB"><font size="3">Key Date: <br></font></span></strong><span style="COLOR: black; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB" lang="EN-GB"><font size="3">Deadline for presenting a one page abstract is <br></font><strong><font size="3"><span style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman'; COLOR: black; FONT-SIZE: 12pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB; mso-fareast-language: ES; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA" lang="EN-GB">11 <span style="mso-bidi-font-weight: bold">February, <br>2013</span></span><br><br></font></strong></span></p><p style="MARGIN: 0pt" class="MsoNormal"><strong><span style="COLOR: black; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB" lang="EN-GB"><font size="3">Further <br>information is available at </font><a href="http://congress.cimne.com/membranes2013" target="_blank"><font size="3">http://congress.cimne.com/membranes2013</font></a><span style="mso-spacerun: yes"><font size="3"> </font></span></span></strong><span style="COLOR: black; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB" lang="EN-GB"><br><br><br></span></p><p style="MARGIN: 0pt" class="MsoNormal"><span style="COLOR: black; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB" lang="EN-GB"><font size="3">We kindly <br>invite you to mark <strong style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal">Structural Membranes <br>2013</strong> date in your calendar, and inform other colleagues who might be <br>interested in attending the conference. <br><br></font></span></p><p style="MARGIN: 0pt" class="MsoNormal"><font size="3"><span>We thank you for your <br>cooperation and look forward to welcoming you in Munich, in October <br>2013.<br><br>Sincerely,<br>Kai-Uwe Bletzinger</span><span style="mso-ansi-language: EN-GB" lang="EN-GB">, <em style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal"></em></span></font></p><p style="MARGIN: 0pt" class="MsoNormal"><font size="3"><span>Bernd Kröplin, <em style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal"></em></span></font></p><p style="MARGIN: 0pt" class="MsoNormal"><font size="3"><span style="mso-ansi-language: EN-GB" lang="EN-GB">Eugenio Oñate</span></font></p><p style="TEXT-ALIGN: justify; MARGIN: 0pt" class="MsoNormal"><span style="mso-ansi-language: EN-GB" lang="EN-GB"><font size="3"> </font></span></p><p style="MARGIN: 0pt" class="MsoNormal"><em><span style="mso-ansi-language: EN-GB" lang="EN-GB"><font size="3">Chairs of Structural Membranes <br>2013</font></span></em></p><em><span style="mso-ansi-language: EN-GB" lang="EN-GB"><font size="3"><p style="MARGIN: 0pt" class="MsoNormal"><span style="mso-ansi-language: EN-GB" lang="EN-GB"> </span></p></font></span></em></font></body></html>