the target of this publication is to assemble cutting-edge learn and te- nology for layout, research, building and upkeep of fabric and in?atable buildings. cloth composites and in?atable constructions became more and more well known for numerous purposes in - between many different ?elds - civil engineering, structure and aerospace engineering. general examples - clude membrane roofs and covers, sails, in?atable constructions and pavilions, airships, in?atable furnishings, airspace constructions and so on. the facility to supply numerical simulations for more and more advanced membrane and in?atable constructions is advancing swiftly as a result of either - markablestrides in desktop improvement and theimproved adulthood of computational methods for nonlinear structural structures. Signi?cant growth has been made within the formula of?nite components equipment for static and dynamic difficulties, advanced constitutive fabric behaviour, coupled aero-elastic research and so forth. The e-book comprises 18 invited contributions written by way of special authors who participated within the foreign convention on fabric C- puterandIn?atedStructuresheldinBarcelonafromJune30thtoJuly2nd 2003. The assembly used to be one of many Thematic meetings of the eu neighborhood on Computational equipment in technologies (ECCOMAS, www.eccomas.org). The di?erent chapters talk about contemporary growth and destiny learn dir- tions in new fabric composites for functions in membrane and in?atable constructions. nearly 1/2 thebook focusesin describing leading edge numerical equipment for structural research, resembling new non linear m- brane and shell ?nite parts. the remainder of the chapters current advances in layout, building and upkeep approaches. The content material of the di?erent chapters used to be despatched at once via the authors andtheeditorscannotacceptresponsibilityforanyinaccuracies, reviews and reviews contained in thetext.