“Air is pretty cheap,” says Skylar Tibbits, the co-director and founder of the Self-Assembly Lab at MIT’s International Design Center. He’s making a point about inflatables, which could be useful for ...

May 7, 2005 Inflatable structures (aka airbeams) have developed rapidly in recent times, finding application in a variety of new engineering projects ranging from military tents in Iraq and ...

Researchers have developed bi-stable inflatable structures inspired by origami. In 2016, an inflatable arch wreaked havoc at the Tour de France bicycle race when it deflated and collapsed on a cyclist ...

A 1/3 scale prototype of Sierra Space's LIFE inflatable habitat was run through an Accelerated Systematic Creep Test within a NASA-designed disposable building. The testing has demonstrated that the ...