CINTRABLE INFLATION ELEMENT OF A CURVED ENVELOPE, LATTE AND STRUCTURE COMPRISING SUCH AN ELEMENT AND ASSOCIATED BENDING METHODS

摘要

A bendable member (160) is formed of at least one inflatable envelope (161), a first, elongate, elongate sole (162) attached to a first face of the inflatable envelope, a second sole (163), bendable and elongated, fixed on a second side of the inflatable envelope and shorter than the first sole, and links (164) connecting the first sole to the second sole. The links are loose when the inflatable envelope is in a deflated state. Inflation of the inflatable envelope causes a bending of the first and second soles in a direction of curvature (D) from the first sole to the second sole, by tensioning the links so that the links extend according to curvature radii (170) common to the first and second soles while maintaining the second sole centered longitudinally with respect to the first sole.