Inflatable Airlock: Seaming Techniques of Highly Loaded Fabrics

Non-Axisymmetric Inflatable Pressure Structure (NAIPS) Full-Scale Pressure Test

“…The broadcloth fabric is custom ordered and can only be manufactured up to maximum widths of about 62inches, therefore for an article of this size multiple pieces of fabric are required to be stitched together to produce the desired inflatable shell. Fell stitch seams were used throughout the article after a series of strength tests were performed at JSC 9 . The seams and their locations are illustrated in Figure 7.…”