AIR-BEARING BUILDINGS Russian patent published in 1995 - IPC

FIELD: civil engineering. SUBSTANCE: air-bearing building has end elastic parts and lengthwise extensible part of a train of elastic arched gas/pin elements linked to one another and to the base, and connected to pressure source. Lengthwise part is sectional, and made of adjacent sections. Gas/pin elements are pressurized with lighter-than-air gas. Gas pressure is 6 20 as large as that in housing. Distance between axes of adjacent elements is 2 8 as large as diameter of their cross sections. Their height is 1.3 2.1 as small as distance between axes of their ends. Diameters of their cross sections is 10 50 as small as curvature radius of arches of these elements. EFFECT: low-cost covering for use as manufacturing buildings. 10 cl, 11 dwg