Various problems of planar load transfer from a tie or rod via a wrinkled membrane are considered within the framework of tension field theory. The tension rays, and hence the membrane stresses, are determined by a variational technique based on a principle of maximum strain energy. Results are of interest in the design of lightweight stretched membrane structures.
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E. H. Mansfield (1970) studied this question.