Why no thermal expansion for camping tents?
The surface of a tent consists mostly of water-resistant polymers such as latex or plastic. These polymers are disordered molecules such as spaghetti, so they have unlike crystals a high entropy.

Gough (1805) and Joule (1859) studied the thermal behavior of rubber. They made the following observations, which are known as Gough-Joule effects:
• a taut with constant weight rubber shrinks when it is heated
• rubber emits heat when it is stretched

The cause of the rubber elasticity is fundamentally different than the elasticity of crystalline materials. In contrast to a crystal, the atoms are not regularly arranged in a rubber, but they form long chains (polymers) which are interconnected and form a network. Clearly, one can think of it as a plate of cooked spaghetti. This difference in microstructure are reflected in the mechanical properties of rubber. When the rubber network is loose, very many different configurations (configurations) of the chain between two connection points are possible - more disorder (larger entropy S).