Equilibrium-Aware Shape Design for Concrete Printing (2017-09)¶

10.1007/978-981-10-6611-5_42

Bhooshan Shajay, van Mele Tom, Block Philippe
Contribution - Proceedings of the Design Modelling Symposium, pp. 493-508

Abstract

This paper proposes an Interactive Design Environment and outlines the underlying computational framework to adapt equilibrium modelling techniques from rigid-block masonry to the multi-phase material typically used in large-scale additive manufacture. It focuses on enabling the synthesis of geometries that are structurally and materially feasible vis-a-vis 3D printing with compression-dominant materials. The premise of the proposed research is that the material printed in layers can be viewed as micro-scale bricks that are initially soft, and harden over time—a kind of micro-stereotomy. This insight, and the observation about the necessity of design exploration yields the principal contributions of the paper: A computational framework that allows for geometric reasoning about shape and exploration of associated design-space, and early, proof-of-concept results.

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BibTeX

@inproceedings{bhoo_mele_bloc.2018.EASDfCP,
  author            = "Shajay Bhooshan and Tom van Mele and Philippe Block",
  title             = "Equilibrium-Aware Shape Design for Concrete Printing",
  doi               = "10.1007/978-981-10-6611-5_42",
  year              = "2018",
  pages             = "493--508",
  booktitle         = "Proceedings of the Design Modelling Symposium: Humanizing Digital Reality",
  editor            = "Klaas de Rycke and Christoph Gengnagel and Olivier Baverel and Jane Burry and Caitlin T. Mueller and Minh Man Nguyen and Philippe Rahm and Mette Ramsgaard Thomsen",
}

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IEEE

S. Bhooshan, T. van Mele and P. Block, “Equilibrium-Aware Shape Design for Concrete Printing”, in Proceedings of the Design Modelling Symposium: Humanizing Digital Reality, 2018, pp. 493–508. doi: 10.1007/978-981-10-6611-5_42.

CMOS

Bhooshan, Shajay, Tom van Mele, and Philippe Block. “Equilibrium-Aware Shape Design for Concrete Printing”. In Proceedings of the Design Modelling Symposium: Humanizing Digital Reality, edited by Klaas de Rycke, Christoph Gengnagel, Olivier Baverel, Jane Burry, Caitlin T. Mueller, Minh Man Nguyen, Philippe Rahm, and Mette Ramsgaard Thomsen, 493–508, 2018. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-10-6611-5_42.