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Knitting Concrete (2020-07)

10.1007/978-3-030-49916-7_96

 Westerlind Helena,  Vargas José
Contribution - Proceedings of the 2nd RILEM International Conference on Concrete and Digital Fabrication, pp. 988-997

Abstract

Due to concrete’s traditional role as a casting material its appearance as a uniform solid mass is one of the material’s most distinct traits. When poured in a mould fresh concrete adheres to the shape of the formwork and material distribution is not adaptable at a more detailed level. This paper explores how deposition-based additive manufacturing opens up new opportunities for controlling the distribution of concrete at a previously neglected intermediate scale - the meso-scale. By adopting principles of knitting to toolpath planning, the paper presents a computational method for varying the density, porosity, and surface articulation of the material, previously inconceivable due to the limitations of formwork.

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BibTeX 
@inproceedings{west_varg.2020.KC,
  author            = "Helena Westerlind and José Hernández Vargas",
  title             = "Knitting Concrete",
  doi               = "10.1007/978-3-030-49916-7_96",
  year              = "2020",
  volume            = "28",
  pages             = "988--997",
  booktitle         = "Proceedings of the 2nd RILEM International Conference on Concrete and Digital Fabrication: Digital Concrete 2020",
  editor            = "Freek Paul Bos and Sandra Simaria de Oliveira Lucas and Robert Johannes Maria Wolfs and Theo A. M. Salet",
}
Formatted Citation

H. Westerlind and J. H. Vargas, “Knitting Concrete”, in Proceedings of the 2nd RILEM International Conference on Concrete and Digital Fabrication: Digital Concrete 2020, 2020, vol. 28, pp. 988–997. doi: 10.1007/978-3-030-49916-7_96.

Westerlind, Helena, and José Hernández Vargas. “Knitting Concrete”. In Proceedings of the 2nd RILEM International Conference on Concrete and Digital Fabrication: Digital Concrete 2020, edited by Freek Paul Bos, Sandra Simaria de Oliveira Lucas, Robert Johannes Maria Wolfs, and Theo A. M. Salet, 28:988–97, 2020. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-49916-7_96.