Abstract
In the field of wood manufacturing, CNC milling seems to be the only way to deal with geometrically complex wood components. Robotic band-saw, the combination of robotic fabrication and band-saw cutting provides a feasible solutions for producing curved wood beams without the immense time consumption of CNC milling method. This paper explores potentials of robotic band-saw cutting technology in the construction of complex wood structures. The research processes of two large-scale research pavilions, from structure design and optimization, Glulam production, robotic fabrication to site assembly, are presented in this paper to explore an integrated workflow of complex wood structures construction based on robotic band-saw. As the two pavilions show, robotic band-saw technology has the ability to perform high efficiency and accuracy both in the plane and space curved wood elements, and shows the potential to take over part of the work of CNC in wood construction.
This is a preview of subscription content, log in via an institution to check access.
Access this chapter
Tax calculation will be finalised at checkout
Purchases are for personal use only
References
Scheurer, F.: Materialising complexity. Archit. Des. 80(4), 86–93 (2010)
Menges, A., Schwinn, T., Krieg, O.D. (eds.): Advancing Wood Architecture: A Computational Approach. Routledge, Oxford (2016)
Johns, R.L., Foley, N.: Bandsawn bands: feature-based design and fabrication of nested freeform surfaces in wood. In: McGee, W., Ponce de Leon, M. (eds.) Robotic Fabrication in Architecture, Art and Design 2014, pp. 17–32. Springer International Publishing, Switzerland (2014)
Williams, N., Cherrey, J.: In: Reinhardt, D., Saunders, R., Burry, J. (eds.) Robotic Fabrication Architecture, Art and Design 2016, pp. 294–303. Springer International Publishing Switzerland (2016)
AA School Robotic Fabrications programme website. http://roboticfabrications.aaschool.ac.uk/project/2017/. Accessed 27 Feb 2018
Ulsoy, A.G., Mote, C.D., Szymni, R.: Principal developments in band saw vibration and stability research. Holz als Roh- und Werkstoff 36(7), 273–280 (1978)
Yuan, P.F., Chai, H.: Robotic wood tectonics.In: Sheil, B., Menges, A., Glynn, R., Skavara, M. (eds.) Fabricate: Rethinking Design and Construction, pp. 44–49. UCL Press, London (2017)
Chilton, J., Tang, G.: Timber Gridshells: Architecture, Structure and Craft. Taylor & Francis, New York (2016)
Acknowledgments
This research is funded by National Natural Science Foundation of China (Grant No. 51578378), National Key R&D Programme of China (Grant No. 2016YFC0702104), Sino-German Center (Grant No. GZ1162), and Shanghai Science and Technology Committee (Grant No. 16dz1206502, Grant No. 16dz2250500, and Grant No. 17dz1203405).
Author information
Authors and Affiliations
Corresponding author
Editor information
Editors and Affiliations
Rights and permissions
Copyright information
© 2019 Springer Nature Switzerland AG
About this paper
Cite this paper
Chai, H., Yuan, P.F. (2019). Investigations on Potentials of Robotic Band-Saw Cutting in Complex Wood Structures. In: Willmann, J., Block, P., Hutter, M., Byrne, K., Schork, T. (eds) Robotic Fabrication in Architecture, Art and Design 2018. ROBARCH 2018. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-92294-2_20
Download citation
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-92294-2_20
Published:
Publisher Name: Springer, Cham
Print ISBN: 978-3-319-92293-5
Online ISBN: 978-3-319-92294-2
eBook Packages: Intelligent Technologies and RoboticsIntelligent Technologies and Robotics (R0)