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This paper presents a novel building technique for the formwork of thin shell structures with 3d-printed bending-active mesh sheets. To enhance the structural stiffness of the flexible plastic materials, bending-active form is applied to utilize the geometry stiffening effect through the large deformation of bending. As it is the main problem to determine the final geometry of the bent surface, design methods with consideration of the numerical simulation is researched and both simulations via dynamic relaxation and finite element method are presented. Several demonstrator pavilions and the building process are shown to test the feasibilities of the presented building techniques in the real shell project. It is expected that this method could be applied into more thin shell projects to realize an efficient building technology with less exhaust of materials.
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Prof. Philippe Block, Prof. Philip F. Yuan, Dr. Ing. Xiang Wang, Kam-Ming Mark Tam, Gene Ting-Chun Kao, Zain Karsan, Alex Beaudouin, Ce Li, Ben Hoyle, Molly Mason, Weizhe Gao, Weiran Zhu, Zhe Guo, Dalma Foldesi, Hyerin Lee, Jung In Seo, Anna Vasileiou, Youyuan Luo, D, Xiao Zhang, Liming Zhang and Hua Chai.
This research is funded by the National Natural Science Foundation of China (Grant No. 51578378).
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Wang, X. et al. (2020). 3d-Printed Bending-Active Formwork for Shell Structures. In: Yuan, P.F., Xie, M., Leach, N., Yao, J., Wang, X. (eds) Architectural Intelligence. Springer, Singapore. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-15-6568-7_18
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