Category: architecture

This 3D-printed foam expands up to 40 times its original size

Post author By Randall
Post date May 8, 2020
Categories In 3d Printing, 3d-printed, aerospace, architecture, expandable, foam, News, Tech, tomorrow, ucsd

[ad_1] Until now, the size of 3D-printed objects has been limited by the size of 3D printers. In most cases, in order to produce large items used in, say, aerospace, manufactures have had to fasten, weld or glue smaller 3D-printed substructures together. But that might change soon. A team from UC San Diego developed a […]

Researchers create bone-inspired 3D-printed building materials

Post author By Randall
Post date December 6, 2019
Categories In 3d Printing, architecture, bio-inspired, biomimicry, bone, buildings, case western reserve university, construction, cornell university, Design, durable, material, purdue university, study, Tech, tomorrow

[ad_1] “Bone is a building,” says Purdue University professor Pablo Zavattieri. “It has these columns that carry most of the load and beams connecting the columns. We can learn from these materials to create more robust 3D-printed materials for buildings and other structures.” The researchers discovered that the “beams” in bones provide more stiffness and […]