Abstract

The use of Function Representation (FRep) to synthesise and specify geometries for 3D printing is finding renewed interest. The usefulness and extension of this representation in the synthesis and analysis of geometries for the process of large-scale, layered concrete 3D printing has been previously articulated by the authors. This paper fully extends the implicit representation used previously in shape-design to fabrication-related processing of compressive skeletal structures for realisation by robotic 3D printing of concrete. In particular, we use an initial value formulation of a propagating front to process the nodes and bars of a given funicular spatial structure.

Citation

Bhooshan, S., Ladinig, J., Van Mele, T. and Block, P., 2019. Function representation for robotic 3D printed concrete. In Robotic Fabrication in Architecture, Art and Design 2018: Foreword by Sigrid Brell-Çokcan and Johannes Braumann, Association for Robots in Architecture (pp. 98-109). Springer International Publishing.