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STRIATUS 2.0: PHOENIX - IMPROVING CIRCULARITY OF 3D-CONCRETE-PRINTED UNREINFORCED MASONRY STRUCTURES
2024
3D concrete printing, Digital fabrication, Unreinforced masonry structure, Design-to-production solutions, Discrete element modelling, Bridge design, Computer aided design, Mesh-based geometry processing, Structure and fabrication-aware shape design
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This paper describes the realisation of Striatus 2.0: Phoenix, a permanent, 3D-concrete-printed, dryassembled, unreinforced-masonry arched footbridge composed of dry-assembled, 3D-concrete-printed blocks (Fig. 1). The research presented in this paper details the improvements that were made to the novel integrated design, engineering, and fabrication framework and to the manufacturing and assembly processes used in the realisation of Striatus (Bhooshan et al., 2022a, b; Dell’Endice et al., 2023). This paper builds on the relevance of the computational masonry paradigm to deliver the ecological promises of 3D concrete printing (3DCP) and provides a detailed comparison between the two iterations of the bridge (Figs. 2, 3).
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Dell’endice, A., Bodea, S., Van Mele, T., Block, P., Bhooshan, V., Bhooshan, S., Eiz, H., Chen, T., Lombois-Burger, H., De La Mothe, L. R., Nana, S., Megens, J., Sanin, S., Bürgin, T. (2024). Striatus 2.0: Phoenix - Improving Circularity Of 3D-Concrete-Printed Unreinforced Masonry Structures. In Fabricate 2024: Creating Resourceful Futures (pp. 90–97). UCL Press.