Impresión digital 3d. Diseño y fabricación de superficies continuas
- Autores: Luis Ricardo Borunda Monsivais
- Directores de la Tesis: Jesús Anaya Díaz (dir. tes.)
- Lectura: En la Universidad Politécnica de Madrid ( España ) en 2021
- Idioma: español
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- Resumen
Current advances in construction automation, especially in large-scale additive manufacturing, highlight the vast potential for robots in architecture. The construction industry is on the brink of a transformation. Although construction automation is not new, recent advances in computation make the question of what it means to design and build with new technology an open call for designers to restructure the fundamental aspects of how we think, design and build. Similarly, it is essential to improve the efficiency of building processes to fulfill the ever-growing demand for resilient and sustainable building environments, which is indispensable for achieving sustainable development goals. Automation in construction is unique in its potential to reproduce highly complex structures and presents novel prospects on how to confront the construction industry challenges faced by society today. Novel design models and fabrication techniques are key to achieving this purpose.
Recent advances in computational design and in robotic manufacturing have increased the efficiency, productivity, and performance of the construction of large-scale membranes. To advance the question of how rapid prototyping techniques are turned into large-scale 3D printing forms and structures, this research presents computational methods for the design and robotic construction of cellular membranes.
The morphological model is based on a system of forces in equilibrium and inspired by the knowledge of the geometry, material economy, construction rationalization, audacity and many other qualities of shell designers. This research contributes to the advancement of construction automation and robotic additive manufacturing and offers mesostructure configurations by discrete design methods that are suitable for the robotic-fused deposition of spatial lattices and their large-scale architectural implementation in the automated manufacturing of shell structures.
For the generalization of a design and fabrication method for lightweight fibrous shell structures capable of being manufactured by robots on-site, first, this research explores how a form can be digitally created by emulating a given static system of forces in space. The computational design methods and additive manufacturing techniques are tested in the construction of complex surfaces.
Second, inspired by the complex mechanical behavior of cancellous bone, this research explores the configuration of cellular membranes that follow the bone theoretical biology model by adding discrete units that conform to continuous trabecular-like lattices to define the geometry, limitations, opportunities for optimization, and hierarchical mechanical characteristics of the membranes.
Finally, this research explores methods for configuring hierarchical, continuous membrane structures by applying external forces of precompression that extend automated additive manufacturing applications to large-scale, on-site or prefabricated hierarchical membrane construction.
