The traditional role of gabions in constructing engineered systems, like mass gravity retaining walls, is now increasingly crossing over into parallel applications outside the mainstream civils ...
Think about all of the corn stalks, sunflower stalks, waste from annuals, Christmas trees, coconut shells, bean pods, peanut hulls and other such materials that are removed to get the edible or useful ...
ContentsShape-shifting constructionsSustainable simplicityGuided curvatureLiquid crystal adaptationsBiobased LCEsEnhancing woodWhat if the materials we wore and built with could shape-shift?
Researchers at the University of Maine have managed to 3D print an organic building material with the strength of steel. The SM2ART Nfloor is printed as a single piece in about 30 hours, which is a ...