Injection moulding is a manufacturing process widely used in industry. A major step in this technique is the design of efficient cooling channels for the molten material. In this paper we develop a mathematical model for the automatic generation of conformal c...

Ribbed floor systems, which include ribbed slabs and columns, are used extensively to enhance the structural performance of buildings. With the emerging topology optimization and advanced manufacturing techniques, the material usage and construction process of...

This research addresses innovations in building structural components through the generative design technique Bi-directional Evolutionary Structural Optimization (BESO) and the application of large-scale 3D robotic printing to produce efficient and elegant spa...

MycoCreate 2.0 is a spatial structure with load-bearing components made of mycelium-based composites, built for the 2022 Biomaterials Building Exposition at the University of Virginia, and has been initially conceptualized for the 2021 IASS Innovative Lightwei...

We consider a truss as a graph consisting of nodes and edges, and combine graph embedding (GE) and reinforcement learning (RL) to develop an agent for generating a stable assembly path for a truss with arbitrary configuration. GE is a method of embedding the f...

The HexBox Canopy demonstrates a new "plug & play" system for the rapid on-site assembly and disassembly without formwork of a segmented timber shell, consisting of relatively inexpensive, prefabricated hexagon-shaped boxes made from plywood plates. With 1...

Mesostructured patterns are a modern and efficient concept based on designing the geometry of structural material at the meso-scale to achieve desired mechanical performances. In the context of bending-active structures, such a concept can be used to control t...

The increasing scarcity of materials in the building industry is the result of many years of exploitation of limited resources. How can our design and construction methods encourage the circular use of materials and components to address this problem? This pap...

Auxetic mechanisms based on corner-connected polygonal tiles have been used to design deployable structures and are currently applied to programmable surfaces. However, existing surface structures are realized by compliant kirigami, and the realization with ri...

This paper presents the development and application of a computational design tool that can be used to explore an AI-generated design space for the conceptual design of shell and tensile structures. An AI model was trained to extract geometric features from a ...