Under normal conditions, the cross-sections of reinforced concrete in classic skeleton construction systems are often only partially loaded. This contributes to non-sustainable construction solutions due to an excess of material use. Novel cross-disciplinary workflows linking architects, engineers, material scientists and manufacturers could offer alternative means for more sustainable architectural applications with extra lightweight solutions. Through material-specific use of plant-based Natural Fiber-Reinforced Polymer Composites (NFRP), also named Biocomposites, a high-performance lightweight structure with topology optimized cross-sections has been here developed. The closed life cycle of NFRPs promotes sustainability in construction through energy recovery of the quickly generative biomass-based materials. The cooperative design resulted in a development that were verified through a 1:10 demonstrator, whose fibrous morphology was defined by biomimetically-inspired orthotropic tectonics, generated with by the fiber path optimization software tools, namely EdoStructure and EdoPath in combination with the appliance of the digital additive manufacturing technique: Tailored Fiber Placement (TFP).
%0 Journal Article
%1 sippach2021structural
%A Sippach, Timo
%A Dahy, Hanaa
%A Uhlig, Kai
%A Grisin, Benjamin
%A Carosella, Stefan
%A Middendorf, Peter
%C Basel
%D 2021
%J Polymers
%K 2021 NFRP architectural architecture biocomposites biomat biomimetics carosella composites dahy design fiber flax grisin high-performance itke lightweight material-appropriate middendorf natural optimization placement polymer reinforced sippach structure sustainable tailored topology uhlig
%R 10.3390/polym12123048
%T Structural Optimization through biomimetic-inspired material-specific Application of plant-based Natural Fiber-Reinforced Polymer Composites (NFRP)
%X Under normal conditions, the cross-sections of reinforced concrete in classic skeleton construction systems are often only partially loaded. This contributes to non-sustainable construction solutions due to an excess of material use. Novel cross-disciplinary workflows linking architects, engineers, material scientists and manufacturers could offer alternative means for more sustainable architectural applications with extra lightweight solutions. Through material-specific use of plant-based Natural Fiber-Reinforced Polymer Composites (NFRP), also named Biocomposites, a high-performance lightweight structure with topology optimized cross-sections has been here developed. The closed life cycle of NFRPs promotes sustainability in construction through energy recovery of the quickly generative biomass-based materials. The cooperative design resulted in a development that were verified through a 1:10 demonstrator, whose fibrous morphology was defined by biomimetically-inspired orthotropic tectonics, generated with by the fiber path optimization software tools, namely EdoStructure and EdoPath in combination with the appliance of the digital additive manufacturing technique: Tailored Fiber Placement (TFP).
@article{sippach2021structural,
abstract = {Under normal conditions, the cross-sections of reinforced concrete in classic skeleton construction systems are often only partially loaded. This contributes to non-sustainable construction solutions due to an excess of material use. Novel cross-disciplinary workflows linking architects, engineers, material scientists and manufacturers could offer alternative means for more sustainable architectural applications with extra lightweight solutions. Through material-specific use of plant-based Natural Fiber-Reinforced Polymer Composites (NFRP), also named Biocomposites, a high-performance lightweight structure with topology optimized cross-sections has been here developed. The closed life cycle of NFRPs promotes sustainability in construction through energy recovery of the quickly generative biomass-based materials. The cooperative design resulted in a development that were verified through a 1:10 demonstrator, whose fibrous morphology was defined by biomimetically-inspired orthotropic tectonics, generated with by the fiber path optimization software tools, namely EdoStructure and EdoPath in combination with the appliance of the digital additive manufacturing technique: Tailored Fiber Placement (TFP).},
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address = {Basel},
author = {Sippach, Timo and Dahy, Hanaa and Uhlig, Kai and Grisin, Benjamin and Carosella, Stefan and Middendorf, Peter},
biburl = {https://puma.ub.uni-stuttgart.de/bibtex/2679e28c6739c546506fe2c1b8cb899e3/petraheim},
day = 19,
doi = {10.3390/polym12123048},
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journal = {Polymers},
keywords = {2021 NFRP architectural architecture biocomposites biomat biomimetics carosella composites dahy design fiber flax grisin high-performance itke lightweight material-appropriate middendorf natural optimization placement polymer reinforced sippach structure sustainable tailored topology uhlig},
language = {eng},
month = {12},
timestamp = {2021-07-16T11:10:21.000+0200},
title = {Structural Optimization through biomimetic-inspired material-specific Application of plant-based Natural Fiber-Reinforced Polymer Composites (NFRP) },
year = 2021
}