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Emerging Concrete Technologies: Architectural Implications

Newell, Troy W
http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=ucin1428069190

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2015, MARCH, University of Cincinnati, Design, Architecture, Art and Planning: Architecture.
Throughout architectural history, concrete in one form or another has been closely associated with stone materials because it achieves a comparable affect while having technical benefits. As a result, the architectural expression of concrete has generally embraced an archetypally massive affect. However, during the twentieth century, increasing sophistication in concrete reinforcement has allowed a progressively thinner concrete section. Textile reinforcement allows an extremely thin concrete to achieve an architectural affect similar to steel or wood, with technical benefits over either material. Designers should understand that the architectural-technical role of concrete is at a dramatic turning point. Over the past two decades, researchers at the RWTH University in Aachen, Germany have conducted experiments in a revolutionary strategy for concrete reinforcement using plastic-based textiles. They have created structural prototypes which redefine the architectural possibilities of concrete. Textile reinforcement also naturally warrants a much finer degree of control and optimization for the placement of reinforcing elements, as integral components of formwork. Although current methods for placement of reinforcement are rather unsophisticated, digital CNC tools allow for a high degree of accuracy and precision in the design and production of concrete formwork and reinforcement. This project will examine strategies for design and realization of precision reinforcement. Furniture designers have already successfully applied the technology to small-scale projects. Therefore, the project attempts to build upon the technical research of the RWTH University studies and to offer architectural resolution to one of the first building-scale implementations of textile-reinforced concrete.
Michael McInturf, M.Arch. (Committee Chair)
Aarati Kanekar, Ph.D. (Committee Member)
111 p.
Architecture
Concrete; Carbon Fiber; Technical Textile; GFRC

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  • Newell, T. W. (2015). Emerging Concrete Technologies: Architectural Implications [Master's thesis, University of Cincinnati]. OhioLINK Electronic Theses and Dissertations Center. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=ucin1428069190

    APA Style (7th edition)

  • Newell, Troy. Emerging Concrete Technologies: Architectural Implications. 2015. University of Cincinnati, Master's thesis. OhioLINK Electronic Theses and Dissertations Center, http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=ucin1428069190.

    MLA Style (8th edition)

  • Newell, Troy. "Emerging Concrete Technologies: Architectural Implications." Master's thesis, University of Cincinnati, 2015. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=ucin1428069190

    Chicago Manual of Style (17th edition)

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