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Unit 5 - Digital and Tensile Materials

Types of materials and its constitution, manufacturing and construction technology requirement for 3D printed buildings structure and Extraterrestrial printed structures. Tensile fabric structure by digital printing. Translucent fabric, thin-film photovoltaics, texlon foil, PVC (poly vinyl chloride) coated polyester cloth and PTFE (poly tetra fluro ethlene) (teflon) coated glass cloth.

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Unit 5 - Digital and Tensile Materials

Types of materials and its constitution, manufacturing and construction technology requirement for 3D printed buildings structure and Extraterrestrial printed structures. Tensile fabric structure by digital printing. Translucent fabric, thin-film photovoltaics, texlon foil, PVC (poly vinyl chloride) coated polyester cloth and PTFE (poly tetra fluro ethlene) (teflon) coated glass cloth.

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CONTEMPORARY BUILDING MATERIALS

AR8007_Sem07_2021-22

UNIT 5 – Digital and Tensile Materials

Prepared by Ar. Srinath Venkatesh, Asst. Professor, McGAN’S Ooty School of Architecture
What is 3D Printing ???

Printing with a three-dimentional (3D)printer; is the process of converting objects modelled in the computerized environment into realobjects in
layers using the require drawmaterials. The3Dprinter, seen as a complex and expensive technology in the years it was invented.

However, it has been one of the most important facts of the industry over the years. Since1983, the date CharlesW. Invented 3Dprinter, the new
technology shows rapid developments and entered into every field of various industry, such as automotive, aerospace and space technology and
medicine, today.

Additive manufacturing (AM) or additive layer


manufacturing (ALM) is the industrial production name
for 3D printing, a computer controlled process that creates
three dimensional objects by depositing materials, usually in
layers.
What is 3D Printing ???
What is 3D Printing ???
What is 3D Printing ???
What is 3D Printing ???
What is 3D Printing ???
What are Tensile Structures ???

Tensile fabric structures are based on


two basic building blocks of tensile
structures.

The Saddle is a hyperbolic paraboloid


which means that it is a surface made
by two high points and two low
points. The geometry of the surface is
orthogonal or made by the warping
of a rectangular grid.

The Cone is like a volcano shape


using a radial geometry created by
radians and hoops to create surfaces.
These two forms can be combined to
create an infinite number of
permutations much like the circle and
the square with classical architecture.
What are Tensile Structures ???

• A tensile structure is a construction of elements


carrying only tension.
• The term tensile should not be confused (disordered)
with tensegrity.
• Tensile structures are the most common type of thin
shell structures.
• TENSILE STRUCTRES bring style, curvature,
translucency, and clear large spans to building scales.
What are Tensile Structures ???

• Tensile structures have long been used in tents, where the


guy ropes and tent poles provide pre tension to the fabric
and allow it to withstand loads.

• The concept was mastered by German architect and


engineer FREI OTTO , whose first use of the idea was in the
construction of the WEST GERMAN PAVILION AT EXPO 67 in
Montreal.

• Since the 1960s tensile structures have been promoted by


designers and engineers.
What Composes Tensile Structures ???
What Composes Tensile Structures ???
MEMBRANE MATERIALS :

The biological based woven cotton and canvas , which we use to create
the first fabric structures have been replaced by some of the most
technicalman made fabrics, to achieve permanent and lasting fabric
architecture.

Modern coated fabrics have similar aesthetic properties, with some


significant performance advantages, such as increased strength, cleaning,
print ability, solar shading, acoustic characteristics.

They also resist the absorption of moisture, resulting in much longer life
spans.

In general we use two generic types of coated fabrics:

STRUCTURAL COATED FABRICS


MESH FABRICS
What Composes Tensile Structures ???
MEMBRANE MATERIALS – STRUCTURAL COATED FABRICS :

A coated structural fabric consists of a woven base cloth


stabilized(become stable) and protected by a coating on both sides.

The base cloth consists of warp threads running the length of the roll
and weft threads running across the width.

The woven base cloth gives the structural strength while the coating
gives weather proofing, colour and other technical qualities.
What Composes Tensile Structures ???
MEMBRANE MATERIALS – STRUCTURAL COATED FABRICS :
What Composes Tensile Structures ???
MEMBRANE MATERIALS – MESH FABRICS :

▪ A mesh fabric is a coated cloth with spacing between the thread


bundles.
▪ With some meshes for interiors use the threads are coated before
weaving.
▪ Due to openness factor of the mesh they are primarily used as shading
and light diffusing device.
What Composes Tensile Structures ???
MEMBRANE MATERIALS – CABLES:

• Cables can be of mild steel, high strength steel (drawn carbon


steel), stainless steel, polyester or bamboo.

• Structural cables are made of a series of small strands


twisted or bound together to form a much larger cable.

• Steel cables are either spiral strand, where circular rods are
twisted together and "glued“ using a polymer, or locked coil
strand, where individual interlocking steel strands form the
cable (often with a spiral strand core).
What Composes Tensile Structures ???
MEMBRANE MATERIALS – COMPRESSION MEMBERS:

• Compression members are structural elements that are


pushed together or carry a load, more technically they are
subjected only to axial compressive forces.

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