structural bending tests...

Thursday 29 November 2007

structural bending tests...

as Fibre-C has been developed as a cladding material, not a structural material, we have had to have some tests done. In particular, because the tests that have been done by Rieder in the past, have only tested it's structural capacity perpendicular to the layout of the fibres, while we will be loading the forces in the axis of the fibres.

So today we began the structural bending tests at the labs in Aachen, Germany. According to AKT the tests have been going well...we have no bending failure and no problems with buckling or shear failure. AKT will provide some numbers on capacity of the profiles and further analysis.

In the meantime, here's a video from the testing labs posted for us on youtube...you'll see a big crack begin to appear eventually, but no structural failure!!

1 comment:

dag said...: thank you so much!
it`s really difficult to understand all the workflow about a project, and our idea to publish all the stuff on blog it`s really cool!:); 5 December 2007 at 00:09

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ALAN DEMPSEY

Alan Dempsey studied at the Architectural Association, Universidad de los Andes, Bogotá, and Dublin Institute of Technology. He has worked with Farjadi Architects, OCEAN, Future Systems and is a founding director of NEX, a London based architecture and design office with international projects.

He was an undergraduate unit master at the AA until 2005 and has been an invited critic at universities in the UK and Europe. His work has been widely published in the US, Europe and Asia and he is currently a director of the FAB research cluster at the AA, which facilitates research projects on novel design and fabrication technologies.

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ALVIN HUANG

Alvin Huang is the founding Director of SYNTHESIS. He is an award-winning designer and educator specializing in the integrated application of material performance, emergent design technologies and digital fabrication in contemporary architectural practice.

Prior to forming SYNTHESIS, he was a founding director of London-based architectural practice AL_A. He has also worked for Future Systems, Zaha Hadid Architects, and DMJM Design (AECOM).

Alvin received a Masters of Architecture and Urbanism from the Architectural Association Design Research Laboratory (2004) and a Bachelor of Architecture degree from the University of Southern California (1998).

Huang has taught design studios at the Architectural Association / Tsinghua University Global School in Beijing and at the Chelsea College of Art in London. He has been an invited critic and guest lecturer at various universities and institutions in the UK, US, Germany, Spain, Israel, Switzerland and China.

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