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Building timber structures with robots!

In recent years, the necessity of using renewable and sustainable resources in the construction sector has become obvious. This has led to a revived interest in the natural advantages of timber as a building material. To this end, the Laboratory for Timber ...

2022

augmented-stacking

Katrin Beyer, Yves Weinand, Julien Gamerro, Andrea Settimi, Qianqing Wang, David Rebiffe

Augmented Stacking is an augmented system designed to guide inexperienced users through the stacking of complex and irregular geometries. This digital fabrication system was applied to the assembly of one layer of a half-timber dry-stone wall. Augmented St ...

2022

Design considerations for robotically assembled through-tenon timber joints

Yves Weinand, Julien Gamerro, Nicolas Henry Pierre Louis Rogeau, Pierre Latteur

This research investigates the robotic assembly of timber structures connected by wood–wood connections. As the digitization of the timber construction sector progresses, digital tools, such as industrial robotic arms and Computer Numerical Control machine ...

2022

Numerical simulations of retrofitting interventions on timber floors in unreinforced masonry

Katrin Beyer, Igor Tomic, Ivana Bozulic

Unreinforced masonry buildings with flexible timber floors are amongst the most vulnerable building typologies for seismic loading. Though flexible diaphragms play a role in the seismic behaviour of unreinforced masonry buildings, the impact of the connect ...

2022

Integrally-Attached Timber Plate Structures: From computational design to robotic construction

Nicolas Henry Pierre Louis Rogeau

This poster provides an overview of the challenges and achievements related to current research led at the Laboratory for Timber Constructions (IBOIS, EPFL) on the robotic assembly of Integrally-Attached Timber Plate Structures (IATPS). The poster is divid ...

2022

Soil-Structure Interaction effects on the seismic behavior of steel moment resisting frames: Preliminary assessment

Dimitrios Lignos

The purpose of this paper is to assess the influence of soil-structure interaction and site effects on the seismic behavior of steel moment-resisting frames, with a view to describing the underlying “physics” behind the damage mechanisms triggered. We exam ...

European Earthquake Engineering Association2022

The Role of the Composite Floor System and Framing Action in the Seismic Performance of Composite Steel Moment-Resisting Frames

Hammad El Jisr

With the advent of performance-based earthquake engineering (PBEE), the need for reliable prediction of earthquake-induced collapse of structures is essential. Despite the significant progress that has been made towards this goal, there are several hurdles ...

EPFL2022

Modelling of in-plane seismic behaviour of one-way steel or timber jack arch floors in existing buildings

Savvas Saloustros

The type of floor system has a decisive role in the seismic performance of unreinforced masonry buildings. The in-plane stiffness of the floors has to be adequately represented in the numerical modelling of existing buildings, as it can influence their sei ...

2022

The Canopy Pavilion: A lightweight shading structure using a deployable auxetic linkage membrane

Mark Pauly, Dieter Dietz, Florin Isvoranu, Arthur François Blanc, Tian Chen, Etienne Bouleau

We present the Canopy Pavilion, a lightweight shading structure for a social gathering space. The shading surface is realized as a tensioned auxetic linkage membrane, composed of two double-curved anticlastic layers separated by a compression pole. The mem ...

2022

Seismic Design and Behavior of Steel Braced Frame Buildings with Friction Dampers as Dissipative Floor Connectors

Martina Paronesso

Field observations and comprehensive life-cycle building assessment suggest that buildings designed according to today's seismic standards meet the life-safety requirement. However, they are prone to economic losses due to repairs in the aftermath of earth ...

EPFL2022

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