![3D-Printed Carbon Absorbing High-Performance Building Structure](https://psl.design.upenn.edu/wp-content/uploads/2024/05/cover.png)
3D-Printed Carbon Absorbing High-Performance Building Structure
This collaborative project, supported by the U.S. Department of Energy, explores an innovative design strategy for a carbon negative building system.
![Translating Cellular to Shellular Funicular Structures](https://psl.design.upenn.edu/wp-content/uploads/2024/05/0-cover-1.png)
Translating Cellular to Shellular Funicular Structures
Under the same boundary conditions, a shellular specimen can withstand forces three times greater than a cellular structure.
![Dove Wave: Inventory Constrained Design](https://psl.design.upenn.edu/wp-content/uploads/2024/05/1-main-scaled.jpg)
Dove Wave: Inventory Constrained Design
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![Diamanti: 3D-Printed, Post-Tensioned Concrete Canopy](https://psl.design.upenn.edu/wp-content/uploads/2024/04/0cover-scaled.jpg)
Diamanti: 3D-Printed, Post-Tensioned Concrete Canopy
The design and fabrication of a combined compression and tension funicular canopy with periodic anticlastic, diamond surfaces.
![Generating Dragonfly Wing Structure Using Machine Learning Methods Combined with Graphic Statics](https://psl.design.upenn.edu/wp-content/uploads/2023/01/background-Yefan.jpg)
Generating Dragonfly Wing Structure Using Machine Learning Methods Combined with Graphic Statics
Cellular mechanical metamaterials can be systematically architected to demonstrate properties ranging from bending- to stretching-dominated, realize metafluidic behavior, or create novel hybrid shellulars.
![Bio-Based Composite Spatial Shell Structures](https://psl.design.upenn.edu/wp-content/uploads/2023/05/akbari2023webresearchcover-scaled.jpg)
Bio-Based Composite Spatial Shell Structures
This research investigates the possibility of fabricating shell-based cellular structures using knitting techniques.
![Continuous Multi-Filament 3D Printing for Tension-Compression Structure Components](https://psl.design.upenn.edu/wp-content/uploads/2023/05/0-cover-scaled.jpg)
Continuous Multi-Filament 3D Printing for Tension-Compression Structure Components
In the study, we present a new multi-filament 3D printer which makes possible the designing and printing of a continuous toolpath with different materials for different stress conditions.
![Electrochemical Healing of Fractured Metals](https://psl.design.upenn.edu/wp-content/uploads/2023/04/1-scaled.jpg)
Electrochemical Healing of Fractured Metals
This research presents a framework for effective room temperature repair of fractured metals using an area-selective nickel electrodeposition process we refer to as electrochemical healing.
![Ultra-Thin High-Performance Glass Bridge](https://psl.design.upenn.edu/wp-content/uploads/2023/01/image1.jpg)
Ultra-Thin High-Performance Glass Bridge
This project presents novel research in structural design and analysis of an ultra-transparent bridge made of glass sheets only in a double layer, funicular, compression-only configuration.
![Multi-Layer Sheet-Based Lightweight Funicular Structures](https://psl.design.upenn.edu/wp-content/uploads/2022/09/IASS2022_website_4.jpg)
Multi-Layer Sheet-Based Lightweight Funicular Structures
The result shows that the sheet-based system has improved performance with the same volume of material and can withstand a wide range of loading scenarios.
![Terrene](https://psl.design.upenn.edu/wp-content/uploads/2022/05/PSL-Website-Images_Page_8.jpg)
Terrene
This research results in a tension-compression system with a performative geometry and material.
![Cellular to Shellular Funicular Materials](https://psl.design.upenn.edu/wp-content/uploads/2022/05/AKBARI_AFM.jpg)
Cellular to Shellular Funicular Materials
Cellular mechanical metamaterials can be systematically architected to demonstrate properties ranging from bending- to stretching-dominated, realize metafluidic behavior, or create novel hybrid shellulars.
![Tortuca: Glass Bridge Prototype](https://psl.design.upenn.edu/wp-content/uploads/2022/03/view_side_asym_scale-scaled.jpg)
Tortuca: Glass Bridge Prototype
Tortuca is an efficient and innovative structural system constructed by the dry assembly of thirteen hollow glass units.
![Shellular Fabrication via Origami](https://psl.design.upenn.edu/wp-content/uploads/2021/10/Shellular_tuck_folding.jpg)
Shellular Fabrication via Origami
This research introduces a computational algorithm for translating a Cellular Funicular Structure (CFS) to a Shellular Funicular Structure (SFS) and explores a fabrication method using the origami/kirigami technique.
![Machine Learning + Funicular Floor Systems](https://psl.design.upenn.edu/wp-content/uploads/2022/06/funic_floor_10.jpg)
Machine Learning + Funicular Floor Systems
This research proposes a geometry-based generative design method that utilizes Machine Learning to generate various funicular floor structures with simple sketch input.
![Saltatur the Dancer](https://psl.design.upenn.edu/wp-content/uploads/2020/02/saltatur_01.jpg)
Saltatur the Dancer
The Saltatur demonstrates innovative research in the design and fabrication of a prefab, discrete, spatial composite structure consisting of a spatial, compression-only concrete body, post-tensioning steel rods, and an ultra-thin glass structure on its top in the form of long-span furniture.
![Shellular Funicular Structures](https://psl.design.upenn.edu/wp-content/uploads/2020/02/6.jpg)
Shellular Funicular Structures
The proposed approach introduces a new typology of funicular spatial structures consist of a minimal surface for a given boundary condition.
![Graphic Statics and Strut and Tie models](https://psl.design.upenn.edu/wp-content/uploads/2023/05/strut-and-tie-truss-print.jpg)
Graphic Statics and Strut and Tie models
Graphic Statics and Strut and Tie ModelsAuthors Salma Mozaffari, Masoud Akbarzadeh, Thomas VogelProject Date 2019-2020Related Publications Generation of Strut-and-Tie... Graphic Statics in a Continuum...Description This research investigates procedures for the...
![Subdivision, Load Path, and Volume](https://psl.design.upenn.edu/wp-content/uploads/2023/02/subd-scaled-scaled.jpg)
Subdivision, Load Path, and Volume
This research investigates the relationship between the topology of a structure, load-path values and material efficiency for given boundary conditions in structural form finding using 3D Graphic Statics methods.
![Cast-in-Place Funicular Polyhedral Concrete Structure](https://psl.design.upenn.edu/wp-content/uploads/2018/02/gallery_0008_DSC_0557.jpg.jpg)
Cast-in-Place Funicular Polyhedral Concrete Structure
This research explores the structural performance of a funicular polyhedral geometry using experimental testing. The geometry of the physical prototype for the presented study is designed using 3DGS method.