1. Aleatory Construction Based on Jamming: Stability Through Self-Confinement.
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Murphy, Kieran, Roth, Leah, Peterman, Dan, and Jaeger, Heinrich
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ARCHITECTURE ,CONSTRUCTION ,GRANULAR materials ,COMPRESSION loads - Abstract
The physical process of jamming could take architectural sustainability/recyclability to a whole new level. It involves achieving structural rigidity through the crowding of particles within a confined space, rather than by permanent bonding. Project Z-Form, a collaboration between a team of physicists from the JaegerLab at the University of Chicago - including PhD students Kieran Murphy and Leah Roth and professor Heinrich Jaeger - and artist Dan Peterman, sets out to develop a pourable material that not only self-supports but can also bear loads. Here they explain the project and the concepts behind it. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
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- 2017
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