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Automating concrete construction: Digital design of non-prismatic reinforced concrete beams (2020)
Book Chapter
Costa, E., Shepherd, P., Orr, J., Ibell, T., & Oval, R. (2020). Automating concrete construction: Digital design of non-prismatic reinforced concrete beams. In Second RILEM International Conference on Concrete and Digital Fabrication (863-872). Springer. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-49916-7_84

The construction industry is responsible for nearly half of the UK’s carbon emissions, mainly due to the large amount of concrete used. Traditional formwork methods for concrete result in prismatic building elements with a constant cross-section, but... Read More about Automating concrete construction: Digital design of non-prismatic reinforced concrete beams.

Generic shape grammars for mass customization of ceramic tableware (2015)
Book Chapter
Castro e Costa, E., & Duarte, J. P. (2015). Generic shape grammars for mass customization of ceramic tableware. In Design Computing and Cognition '14 (437-454). Springer International Publishing. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-14956-1_25

Research is currently being developed on mass customization of ceramic tableware. The objective of this research is to allow end users to personalize their tableware sets, namely to determine the shape of its elements. The implementation of mass cust... Read More about Generic shape grammars for mass customization of ceramic tableware.