By a News Reporter-Staff News Editor at Robotics & Machine Learning Daily News Daily News – Taking inspiration from nature, resear chers from Princeton Engineering have improved crack resistance in concrete comp onents by coupling architected designs with additive manufacturing processes and industrial robots that can precisely control materials deposition. In an article published Aug. 29 in the journal Nature Communications, researcher s led by Reza Moini, an assistant professor of civil and environmental engineeri ng at Princeton, describe how their designs increased resistance to cracking by as much as 63% compared to conventional cast concrete. The researchers were inspired by the double-helical structures that make up the scales of an ancient fish lineage called coelacanths. Moini said that nature oft en uses clever architecture to mutually increase material properties such as str ength and fracture resistance.
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