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Though I don't expect it to happen in this case, I wonder if some kind of wood and metal composite structure couldn't be implemented? I'm certainly not an arch
by cr0sh 7y ago
Though I don't expect it to happen in this case, I wonder if some kind of wood and metal composite structure couldn't be implemented?
I'm certainly not an architect or engineer; maybe that suggestion is currently impossible.
Ideally it would be interesting if you could do something almost akin to 3D printing, or maybe closer to how plywood is made, but using wood fiber. I'm imagining something like long fibers of wood, intermixed with stainless steel or aluminum "wire", and molded using resin binders in the forms and shapes needed for the trusses and beams, etc.
From the outside, it should look almost like regular wood, but with some of the strength characteristics of the metal (though now that I think about it, it probably wouldn't work in sheer or compression; tensile strength might be ok).
What would be even more amazing, though I can't think of a way to do it, would be a wood/metal composite where the metal was a 3D organic-like lattice with the wood in between; I can imagine such a thing, but not a way to manufacture it (at least not with today's technology).