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Why is UV sensitivity a problem for something that's going to be embedded inside the concrete?

• jaclaz 6y ago
  >Why is UV sensitivity a problem for something that's going to be embedded inside the concrete? IF it will ever become an actual mass product, the lattice will be manufactured in "bulk" (not 3D printed on spot) and it will become a "building material" like rebar or steel mesh, etc. Normally building materials are stored in the open for months either at the factory, at the store or on site before being actually put in the concrete formwork. You simply don't want something that needs to be stored in a dark, cool place. Very early versions of polyethilene pipes (think of 30+ years ago) were not UV resistant/stabilized and of course they were put in digged trenches and covered, but it came out that after a few years they started leaking, you don't want to have something structural that may loose its properties in a few years.