SBIR Phase II: Topological Interlocking Manufactured Concrete Block

这个小型企业创新研究(SBIR)第二阶段项目的更广泛的影响/商业潜力是提供可用于建造拱门(包括屋顶)的人造混凝土块。这一功能是人造混凝土砌块所没有的，有可能将混凝土砌块的用途、优势和能力极大地扩展到一个全新的细分市场。这种新型的砌体系统预计将使建筑成为可能，包括廉价、高性能、节能的建筑，具有更高的消防安全等级、对白蚁的抵抗力、对龙卷风、飓风、海啸和其他恶劣天气事件的更高安全性，以及极大地延长建筑生命周期。这项技术可能会对美国和全球的砖石建筑，特别是混凝土砌块制造业产生巨大的积极经济影响。这项工作有望使人们更好地了解人造混凝土砌块的各向异性强度，以及如何在给定的结构范围内使这种各向异性强度最大化；这种科学的理解有望有助于对砖石拱架的接触网推力线进行分析。这项技术有望以极大的降低成本为房主、企业、政府大楼和公共工程(包括桥梁)提供优质的建筑。该项目将创建一种建筑设计，它将利用该砖石系统提供的普通用户(房主、建筑物所有者、企业、政府机构等)提供的许多常见特征。预计会想要使用。这座建筑将被设计为阿尔弗雷德大学斯塔尔天文台的天文馆，并将包括一个直径24英尺的天文馆房间，作为一个圆顶半球，作为第三频率截断的二十面体。这座大楼还将包括一间单独的会议室和一间单独的办公室。这座建筑将包括哥特式窗户、拱形屋顶和飞行扶壁，这将创造一个环绕建筑外部的室外门廊。这座建筑将由一名专业工程师和一名注册设计专业人员(建筑师)进行设计，以显示所有方程、应力分析、自由体示意图等，这些都是最终设计所使用的。一旦建成，这座建筑将作为测试或样本建筑，用于获得国际规范理事会-评估服务机构(ICC-ES)的评估报告。ICC-ES的积极评估报告将允许该技术根据国际建筑规范(IBC)在全球销售。

The broader impact/commercial potential of this Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) Phase II project is in providing manufactured concrete blocks that can be used to build arches, including roofs. This feature has never been done with manufactured concrete block, and holds the potential to greatly expand the uses, benefits and capabilities of concrete block to an entirely new market segment. The structures expected to be made possible with this novel masonry system include inexpensive, high-performance, energy efficient buildings with increased fire safety ratings, resistance to termites, increased safety for tornadoes, hurricanes, tsunamis and other sever weather events, and greatly increased building life cycle time. This technology could have a large positive economic impact on masonry construction and on the concrete block manufacturing industry in particular, both across the US and around the globe. This work is expected to provide a greater understanding of the anisotropic strength of manufactured concrete block, and how this anisotropic strength is to be maximized within a given structure; this scientific understanding is expected to benefit the catenary thrust-line analysis of masonry arches. This technology is expected to make superior construction available to homeowners, businesses, government buildings and public works (including bridges) at greatly reduced cost.This project will create a design for a building which will utilize as many of the common features made available by this masonry system which the average user (homeowner, building owner, business, government agency, etc.) is expected to want to use. This building will be designed as a planetarium for Alfred University's Stull Observatory, and will include a twenty-four foot diameter planetarium room, as a domed hemisphere, made as a third frequency truncated icosahedron. This building will also include a separate meeting room and a separate office. This building will include Gothic windows, arched roofs, and flying buttresses which will create an outdoor porch which rings the outside of this building. This building will be designed with a Professional Engineer and a Registered Design Professional (architect) to show all the equations, stress analyses, free body diagrams, etc., which were used to arrive at the final design. Once completed, this building will serve as a test or sample building used to obtain an Evaluation Report by the International Code Council - Evaluation Services (ICC-ES). A positive Evaluation Report from ICC-ES will allow this technology to be sold globally in accordance with the International Building Code (IBC).