Woven Concrete: developing weaves for use in textile/concrete hybrid wall panels.

该项目是由阿尔斯特大学的高级研究员Patricia Belford和建筑学教授Ruth Morrow合作开展的一个名为“Girli Contrast”的项目(名称已注册，目前正在申请知识产权)。“女孩混凝土”将混凝土和纺织技术结合在一起，测试混凝土作为纺织和纺织作为结构的理念。“Girli混凝土”旨在创造创新的“柔软”室内产品，挑战将纺织品视为仅仅是“敷料”的观念，从而将纺织技术整合到墙板的生产中。“Girli混凝土”诞生于一项更大的努力，即将传统的“硬质”建筑产品，仅以技术性能为标准，转变为同时满足技术性能和人的性能的产品。吉利混凝土将创造性和社会思维应用于传统技术建筑产品，通过这样做，将低技术、低成本的材料转变为高触觉、美学和高价值的产品。在过去的6个月里，“Girli混凝土”在与混凝土制造商的磋商中取得了重大进展。我们正在为其寻求AHRC资金的“编织混凝土”项目已经发展出来，并将通过开发专门设计的嵌入混凝土面板的特殊编织布来支持Girli混凝土的继续发展。到目前为止，Girli混凝土项目已经使用了许多现成的编织面料，但我们现在希望利用该领域专业的同事研究助理的专业知识来设计和开发编织。与此同时，该项目将由一名内部纺织技术员观察，他将就所产生的样品的物理特征提供建议。该项目由Girli混凝土的共同开发商之一P·贝尔福德领导，他将能够确保“Girli混凝土”项目迄今的进展告知并指导“编织混凝土”的结果。该项目还将作为一个自动项目，为唐娜·坎贝尔提供机会，研究使用金属和天然纤维组合的编织结构的变化；侵蚀和受控变形技术的影响以及合成织物的性能。该项目分为5个阶段。第一阶段：纱线试验这一阶段将使用纱线组合制作样品。“Girli混凝土”项目的重点是使用天然面料，因此这些纱线试验将主要使用天然纤维，但也将引入“对照”纱线丙纶。将产生一系列样品和对照样品。阶段2：测试和选择合成组织。该阶段包括通过将样品放入模板并浇注混凝土来测试阶段1样品，然后在实验室条件下进行一段时间的受控固化。过程和得到的固化样品将由PI、组织专家、和材料化学家在以下方面：-织造与混凝土的粘结-鉴定任何需要解决和/或利用的材料瑕疵和-从样品中鉴定某些织造(约5-6种织造)的美学品质(符合Girli混凝土项目)，以应用Devoré(侵蚀织物的化学过程)和控制变形(与织造结合在一起的使织物变形的物理过程)。第三阶段：组织试制(变形和侵蚀)这一阶段包括用Devoré和受控变形技术试制选定的组织。阶段4：试验和选择合成的组织(变形和侵蚀)这个阶段是阶段2的重复，但与阶段3产生的样品相同阶段5：制造完整尺寸的样品在阶段4测试的最成功的样品将被制造成适合“Girli混凝土”板的尺寸。

This project develops out of a collaborative project 'Girli Concrete' (name trademarked and currently seeking IPR) between Patricia Belford, Senior Research Fellow and Ruth Morrow, Professor of Architecture, both based at the University of Ulster. 'Girli Concrete' brings together concrete and textile technologies, testing ideas of concrete as textile and textile as structure. 'Girli Concrete' aims to create innovative 'soft' interior products, challenging the perception of textiles as only the 'dressing' to structure and instead integrate textile technologies into the production of wall panels. 'Girli Concrete' is borne out of a larger drive to transform traditionally 'hard' building products, defined by technical performance only, into products that address both technical and human performance. Girli Concrete applies creative and social thinking to traditionally technical building products and in so doing transforms a low tech, low cost material into highly tactile, aesthetic and high value products. Over the last 6 months 'Girli Concrete' has progressed significantly in consultation with a concrete manufacturer.This project 'Woven Concrete' for which we are seeking AHRC funding has developed out of and will support the continued development of Girli Concrete through the development of specialised woven fabrics specifically designed to be imbedded into concrete panels. To date Girli Concrete project has used a number of ready-made woven fabrics but we now wish to design and develop weaves using the expertise of a fellow research assistant who specialises in the area. At the same time the project will be observed by an inhouse textiles technologist who will advise on the physically characteristics of the resultant samples. The project is led by one of the co-developers of Girli Concrete: P Belford, who will be able to ensure that the progress to date in the 'Girli Concrete' project informs and guides the outcomes of 'Woven Concrete'. The project will also act as an automonous project offering Donna Campbell the opportunity to investigate variations in weave structures using combinations of metal and natural fibres; the effects of erosive and controlled distortion techniques and the properties of the resultant fabrics. The project is subdivided into 5 stages. Stage 1: Yarn trialsThis stage will involve the production of samples using a combination of yarns. The project 'girli concrete' has focused on the use of natural fabrics and hence these yarn trials will be predominantly natural fibres but will also introduce the 'control' yarn polypropylene. There will be a series of samples and control samples generated.Stage 2: Trialling and Selection of Resultant WeavesThis stage involves testing the stage 1 samples by placing into formwork and pouring concrete, followed by a period of controlled curing in lab conditions.The process and resultant cured samples will be observed by the PI, weave specialist, and materials chemist in terms of - bonding of weave to concrete- identification of any material flaws to be resolved and/or exploited and- aesthetic qualities (in line with girli concrete project)From the samples certain of the weaves (approx 5-6 weaves) will be identified for application of devoré (chemical process that erodes fabric) and controlled distortion (physical process integrated into weaving that distorts fabric). Stage 3: Trial Manufacture of Weaves (distorted and eroded)This stage involves the trial manufacture of selected weaves with the addition of devoré and controlled distortion techniques. Stage 4: Trialling and Selection of Resultant Weaves (distorted and eroded)This stage is a repetition of Stage 2 but with the samples generated in Stage 3Stage 5: Manufacture of full size samples The most successful of the samples tested in Stage 4 will then be manufactured to a size that suits the scale of the "girli concrete" panels.