{"id":153966,"date":"2022-12-31T00:25:00","date_gmt":"2022-12-31T06:25:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2022\/12\/mit-engineers-build-load-bearing-structures-using-tree-forks-instead-of-steel-joints"},"modified":"2022-12-31T00:25:00","modified_gmt":"2022-12-31T06:25:00","slug":"mit-engineers-build-load-bearing-structures-using-tree-forks-instead-of-steel-joints","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2022\/12\/mit-engineers-build-load-bearing-structures-using-tree-forks-instead-of-steel-joints","title":{"rendered":"MIT engineers build load-bearing structures using tree forks instead of steel joints"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/mit-engineers-build-load-bearing-structures-using-tree-forks-instead-of-steel-joints2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Discarded <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dezeen.com\/tag\/wood\/\">tree<\/a> forks could replace load-bearing joints in architecture projects using a construction technique developed by researchers at the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dezeen.com\/tag\/mit\/\">Massachusetts Institute of Technology<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>The system combines <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dezeen.com\/tag\/generative-design\/\">generative design<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dezeen.com\/tag\/robotic-construction\/\">robotic fabrication<\/a> to allow tree forks \u2013 the pieces of wood where a trunk or branch splits into two \u2013 to be used as the Y-shaped nodes that connect straight building elements.<\/p>\n<p>Created by the <a href=\"http:\/\/digitalstructures.mit.edu\/\">Digital Structures research group<\/a> at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (<a href=\"https:\/\/www.mit.edu\/\">MIT<\/a>), the five-step approach has already been used to install a demonstration structure on the university\u2019s campus, with a larger pavilion now in the works.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Discarded tree forks could replace load-bearing joints in architecture projects using a construction technique developed by researchers at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. The system combines generative design and robotic fabrication to allow tree forks \u2013 the pieces of wood where a trunk or branch splits into two \u2013 to be used as the Y-shaped [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":662,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-153966","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-robotics-ai"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/153966","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/662"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=153966"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/153966\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=153966"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=153966"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=153966"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}