Manufacturing of Innovative Self-supporting Sheet-metal Structures Representing Freeform Surfaces

Toolpath Planning for Manufacturing of Complex Parts Through Incremental Sheet Forming

“…The ability of ISF to generate large parts with complex and varying geometries provides new architectural opportunities. For example, a self-supporting lightweight roof structure was designed and manufactured by Bailly et al [25]. All 140 individual pyramids that make up the roof structure were manufactured using ISF due to its ability to realize freeform designs with many nonidentical elements.…”

Design and Fabrication Methodologies for Repurposing End of Life Metal via Robotic Incremental Sheet Metal Forming

“…A single sided approach typically utilizes one tool and a blank, while double sided forming provides further flexibility for forming out of plane in opposing directions. Where prior architectural research has investigated the structural and ex-pressive potential of single sided (Bailly et al 2014, Nicholas et al 2016, Nicholas et al 2018 and double sided (Nicholas et al 2017) incremental forming, the starting geometries are always flat, new sheets of metal.…”

Fabricate 2017

“…Potential architectural applications have been identified in folded plate thin metal sheet structures (Trautz & Herkrath, 2009) and customised load-adapted architectural designs (Brüninghaus et al, 2012). Recent research has established ISF as structurally feasible at this scale (Bailly et al, 2014) and has explored the utilisation of forming cone geometries as a means to reach from one skin to another (Kalo & Newsum, 2014).…”