Automating Concrete Construction (ACORN)

Shepherd, Paul (PI)
Ibell, Tim (CoI)

Department of Architecture & Civil Engineering

Project: Research council

8 Article
4 Paper
2 Chapter in a published conference proceeding

14 results

2025
Physical structural assessment of a segmented concrete shell building floor prototype
Oval, R., Nuh, M., Castro e Costa, E., Orr, J. & Shepherd, P., 7 Apr 2025, (E-pub ahead of print) In: Structural Concrete .
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SQUIRREL: balancing design automation and user interaction in a computational tool for designing segmented concrete shells
Costa, E., Oval, R., Orr, J. & Shepherd, P., 21 Feb 2025, (E-pub ahead of print) In: International Journal of Architectural Computing.
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Structural design and fabrication of concrete reinforcement with layout optimisation and robotic filament winding
Oval, R., Orr, J. & Shepherd, P., 1 Feb 2025, In: Automation in Construction. 170, 105952.
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Open Access
2023
A prototype low-carbon segmented concrete shell building floor system
Oval, R., Nuh, M., Castro e Costa, E., Abo Madyan, O., Orr, J. & Shepherd, P., 31 Jan 2023, In: Structures. 49, p. 124-138
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27 Citations (SciVal)

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Computational design exploration of a segmented concrete shell building floor system
Costa, E., Oval, R., Shepherd, P. & Orr, J., 31 Dec 2023, In: Proceedings of the Institution of Civil Engineers-Structures and Buildings. 176, 12, p. 1010-1021 12 p., 2200156.
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5 Citations (SciVal)

186 Downloads (Pure)
2022
Automating Concrete Construction: Sustainable Social Housing in Colombia
Castro e Costa, E., Shepherd, P., Velasco, R. & Hudson, R., 9 Nov 2022, p. 254-259. 6 p.
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Digital Design of Automatically Wound Shear Reinforcement for Non-prismatic Concrete Beams
Perepechay, A., Spadea, S., Castro e Costa, E. & Shepherd, P., 5 Sept 2022, p. 201-208.
Research output: Contribution to conference › Paper › peer-review
Digital fabrication of ribbed concrete shells using automated robotic concrete spraying
Nuh, M., Oval, R., Orr, J. & Shepherd, P., 30 Nov 2022, In: Additive Manufacturing. 59, Part B, 103159.
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Open Access
20 Citations (SciVal)
2021
A Path Towards Off-site Automated Fabrication of Segmented Concrete Shells as Building Floors
Oval, R., Castro e Costa, E., Thomas-McEwan, D., Nuh, M., Orr, J. & Shepherd, P., 27 Aug 2021.
Research output: Contribution to conference › Paper › peer-review
Fabrication-aware Parametric Design of Segmented Concrete Shells
Castro e Costa, E., Oval, R., Shepherd, P. & Orr, J., 27 Aug 2021.
Research output: Contribution to conference › Paper › peer-review
2020
A design methodology to reduce the embodied carbon of concrete buildings using thin-shell floors
Hawkins, W., Orr, J., Ibell, T. & Shepherd, P., 15 Mar 2020, In: Engineering Structures. 207, 110195.
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52 Citations (SciVal)

255 Downloads (Pure)
Automated Framework for the Optimisation of Spatial Layouts for Concrete Structures Reinforced with Robotic Filament Winding
Oval, R., Castro e Costa, E., Thomas-McEwen, D., Spadea, S., Orr, J. & Shepherd, P., 27 Oct 2020, 2020 Proceedings of the 37th ISARC. IAARC, p. 1541-1548 8 p.
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9 Citations (SciVal)

136 Downloads (Pure)
Automating Concrete Construction: Digital Design of Non-prismatic Reinforced Concrete Beams
Castro e Costa, E., Shepherd, P., Orr, J., Ibell, T. & Oval, R., 9 Jul 2020, Second RILEM International Conference on Concrete and Digital Fabrication: Digital Concrete 2020. Bos, F., Lucas, S., Wolfs, R. & Salet, T. (eds.). Cham, Switzerland: Springer, p. 863-872 10 p. (RILEM Bookseries; vol. 28).
Research output: Chapter or section in a book/report/conference proceeding › Chapter in a published conference proceeding
4 Citations (SciVal)
2019
Design, construction and testing of a low carbon thin-shell concrete flooring system
Hawkins, W., Orr, J., Shepherd, P. & Ibell, T., 1 Apr 2019, In: Structures. 18, p. 60-71 12 p.
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245 Downloads (Pure)

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