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Does the world need another Carbon Fiber bike?
If it looks as awesome as the amazingly crafted C-Thru Bike from BME, I am afraid it does.
The C-thru road frame is made from solid carbon rods carefully bonded together into its geometry. BME is the effort of the Slovakian engineer Brano Meres who has been experimenting among other things, with bamboo/carbon fiber constructions.
Now what would happen if we added a little bit of biology’s intelligence to Brano Meres’ construction?
Lets say, some adaptive design strategies regarding the spacing and dimension of the carbon rods….what do you think?
Nature puts material only where its needed… so there is a variation in the density of structures, always. Are the forces equal along the top tube of a Road Bike? If not…There could be some generative design patterns being applied to the construction defining its shape in relationship to the forces acting upon it…
Steffen R? What do you think? Ansys meets Generative Components meets Bike frame?
Give it up for Brano Meres. Amazing work, congratulations!
Posted: June 12th, 2008 under Design, Bionics, Design for Sport.
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Comment from Steffen
Time: June 13, 2008, 12:51 am
Hi,
its a difficult topic but very interesting! The main problem will be to analyze the forces. It is difficult to predict the force directions. I think we would need an expert. But if we had the force vectors its interesting to use them for form generation.
It could be a little bit like Matthecks shape optimization techniques - but he is really pro! ;-)
Difficult - and that’s why it’s interesting and something “new” -
but only “new” in shape and style. It doesn’t change the usage or functionality. But maybe that’s not the point. Let’s call it high-low-tech! High-tech with low-tech material! I really think that’s future!
Best
Steffen
Comment from Henrique Monnerat
Time: June 16, 2008, 8:52 pm
You are right, the main problem is to predict the forces acting on to the frame. But even if we guess them, coming up with a rhino script or something to generate structures based on a series of intersecting force vectors would already be amazing.
I really like what you sad…High tech thinking..low tech material…
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