TY - GEN
T1 - Mycelium-Based Bio-Composites For Architecture
T2 - 37th Conference on Education and Research in Computer Aided Architectural Design in Europe and 23rd Conference of the Iberoamerican Society Digital Graphics, eCAADe SIGraDi 2019
AU - Ghazvinian, Ali
AU - Farrokhsiar, Paniz
AU - Vieira, Fabricio
AU - Pecchia, John
AU - Gursoy, Benay
N1 - Funding Information:
The authors would like to express their gratitude to Ali Memari for facilitating the compression tests realized in the Architectural Engineering Department at Penn State University, and to Anand Swaminathan for his generous help during testing. The facilities of Mushroom Research Center have been used during this research. The authors are grateful for their support and guidance. This research is partially funded by Stuckeman Center for Design Computing (SCDC)
Funding Information:
The authors would like to express their gratitude to Ali Memari for facilitating the compression tests realized in the Architectural Engineering Department at Penn State University, and to Anand Swaminathan for his generous help during testing. The facilities of Mushroom Research Center have been used during this research. The authors are grateful for their support and guidance. This research is partially funded by Stuckeman Center for Design Computing (SCDC) Interdisciplinary Research Grants.
Publisher Copyright:
© 2019, Education and research in Computer Aided Architectural Design in Europe. All rights reserved.
PY - 2019
Y1 - 2019
N2 - Mycelium-based bio-composites can propose a renewable and biodegradable alternative for architectural construction materials. These biomaterials result from growth of mycelium, fibrous root systems of fungi, on organic substrates in controlled environmental conditions. This paper presents a material study that explores how substrate type and added supplements used for cultivating mycelium affect the compressive strength of mycelium-based composites for use as masonry units in architectural construction. For this purpose, samples grown using Pleurotus Ostreatus (Gray Oyster mushroom strain) on three different substrates (sawdust, straw and a mixture of sawdust and straw) with and without supplementation are tested for compressive strength.
AB - Mycelium-based bio-composites can propose a renewable and biodegradable alternative for architectural construction materials. These biomaterials result from growth of mycelium, fibrous root systems of fungi, on organic substrates in controlled environmental conditions. This paper presents a material study that explores how substrate type and added supplements used for cultivating mycelium affect the compressive strength of mycelium-based composites for use as masonry units in architectural construction. For this purpose, samples grown using Pleurotus Ostreatus (Gray Oyster mushroom strain) on three different substrates (sawdust, straw and a mixture of sawdust and straw) with and without supplementation are tested for compressive strength.
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U2 - 10.5151/proceedings-ecaadesigradi2019_465
DO - 10.5151/proceedings-ecaadesigradi2019_465
M3 - Conference contribution
AN - SCOPUS:85129426965
SN - 9789491207181
T3 - Proceedings of the International Conference on Education and Research in Computer Aided Architectural Design in Europe
SP - 505
EP - 514
BT - Architecture in the Age of the 4th Industrial Revolutio
A2 - Sousa, José Pedro
A2 - Henriques, Gonçalo Castro
A2 - Xavier, João Pedro
PB - Education and research in Computer Aided Architectural Design in Europe
Y2 - 11 September 2019 through 13 September 2019
ER -
