Green Technology - Building Bridge Columns Via Wooden Blocks

This movie shows an easy way to build Glulam-like columns using Zipblock studs.

What follows is a written description of how we envision the contruction of the track that would be laid across the columns.

Imagine four rail cars on a track. One rail car is the supply car. It is loaded with timbers and other supplies that will be used to construct/lay Zipblocks. The next car is the machining car. This car houses machinery that allows the workers on it to instantly construct Zipblocks that can be virtually any length or radius via the use of some basic robotic machinery. The car up front is the fabrication car. This is where a team of workers simply glue/weave/lay Zipblocks that are fed "real time" off of the machining car. After the track is laid and has dried a planer car is run over it. The planer car planes the surface making it perfectly smooth. All that is left is to place a bit of steel rail on a surface that is amazingly smooth and that gracefully flows over and around obstacles and contours.

Wow what a vision! You don't lay track...you rapidly, yet gracefully, manufacture it with sustainable materials like wood!

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• transportation
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• glulam
• wood
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• interlocking
• blocks
• invention

[120ohm]

I love the idea of a home made with this system. But a bridge column? Not doubting this at all because I'm sure you have done the calculations. But how???

[Zipblocks]

Pound for pound wood is stronger than steel. Glued laminated timber or Glulam is stronger than plain wood. Modern wood glues are even stronger than the wood itself. By virtue of weaving wooden Zipblocks together on opposing planes with glue one further enhances the strength of wood by adding an imposed "super fiber" effect. You can literally build just about any 3D wooden object that you want to...any size...any shape. Steel cables and Zipblocks can easily be integrated as well.

[styx545]

I have a question. Why? Is this cheaper than concrete?

[MegaRAMHarddisk]

let me guess... iq of 250?

[forbbbi]

can u say LEGO'S