Smart Dynamic Casting (SDC) is a continuous robotic slip-forming process that enables the prefabrication of material-optimised load-bearing concrete structures. In this automated process, a dynamic formwork, significantly smaller than the structure produced, is continuously moved at a velocity which allows concrete to be shaped during the critical phase that it changes from a soft to a hard material. As part of the dfab House at the ...

The Chair for the History of Technology at ETH Zurich has been using the search engine Opensenamticsearch as a shared search engine for historical sources, research literature and excerpts since 2018. In our presentation we will review the process that took several years and led to this implementation. We point out various surprises lurking in research projects that make digital research data and historical research interact in order to ...