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Engineers 3D Print Sturdy Glass Bricks for Building Structures

In the middle of Killian Court, a stout pyramid of the glass bricks is four layers tall, and looks about 15 feet across and four feet high.
Here, the manufactured glass bricks are assembled together in a wall configuration in Killian Court.
Credits:Image: Ethan Townsend

The interlocking bricks, which can be repurposed many times over, can withstand similar pressures as their concrete counterparts. Engineers developed a new kind of reconfigurable masonry made from 3D-printed, recycled glass. The bricks could be reused many times over in building facades and internal walls.

What if construction materials could be put together and taken apart as easily as LEGO bricks? Such reconfigurable masonry would be disassembled at the end of a building’s lifetime and reassembled into a new structure, in a sustainable cycle that could supply generations of buildings using the same physical building blocks.

That’s the idea behind cir...

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