Embodied carbon calculator
A1–A5 embodied carbon of a building structure per m², with a SCORS rating and a range, from European data. Compare up to three options and share them.
Tools
Tools from my research, and a few others. They run in your browser; nothing you draw, measure or upload leaves your device.
Featured
Why steel beams twist
Load a steel beam and watch it swing sideways and twist: lateral-torsional buckling in 3D, with the critical moment and the Eurocode resistance.
Microstructure designer
Design a periodic microstructure for a target stiffness, or pick one of hundreds already optimized on the property map, then export it for cutting or printing.
Damage or a warm day?
Tap a steel building and hear its vibration modes as a chord. Warm weather, people and damage all shift it; an autoencoder learns which shifts are normal.
All tools, by subject
Microstructures
- Microstructure designerDesign a periodic microstructure for a target stiffness, or pick one of hundreds already optimized on the property map, then export it for cutting or printing.
- Draw a unit cellDraw a unit cell and see its stiffness and Poisson’s ratio as you draw. Can you draw one that gets wider when you stretch it?
Structures
- Truss optimizerA genetic algorithm sizes every member of a steel truss, trading steel mass against deflection and the number of different sections.
- Why steel beams twistLoad a steel beam and watch it swing sideways and twist: lateral-torsional buckling in 3D, with the critical moment and the Eurocode resistance.
Machine learning
- Frame design with a surrogate modelSize a six-storey steel frame for gravity, wind and an earthquake from a few dozen analyses: they train a Gaussian process, a genetic algorithm searches it, and the analysis checks the answer.
- Damage or a warm day?Tap a steel building and hear its vibration modes as a chord. Warm weather, people and damage all shift it; an autoencoder learns which shifts are normal.