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From workshop to microchip, ETH Zurich’sfacilities help researchers generate new knowledgeand engineer innovations.
Research infrastructure at ETH Zurich
Columns have been a key feature of architecture for millennia. But what happens when they are produced using a novel 3D-printing process for concrete? A team of digital fabrication students at ETH Zurich decided to find out. (Image: Keerthana Udaykumar, Digital Building Technologies / ETH Zurich)
Working in the Robotic Fabrication Laboratory, the students used fully automated robotic printers to fabricate columns, layer by layer, in modern designs. (Image: Keerthana Udaykumar, Digital Building Technologies / ETH Zurich)
A furnace for research: This facility reaches 1,400 degrees Celsius and above, enabling scientists to recreate fires while precisely controlling factors such as temperature and oxygen supply. (Image: Chair of Timber Structures)
Field phenotyping platform: Scientists at the Lindau-Eschikon research station of ETH monitor over a thousand test plots using cameras and sensors. (Image: Daniel Winkler / ETH Zurich)
Laboratoryof Hydraulics, Hydrology and Glaciology: At a test facility on the Hönggerberg campus, researchers model water systems and hydraulic engineering projects to help explore such questions. (Image: Andreas Schlumpf / ETH Zurich)
Scientific Center for Optical and Electron Microscopy: At ScopeM, researchers use state-of-the-art optical and electron microscopes to make visible what the naked eye cannot see. (Image: Daniel Winkler / ETH Zürich)
Researchcentrifuge: A nine-metre-wide centrifuge generates gravitational forces by means of rotation. The facility is used to investigate how earthquakes and landslides affect the foundations of bridges and wind turbines, and to develop new approaches in structural engineering. (Image: Markus Bertschi / 13Photo)
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