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Yong Zhang Is Honored with the A' Design Award for Tnk-50n Waste Concrete Reprocessing in Heavy Machinery Design
Yong Zhang acknowledged for heavy machinery design by the international grand jury of the 2022 - 2023 A' Design Award & Competition
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COMO, Italy, April 20, 2023 /DesignNewswire/ A' Design Award & Competition has confirmed the A' Design Award in the Heavy Machinery Design category for Tnk-50n Waste Concrete Reprocessing by Yong Zhang, designed for Liaoning Petrochemical University（School of Art and Design）. The award was conferred within the 2022 - 2023 A' Design Award & Competition and was determined through blind peer review by an international grand jury panel of established academics, design professionals and press members, who evaluated anonymized entries against predetermined criteria.
The A' Design Award Explained
The Iron A' Design Award is awarded to good designs that meet the rigorous professional and industrial standards set by the A' Design Awards. This recognition is reserved for works that demonstrate a solid understanding of design principles and show creativity within their execution. Recipients of the Iron A' Design Award are acknowledged for their practical innovations and contributions to their respective fields, providing solutions that improve quality of life and foster positive change. These designs are a testament to the skill and dedication of their creators, showcasing their ability to address real-world challenges through thoughtful design.
More About Tnk-50n Waste Concrete Reprocessing
TNK-50N is a large engineering vehicle designed to reprocess waste concrete into permeable bricks. The vehicle is built from separate modules for crushing, collection and reprocessing. Waste concrete is collected, crushed, screened and cleared of impurities in the front unit, then moved to the rear unit, where additives are mixed in and the material is pressed and cured in a permeable brick mold. Carbon fiber and recycled plastics keep the weight low while adding strength. Driverless technology guides the working process, and additives can be refilled by hand through a side interface.
About Yong Zhang
Associate Dean, Associate professor, director of Department of industrial design, College of art design, Liaoning Petrochemical University. Members of the International Association Designers, 2019 part in the A' Design Award Jury Panel. The thirteenth Dragon Design Foundation Award, China design youth hundred list. 14 years engaged in industrial design education, has been committed to the research and development of innovative product design, to guide the students to dozens of award-winning works. Design works won two The Silver A' Design Award, IF Design Award, Red Dot Design Award, China Red Star Design Award.
Award Record
Yong Zhang is a winner of 12 A' Design Awards, including this recognition. The awards span the editions from 2016 - 2017 to 2022 - 2023 of the A' Design Award & Competition.
About the A' Heavy Machinery Design Award
The A' Heavy Machinery Design Award is an international competition recognizing good machinery designs by best machinery designers and brands worldwide. The competition is organized within the A' Design Award & Competition and is open to heavy machinery designers, industrial designers, heavy machinery brands and heavy machinery manufacturers from all countries. Entries typically include construction, agricultural, mining, earthmoving, production equipment and machinery and excavators. Awarded heavy machinery designs are published at https://designers.org/design-category/heavy-machinery
About A' Design Award & Competition
A' Design Award & Competition is an international, juried design accolade organized annually since 2008. The competition is open to entries from all countries. The A' Design Award has a philanthropic mission to advance society through good design by recognizing and promoting superior products, projects and services that benefit society, and by creating a global awareness and appreciation for good design practices and principles. Entries are peer reviewed and anonymously evaluated by an international grand jury panel of established academics, design professionals and press members against predetermined criteria such as functionality, ergonomics, engineering, presentation, innovation, usability, sustainability and technology, with score normalization applied to remove biases. Awards are conferred at Platinum, Gold, Silver, Bronze and Iron levels. The A' Design Prize granted to eligible laureates includes the award trophy, the certificate of design excellence, the hardcover yearbook, a lifetime license to use the A' Design Award winner logo, exhibition of awarded works, an invitation to the gala night and award ceremony in Italy, inclusion in the World Design Rankings and Designer Rankings, and public relations and publicity services. Registration, the upload of a work and the preliminary score are free of charge, and Professional and Digital Edition laureates are not contractually obliged to pay further fees to claim the A' Design Prize. Further information is available at https://competition.adesignaward.com
Press Resources
- Winner Page: https://designers.org/151427
- A' Design Award Page: https://competition.adesignaward.com/151427
- Media Showcase: https://www.designnewsroom.com/!151427
- Laureate Profile: https://designers.org/d/171765
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Fact Sheet
The Work
- Project
- Tnk-50n Waste Concrete Reprocessing
- Function
- Waste Concrete Reprocessing
- Category
- Heavy Machinery Design
- Discipline
- Industrial Design
- Industry
- Manufacturing
- Colors
- Dark Slate Gray, Black, Dim Gray, Gray and Coral
- Images
- 5
- Client
- Liaoning Petrochemical University（School of Art and Design）
The Recognition
- Laureate
- Yong Zhang
- Country
- China
- Recognition
- A' Design Award
- Edition
- 2022 - 2023
- Design ID
- #151427
Credits
- Image Credits
- Photographer Yingqi Mu, Variations, 2023.
Design Details
- Unique Properties
- TNK-50N is a large multi-functional waste concrete reprocessing engineering vehicle based on modular design. It is mainly used to process waste concrete into green permeable brick. The whole engineering vehicle adopts modular components and split design, and is equipped with crushing function module, collection function module and reprocessing module, to crush, collect, screen, remove impurities, hydraulic forming and other operations of the abandoned concrete.
- Inspiration
- The construction industry generates a large amount of waste each year, resulting in lost profits and negative impacts on the environment. At present, the disposal of construction waste is in a simple and disorderly state, and the recycling and resource utilization of construction waste cannot spontaneously form an industrial chain under market conditions. In addition, the durability of recycled concrete is poor, difficult to market.
- Research
- With the acceleration of urbanization, the construction industry is booming, but with the corresponding is a lot of construction waste. At present, the main way of disposal of construction waste is landfill, but this way has caused a serious burden on the ecological environment. In order to solve this problem, this design proposes a new treatment method, which is to transform construction waste and waste concrete into environmentally friendly permeable brick, so as to realize the recycling of construction waste resources and reduce the pollution to the environment.
- Challenge
- The main difficulty of this design project is to integrate the process of multiple equipment, combine them reasonably together, in order to achieve efficient work flow. Considering that the process requires multiple operations, a discrete design method is adopted to divide the whole vehicle into multiple modules in order to better control the operation of each module and ensure that all parts of the whole vehicle can work together to smoothly complete various tasks.
- Realization and Technology
- TNK-50N is an efficient construction machinery equipment, mainly used in crushing, screening, washing, mixing, mixing, extrusion and curing and other aspects of technology, the application of these technologies can not only improve the reuse rate of waste concrete, but also reduce the pollution to the environment. In order to achieve lightweight design of construction machinery products, TNK-50N uses new composite materials such as carbon fiber materials and recycled plastics to enhance the strength and durability of the entire engineering vehicle.
- Operation and Interaction
- In the working process of TNK-50N, the waste concrete is collected by the collector and transferred to the crusher in front of the vehicle for crushing and removing impurities. It is transported to the rear car through the transport port, and additives are added and then stirred by agitator. The stirred material is vibratingly pressed and solidified through the permeable brick mold. TNK-50N adopts driverless technology. When the additives in the body of the car are not available, they need to be added manually through the external interface of the additives on the side of the body.
- Project Duration and Location
- The project started in October 2022 at in Shenyang, liaoning province, China, and finished in March 2023 at inShenyang, liaoning province China.
- Specifications
- The car in front：4200mm×7500mm x 3000mm The Car behind：4200mm×6600mm x 3000mm
- Keywords
- Modular design, green environmental protection, resource reuse, sponge city, large engineering equipment
