Journal
AUTOMATION IN CONSTRUCTION
Volume 21, Issue -, Pages 262-268Publisher
ELSEVIER SCIENCE BV
DOI: 10.1016/j.autcon.2011.06.010
Keywords
Concrete printing; Construction automation; Digital fabrication; Freeform construction; Additive manufacturing
Funding
- Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council (EPSRC) through the Innovative Manufacturing and Construction Research Centre at Loughborough University [EP/E002323/1]
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Additive manufacturing in construction is beginning to move from an architect's modelling tool to delivering full-scale architectural components and elements of buildings such as walls and facades. This paper discusses large-scale additive manufacturing processes that have been applied in the construction and architecture arena and focuses on 'Concrete Printing', an automated extrusion based process. The wet properties of the material are critical to the success of manufacture and a number of new criteria have been developed to classify these process specific parameters. These criteria are introduced and key challenges that face construction scale additive manufacturing are presented. (C) 2011 Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved.
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