3D Printing Concrete on Temporary Surfaces (2018-07)¶
The Design and Fabrication of a Concrete Shell Structure
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Journal Article - Automation in Construction, Vol. 94, pp. 395-404
Abstract
One of the geometrical restrictions associated with printed paste materials such as concrete, is that material must be self-supporting during printing. In this research paper a new methodology for 3D Printing Concrete onto a temporary freeform surface is presented. This is achieved by setting up a workflow for combining a Flexible Mould developed at TU Delft with a 4-degrees-of-freedom gantry printer (4 DOF) provided at TU Eindhoven. A number of hypothetical cases are studied, namely fully-printing geometries or combining 3D printing with casting concrete. The final outcome is a 5m2 partially-printed and partially-cast shell structure, combined with a CNC-milled mould simulating a Flexible Mould.
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BibTeX
@article{borg_ahme_schi_bos.2018.3PCoTS,
author = "Christopher Borg Costanzi and Zeeshan Yunus Ahmed and Roel H. Schipper and Freek Paul Bos and Ulrich Knaack and Robert Johannes Maria Wolfs",
title = "3D Printing Concrete on Temporary Surfaces: The Design and Fabrication of a Concrete Shell Structure",
doi = "10.1016/j.autcon.2018.06.013",
year = "2018",
journal = "Automation in Construction",
volume = "94",
pages = "395--404",
}
Formatted Citation
C. B. Costanzi, Z. Y. Ahmed, R. H. Schipper, F. P. Bos, U. Knaack and R. J. M. Wolfs, “3D Printing Concrete on Temporary Surfaces: The Design and Fabrication of a Concrete Shell Structure”, Automation in Construction, vol. 94, pp. 395–404, 2018, doi: 10.1016/j.autcon.2018.06.013.
Costanzi, Christopher Borg, Zeeshan Yunus Ahmed, Roel H. Schipper, Freek Paul Bos, Ulrich Knaack, and Robert Johannes Maria Wolfs. “3D Printing Concrete on Temporary Surfaces: The Design and Fabrication of a Concrete Shell Structure”. Automation in Construction 94 (2018): 395–404. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.autcon.2018.06.013.