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Zero-Waste Production of Lightweight Concrete Structures with Water-Soluble Sand Formwork (2022-06)

10.1007/978-3-031-06116-5_1

 Kovaleva Daria,  Nistler Maximilian,  Verl Alexander,  Blandini Lucio, Sobek Werner
Contribution - Proceedings of the 3rd RILEM International Conference on Concrete and Digital Fabrication, pp. 3-8

Abstract

In the face of climate change and resource crisis, the construction industry can contribute to sustainable economic development by reducing its material consumption, emissions and waste. The application of lightweight construction principles in combination with circular production processes offers a comprehensive approach to this problem. The newly developed zero-waste formwork production method, based on the additive manufacturing of water-soluble sand mixture, enables to produce geometrically complex concrete structures and to reuse formwork material repeatedly in production cycles. This paper demonstrates the potential of this method for the production of the topologically optimised concrete single-span beam with spatial lattice structure (Fig. 1). First, a brief overview of the method will be given, followed then by a description of the design and production of the concrete component under the consideration of production parameters.

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BibTeX 
@inproceedings{kova_nist_verl_blan.2022.ZWPoLCSwWSSF,
  author            = "Daria Kovaleva and Maximilian Nistler and Alexander Verl and Lucio Blandini and Werner Sobek",
  title             = "Zero-Waste Production of Lightweight Concrete Structures with Water-Soluble Sand Formwork",
  doi               = "10.1007/978-3-031-06116-5_1",
  year              = "2022",
  volume            = "37",
  pages             = "3--8",
  booktitle         = "Proceedings of the 3rd RILEM International Conference on Concrete and Digital Fabrication: Digital Concrete 2022",
  editor            = "Richard A. Buswell and Ana Blanco and Sergio Cavalaro and Peter Kinnell",
}
Formatted Citation

D. Kovaleva, M. Nistler, A. Verl, L. Blandini and W. Sobek, “Zero-Waste Production of Lightweight Concrete Structures with Water-Soluble Sand Formwork”, in Proceedings of the 3rd RILEM International Conference on Concrete and Digital Fabrication: Digital Concrete 2022, 2022, vol. 37, pp. 3–8. doi: 10.1007/978-3-031-06116-5_1.

Kovaleva, Daria, Maximilian Nistler, Alexander Verl, Lucio Blandini, and Werner Sobek. “Zero-Waste Production of Lightweight Concrete Structures with Water-Soluble Sand Formwork”. In Proceedings of the 3rd RILEM International Conference on Concrete and Digital Fabrication: Digital Concrete 2022, edited by Richard A. Buswell, Ana Blanco, Sergio Cavalaro, and Peter Kinnell, 37:3–8, 2022. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-06116-5_1.