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Sustainable 3D Concrete Printing with Large Aggregates (2022-06)

10.1007/978-3-031-06116-5_11

 da Silva Wilson, Kaasgaard Martin, Andersen Thomas
Contribution - Proceedings of the 3rd RILEM International Conference on Concrete and Digital Fabrication, pp. 71-77

Abstract

The number of large-scale projects featuring the use of 3D Concrete Printing (3DCP) had a steep increase in the past years. The most remarkable applications include apartment and residential buildings and promise to deliver a robust, cost-effective and sustainable solution compared to conventional construction. One of the paths to boost 3DCP’s sustainability lies in the material upscaling from mortars to concrete; thus, our work focuses on the concrete mixes for 3DCP. For that, we use a calcined-clay limestone-based cement (FutureCEM®) and large aggregates (up to 8.0 mm) to produce printable mixes. In this work, we present a comparative analysis of mixes produced with CEM I and FutureCEM. Specifically, mixes with strength classes of C25 and C45 produced with these cements are compared to a mortar produced with White Cement; a mortar produced with FutureCEM®; and a concrete produced with CEM I. Also, the CO2 footprint of the mixes is compared to that of Ready Mix Concrete produced in Denmark; such analysis validates the environmental benefits of material upscaling and points out that 3DCP mixes can be produced with a similar CO2 footprint to that of conventional concrete.

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BibTeX 
@inproceedings{silv_kaas_ande.2022.S3CPwLA,
  author            = "Wilson Ricardo Leal da Silva and Martin Kaasgaard and Thomas Juul Andersen",
  title             = "Sustainable 3D Concrete Printing with Large Aggregates",
  doi               = "10.1007/978-3-031-06116-5_11",
  year              = "2022",
  volume            = "37",
  pages             = "71--77",
  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

W. R. L. da Silva, M. Kaasgaard and T. J. Andersen, “Sustainable 3D Concrete Printing with Large Aggregates”, in Proceedings of the 3rd RILEM International Conference on Concrete and Digital Fabrication: Digital Concrete 2022, 2022, vol. 37, pp. 71–77. doi: 10.1007/978-3-031-06116-5_11.

Silva, Wilson Ricardo Leal da, Martin Kaasgaard, and Thomas Juul Andersen. “Sustainable 3D Concrete Printing with Large Aggregates”. 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, 37:71–77, 2022. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-06116-5_11.