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Concrete 3D Printing (2020-07)

System Development, Process Planning and Experimental Results

10.1007/978-3-030-49916-7_97

 Wang Yu, Li Shuaishuai, Qin Tian, Yu Ying,  Xiao Jianzhuang
Contribution - Proceedings of the 2nd RILEM International Conference on Concrete and Digital Fabrication, pp. 998-1010

Abstract

Concrete 3D printing is a new construction technology that deposits the concrete from the bottom up layer by layer. The printer and process used in this technology are different from traditional extrusion-based printing technology. This work developed a concrete 3D printing system and its process planning from the point of considering the “large-scale” of the printer and the thixotropy of the concrete. Firstly, the components of the printer were introduced, and the screw as the key part of the extruder subsystem was optimized based on ANSYS Fluent. Secondly, the key technical problems in the process of tool path generation and parameter design were discussed. Lastly, the feasibility of the concrete 3D printing system and process planning were verified by a pavilion printing experiment.

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BibTeX 
@inproceedings{wang_li_qin_yu.2020.C3P,
  author            = "Yu Wang and Shuaishuai Li and Tian Qin and Ying Yu and Jianzhuang Xiao",
  title             = "Concrete 3D Printing: System Development, Process Planning and Experimental Results",
  doi               = "10.1007/978-3-030-49916-7_97",
  year              = "2020",
  volume            = "28",
  pages             = "998--1010",
  booktitle         = "Proceedings of the 2nd RILEM International Conference on Concrete and Digital Fabrication: Digital Concrete 2020",
  editor            = "Freek Paul Bos and Sandra Simaria de Oliveira Lucas and Robert Johannes Maria Wolfs and Theo A. M. Salet",
}
Formatted Citation

Y. Wang, S. Li, T. Qin, Y. Yu and J. Xiao, “Concrete 3D Printing: System Development, Process Planning and Experimental Results”, in Proceedings of the 2nd RILEM International Conference on Concrete and Digital Fabrication: Digital Concrete 2020, 2020, vol. 28, pp. 998–1010. doi: 10.1007/978-3-030-49916-7_97.

Wang, Yu, Shuaishuai Li, Tian Qin, Ying Yu, and Jianzhuang Xiao. “Concrete 3D Printing: System Development, Process Planning and Experimental Results”. In Proceedings of the 2nd RILEM International Conference on Concrete and Digital Fabrication: Digital Concrete 2020, edited by Freek Paul Bos, Sandra Simaria de Oliveira Lucas, Robert Johannes Maria Wolfs, and Theo A. M. Salet, 28:998–1010, 2020. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-49916-7_97.