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Development of Powder-Based 3D Concrete Printing Using Geopolymers (2019-02)

10.1016/b978-0-12-815481-6.00011-7

 Xia Ming,  Nematollahi Behzad,  Sanjayan Jay
Contribution - 3D Concrete Printing Technology, pp. 223-240

Abstract

Additive Manufacturing (AM), also known as three-dimensional (3D) printing, is a manufacturing process where a complex 3D object created by computer aided design (CAD) software is built using a layer-by-layer deposition approach through a series of cross-sectional slices [1,2]. Although AM has been extensively adopted in many industries such as automotive, aerospace, medicine, and biological systems [1,3], the construction industry has been rather slow in implementing AM. In recent years, AM has gained a considerable amount of attention from the construction industry due to its remarkable advantages over the conventional approach of casting concrete into a formwork, including enhanced geometrical freedom, increased level of safety and reduction in construction cost, waste, and time [4,5]. In the past few years, a variety of AM technologies have been developed for 3D concrete printing (3DCP) applications. These technologies can be classified into two forms, extrusion-based and powder-based techniques.

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BibTeX 
@inproceedings{xia_nema_sanj.2019.DoPB3CPUG,
  author            = "Ming Xia and Behzad Nematollahi and Jay Gnananandan Sanjayan",
  title             = "Development of Powder-Based 3D Concrete Printing Using Geopolymers",
  doi               = "10.1016/b978-0-12-815481-6.00011-7",
  year              = "2019",
  pages             = "223--240",
  booktitle         = "3D Concrete Printing Technology: Construction and Building Applications",
  editor            = "Jay Gnananandan Sanjayan and Ali Nazari and Behzad Nematollahi",
}
Formatted Citation

M. Xia, B. Nematollahi and J. G. Sanjayan, “Development of Powder-Based 3D Concrete Printing Using Geopolymers”, in 3D Concrete Printing Technology: Construction and Building Applications, 2019, pp. 223–240. doi: 10.1016/b978-0-12-815481-6.00011-7.

Xia, Ming, Behzad Nematollahi, and Jay Gnananandan Sanjayan. “Development of Powder-Based 3D Concrete Printing Using Geopolymers”. In 3D Concrete Printing Technology: Construction and Building Applications, edited by Jay Gnananandan Sanjayan, Ali Nazari, and Behzad Nematollahi, 223–40, 2019. https://doi.org/10.1016/b978-0-12-815481-6.00011-7.