Reinforcement-Strategies for Additive Manufacturing in Construction Based on Dynamic Fiber Winding (2021-11)¶
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Contribution - Vision and Strategies for Reinforcing Additively Manufactured Concrete Structures, pp. 45-59
Abstract
Whereas entire houses are reported to be built by means of 3D Concrete Printing (3DCP), the automated integration of reinforcement is still a vastly unresolved challenge and - undoubtedly - a crucial requirement for widespread adoption of 3DCP in construction practice. In this paper an automated reinforcement approach using continuous textile fibres is introduced as an alternative to the manual placement of conventional steel reinforcement. Based on a fibre winding technique, in this paper a matrix of methods and applications is presented and substantiated by initial feasibility studies on the 1:1 scale. As such, three case studies for the automated reinforcement integration are presented, addressing particle bed printing (Large Particle 3D Concrete Printing), as well as material jetting (Shotcrete 3D Printing).
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BibTeX
@inproceedings{gant_roth_huhn_hack.2022.RSfAMiCBoDFW,
author = "Stefan Gantner and Tom Niklas Rothe and Christian Hühne and Norman Peter Hack",
title = "Reinforcement-Strategies for Additive Manufacturing in Construction Based on Dynamic Fiber Winding: Concepts and Initial Case Studies",
doi = "10.52825/ocp.v1i.78",
year = "2022",
volume = "1",
pages = "45--59",
booktitle = "Vision and Strategies for Reinforcing Additively Manufactured Concrete Structures",
editor = "Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft",
}
Formatted Citation
S. Gantner, T. N. Rothe, C. Hühne and N. P. Hack, “Reinforcement-Strategies for Additive Manufacturing in Construction Based on Dynamic Fiber Winding: Concepts and Initial Case Studies”, in Vision and Strategies for Reinforcing Additively Manufactured Concrete Structures, 2022, vol. 1, pp. 45–59. doi: 10.52825/ocp.v1i.78.
Gantner, Stefan, Tom Niklas Rothe, Christian Hühne, and Norman Peter Hack. “Reinforcement-Strategies for Additive Manufacturing in Construction Based on Dynamic Fiber Winding: Concepts and Initial Case Studies”. In Vision and Strategies for Reinforcing Additively Manufactured Concrete Structures, edited by Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft, 1:45–59, 2022. https://doi.org/10.52825/ocp.v1i.78.