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Selected Test-Methods for Assessing Fresh and Plastic-State 3D Concrete Printing-Materials (2022-06)

10.1007/978-3-031-06116-5_68

 Kolawole John, de Becker Daniel,  Xu Jie,  Dobrzanski James,  Cavalaro Sergio,  Austin Simon,  Roussel Nicolas,  Buswell Richard
Contribution - Proceedings of the 3rd RILEM International Conference on Concrete and Digital Fabrication, pp. 460-466

Abstract

Materials’ requirements for 3D concrete printing centre around printability and buildability. The concrete must be pumpable, extrudable, yet retain its shape after extrusion (fresh state) and stack over each other without yielding and buckling failure (plastic state). The nature of 3D printed concrete materials has driven research into adapting various test methods to assess these requirements. This study reports selected test methods evaluated for 3DCP in its fresh and plastic state – rheometry, unconfined compression tests, gravitydriven (slug) tests and slow penetration tests. The study further highlights their correlations, applications, and practicality for the two main types of printable materials – enhanced-thixotropic and accelerated-hydration concrete.

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BibTeX 
@inproceedings{kola_beck_xu_dobr.2022.STMfAFaPS3CPM,
  author            = "John Temitope Kolawole and Daniel de Becker and Jie Jerry Xu and James Dobrzanski and Sergio Cavalaro and Simon A. Austin and Nicolas Roussel and Richard A. Buswell",
  title             = "Selected Test-Methods for Assessing Fresh and Plastic-State 3D Concrete Printing-Materials",
  doi               = "10.1007/978-3-031-06116-5_68",
  year              = "2022",
  volume            = "37",
  pages             = "460--466",
  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

J. T. Kolawole, “Selected Test-Methods for Assessing Fresh and Plastic-State 3D Concrete Printing-Materials”, in Proceedings of the 3rd RILEM International Conference on Concrete and Digital Fabrication: Digital Concrete 2022, 2022, vol. 37, pp. 460–466. doi: 10.1007/978-3-031-06116-5_68.

Kolawole, John Temitope, Daniel de Becker, Jie Jerry Xu, James Dobrzanski, Sergio Cavalaro, Simon A. Austin, Nicolas Roussel, and Richard A. Buswell. “Selected Test-Methods for Assessing Fresh and Plastic-State 3D Concrete Printing-Materials”. 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, 37:460–66, 2022. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-06116-5_68.