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Influence of the Print Process on the Durability of Printed Cementitious Materials (2022-06)

10.1007/978-3-031-06116-5_29

 van der Putten Jolien, de Smet M.,  van den Heede Philip,  de Schutter Geert,  van Tittelboom Kim
Contribution - Proceedings of the 3rd RILEM International Conference on Concrete and Digital Fabrication, pp. 194-199

Abstract

3D concrete printing (3DCP) is currently being explored both in academia and practice and ensures a fast, economic, safe and formwork-free construction process. Although the elimination of formwork is one of the biggest advantages, it also removes the protection between the curing concrete and the surrounding environment and consequently, cracking resulting from shrinkage can be more pronounced. Additionally, the effect of the layered fabrication process and the absence of compaction could increase the porosity and the occurrence of weakly bonded interfaces. The combination of these three phenomena might affect the durability of 3DCP elements, as these interfaces form ideal ingress paths for chemical substances. In order to improve the long-term behavior, this study aimed to comprehend the correlation between different print process parameters and the resistance against carbonation. Therefore, multi-layered elements were fabricated with two different print techniques (2D and 3D) and two interlayer time gaps (0 and 30 min). To enable a complete comparison between both fabrication processes also conventional cast elements were considered. In general, a more pronounced CO2 penetration could be observed for printed elements, related to the higher porosity. Additionally, enlarged time gaps tend to be detrimental for the durability, however, this effect could be counteracted the 3D-print technique. The higher pump pressure improves the bonding between subsequent layers and the general long-term behavior.

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BibTeX 
@inproceedings{putt_smet_heed_schu.2022.IotPPotDoPCM,
  author            = "Jolien van der Putten and M. de Smet and Philip van den Heede and Geert de Schutter and Kim van Tittelboom",
  title             = "Influence of the Print Process on the Durability of Printed Cementitious Materials",
  doi               = "10.1007/978-3-031-06116-5_29",
  year              = "2022",
  volume            = "37",
  pages             = "194--199",
  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. van der Putten, M. de Smet, P. van den Heede, G. de Schutter and K. van Tittelboom, “Influence of the Print Process on the Durability of Printed Cementitious Materials”, in Proceedings of the 3rd RILEM International Conference on Concrete and Digital Fabrication: Digital Concrete 2022, 2022, vol. 37, pp. 194–199. doi: 10.1007/978-3-031-06116-5_29.

Putten, Jolien van der, M. de Smet, Philip van den Heede, Geert de Schutter, and Kim van Tittelboom. “Influence of the Print Process on the Durability of Printed Cementitious 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, 37:194–99, 2022. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-06116-5_29.