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Extrusion-Based Additive Manufacturing of Concrete Products (2019-09)

Revolutionizing and Remodeling the Construction Industry

10.3390/jcs3030088

 Valente Marco,  Sibai Abbas,  Sambucci Matteo
Journal Article - Journal of Composites Science, Vol. 3, Iss. 3

Abstract

Additive manufacturing is one of the main topics of the fourth industrial revolution; defined as Industry 4.0. This technology offers several advantages related to the construction and architectural sectors; such as economic; environmental; social; and engineering benefits. The usage of concrete in additive technologies allows the development of innovative applications and complexity design in the world of construction such as buildings; housing modules; bridges; and urban and domestic furniture elements. The aim of this review was to show in detail a general panoramic of extrusion-based additive processes in the construction sector; the main advantages of using additive manufacturing with the respect to traditional manufacturing; the fundamental requirements of 3D printable material (fresh and hardened properties), and state-of-the-art aesthetic and architectural projects with functional properties.

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BibTeX 
@article{vale_siba_samb.2019.EBAMoCP,
  author            = "Marco Valente and Abbas Sibai and Matteo Sambucci",
  title             = "Extrusion-Based Additive Manufacturing of Concrete Products: Revolutionizing and Remodeling the Construction Industry",
  doi               = "10.3390/jcs3030088",
  year              = "2019",
  journal           = "Journal of Composites Science",
  volume            = "3",
  number            = "3",
}
Formatted Citation

M. Valente, A. Sibai and M. Sambucci, “Extrusion-Based Additive Manufacturing of Concrete Products: Revolutionizing and Remodeling the Construction Industry”, Journal of Composites Science, vol. 3, no. 3, 2019, doi: 10.3390/jcs3030088.

Valente, Marco, Abbas Sibai, and Matteo Sambucci. “Extrusion-Based Additive Manufacturing of Concrete Products: Revolutionizing and Remodeling the Construction Industry”. Journal of Composites Science 3, no. 3 (2019). https://doi.org/10.3390/jcs3030088.