A Cost-Model to Evaluate the Economic Performance of Contour Crafting (2019-06)¶
Zhang Xun, Flood Ian, , Moud Hashem, Hatami Mohsen
Contribution - Computing in Civil Engineering 2019, pp. 618-625
Abstract
The economic performance of additive manufacturing (AM) is a heated discussion in the construction industry. The affordability of 3D printing is a critical factor for massive application in practice. Contour crafting (CC), one of the most common AM methods adopted in the construction industry, creates objects with smooth surfaces using polymer, ceramic slurry, cement, etc. This paper first analyzed the direct and indirect costs incurred during the CC process and then built an activity-based cost model. Direct costs were associated with the volume of the materials consumed in the printing process (including waste), while indirect costs relate to the manufacturing time, including labor hours and operating time of equipment. The activity-based cost model was formulated based on a concrete wall fabricated by CC. Next step of the study is to account for the impact of uncertainties in the modeling process and validate the model through an empirical study.
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BibTeX
@inproceedings{zhan_floo_zhan_moud.2019.ACMtEtEPoCC,
author = "Xun Zhang and Ian Flood and Yuanxin Zhang and Hashem Izadi Moud and Mohsen Hatami",
title = "A Cost-Model to Evaluate the Economic Performance of Contour Crafting",
doi = "10.1061/9780784482421.078",
year = "2019",
pages = "618--625",
booktitle = "Computing in Civil Engineering 2019",
editor = "Yong K. Cho and Fernanda Leite and Amir Behzadan and Chao Wang",
}
Formatted Citation
X. Zhang, I. Flood, Y. Zhang, H. I. Moud and M. Hatami, “A Cost-Model to Evaluate the Economic Performance of Contour Crafting”, in Computing in Civil Engineering 2019, 2019, pp. 618–625. doi: 10.1061/9780784482421.078.
Zhang, Xun, Ian Flood, Yuanxin Zhang, Hashem Izadi Moud, and Mohsen Hatami. “A Cost-Model to Evaluate the Economic Performance of Contour Crafting”. In Computing in Civil Engineering 2019, edited by Yong K. Cho, Fernanda Leite, Amir Behzadan, and Chao Wang, 618–25, 2019. https://doi.org/10.1061/9780784482421.078.