Additive Digital Casting: From Lab to Industry.

ABSTRACT: Concrete construction harms our environment, making it urgent to develop new methods for building with less materials. Structurally efficient shapes are, however, often expensive to produce, because they require non-standard formworks, thus, standard structures, which use more material than is often needed, remain cheaper. Digital fabrication has the potential to change this paradigm. One method is Digital Casting Systems (DCS), where the hydration of self-compacting concrete is controlled on the fly during production, shortening the required setting time and reducing hydrostatic pressure on the formwork to a minimum. This enables a productivity increase for standard concrete production. More importantly, though, it enables a rethinking of formworks, as the process requires only cheap thin

SUBMITTER: Lloret-Fritschi E 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC9145986 | biostudies-literature | 2022 May

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature