Mega-scale fabrication by Contour Crafting

By B. Khoshnevis, Dooil Hwang, Ke-Thia Yao, Zhenghao Yeh. 2006

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Subfields: Automotive Engineering, Building and Construction, Mechanical Engineering

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Citations in the corpus

Design for Additive Manufacturing (2019, background): “Investment casting molds and cores have been printed in sand [343] and large structures have been printed in clay and concrete [171][173].”
Additive manufacturing of geopolymer for sustainable built environment (2017, background): “and systematic; requiring cumbersome formwork and much skilled labor to build any kind of freeform structures [4].”
Digital Concrete: Opportunities and Challenges (2016, background): “Khoshnevis from the University of Southern California, who developed a process called Contour Crafting as early as 2004 [2, 3, 5], with the aim of printing high-rise buildings and even houses on the moon [21].”
The status, challenges, and future of additive manufacturing in engineering (2015, neutral): “Researchers have explored AM systems capable of working along the entire spectrum of build sizes, from nanofabrication [29] and micro-sculpting [30], to large-scale contour crafting [31], architectural construction [32] and electronbeam welding [33].”
Structural built-up of cement-based materials used for 3D-printing extrusion techniques (2016, methodology): “used for contour crafting [10, 11] developed in”
A review of 3D concrete printing systems and materials properties: current status and future research prospects (2018, methodology): “A number of 3D-printed construction projects have been executed to demonstrate the successful application of this form of automated construction (Khoshnevis, 2004; Khoshnevis et al., 2006).”
Current progress of 3D concrete printing technologies (2017, methodology): “A one hour delay batch is to control the lateral pressure of the concrete by allowing it to partially cure and harden [11].”
Developments in construction-scale additive manufacturing processes (2012, background): “Currently there are three large-scale AM processes targeted at construction and architecture in the public domain, namely: Contour Crafting [15], D-Shape (Monolite) [16] and Concrete Printing [17].”
3D printing trends in building and construction industry: a review (2017, methodology): “13 unbound material can be removed from the print bed using a vacuum cleaner after the printing, which can be recycled and deployed for another printing task (Khoshnevis et al. 2006).”