Development of a viable concrete printing process

Proceedings of the 28th International Symposium on Automation and Robotics in Construction, ISARC 2011

Volumn , Issue , 2011, Pages 665-670

  Lim, Sungwoo ^a   Buswell, Richard ^a   Le, Thanh ^a   Wackrow, Rene ^a   Austin, Simon ^a   Gibb, Alistair ^a   Thorpe, Tony ^a  

^a LOUGHBOROUGH UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Additive manufacturing; Concrete printing; Construction automation; Digital fabrication

Indexed keywords

3D PRINTERS; FITS AND TOLERANCES; PRINTING PRESSES; ROBOTICS;

3-D PRINTING; CONCRETE COMPONENTS; CONCRETE PRINTINGS; CONSTRUCTION AUTOMATION; DIGITAL FABRICATION; MANUFACTURING TOLERANCES;

CONCRETE PRODUCTS;

EID: 84863751219     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.22260/isarc2011/0124     Document Type: Conference Paper

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