Mega-scale fabrication by Contour Crafting

International Journal of Industrial and Systems Engineering

Volumn 1, Issue 3, 2006, Pages 301-320

  Khoshnevis, Behrokh ^a   Hwang, Dooil ^b   Yao, Ke Thia ^b   Yeh, Zhenghao ^a  

^a University of Southern California   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

cement extrusion; construction automation; Contour Crafting (CC); house construction; layered manufacturing process; lunar construction; mega scale fabrication

Indexed keywords

EID: 84903440021     PISSN: 17485037     EISSN: 17485045     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1504/IJISE.2006.009791     Document Type: Article

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