Hello there & “welcome aboard!” our Dear 3D Construction Printing co-enthusiast!

Please find below the first batch of news-clippings as well as selected published research papers/works are for your (3DCP) interest & viewing pleasure (sorted in no particular order; for now).

Tea & study time it is then!

1. “US army to 3D print concrete buildings and bridges in disaster areas” – link, 2nd link
2. “Futuristic houses are being 3D printed by robots — and could go on sale for £360,000” – link
3. “Live talk with Zaha Hadid Architects, ETH Zurich and Holcim on their 3D-printed concrete bridge Striatus” – link
4. “3D printing could help build homes with unique designs more cheaply, advocates say” – link
5. “Humans and Robots, Co-existing Peacefully“– link
   • Article by Zack Mannheimer (founder/CEO of Alquist)
6. “Training the key to future success of 3D printing in construction” – link
7. “A 3D Printed Book Cabin Has Been Placed in a Shanghai Park” – link
8. “2021 3D Printing Industry Awards – Vote now” – link
9. “New Era of 3D-Printing” – link
10. “Restoring coral reefs with 3D-printed skeletons” – link
11. “Are you ready for a 3D-printed house? They’re cheaper, stronger and long-lasting, developers say” – link
12. “Are you ready for a 3D-printed house?” – link
13. “A cure for construction” – link
14. “3d Printed Homes: A Fix for Global Housing Problems?” (link)
15. “3D printing clean(er) and more sustainable energy and parts” (link)
16. “World’s first 3D-printed steel bridge completed in Amsterdam” (link)
17. “3D Printing making headway” – link
    • The longest bridge ever built using 3D printing is located in Nijmegen, Netherlands, at the Saint-Gobain Weber Beamix factory”

Related current scientific literature collection:

1. “A 3D-Printing Centered Approach to Mars Habitat Architecture and Fabrication”
   • Authors: Matthew Troemner, Elham Ramyar, Jonathan Meehan, Benton Johnson – link
2. “3D printing lunar architecture with a novel cable-driven printer”
   • Authors: Dianjin Zhang, Dekai Zhou, Guangyu, Zhang, Guangbin, Shao, Longqiu Li
   • Published online on the 24th of September 2021 – link
3. “Industrialised Mass Housing in Saudi Arabia: A Qualitative and Technological Study”, PhD Thesis – link
   • Author: Alshabib, Abdulaziz Dakhel M.
4. “Non-linear rheological behavior of superplasticized cementitious suspensions at high shear rates”
   • Authors: Ángel De La Rosa, Lucía Garijo, Gonzalo Ruiz, Rodrigo Moreno
   • Published online on the 20th of September 2021 – link
5. “Set-on-demand approaches for geopolymers in concrete 3D printing”
   • Authors: Shravan Muthukrishnan, Sayanthan Ramakrishnan, Jay Sanjayan
   • Concrete 2021 Conference – link
6. “Correlation of interlayer properties and rheological behaviors of 3DPC with various printing time intervals”
   • Authors: Qiang Yuan, Yanqun Xu, Zemin Li, Caijun Shi, Qihong Wu, Yanlin Huang
   • Published online on the 13th of September 2021 – link
7. “Shrinkage behavior of cementitious 3D printing materials: Effect of temperature and relative humidity”
   • Authors: Mohsen Rezaei Shahmirzadi, Aliakbar Gholampour, Alireza Kashani, Tuan D. Ngo
   • Published online on the 20th of September 2021 – link
8. “Examining layer height effects on the flexural and fracture response of plain and fiber-reinforced 3D-printed beams”
   • Authors: Sooraj A.O. Nair, Avinaya Tripathi, Narayanan Neithalath
   • Published online on the 16th of September 2021 – link
9. “Machine Sensing for Mineral Foam 3D Printing”
   • Authors: Bedarf, Patrick; Szabo, Anna; Zanini, Michele; Dillenburger, Benjamin
   • International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems 2021- link
10. “Characterization of Fresh and Hardened Properties of 3D Printable Cementitious Materials Produced with Ground-Granulated Blast-Furnace Slag”, MSc Thesis – link
    • Author: Shoueb, Mohamad Basel
11. “A scientometric review of waste material utilization in concrete for sustainable construction”
    • Authors: Waqas Ahmad, Ayaz Ahmad, Krzysztof Adam Ostrowski, Fahid Aslam, Panuwat Joyklad
    • Published online on the 4rd of September 2021 – link
12. “Investigations of the Mechanical Properties of DLP 3D Printed Graphene/Resin Composites”
    • Authors: Muammel M. Hanon, Arsany Ghaly, László Zsidai, Zoltán Szakál, István Szabó, László Kátai
    • Published online on the 16th of September 2021 – link
13. “Acoustic performance optimization of a cementitious composite with a porous medium”
    • Authors: Sen Lin, Genbao Zhang, Junbo Sun, Shilin He, Changfu Chen, Amr M. Morsy, Xiangyu Wang
    • Published online on the 23rd of September 2021 – link
14. “Additive Fabrication of Large-Scale Customizable Formwork Using Robotic Fiber-Reinforced Polymer Winding“
    • Authors: Ya Ou, Ding-Wen Bao, Guan-Qi Zhu, and Dan Luo
    • Published online on the 17th of September 2021 – link
15. “Flexure resistant 3D printed zeolite-inspired structures“
    • Authors: Rushikesh S. Ambekar, Eliezer F. Oliveira, Brijesh Kushwaha, Varinder Pal, Pulickel M. Ajayan, Ajit K. Roy, Douglas S. Galvao, Chandra S. Tiwary
    • Published online on the 17th of September 2021 – link
16. “3D printing in tourism: an answer to sustainability challenges?“
    • Authors: Galina Berjozkina , Rasoul Karami
    • Published online on the 20th of September 2021 – link
17. “Incremental viscoelasticity at finite strains for the modelling of 3D concrete printing“
    • Author: B. Nedjar –link
18. “Examining layer height effects on the flexural and fracture response of plain and fiber-reinforced 3D-printed beams“
    • Authors: Sooraj A.O. Nair, Avinaya Tripati, Narayanan Neithalath
    • Published online on the 16th of September 2021 –link
19. “Conceptual design of a concrete staircase based on topology optimization“, MSc Thesis,
    • Authors: BjØrnar Sandvik, Ehsan Qaraee, Ramesh Kumar – link
20. “Influence of bottom ash and polypropylene fibers on the physico-mechanical, durability and thermal performance of foam concrete: An experimental investigation“
    • Authors: Osman Gencel, Syed Minhaj Saleem Kazmi, Muhammad Junaid Munir, Gokhan Kaplan, Oguzhan Yavuz Bayraktar, Duygu Ozturk Yarar, Arash Karimipour, Muhammad Riaz Ahmad
    • Published online on the 17th of September 2021- link
21. “Development of Photocatalytic 3D-Printed Cementitious Mortars: Influence of the Curing, Spraying Time Gaps and TiO2 Coating Rates“
    • Authors: Behzad Zahabizadeh, Iran Rocha Segundo, João Pereira, Elisabete Freitas, Aires Camões, Carlos J. Tavares, Vasco Teixeira, Vítor M.C.F. Cunha, Manuel F.M. Costa, Joaquim O. Carneiro
    • Published online on the 27th of August 2021 – link
22. “Design and Evaluation of Asphalt Concrete Incorporating Plastic Aggregates Fabricated Using 3D Printing Technology”
    • Authors: Aamer Nazir, Min-Chih Liao, Yan-Wei Zhu, and Usman Nazir
    • Published online on the 22nd of September 2021 – link
23. “A qualitative conceptual framework to tackle skill shortages in offsite construction industry: a scientometric approach“
    • Authors: Syed Saad , Wesam Salah Alaloul , Syed Ammad , Abdul Hannan Qureshi
    • Published online on the 20th of September 2021 – link

With kind regards,

Dr. N.S. Katsiotis

Mining & Metallurgical Engineer

PhD in Chemical Engineering

p.s.

extra points for those of us who made it here (not_2LDR :P):

European Military Additive
Manufacturing Symposium

12th and 13th October 2021 | Maritim Hotel | Bonn | Germany

(link)