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Title: | The Science behind printing a 3D building in construction |
Authors: | Ghaffar, SH |
Issue Date: | 23-Jun-2018 |
Publisher: | The Independent |
Citation: | The Independent, 23 June 2018 ( pp.) |
Abstract: | It’s often claimed that 3D printing – known in the trade as “additive manufacturing” – will change the way we live. Most recently, a team from Eindhoven University of Technology announced plans to build the “world’s first” habitable 3D printed houses. But it’s one thing to build small, prototype homes in a park – it’s quite another to successfully use additive manufacturing for large scale projects in the construction sector. Additive manufacturing uses a combination of materials science, architecture and design, computation and robotics. Yet in some ways, it’s not as futuristic as it sounds. The simple approach of layer-wise construction – where building materials are layered on top of each other to create a facade – has already been practised for a long time in the construction sector, for example in conventional brick layering techniques. |
URI: | http://bura.brunel.ac.uk/handle/2438/21417 |
Appears in Collections: | Dept of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering Embargoed Research Papers |
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