Title:
Robustness of Digital Concrete, A Bottleneck for Scale-Up
Author(s):
Matineh Mahmoudi
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Web Session
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Date:
11/3/2024
Abstract:
Automation has become an inevitable aspect of almost every industrial sector during the past decades. However, the construction sector is still mainly relying on skilled labor for the process. Considering the enormity of this sector, there is an insistent demand for automation in construction. This is why digital fabrication of concrete has been attracting researchers and industrial parties for more investigation and investment. Digital fabrication is also promising for improving the sustainability of the sector by means of design optimization and material consumption reduction. There has been great progress in this field of science in the past few years, however, the method does not constitute a major part of the sector. This is because of the scientific limitations towards scaling up the method. One of the important deficiencies of the digital concrete technology today is the robustness issue of it. The behavior of the material which must satisfy numerous limiting factors is in turn greatly sensitive to possible variations. The variations include variations in the type and dosage of the incoming material and/or environmental conditions such as temperature variations. In this work we examine some of these critical aspects in digital concrete for a 2-component (2K) rapid vertical buildrate system.