Impressive 3D-Printed Curved Concrete Shapes

A couple beautiful pictures here of large-scale 3D extrusion printing in concrete. But here’s the kicker,

…the researchers demonstrated that the strength of the printed material was approximately 95% of the strength of the conventional cast equivalent.

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  • mark ganter
    March 15, 2012 at 9:19 pm
     

    This process was invented by Dr. Behrokh Khoshnevis is already patented by USC. It is called Contour Crafting.

    The earliest publication of this work is 1997!

    Check out: contourcrafting.org

     
 

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