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Hardened properties of high-performance printing concrete

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posted on 2012-11-15, 11:26 authored by Thanh T. Le, Simon Austin, Sungwoo Lim, Richard BuswellRichard Buswell, R. Law, Alistair Gibb, Tony ThorpeTony Thorpe
This paper presents the hardened properties of a high-performance fibre-reinforced fine-aggregate concrete extruded through a 9 mm diameter nozzle to build layer-by-layer structural components in a printing process. The printing process is a digitally controlled additive method capable of manufacturing architectural and structural components without formwork, unlike conventional concrete construction methods. The effects of the layering process on density, compressive strength, flexural strength, tensile bond strength and drying shrinkage are presented together with the implication for mix proportions. A control concrete (mould-cast specimens) had a density of approximately 2250 kg/m3, high strength (107 MPa in compression, 11 MPa in flexure) and 3 MPa in direct tension, together with a relatively low drying shrinkage of 175 μm (cured in water) and 855 μm (cured in a chamber at 20 °C and 60% relative humidity) at 184 days. In contrast well printed concrete had a density of 2350 kg/m3, compressive strength of 75–102 MPa, flexural strength of 6–17 MPa depending on testing direction, and tensile bond strength between layers varying from 2.3 to 0.7 MPa, reducing as the printing time gap between layers increased. The well printed concrete had significantly fewer voids greater than 0.2 mm diameter (1.0%) when compared with the mould-cast control (3.8%), whilst samples of poorly printed material had more voids (4.8%) mainly formed in the interstices between filaments. The additive extrusion process was thus shown to retain the intrinsic high performance of the material.

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School

  • Architecture, Building and Civil Engineering

Citation

LE, T.T. ... et al., 2012. Hardened properties of high-performance printing concrete. Cement and Concrete Research, 42 (3), pp. 558 - 566.

Publisher

© Elsevier Ltd.

Version

  • AM (Accepted Manuscript)

Publication date

2012

Notes

This article was published in the journal, Cement and Concrete Research [© Elsevier Ltd.] and the definitive version is available at: http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.cemconres.2011.12.003

ISSN

0008-8846

Language

  • en