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3-D Printing Under Discussion at ACI Convention

3/26/2019

Last year ACI formed a new committee to focus on the issue of 3-D printing. Committee 564: 3-D Printing with Cementitious Materials met recently at The Concrete Convention and Exposition in Quebec City, QC, Canada, March 25, 2019.

At the well-attended meeting, committee members and visitors discussed future technical committee document development, and possible convention sessions.

ACI holds second-ever #3Dprinting Committee meeting at #ACIConvention in Quebec City! https://t.co/zNi4JJirWa pic.twitter.com/nuoDW7Re5g

— AmericanConcreteInst (@ConcreteACI) March 26, 2019

The committee aims to develop publications relating to additive manufacturing with cement-based materials. Further goals include collaborating with other ACI committees to disseminate additive manufacturing information and determining ways additive manufacturing may be integrated into the concrete community; collaborating with technical organizations to facilitate and coordinate information sharing; fostering discussion on research needs and challenges preventing additive manufacturing from wide adoption in the concrete construction community; and developing guidelines to evaluate materials and technology for additive manufacturing.

Two sessions were sponsored by the committee at this convention: Challenges and Opportunities for Scaling Additively Manufactured Concrete from Lab to the Field and Concrete Aesthetics: From Historical Mortar to Architectural Concrete and Coming Advances.

Testing 3-D printed concrete for Project Milestone, an initiative with the goal of building 3-D printed houses starting in 2019 (photo courtesy of 3dprintedhouse.nl)

Learn more about ACI’s sub-sponsorship of National Aeronautics and Space Administration’s (NASA) 3-D Printed Habitat Challenge.

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