Building additive manufacturing - a materials evaluation

Hackney, Philip, Foster, Laurence, Viney, Adam and Kelly, Kenneth (2021) Building additive manufacturing - a materials evaluation. International Journal of Rapid Manufacturing, 10 (1). pp. 69-79. ISSN 1757-8817

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Official URL: https://doi.org/10.1504/IJRAPIDM.2021.120007

Abstract

The UK is currently in the grip of a housing crisis, a recent report from the House of Lords stated that the shortage of affordable housing in Britain could jeopardise our standards of living for future generations. This paper aims to attempts to influence the problem of housing shortage by evaluating the potential of implementing fast building additive manufacturing (BAM) as a construction process. To validate the feasibility of BAM as a building process a variety of compressive and slump tests were conducted to assess the capabilities of concrete paste as a layer-by-layer build material. A structure was fabricated to represent a fused filament fabrication (FFF)-based BAM process; the tests determined that nozzle design limitation, the flowability of concrete and resistance to slump are key material characteristics in constructing house structural elements. Furthermore, the use of recyclable natural and steel wool fibres did not contribute to mixtures compressive strength but did significantly increase its flexural strength.

Item Type: Article
Uncontrolled Keywords: Building Additive Manufacturing, Digital Construction, Lightweight Construction
Subjects: H700 Production and Manufacturing Engineering
Department: Faculties > Engineering and Environment > Mechanical and Construction Engineering
Depositing User: Elena Carlaw
Date Deposited: 17 Jun 2021 13:47
Last Modified: 22 Dec 2022 08:00
URI: https://nrl.northumbria.ac.uk/id/eprint/46476

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