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    3D printed plastic formworks could be used to create lightweight, reusable concrete formworks for structural elements like columns, beams, and truss components. By integrating reinforcement into the 3D printed formwork designs, the resulting concrete structures could meet modern design codes. The research will investigate using optimization methods and additive manufacturing to create both proof-of-concept models and full-scale demonstrators of 3D printed, reinforced concrete structures.

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    3D printed plastic formworks could be used to create lightweight, reusable concrete formworks for structural elements like columns, beams, and truss components. By integrating reinforcement into the 3D printed formwork designs, the resulting concrete structures could meet modern design codes. The research will investigate using optimization methods and additive manufacturing to create both proof-of-concept models and full-scale demonstrators of 3D printed, reinforced concrete structures.

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    3D printed plastic formworks could be used to create lightweight, reusable concrete formworks for structural elements like columns, beams, and truss components. By integrating reinforcement into the 3D printed formwork designs, the resulting concrete structures could meet modern design codes. The research will investigate using optimization methods and additive manufacturing to create both proof-of-concept models and full-scale demonstrators of 3D printed, reinforced concrete structures.

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    3D printed plastic formworks could be used to create lightweight, reusable concrete formworks for structural elements like columns, beams, and truss components. By integrating reinforcement into the 3D printed formwork designs, the resulting concrete structures could meet modern design codes. The research will investigate using optimization methods and additive manufacturing to create both proof-of-concept models and full-scale demonstrators of 3D printed, reinforced concrete structures.

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    Consumer desktop 3D printers are able to produce inexpensive and relatively strong plastic
    additively manufactured geometries on ever-increasing print bed sizes. The additive
    manufacturing process can be exploited to produce almost any type of geometry multiple
    times using the same digital file. Although the output product size of consumer 3D printers is
    currently quite small, and uses a material that is not strong enough to be structurally feasible
    on its own in construction, it could be ideally suited to create lightweight and one-
    time/reusable concrete formwork components, potentially using a series of small inexpensive
    3D printers in a systematic and modular manner. Utilising many printers could overcome the
    relatively slow print time, which is a consequence of the current technology and its high print
    resolution.

    This project will investigate their potential use in creating linear structural elements in a
    sleeve formwork arrangement, to create 1D components such as columns, beams and the
    strut-ties of trusses, to create 2D-3D structures with high precision. By integrating structural
    reinforcement into the formwork designs, the resulting structures can be utilised on the
    construction scale, ideally with adherence to modern design codes for reinforced concrete
    design. The scaling-up for the construction industry requires many additional considerations
    such as concrete mix design, node connections and falsework design. The 3D printed material
    may be used either as a lost formwork, where it is not recovered from the structure with little
    financial consequence due to its low cost, or investigated to act as a quality surface formwork
    to produce an aesthetic concrete finish or acting also as a reusable component for subsequent
    casts. The low energy and portable nature of the formworks mean that designs can be created
    at one location and digital files sent close to the construction site for printing.

    Additive manufacturing is particularly well suited in constructing structurally optimised


    geometries, as material is deposited in layers in areas where it is required most. This creates a
    link with with using the AM formwork production process to cast structural elements with
    atypical geometries, as a means to reduce material usage and also reduce construction
    complexity. This is preferred to many other typical subtractive methods for creating concrete
    formworks that involve the cutting, milling and subsequent waste of large quantities of
    material. Complex geometries that would not be possible with even traditional and CNC
    subtractive manufacturing are possible with AM, as well as potential reduced labour aspects.
    The research will involve using optimisation methods, digital geometric modelling, additive
    manufacturing resources, with the goal of realising full-scale physical demonstrators and tests
    after the successful completion of smaller proof-of-concept models.

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