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To: Moltke
So what they’re actually doing is making big molds. I fail to be much impressed.

I agree. If they were 3D printing the concrete itself, I'd really be impressed.

9 posted on 02/28/2015 10:42:01 AM PST by JoeFromSidney (Book RESISTANCE TO TYRANNY, available from Amazon.)
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To: JoeFromSidney

There have been computer guided cranes doing that for decades...or at least the technology was there. A crane would pour fast drying concrete in concentric rounds ot the wall layout. One dried before the next was applied...very quick. May have been brought down by building codes, or just generally not cost effective.


10 posted on 02/28/2015 11:11:27 AM PST by gundog (Help us, Nairobi-Wan Kenobi...you're our only hope.)
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To: JoeFromSidney

I think there was an article (posted here) some time back where they actually did that - 3D concrete printing...China?

Not the whole structure/house, but main parts of it.

The only plus I see here is that molds can be produced with undercuts and the like that cannot easily be made by regular injection-molding processes.


11 posted on 02/28/2015 12:33:54 PM PST by Moltke ("The Press, Watson, is a most valuable institution if you only know how to use it.")
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