Shotcrete 3D Printing @ DBFL | TU Braunschweig

For over 100 years, shotcrete has been used to spray reinforcement and produce lightweight and efficient structures. This technology is supposed to be transferred with the help of a robot into a digital, formwork-free and automated fabrication process. To achieve this goal a major collaborative research project of the Universities of Braunschweig, Hanover and Clausthal is carried out. Under the direction of the ITE, researchers from the fields of material science, mechanical engineering and computer science are developing a "robot-assisted shotcrete technology for generative manufacturing of complex concrete structures without formwork". The developed robot-controlled process is called "Shotcrete 3D printing" (SC3DP).