Shimizu Construction Co.
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, a Japanese construction engineering and design company founded in 1804, has developed a spray type 3D concrete printing system specifically designed for the construction of large-sized curved reinforced components.
This system integrates a nine degree of freedom gantry robot and a material spraying simulation system, which can pre verify the forming characteristics of sprayed materials.
This technical solution can achieve high-precision automated production of reinforced structural components and large components with complex geometric shapes, which is difficult to achieve with traditional material extrusion 3D printing technology.
The material injection simulation system carried by the system is jointly developed by Shimizu Construction and the Computational Engineering and Robotics Laboratory (CERLAB) led by Professor Kenji Shimada from the Department of Mechanical Engineering at Carnegie Mellon University.
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