US army to 3D print concrete buildings and bridges in disaster areas

Technology 27 September 2021

By David Hambling

A 3D-printed factual building, constructed arsenic portion of the Automated Construction of Expeditionary Structures programme

US Army Research and Development Center

The US Army Corps of Engineers tin present people factual barracks, bunkers and different structures successful challenging environments. Its Automated Construction of Expeditionary Structures (ACES) programme has besides drawn up plans to make the world’s archetypal 3D-printed conveyance bridge, and prototype printers should beryllium successful the tract adjacent year.

“Our precedence was to make a capableness utilising 3D printing exertion for usage successful an expeditionary environment, specifically suited for subject purposes,” says Megan Kreiger, programme …