As Tyndall Air Power Base, Fla., turns into the ‘Set up of the Future’, following the catastrophic harm from Hurricane Michael in late 2018, a number of superior applied sciences are getting used.
Of these applied sciences, the flexibility to make use of ‘additive manufacturing’–also called ‘3D printing’–to assemble concrete buildings as a part of the rebuild. 3D printing of concrete buildings consists of a pc, software program, and a big printer ensuing within the building of a three-dimensional object.
Within the rebuild for Tyndall, the thing will likely be a constructing— however from a pc aided design (CAD) or digital 3D mannequin.
Engineers at AFIMSC’s Air Power Civil Engineer Heart are main the way in which with the analysis and growth on the potential of implementing this futuristic concrete constructing building method in future army building initiatives.
01.19.2023
Video by John Goddin
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