According to a team at Tsinghua University’s School of Architecture, led by professor Xu Weiguo, the world’s longest 3D-printed bridge actually has its roots in the ancient world. Their 86-foot-long, ...
Six months, 4.5 tons of steel, and 684 miles of metal cable went into the making of the first 3D-printed steel bridge. Four years ago, the designer Joris Laarman had a crazy idea for a bridge over a ...
AMHERST — A UMass Amherst and MIT team have successfully strengthened an aging bridge in Great Barrington with cutting-edge 3D printing, the university announced Thursday. The 3D-printing technique is ...
AMHERST, Mass. (WWLP) – Researchers from UMass Amherst demonstrated a 3D printing technique, called cold spray, on a bridge in Great Barrington, which could reduce the repair cost of aging bridges and ...
Large-scale 3D printing is a growing trend, with architecture benefiting a great deal from the technology. They’ve already printed perfectly habitable houses, metal bridges, and NASA’s even talking ...
Marines at Camp Pendleton, Calif. have successfully 3D-printed a reinforced concrete bridge. The feat, which took place in December, is the first time in the U.S. or the Western hemisphere that a ...
The plan to 3D-print a bridge in mid-air was always bonkers. How could a technology best known for creating flimsy prototypes and personalized action figures be used for permanent construction ...
Affordable, versatile, incredibly strong and locally available, concrete is the world’s most used manmade material. But it also has a huge carbon footprint, accounting for around 8% of global ...