AccelNet: 3D Concrete Printing Network (3DConcrete) - Accelerating Progress in Concrete Additive Manufacturing

混凝土是使用最广泛的建筑材料。 3D打印混凝土有可能显著提高混凝土施工的速度、安全性、效率、性能和可持续性，以应对世界未来的建筑挑战。该项目（3DConcrete）促进了全球互联和3D打印混凝土最佳实践，材料和设计标准化的国际共识，并使研究人员参与到“创新生态系统”中，以促进技术转让。 3DConcrete战略性地连接了地球仪的关键网络，以协同应对关键的研究挑战。网络的网络（NON）提供了一个分享知识，建立网络和教育下一代专业人员的机制。NON将跨越6大洲和13个国家，指导活动还将连接亚洲，欧洲，中东，澳大利亚和美洲的同事。3DConcrete将推动3D打印混凝土自动化和数字化的全球进步，并通过行业参与，促进知识转移和关键进步的实施。 NON将研究和实践网络与互补的专业知识相结合，以解决材料和结构设计，数字化施工以及编码和标准化方面的重大科学和技术挑战。广泛的协作将使信息能够在各网络之间进行综合和交流，并将能力扩展到任何单个网络的范围之外。3DConcrete将为学生和早期职业研究人员提供宝贵的机会，以进一步了解他们的知识，并成为这一新兴领域的领导者。 网络活动、研讨会、网络研讨会和交流项目将在3D打印混凝土领域培养和培育新一代具有全球竞争力的多元化研究人员和劳动力。通过国际网络到网络合作加速研究（Accelerating Research through International Network-to-Network Collaborations，简称CNET）计划旨在加速科学发现的进程，并为下一代美国研究人员进行多团队国际合作做好准备。 该计划支持美国研究网络和海外互补网络之间的战略联系，这些网络将利用研究和教育资源来应对需要重大协调国际努力的重大科学挑战。该奖项反映了NSF的法定使命，并通过使用基金会的知识价值和更广泛的影响审查标准进行评估，被认为值得支持。

Concrete is the most widely used construction material. 3D printed concrete has the potential to significantly enhance the speed, safety, efficiency, performance, and sustainability of concrete construction to meet the world’s future construction challenges. This AccelNet project (3DConcrete) fosters global interconnections and international consensus on 3D printed concrete best practices, materials and design standardization and engages researchers in an "innovation ecosystem" to facilitate technology transfer. 3DConcrete strategically links key networks around the globe to synergistically meet key research challenges. The network of networks (NON) provides a mechanism for sharing knowledge, networking, and educating the next generation of professionals. The NON will span 6 continents and 13 countries, with mentorship activities that also connect colleagues in Asia, Europe, the Middle East, Australia, and the Americas.3DConcrete will spur global advances in the automation and digitization of 3D printed concrete and, through industry participation, facilitate knowledge transfer and the implementation of key advances. The NON integrates research and practice networks with complementary expertise to address major scientific and technological challenges in materials and structural design, digital construction and codification and standardization. The broad collaborations will enable information synthesis and exchange across networks and expand capabilities beyond the purview of any individual network. 3DConcrete will provide valuable opportunities to students and early-career researchers to further their knowledge and to become leaders in this emerging field. Networking events, workshops, webinars, and exchange programs will develop and nurture a new generation of diverse and globally competitive researchers and workforce in 3D printed concrete.The Accelerating Research through International Network-to-Network Collaborations (AccelNet) program is designed to accelerate the process of scientific discovery and prepare the next generation of U.S. researchers for multiteam international collaborations. The AccelNet program supports strategic linkages among U.S. research networks and complementary networks abroad that will leverage research and educational resources to tackle grand scientific challenges that require significant coordinated international efforts. Co-funding for this project is provided by the Directorate for Engineering.This award reflects NSF's statutory mission and has been deemed worthy of support through evaluation using the Foundation's intellectual merit and broader impacts review criteria.