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Design and fabrication of optimised ribbed concrete floor slabs using large scale 3D printed formwork

Publicated to: AUTOMATION IN CONSTRUCTION. 144 104599- - 2022-01-01 144(), DOI: 10.1016/j.autcon.2022.104599

Authors:

Burger, Joris ; Huber, Tobias; Lloret-Fritschi, Ena; Mata Falcon, Jaime; Gramazio, Fabio; Kohler, Matthias
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Affiliations

Swiss Fed Inst Technol, Inst Bldg Mat, Stefano Franscini Pl 3, CH-8093 Zurich, Switzerland - Author
Swiss Fed Inst Technol, Inst Struct Engn, Stefano Franscini Pl 5, CH-8093 Zurich, Switzerland - Author
Swiss Fed Inst Technol, Inst Technol Architecture, Stefano Franscini Pl 1, CH-8093 Zurich, Switzerland - Author
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Abstract

This paper describes the design, fabrication, and testing process of an optimised, reinforced concrete ribbed floor slab fabricated using robotically 3D printed formwork. The design of the floor slab is based on the alignment of ribs along the trajectories of the principal bending moments. A workflow is described that generates a rib layout based on structural analysis, which is used to create a three-dimensional model of the slab. A full-scale prototype is fabricated by using an industrial robotic arm with a pellet extruder mounted as an end effector to 3D print the formwork. Reinforcement is inserted and the formwork is cast using self-compacting concrete. The successful design, fabrication, and structural testing of the full-scale floor slab prototype showed that the described workflow is suitable for realizing material-optimised, ribbed reinforced concrete floor slabs using 3D printed formwork.
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Keywords

3d printingDigital concreteFormworkOptimisatioOptimisationRibbed floor slab

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Bibliometric impact. Analysis of the contribution and dissemination channel

The work has been published in the journal AUTOMATION IN CONSTRUCTION due to its progression and the good impact it has achieved in recent years, according to the agency WoS (JCR), it has become a reference in its field. In the year of publication of the work, 2022, it was in position 2/139, thus managing to position itself as a Q1 (Primer Cuartil), in the category Engineering, Civil. Notably, the journal is positioned above the 90th percentile.

From a relative perspective, and based on the normalized impact indicator calculated from World Citations provided by WoS (ESI, Clarivate), it yields a value for the citation normalization relative to the expected citation rate of: 2.38. This indicates that, compared to works in the same discipline and in the same year of publication, it ranks as a work cited above average. (source consulted: ESI Nov 13, 2025)

Specifically, and according to different indexing agencies, this work has accumulated citations as of 2026-04-02, the following number of citations:

  • WoS: 31
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Impact and social visibility

From the perspective of influence or social adoption, and based on metrics associated with mentions and interactions provided by agencies specializing in calculating the so-called "Alternative or Social Metrics," we can highlight as of 2026-04-02:

  • The use, from an academic perspective evidenced by the Altmetric agency indicator referring to aggregations made by the personal bibliographic manager Mendeley, gives us a total of: 112.
  • The use of this contribution in bookmarks, code forks, additions to favorite lists for recurrent reading, as well as general views, indicates that someone is using the publication as a basis for their current work. This may be a notable indicator of future more formal and academic citations. This claim is supported by the result of the "Capture" indicator, which yields a total of: 106 (PlumX).
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Leadership analysis of institutional authors

This work has been carried out with international collaboration, specifically with researchers from: Switzerland.

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