{"id":5498,"date":"2025-02-07T13:35:45","date_gmt":"2025-02-07T18:35:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/cqfa.quebec\/?p=5498"},"modified":"2025-02-07T13:40:18","modified_gmt":"2025-02-07T18:40:18","slug":"minimizing-the-carbon-footprint-of-3d-printing-concrete-leveraging-parametric-lca-and-neural-networks-through-multiobjective-optimization","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cqfa.quebec\/en\/minimizing-the-carbon-footprint-of-3d-printing-concrete-leveraging-parametric-lca-and-neural-networks-through-multiobjective-optimization\/","title":{"rendered":"Minimizing the carbon footprint of 3D printing concrete: Leveraging parametric LCA and neural networks through multiobjective optimization"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>Jin, W.; Caron, J-F.; Ouellet-Plamondon, C. (2025). Minimizing the carbon footprint of 3D printing concrete: Leveraging parametric LCA and neural networks through multiobjective optimization. Cement and concrete composites, 2025, 157, 105853.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Concrete 3D printing proposes an off-site industrial process allowing to deposit material only where required. However, most mixture design methods struggle to perform, which is why a majority of 3D printing materials display high clinker contents. This study proposes a reproducible methodology for tailor-made 3D printing materials. Applied to a low-clinker quaternary blend, an iterative optimization process leads to a significant reduction of labor in material tuning. It involves life cycle assessment and artificial neural networks as objective functions in the Pareto selection of best-performing solutions. Following the constitution of an 18-mixture database with 6 independent variables and 5 objective functions, printable mortars of different strength classes are designed within 2 to 4 active learning runs. Consequently, this optimum-driven technique allows to rapidly converge toward low-carbon solutions for 3D printing, using local materials and custom characterization procedures.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p class=\"link-btn-style btn-yellow\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.sciencedirect.com\/science\/article\/pii\/S0958946524004268\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Read the publication<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Jin, W.; Caron, J-F.; Ouellet-Plamondon, C. (2025). Minimizing the carbon footprint of 3D printing concrete: Leveraging parametric LCA and neural networks through multiobjective optimization. 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