摘要: |
In recent years there has been a significant
increase in interest in additive manufacturing (AM),
yet AM is largely unexplored within
infrastructure projects, although it can provide
unprecedented new design capabilities.
The proposed project will explore AM
innovations and their capabilities related to
transportation infrastructure and as a potential
future resource to assist MassDOT Highway
Division’s ongoing rehabilitation of bridge,
tunnel, and highway structures, as well as
classic recurring maintenance activities.
The project’s main research objective will be to
connect the additive manufacturing research
community with MassDOT, to explore additive
repair techniques, as well as individual
component manufacturing for the highway
and construction sector purposes. The project
will also aim at drafting MassDOT business
process recommendations for AM
technologies. The recommendations
will focus on identifying the organizational
processes that would be needed to support
successful procurement services and resulting
quality assurance review of received AM
products that have been created using the AM
techniques. |