Fwd: IIT-Madras & Tvasta | 3D Printing in Construction : Internship / Project Opportunity

[CEA Secretary]

Dear All, 

IIT-Madras, CEA and Tvasta (a startup by IITM Alumni) are working together on a Project in 3D Printing in Construction.

If you're interested in being a part of this project, please go through the following mail and apply.

3D Printing in Construction

3D Printing or Additive Manufacturing

3-D Printing or Additive Manufacturing is a new technology that has emerged in the past few decades that has completely changed our perspective about manufacturing. The basic principle of 3-D Printing is to construct an object layer by layer after converting it into a series of 2-D slices. 

3-D Printing has made great inroads into the Manufacturing, Medical, Aerospace and other sectors but has only now started making an impact in the Construction Industry. The idea of using 3-D Printing in the Construction Industry is to completely automate the process with minimum wastage of material and maximum efficiency. A building would be constructed layer by layer with extreme precision. 

IIT-Madras and Tvasta

IIT-Madras, Tvasta (which is a startup), the Indian Concrete Institute and Partners from the Industry have formed a Working Group to explore the possibility of using 3-D Printing for Construction in India. Tvasta is a startup that focuses on 3-D Printing was started by 4 IIT-Madras alumni.

Progress so far

We have been working on this project for quite some time now, in the Civil Dept of IIT-Madras. We have made considerable progress on 3D Printing of Concrete. We have a small test bed 3D Printer at this point of time and we have been printing with different mixes of Concrete. We have successfully 3D Printed basic shapes and we are progressing into 3D Printing a large structural module of 2m x 2m x 2.5m within a few months. We have also received support from the Industry, namely L&T, for the Project.

The Project

The Project has three aspects

1. Building a 3-D Printer that can extrude concrete 
   
• This is being done by Tvasta
  
2. Designing materials that can be used for 3-D Printed
   
• This is being done by Tvasta and IIT-Madras under Prof Manu Santhanam
  
3. Structural Analysis
• FEM Analysis
• Structural Design
  

Other Professors associated with this Project are Prof Koshy, Prof Manu Santhanam,  and Prof Saravana Kumar from Engineering Design Department. 

We are currently looking for students to work on the Material Aspect of this Project (Point no 2) and Structural Aspect (FEM Analysis - point no 3).

Students will be working under  Prof Manu along with Tvasta. Our requirement is for the students to work during the Winter Vacations. We would prefer those students who are willing to continue to work on this project during the semester as well. Students will be provided recognition for the Internship from IIT-Madras and Tvasta. This would also be credited as a CEA Project and certificates will be issued for the same.

Work during the Internship would involve:

Material Testing Team

Requirement : 3-4 Members. We encourage 2nd year B.Tech/Dual students to apply.

• Researching and Testing materials suitable for 3-D Printing
  
• Researching on aspects of 3-D Printing of Concrete
• Testing the materials with the 3-D Printer that would be made available

Structural Analysis Team

Requirement : 2-3 Members. We encourage 4th year B.Tech/Dual or M.Tech/M.S Students to apply.

• Designing a structure while considering the advantages and disadvantages of 3D Printing
• Conduct an Finite Element Analysis on the Structure to simulate its structural integrity

If you're interested in applying to be a part of this project, please fill this form here.

Examples of Work being done around the world

Have a look at these news articles on 3D Printing in the Construction Industry

• Top 3D Printing Construction Projects
• Dubai - 3D Printed Office Building
• Future of Construction
• 3D Printed Houses in China

Regards

Adithya VS

Rutwik Borkar & Anish Basavaraju

CEA Secretaries  '17 - '18

Indian Institute of Technology Madras

+91 - 9819394768 | +91- 9566087872

 

[CEA Secretary]

A gentle reminder for all interested students to apply here by tonight (14/09/17), 11.59 PM