Digital Concrete 2020 Logo I will be honest. I was disappointed when TU Eindhoven decided to shift “Digital Concrete 2020” , the 2nd RILEM International Conference on Concrete and Digital Fabrication, fully online due to COVID-19. Even before the acceptance of the paper that I submitted to the conference in January, I reserved myself a room in one of the cheapest hotels close to the university, scrolled through TripAdvisor for summer travel plans, check transport to Amsterdam and Paris via Eindhoven, and had already Insta-messaged a friend who lives in Brussels for a catch-up. I was one of those selfish covidiots who was disappointed with the change of conduct medium. But the organizers made the right choice! Organizing a conference must be a hectic process, I have no idea. In Swinburne, we organized 3D Construction Printing conference in November 2018, but I was a newbie at that time and had little involvement until the very last moment. Nevertheless, shifting a conference online,
Labmates and the Bench Prototype Since the beginning of my PhD, I have been getting questions in different forms, all asking about one thing. What the heck am I doing? “Ok Arun, we get you. Concrete 3D Printing. You show us some pictures. But what do YOU do?” From a casual friend just checking on me after years to the review panel members evaluating the originality of my work, to all of them, now I have a good answer. After more than one year of work, six months of writing/editing and around six months of waiting, my first first-authored journal article was published this month. Obviously, this is a happy moment, once for the life, so let me blog it. My work on Concrete 3D Printing focuses on systematically developing Ultra-High Performance Concrete for Digital Construction purposes. Oh jargons; jargons… Let me explain Ultra-High Performance Concrete, or we call it U-H-P-C, is a new generation concrete composite with compressive strength above 150 MPa; That is around 3-4 ti