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The Giant 3D Printer That Could Create a House in 24 Hours

2014-12-18ByMaryHelen

英语学习(上半月) 2014年12期
关键词:繁华都市水暖固定装置

By Mary Helen

Scaled up1. scale up: 按比例放大。3D printing technology could be used to build a house in under 24 hours, according to an engineer from the University of Southern California.

Contour Crafting is a layered fabrication technology that uses a huge moveable gantry to build a house in the same way that a 3D printer deposits layers of plastic.2. 轮廓工艺是一种分层的制造工艺,它运用一个巨大的移动式起重机建造一所房子,就如同3D打印机打印塑料层一样。contour crafting: 轮廓工艺,是一种大尺度的建造过程,目标是实现整个结构和附属构件的自动化建造,可以对每个建筑进行定制设计,并实现复杂的曲线,对于应急住房和低收入住房建设非常有意义;gantry: 起重机架;deposit: 放置。

Professor Behrokh Khoshnevis claims that his Contour Crafting construction method can build entire houses with all the fixtures and fittings3. fixtures and fittings: 固定装置。.

Strong walls are built up layer by layer using concrete with automatic reinforcement, while plumbing and electrics are also added by the system during the building process.4. 牢固的墙体由混凝土逐层建造并自动加固,在这一过程中,水暖管道和电气系统也由系统默认建造。concrete: 混凝土;plumbing: 水暖装置;electrics:电气系统。

The nature of the technology means it will also be possible to create curved5. curved: 弧形的,弯曲的。walls and architecture that is both “exotic” and “beautiful”, according to Khoshnevis.

身处繁华都市,最想要的就是一个温暖的家。而现在,因为3D打印机,物美价廉的3D房子即将到来。当有一天你住在自己打印的房子里,周围是你自制的墙面、家具、装饰品等等,那是怎样一种感觉呢?而这个3D打印的房子又是如何实现的呢?美国研发的一种3D打印技术,可以在一天之内打印出232平方米的房子。

Khoshnevis says current construction methods are slow, labour intensive6. labour intensive: 劳动密集型的。and costly.

He believes that Contour Crafting could build houses for a fraction of7. a fraction of: 一小部分。the cost and in significantly less time.

Khoshnevis says that a 2,500-square-foot house can be built in approximately 20 hours with Contour Crafting.

As a result, it could be ideal for emergency housing, commercial or low-income structures.

However, it could also be used to print out customized8. customized: 定制的,按特别订货生产的。luxury homes, according to Khoshnevis.

Furthermore, he believes that the technology could be applied beyond our planet.

“Contour Crafting technology has the potential to build safe, reliable, and affordable lunar and Martian structures,habitats,9. lunar: 月球的;Martian: 火星的;habitat: 栖息地。laboratories, and other facilities before the arrival of human beings,” his website reads.

The technology has been developed over several years and was presented at the TED conference in February 2014.

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