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About
Inka Mai is a pioneering researcher at the forefront of digital fabrication and additive manufacturing in construction, with a primary focus on Shotcrete 3D Printing (SC3DP) and robotic concrete deposition. Her work fundamentally addresses the challenge of integrating material behavior, process parameters, and automated robotic control to produce structurally sound concrete components without traditional formwork. Mai’s most influential paper, "Modelling the influence of material and process parameters on Shotcrete 3D Printed strands" (2022, 34 citations), provides a critical framework for cross-section adjustment in automatic robotic manufacturing, directly enabling higher interlayer strength and application flexibility. She further advanced the field with the "Robotic knitcrete" project (2023, 17 citations), which successfully demonstrated the computational design and fabrication of a pedestrian bridge using robotic shotcrete applied onto a 3D-knitted formwork—a landmark achievement in complex concrete shell structures. Her most recent work (2025, 5 citations) extends her expertise into Injection 3D Concrete Printing, introducing a constraint-based form-finding approach using Vector-based Graphic Statics. With a growing citation impact and a portfolio that bridges computational design, robotics, and material science, Mai is establishing herself as a key innovator in sustainable, formwork-free concrete construction.
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