September 24, 2026
On 24 September 2026, Prof. Kenichi Soga, together with Jidu and Yaobin, visited Prof. Simon Schleicher’s 3D printing lab at the UC Berkeley Richmond Field Station (RFS).
During the visit, Jidu presented his latest work on material point method (MPM) modeling of fresh concrete and its application to simulating 3D concrete printing. Yaobin introduced the use of distributed fiber optic sensing in 3D concrete printing, as well as recent work on distributed shape sensing.
Prof. Schleicher then shared his research on 3D printed curved structures and curved timber structures and their applications in architecture, and showed the team the large-scale 3D concrete printer recently installed in his lab. Both groups discussed how numerical modeling, fiber optic sensing and 3D printing could be brought together, and look forward to future collaboration.
Afterwards, Prof. Soga gave Prof. Schleicher a tour of the Center for Smart Infrastructure (CSI) laboratory at RFS, introducing applications of distributed fiber optic sensing and distributed acoustic sensing in geotechnical engineering.
We sincerely thank Prof. Schleicher and Prof. Soga for making this exchange possible, and look forward to working together in the future.
