{"id":8108,"date":"2023-04-09T11:57:53","date_gmt":"2023-04-09T06:27:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/?p=8108"},"modified":"2025-03-29T00:54:05","modified_gmt":"2025-03-28T19:24:05","slug":"indias-first-3d-printed-post-office","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/indias-first-3d-printed-post-office\/","title":{"rendered":"India\u2019s First 3D-printed Post Office"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2><strong>About 3D-printed Post Office:<\/strong><\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Location<\/strong>: Cambridge Layout in Ulsoor, <strong>Bangalore<\/strong>.<\/li>\n<li>It is being <strong>implemented by Larsen &amp; Toubro,<\/strong> which has experience in constructing 3D-printed buildings.<\/li>\n<li>It is a <strong>1,100 sqft building<\/strong> which is expected to <strong>cost 30-40 per cent less than conventional buildings <\/strong>because of the technological intervention.<\/li>\n<li>It is being built at a <strong>cost of Rs 23 lakh.<\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h3>What is 3D-printing?<\/h3>\n<ul>\n<li>3D printing or <strong>additive manufacturing <\/strong>is a process of <strong>making three-dimensional solid objects from a digital file.<\/strong><\/li>\n<li>The creation of a 3D printed object is a<strong>chieved using additive processes.\u00a0<\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong>In an additive process, an object is created by laying down successive layers of material <\/strong>until the object is created. Each of these layers can be seen as a thinly sliced cross-section of the object.<\/li>\n<li>3D printing <strong>enables you to produce complex shapes<\/strong> using less material than traditional manufacturing methods.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<h3>\u00a0<\/h3>\n<hr \/>\n<h3>Q1)\u00a0What is additive manufacturing?<\/h3>\n<p>Additive manufacturing (AM) or additive layer manufacturing (ALM) is the industrial production name for 3D printing, a computer controlled process that creates three dimensional objects by depositing materials, usually in layers.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Source:<\/strong>\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/indianexpress.com\/article\/cities\/bangalore\/bengaluru-to-get-first-post-office-building-3d-printing-technology-8545837\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\"><u>Country\u2019s first 3D-printed post office coming up in Bengaluru<\/u><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>India\u2019s first 3D-printed post office will come up in Cambridge Layout in Ulsoor, Bangalore.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":8109,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-8108","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-upsc-prelims-current-affairs","8":"no-featured-image-padding"},"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8108","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8108"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8108\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/8109"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8108"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8108"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8108"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}