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Open3DCP: A Public Data Schema for 3D Concrete Printing

Recording composition, process, test context and provenance

Nicholas Sonnentag · Sunnyday Technologies, Wisconsin, USA

15 September 2026 · Manuscript v1.2 · Not peer reviewed

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Sunnyday Technologies, Wisconsin, USA
ORCID: 0009-0002-1897-384X

Manuscript v1.2: preprint. Not peer reviewed.
Technical target: Open3DCP schema v1.8 draft, commit fa5fdd5 (15 September 2026 snapshot).
Original publication: 14 May 2026. Retained v1.0: 10 June 2026; v1.1: 30 July 2026. Revision: 15 September 2026.

Abstract

Concrete test data need more than a strength value and a mix name. A useful record also identifies the material, reporting basis, production conditions, specimen and test. Open3DCP provides a public, flat column vocabulary with companion tables for extrusion-based 3D concrete printing. The v1.8 draft contains 279 data columns in its main table, excluding the primary key. This revision explains the additions for commercial premix identity, EN cement designations and aggregate size fractions. It shows how to retain source quantities in kg/m³ while deriving mass-percent values under stated accounting conditions. A read-only audit examines 71 retained example rows from five heterogeneous sources. These are conversion examples and aggregates, not 71 independent experiments or a validated training corpus. The audit reproduces a mass-basis round trip and identifies incompatible grouping in the earlier RILEM extraction; the previous quantitative anisotropy conclusion is withdrawn. Common fields can make reporting and checking easier, but do not establish experimental comparability, physical performance or code compliance. The contribution is a documented reporting method and an inspectable account of what conversion preserves, changes and leaves unresolved.

1. What must survive when a result becomes a row?

The first row in the retained UCI example contains 500 kg/m³ of cement and a compressive strength of 12.64 MPa at one day. It does not identify the cement as ASTM C150 Type I. A conversion that places this quantity in cement_type_1 adds a classification the source did not give. The corrected representation uses cement_unspecified, keeps the mass basis, and leaves the cement classification unresolved [1, 2].

This small example captures the paper’s central question: what must a reporting format keep so that the next reader can understand and check a result? A number may survive copying while its meaning changes. Kilograms per cubic metre can become percent of binder; a supplier strength class can become a measured concrete strength; a group mean can become an apparent specimen result. Each error can produce a plausible-looking table.

Extrusion printing adds further context. Pumping, deposition, layer timing and curing affect the state of the material being tested. Rheological requirements and interlayer behaviour have established research literatures [3–5]. Recording these conditions is useful even when the intended analysis uses only a few of them. Their presence does not make unlike tests comparable; it helps a reader identify the differences before combining results.

Open3DCP is a schema specification, maintained as a column reference, SQL definition and supporting mappings [1]. It is not a specimen database service. The repository includes small licensed conversion examples, but those examples do not make the specification a research dataset. The format requires no particular printer, supplier, formulation engine or commercial software. Researchers can use the relevant columns in ordinary tabular tools and retain detailed source records alongside them.

This paper makes three contributions: it explains the consequential recording choices; documents the maintained v1.8 changes against the v1.7.5 snapshot described in manuscript v1.1; and checks the retained examples closely enough to distinguish successful arithmetic from unsupported interpretation. No new mix was produced, no model was trained, and no construction performance was qualified for this revision.

1.1 Scope and version boundary

The maintained project scope is extrusion-based 3D concrete printing and hydraulic cementitious systems, including Portland and blended cements, calcium-aluminate and calcium-sulfoaluminate cements, and high-calcium alkali-activated slag. Low-calcium fly-ash geopolymer systems and particle-bed, binder-jetting, spray and slip-form processes remain outside the project’s stated scope [1]. This is a scope decision, not a claim that those materials or processes cannot be represented digitally. The existing activator fields do not establish complete coverage of every alkali-activated chemistry.

The word standard in the project name identifies an open reporting proposal. Open3DCP is not endorsed or certified by ASTM, CEN, ACI, ICC, ISO or RILEM. Referenced standards govern their own material definitions and test procedures. The schema stores descriptions and results; it does not replace the underlying procedures or professional decisions.

Schema and manuscript versions are separate. This manuscript is a v1.2 preprint revision. Its technical target is the maintained v1.8 draft at the full commit identified in Appendix A. The changelog labels that schema increment 1.8.0. Public availability of the draft does not imply formal ratification or a matching Zenodo deposit. The concept DOI identifies the schema series, not this manuscript.

2. A source record before and after conversion

Table 1 uses the first data row in the frozen UCI excerpt. Row numbers here exclude the CSV header and identify this excerpt, not a claimed original UCI specimen identifier. The source supplies seven constituent masses, age and strength. It supplies neither a cement standard designation nor aggregate grading. The conversion should not infer these properties from what is common in concrete practice.

Source-to-field example. Quantities in the first column are source values; the constituent fields store the mass-percent projection, calculated in Section 4.1. The schema count is not a requirement to fill every field.

Source statement	Recorded representation	Information still missing
Cement: 500 kg/m³	cement_unspecified; preserve source mass and basis	ASTM/EN type and supplier designation
Fine aggregate: 613 kg/m³	fine_agg_unspecified	Fineness modulus and grading
Coarse aggregate: 1125 kg/m³	coarse_agg_unspecified	Size designation and grading
Water: 200 kg/m³	water, projected on the declared wet-mass basis	Aggregate moisture correction, if any
Slag, fly ash and superplasticizer: zero	Explicit zeros in those fields	No positive dosage inferred
Strength: 12.64 MPa at one day	Strength and age retained separately	Specimen geometry and detailed test procedure

The generic constituent fields were already implemented in v1.7.5. They are not new v1.8 additions. Their purpose is to keep a stated quantity without inventing a more specific class. Similarly, admixture_basis=as_delivered records the basis of a delivered product when its solids fraction is unknown. A missing solids fraction must not be silently replaced by an assumed percentage.

NULL means the value is unavailable for the record. It can mean unreported, unknown, unmeasured or inapplicable. These reasons are not identical, and the single null value does not encode their distinction. When the reason matters, record it in the provenance notes or a linked curation record. Zero is appropriate only when the source reports zero or absence. Blank constituent cells in a proprietary premix do not mean the product contains none of those constituents.

The distinction between unspecified and other is also deliberate. cement_unspecified is for an unknown type. In v1.8, cement_other is for a stated type that has no dedicated quantity column; its exact designation belongs in cement_designation. A curator should not turn a known but unsupported designation into an unknown one merely to fit the vocabulary.

3. What one Open3DCP record represents

3.1 A flat core with linked detail

The SQL implementation calls its main table mix_designs. It has an internal id, a unique required mix_id, a required name, optional parent and batch labels, and fields for composition, process, tests, properties and provenance. Its practical core is a formulation-centred record with selected context and scalar results. It is not a fully normalized specimen, event and test database [1].

This matters because the examples have different row meanings. UCI rows describe mix-and-age observations. Meta rows describe reported mix-and-age summaries. RILEM rows are aggregates assembled by an extraction script. The UF excerpt carries selected age-specific results from literature records. The buildings example describes projects. They must not all be described as one specimen per row.

For an analytical export, the curator needs to state what each row represents and preserve a source key. If several tests or batches share a formulation, their relationship must remain available in the source tables or an explicit sidecar. A parent_mix_id can document a variant relationship, but in the frozen DDL it is text, not an enforced foreign key. Likewise, batch_label identifies a local batch context; it is not a normalized batch table.

3.2 Companion-table limits

The maintained DDL creates strength_measurements, sources, test_methods, curing_regimes and standard_test_ages in addition to mix_designs. The first of these references mix_designs(id) through formulation_id. It also imposes UNIQUE(formulation_id, test_age_days). This is useful for one age-series record per formulation and age, but cannot separately hold every replicate, orientation and test method at the same age under that same key.

Consequently, the companion table does not solve all specimen-level relationships. A claim that the format preserves the full experimental chain without joins is too strong. The schema can hold selected values and references; detailed geometry, print events, replicate identities, test histories and files may still need their original relational representation. This paper documents that boundary rather than changing the schema to resolve it.

The example CSVs also lack the required SQL identity columns. They are partial tabular excerpts, not ready-to-insert database instances. The buildings file includes ten project columns outside the main vocabulary; UF adds source_dataset. Their descriptive value remains, but their filenames do not establish strict conformance to the canonical main table. The companion audit lists these fields explicitly.

3.3 Measured, derived and aggregated values

A source measurement, a unit conversion, a calculated ratio and a group mean are different operations. A row-level measurement_confidence flag is too coarse to explain all of them in a mixed record. Use the source reference and curation ledger to identify which values were reported, converted or aggregated, and retain the input values for derived quantities.

A standard deviation needs its definition, sample count and grouping rule. Population standard deviation uses a divisor of $n$; sample standard deviation uses $n-1$. Neither is automatically a standard error, and neither resolves dependence among specimens from one print or batch. The old RILEM excerpt stored calculated group summaries while labelling the record measured. That label did not describe the extraction sufficiently.

4. Recording quantities without changing their meaning

4.1 The mass-basis bridge

The maintained contract treats source kg/m³ as the primary practical reporting basis and stores constituent columns as mass-percent of total wet mix. original_basis identifies the incoming basis. total_batched_mass_kg_m3 is the sum used in the projection, while total_binder_kg_m3 retains the cementitious total for binder-relative calculations. The batched-mass total is not a measured fresh density.

Let $m_i$ be the reported mass of constituent $i$ on the common kg/m³ basis, and let $M=\sum_i m_i$. For a complete, consistently accounted inventory with $M>0$,

$$p_i=100\frac{m_i}{M},\qquad m_i=\frac{p_iM}{100}. \tag{1}$$

No measured density enters these equations. They preserve the reported proportional basis even if the source’s design quantities do not demonstrably yield exactly one physical cubic metre. A yield discrepancy is still a discrepancy and must travel with any per-volume interpretation.

For the UCI row in Section 2, $M=500+200+1125+613=2438$ kg/m³ and the reported binder total is 500 kg/m³. Table 2 shows the calculation. The display rounds percentages to four decimal places; the evidence file retains the full stored values.

A worked round trip on a real retained row. Display rounding explains the small differences. The full-precision reconstruction is checked separately.

Constituent	Source kg/m³	Mass-percent	Recovered kg/m³ from displayed percent
Unspecified cement	500.0	20.5086	499.999668
Water	200.0	8.2034	199.998892
Unspecified coarse aggregate	1125.0	46.1444	1125.000472
Unspecified fine aggregate	613.0	25.1436	613.000968
Slag, fly ash, superplasticizer	0.0 each	0.0000 each	0.000000 each

The read-only check reconstructs all 98 constituent cells in the 14-row UCI excerpt from the stored percentages and batch totals. The largest floating-point difference is $2.28\times10^{-13}$ kg/m³, rounded upward. Rounding all percentages to four decimal places increases the largest error across that excerpt to about 0.00123 kg/m³. These are arithmetic checks on the stated inventory, not uncertainty estimates for the underlying measurements.

The conditions are essential. Include each constituent once, on a consistent wet/as-delivered or solids-plus-carrier basis. Do not count a solution both as a whole and as its separated components. Do not normalize a partially reported inventory and call it total-mix composition. Preserve the source precision and document any conversion input. A volume dosage needs the appropriate density to become mass; a mass inventory already reported on a common basis does not.

4.2 Ratios, water and admixtures

Absolute binder dosage is necessary to recover kg/m³ from binder-relative ratios, but is not necessary to recover mass fractions from a complete set of mass ratios. If $r_i=m_i/B$ for a common binder reference $B$, then

$$p_i=100\frac{r_i}{\sum_j r_j}. \tag{2}$$

The scale $B$ cancels. Ratios expressed as percent of binder first require division by 100. A binder total must not be counted again alongside all of its component ratios. This corrects the earlier paper’s explanation of the UF example. Section 6 describes the remaining source-specific ambiguities; the revision does not fabricate missing quantities to complete that inventory.

The water-to-binder ratio also needs an accounting definition. The maintained convention uses the recorded water column relative to cementitious material. Carrier water inside an as-delivered admixture is not automatically added. Thus a computed w_b_ratio may differ from an effective-water ratio that includes aggregate moisture, absorption or admixture carrier water. Keep the stated ratio and its definition visible when those inputs are unavailable. Do not use a dry-product bulk density as a substitute for wet-mix density or batch yield.

4.3 Units and conversion checks

Strength columns use MPa, elastic modulus uses GPa, and rheological stresses use Pa. A column name helps the reader, but does not prevent incorrect input. The v1.8 crosswalk/units.csv records units, quantity kinds and conversion factors for a consistent mm–N–tonne–second finite-element unit system. For example, MPa equals N/mm², while kg/m³ converts to tonne/mm³ by multiplying by $10^{-12}$ [1].

This file is a unit mapping, not a finite-element material model. A blank factor must not be treated as one. In particular, cement_strength_class_mpa is a classification and deliberately has no physical stress conversion. Export still needs a choice of constitutive model, applicable test data and engineering interpretation. The existence of a unit manifest does not establish a validated solver integration.

5. What changed in the maintained v1.8 draft?

The frozen SQL comparison finds 31 added main-table fields and no removed fields. Excluding id, the count rises from 248 to 279. Including it, the counts are 249 and 280. The previous categorical growth figures are replaced by this direct comparison; no claim that schema growth has stabilized is retained. Appendix A groups the additions, and the evidence package lists every column and SQL definition.

5.1 Commercial premix identity

Six fields record is_premixed, supplier, product_name, supplier_batch_number, production_date and bulk_density_kg_m3. They allow a record to identify a purchased material even when its constituent recipe is proprietary. supplier_batch_number is the supplier’s lot; batch_label remains the user’s local repeat-batch identifier. production_date concerns manufacture of the supplied material, while date_of_casting concerns the concrete batch and curing clock.

Product and lot identity improve traceability. They do not, by themselves, make a print reproducible. Water addition, storage condition, mixing, process settings, curing and test context still matter. An undisclosed recipe can remain unknown while the available product evidence is recorded accurately. The revised paper therefore does not repeat the changelog’s stronger suggestion that these fields fully determine reproducibility.

5.2 Cement designations must remain distinct

The v1.8 draft introduces 18 EN cement quantity columns. Four keep the limestone distinctions explicit: cem_ii_a_l, cem_ii_a_ll, cem_ii_b_l and cem_ii_b_ll. They must not collapse into cement_type_1l. In v1.8, cement_type_1l means ASTM C595 Type IL only. Type IL is written with a capital I and L in the standard designation; the existing schema identifier uses the digit 1 [1, 6].

Preserve the exact source designation in cement_designation. cement_standard identifies its designation system. The numeric supplier class belongs in cement_strength_class_mpa. The L, N or R designation belongs in cement_early_strength_class. A designation such as CEM I 42.5 R is a cement classification, not a measured 42.5 MPa result for the printed mix. Nor does R alone quantify the open time or buildability of a formulation. These fields should not be derived from concrete strength tests.

The new cement_other field retains a stated hydraulic-cement type outside the dedicated columns. Together, a quantity field, verbatim designation and designation system are more informative than either a forced ASTM approximation or an isolated free-text note. They remain a record of the source claim: entering a standard designation does not prove that a material satisfies that standard.

5.3 Aggregate size fractions

agg_fraction_d_lower_mm and agg_fraction_d_upper_mm retain the lower and upper sizes of a stated aggregate fraction when that is the information available. These fields complement the existing fineness-modulus approach. A size interval alone does not determine the sieve distribution and cannot yield a fineness modulus. Neither a size interval nor fineness modulus alone certifies aggregate grading compliance.

The paper’s former statement that 3DCP uses only fine aggregate is withdrawn. Equipment and application constrain aggregate selection; the schema already includes coarse-aggregate fields. The useful reporting principle is to preserve the grading evidence actually supplied, without inventing a distribution to populate a preferred field.

5.4 Compatibility and extensions

The DDL additions are structurally additive, but the cement mapping requires semantic care. Pre-v1.8 cement_type_1l rows may mean ASTM Type IL or EN CEM II/A-L under the former dual mapping. An old header alone cannot distinguish them. Retain the old schema version and inspect the source designation before reclassification. This manuscript does not migrate any records.

The maintained draft reserves x_ for documented site-specific extension columns. That reservation does not turn such fields into canonical Open3DCP columns. Gaps should be proposed upstream with their type, unit, reporting basis, range and primary technical reference. A local export or a paper revision must not silently redesign the shared schema.

5.5 The existing material and test vocabulary

The additions sit within a broader reporting vocabulary. The binder and supplementary-material fields distinguish stated material families; aggregate, fiber, admixture, pigment and activator fields retain quantities alongside descriptors. These are separate ingredients and attributes, not a claim that all fields should be used together. A purchased blended cement should not be counted once as a cement and again as inferred clinker and additions unless a clearly documented decomposition replaces the original quantity.

Fiber dosage and geometry are recorded separately. fiber_length_mm, fiber_diameter_mm and fiber_aspect_ratio describe different attributes; calculating their ratio requires compatible units and a meaningful common fiber population. A single length or diameter cannot describe a multimodal fiber mixture. The scalar summary should therefore retain its population definition in the source context, with distributions kept externally where available.

Fresh-state fields include static and dynamic yield stress, plastic viscosity, structuration rate, spread, setting times and other workability measurements. These quantities are not interchangeable tests of printability. A recorded static_yield_stress_pa requires the measurement time, apparatus and loading history to be interpretable. structuration_rate_pa_per_s records a rate, not a yield stress. rheology_curve_file can point to the underlying curve, while a scalar field carries the reported summary [1, 3].

Process fields cover print speed, nozzle geometry, layer dimensions, extrusion rate, mixing and pumping. In particular, layer_time_gap_s denotes a local interval between layers at a point. A total job duration or travel time for a whole object is not automatically that interval. A single nominal value is useful only with a statement of the print schedule it summarizes. The original machine log can retain variation that the scalar field omits.

Mechanical fields include compressive, tensile, flexural and bond strengths, modulus, toughness and related quantities. interlayer_bond_mpa and interlayer_shear_mpa are dedicated interface fields; a general bond result must not be relabelled interlayer merely because the specimen was printed. Test method, specimen preparation, orientation and failure location still determine the meaning of the result. The available uncertainty fields support selected summaries, not a complete uncertainty budget for every column.

The durability and thermal vocabulary goes beyond strength. The charge result is recorded in chloride_rcpt_coulombs. The chloride migration and diffusion fields represent coefficients. Their numerical values must not be interchanged or combined under a generic chloride-resistance label. Exposure descriptions and test-method references help identify the intended interpretation; they do not convert an accelerated test into an established service-life prediction [1].

Finally, raw_data_doi, stress_strain_file, microstructure_image and raw_data_file preserve references to larger evidence. A resolvable file, its units, license and sample linkage remain the depositor’s responsibility. A filename alone cannot reconstruct the acquisition method. These existing fields support the composition-process-condition-property-provenance chain while keeping its incomplete parts visible.

6. What the five retained examples demonstrate

6.1 Scope of the evidence

The frozen examples contain 71 rows: 14 UCI, 28 Meta, 9 RILEM, 10 UF and 10 buildings. Selection was purposive, not random. The sources exercise different reporting situations and have different observational units. A row count is therefore a description of the artifacts, not a sample size for a pooled scientific conclusion.

Evidence coverage. These excerpts do not establish adoption at scale, predictive performance or physical validation. Dataset-level attribution is retained in each example’s source and notice files.

Source	Retained rows	Selection and row meaning	Demonstrated use and limit
UCI/Yeh [2]	14	Curated mix-and-age rows spanning composition and age	Mass projection; cement and grading remain unspecified
Meta SustainableConcrete [7]	28	Six selected mixes across reported ages	Quantity, strength-summary and GWP fields; no printing evidence
RILEM ILS-mech [8]	9	Selected aggregates for mixes 01_a, 13_a, 19_a	Source linkage and grouping audit; earlier effect claim withdrawn
UF mix-design compilation [9]	10	Selected literature rows with rheology, w/b and strength	Unit conversion and source context; ratio accounting unresolved
Buildings catalogue [10]	10	Fixed project IDs across selected buildings	Project metadata; ten project columns are outside the main schema

The UCI source has nine numeric columns. The retained Meta input adds uncertainty summaries and GWP values. Those are distinct data attributes, not evidence that the two sources use interchangeable tests. The buildings script selects source IDs 12, 18, 20, 45, 47, 50, 63, 64, 67 and 58; it does not extract material performance. The earlier surveyed UHPC coded matrix remains excluded from the demonstration because its usable mapping was not established. No new assessment of that source’s access conditions is claimed here.

6.2 RILEM: the earlier grouping does mix incompatible contexts

The previous paper reported flexural reductions of 32–55% relative to cast reference groups. The review initially established missing safeguards in the extraction code, not actual contamination. The present read-only audit goes further: it inspects the original SQLite export and matches the nine retained rows to their raw aggregate means and counts.

The legacy query selects three mix-name prefixes, accepts numeric strengths at ages 20–40 days, and groups by compound orientation. It does not separate test method, scale or default/deviating conditions. The raw data confirm these distinctions are present inside the selected groups. For example, the 01_a cast group includes both three- and four-point bending and both mortar- and concrete-scale specimens. The 01_a U.W group includes both bending methods, ages 28 and 29 days, and DEFAULT plus DEV1 conditions. The corresponding 13_a U.W group includes DEFAULT, DEV1 and DEV2. The 19_a cast and U.W groups also combine bending methods.

These are observations about the audited extraction, not a criticism of the RILEM experiment. Its study plan explicitly distinguishes these cases. The primary analysis separates test type, scale and process condition, and applies its own age and outlier criteria [11, 12]. The old excerpt did not reproduce that analysis.

All nine retained means and counts match raw legacy aggregates to their published precision. That confirms where the numbers came from; it does not validate the comparisons. Moreover, the current legacy script would enumerate 12 orientation groups from this database, while only nine are retained. The omitted groups are 01_a V.U, 13_a W.U and 19_a W.U. No documented selection rationale for those omissions was found in the inspected script and source note.

The 32–55% conclusion and its error interpretation are withdrawn from the abstract, results and figure. This revision does not substitute a new effect estimate. A defensible reanalysis would need source-linked print and batch identities, matched methods and scales, explicit age and condition rules, and an uncertainty treatment that respects clustering. The accompanying inclusion ledger preserves the individual source codes and context so that this work can be reviewed independently.

6.3 Orientation needs the full test geometry

The old mapping used the first part of compound RILEM codes to create X/Y/Z labels. That projection is insufficient for flexure. Force direction, beam axis and tensile-stress direction are different geometric quantities. The original compound code must remain available in source-linked notes or a sidecar even when a simpler analytical field is also used.

The revised paper removes the earlier highest/moderate/lowest strength table. A source-defined coordinate system and test diagram are more useful than a universal ranking. Keep CAST as the recorded reference preparation; do not treat it as proof that all cast specimens are isotropic or that every cast and printed pair is otherwise matched.

6.4 UF: correct the reason for leaving composition unresolved

The original workbook was inspected read-only. Applying the script’s selection order finds ten source rows and ten age-specific outputs. It selects rows with numeric static yield stress, water/binder ratio and at least one strength value, with at most two rows per reference. The code does not actually apply the explicit printable-Portland filter described in its introductory comment.

The workbook contains useful binder-relative quantities. For example, source spreadsheet row 46 states cement, fly ash and silica-fume ratios of 0.47, 0.47 and 0.06, with water/binder 0.30 and sand/binder 0.50. If these were the complete constituent inventory, Equation 2 would normalize them without an absolute binder dosage. Blank admixture entries, however, are not explicit zero evidence.

Other selected rows contain admixture or activator descriptors beneath mixed percent-of-binder and ratio headers. The extractor also probes some constituent-name cells as numbers when identifying supplementary materials. The current excerpt’s chemistry labels therefore require further curation. This revision retains the example as a reporting audit, corrects the false mathematical explanation, and leaves composition unconverted pending complete source accounting. No unknown density or binder dosage is invented.

6.5 Carbon records are not a strength–carbon result

The Meta excerpt records reported GWP and strength summaries at stated ages. The source repository separates measured data from model proposals [7]. This is useful provenance, but does not establish a general relationship between binder carbon and concrete strength. The earlier highlighted pair mixed composition and water/binder effects and carried a yield caveat.

This revision removes the pairwise carbon-reduction headline. Retaining it as a result would require a matched account of source row IDs, measured versus generated status, test age and method, GWP boundary and factors, and the per-volume yield basis. The retained example continues to demonstrate fields for those reported quantities. It does not demonstrate that Open3DCP reduces carbon or that a low-clinker formulation meets a structural requirement.

7. What the conversion checks establish

7.1 Counts before scores

The retained UCI fidelity report counts 126 routed cells, corresponding to 14 rows and nine source fields. It separately scores 117 substantive value cells and marks 47 as generically recorded. Its 100/A grade reflects the applicable dimensions under the maintainer’s scoring rules. These denominators are not all counts of independent measurements.

The retained Meta report counts 516 populated source fields, of which 48 selector/metadata fields are excluded from the field-coverage denominator. It reports 468 mapped fields, 459 substantive value cells and 103 generic cells. Coverage is 100% on its chosen denominator and about 91% across all 516 populated fields. These figures describe the retained tool report, not an independently calibrated quality scale.

A score cannot detect an error that the rules do not test. In particular, generic storage can preserve a quantity while leaving its scientific classification unresolved. Source selection, incorrect grouping, implicit basis assumptions and missing relationships need separate review. A high grade is not evidence of physical validation, interoperability with every consumer or suitability for model training.

7.2 Structural checks and scientific checks differ

Four maintained checks were executed on the frozen v1.8 snapshot: version consistency, public schema-reference consistency, generated precedent-crosswalk consistency and units-manifest consistency. All passed. The UCI arithmetic round trip was also executed. These checks support the stated version, vocabulary and conversion arithmetic. They do not establish correctness of every source mapping or every material-science description.

The SQL supplies types, identity constraints and the age-table relationship described earlier. Most scientific ranges and vocabularies are documentary conventions rather than SQL CHECK constraints. Even the submission validator is a metadata checklist, not a specimen-level scientific validator; its frozen version warning still refers to schema 1.6. This is recorded as a maintenance issue rather than silently corrected in a manuscript task.

Before analytical reuse, a curator should verify the source key, reporting basis, units, missingness, material designation, test context and row meaning. A mechanical comparison additionally needs matching specimen geometry, preparation, age, orientation and condition. A computed summary needs the exact inclusion set and statistic. These are review requirements for the intended analysis, not a new claim that the current software enforces them all.

7.3 Reproducibility and model use

The package freezes input hashes, the schema commit, audit scripts and figure inputs. Each revised figure has editable generation code. The column counts are checked against the generated inventory; the figures are explanatory schematics rather than statistical plots. The original source database and publication editions are unchanged.

For machine learning, grouping choices should precede train/test splitting. Specimens from one batch, repeated ages of one mix, and aggregates from one source can be dependent. A random row split can place related observations in both training and evaluation sets. Source-aware and formulation-aware evaluation is needed for the particular prediction question. Design strength can leak a target, and derived ratios and the two mass bases carry overlapping information. These risks are not resolved by a common column vocabulary.

8. How the format relates to other data models

The closest comparison is the RILEM database: it preserves entities and relationships needed for its interlaboratory study [8, 13]. Its existing analyses show that cross-laboratory comparison did not become possible only with Open3DCP. A flat export can make selected quantities easier to inspect, while the original database remains necessary for relationships and context that the export omits.

AM-CDM, GEMD and CPTO address related representation needs [14–16]. The maintained repository includes model-level mappings to AM-CDM commit 141030b, GEMD format v0.1 and CPTO v1.0.1. These pins describe the targets used by the mappings, not the latest state of each project. They allow review at a known boundary without making claims about what all other models lack.

The mapping files distinguish direct, normalized, derived, partial and unmapped cases. A field-level correspondence is a proposed representation relationship; it is not an executed round-trip exchange test. A graph can preserve relationships that a scalar export omits. A flat table can be convenient for inspection and analysis. Neither convenience nor graph structure alone establishes scientific comparability.

The earlier historical claim that a metal-powder standard ended ad hoc data reporting is removed. It was not needed to explain Open3DCP. Likewise, the revised paper makes no exhaustive novelty claim and no measured curation-time claim. The useful question is whether another researcher can reconstruct the stated conversion from the source and the mapping.

Open licensing, persistent references, explicit units and provenance can support FAIR data practice [17]. Actual findability, accessibility, interoperability and reuse depend on the deposited dataset, metadata, licenses, identifiers and maintained access. The presence of a DOI field and an open schema is not a FAIR certification.

9. What remains outside the record, and how to try it

9.1 Measurement and representation gaps

The original paper treated several difficult measurements as impossible. The revised distinction is practical: what was recorded, what could be measured with limitations, and what the schema can represent. A missing column does not prove an instrument is unavailable, and an available research instrument does not establish routine production use.

Practical recording gaps. This is a qualitative list, not a ranked instrumentation roadmap or a claim of unavailable measurement technology.

Information	Current recording situation	Remaining work
Point rheology, pump pressure, nominal print settings	Scalar columns exist	Record timing, apparatus, sampling and relation to deposition
Pressure and motion histories; local dosing	A scalar cannot retain an event history	Keep source logs, clocks, units and event links
Material age and changes during printing	Batch dates and notes provide partial context	Preserve retempering and dosing events without treating initial composition as the whole print
Moisture, temperature and interface condition	Local measurements may differ from ambient summaries	Record position, time, method and spatial coverage
Fiber orientation and internal pore structure	Imaging can characterize sampled material	Retain resolution, sample preparation, segmentation and representativeness
Replicate tests and print relationships	Main row and age table have limited cardinality	Keep original specimen and print records linked

X-ray computed tomography can image internal structure; sample preparation, size, contrast, resolution and analysis limit what is inferred [18]. Removing a specimen from a larger object may be destructive even when imaging that specimen is not. No ranking of fiber aspect ratio as the single strongest predictor of toughness is retained. Similarly, 28 days is a common reporting age, not a complete criterion for structural adequacy.

The old estimate that a complete digital twin would require more than 300 parameters is removed. No counting model supported it. Open3DCP can contribute static records and file references to a larger system. It does not itself implement a live digital twin, a control loop or a prediction service.

9.2 A bounded adoption method

Start with one source and one analysis question. Preserve the source files and their license. Select a schema version, declare the row meaning and retain stable source identifiers. Map the columns without inventing classifications. Keep the incoming quantity basis and every conversion input. Use nulls deliberately and record why important values are missing.

Next, check the conversion against the source. Reconstruct quantities where the basis permits it. Inspect out-of-vocabulary fields and retain them for review. For mechanical data, keep specimen and test context before comparing strengths. For commercial premixes, keep the product and lot even when the recipe is unavailable. A documented partial record is useful if the analysis respects its limits.

Report gaps through the upstream issue and contribution process, preferably with an ORCID, a concrete source example and a primary definition for the proposed property. Feedback on ambiguous bases, row relationships, units and hard-to-map designations is more useful than filling empty cells speculatively. Substantive schema extensions require their own review; this manuscript revision introduces none.

9.3 Conclusion

Open3DCP provides a shared vocabulary for recording extrusion-printing data, with source quantities and context kept visible. The v1.8 additions improve the representation of purchased materials, EN cement designations and aggregate fractions. The worked mass conversion is reproducible under stated conditions. The RILEM audit shows why reproducible arithmetic is not sufficient: a table can retain its numbers while combining unlike tests.

The appropriate next step is better source-linked curation and independent review of the mappings. Adoption at scale, inter-curator agreement, calibrated fidelity scores and downstream predictive value remain unestablished. The schema is designed to support that work; it does not stand in for physical testing or engineering qualification.

Appendix A. Frozen versions and field changes

Schema target: fa5fdd5a513dee4554fd3fc01cab967a9ebd6041, public main read back on 15 September 2026. Baseline: schema tag v1.7.5. The isolated task checkout itself began at af422a27dc24f301ddc8f67d397f3fed58dbc0ed; it was not mistaken for current main.

Implemented additions. The accompanying schema_columns.csv provides the complete inventory and SQL types. Ranges and designation details remain in the pinned schema reference; this table does not replace a material standard.

Group	Added columns	Count
Premix identity	is_premixed, supplier, product_name, supplier_batch_number, production_date, bulk_density_kg_m3	6
EN cement quantities	cem_i; cem_ii_a_s, cem_ii_b_s; cem_ii_a_v, cem_ii_b_v; cem_ii_a_l, cem_ii_b_l; cem_ii_a_ll, cem_ii_b_ll; cem_ii_a_m, cem_ii_b_m; cem_iii_a, cem_iii_b, cem_iii_c; cem_iv_a, cem_iv_b; cem_v_a, cem_v_b	18
Classification and other cement	cement_strength_class_mpa, cement_early_strength_class, cement_other, cement_designation, cement_standard	5
Aggregate fraction	agg_fraction_d_lower_mm, agg_fraction_d_upper_mm	2
Total additions	248 + 31 = 279 data columns, excluding id	31

The explicit semantic clarification is the ASTM Type IL-only meaning of cement_type_1l. The dual-basis fields, generic constituents and admixture-basis flag predate v1.8. Raw-file references, batch labels and uncertainty fields also belong to earlier revisions. The paper does not present these as new work in v1.8.

Appendix B. Audit boundaries and availability

The author-review package includes the full schema snapshot, SHA-256 source manifest, complete main-table inventory, raw RILEM inclusion ledger, grouping summaries, retained-row matches, UF selection audit, UCI round-trip results, maintained-check outputs, technical change map and correction ledger. The scripts operate on source data read-only and write evidence into the review package. A source hash identifies the exact bytes used; it does not independently establish their authenticity or scientific validity.

The RILEM audit used the local 2024-06-21_openbis.db export associated with the dataset DOI [8], together with the retained study-plan PDFs. Its MD5 checksum matches the file checksum published in the captured Zenodo record. The audit preserved full compound orientations and source sample identifiers. It records available parent relationships, but does not establish every specimen-to-print-to-batch chain or reproduce the primary paper’s outlier analysis. This is sufficient to withdraw the invalid legacy comparison; it is not presented as a replacement materials study.

The public LinkedIn article, Open3DCP: a record for extrusion-based 3D concrete printing, is dated 10 June 2026 [19]. It repeats the older one-specimen-per-row description, 248-column snapshot, anisotropy comparison and carbon contrast. The technical revision supersedes those claims for manuscript v1.2. The publisher page carries a correction notice for this revision. The LinkedIn article remains a historical companion and has not been revised as part of this website release. No DOI deposit was changed.

Version history

Manuscript history. The proposed increment continues Open3DCP’s own edition sequence. It does not adopt another paper’s preprint numbering.

Date	Manuscript state	Treatment in this revision
14 May 2026	Original publisher-page publication record	Original publication date retained; not assigned a new edition number
10 June 2026	Retained v1.0 preprint	Historical files preserved
30 July 2026	Retained/public v1.1 preprint; schema v1.7.5	Technical baseline for correction
15 September 2026	v1.2 preprint; schema v1.8 draft	Corrected evidence, version map and rendered source package

Author statements

License. Copyright © 2026 Nicholas Sonnentag and Sunnyday Technologies LLC. This manuscript is licensed under CC BY 4.0. The schema, SQL and repository artifacts remain Apache-2.0 unless a file states otherwise. Third-party data and publications retain their own licenses and attribution.

Contribution. Nicholas Sonnentag: concept, method, software, data curation, writing and review. This revision was prepared with AI-assisted research, editing and document production; responsibility for approval and the final published claims remains with the author.

Competing interest. The author founded Sunnyday Technologies, which maintains Open3DCP and develops related tools. Open3DCP is supplier-, hardware- and platform-agnostic. Its use does not require a Sunnyday commercial product.

Acknowledgments. The author thanks the researchers who released the source data and the contributors who identified reporting gaps. The v1.8 changelog credits David Scheidt for the premix, EN and aggregate reporting review and Daniel Auer for earlier reproducibility feedback. Standards and research organizations cited here have not endorsed this manuscript or schema.

Contact: Nicholas Sonnentag, nick@sunn3d.com.
Project correspondence: open3dcp@sunn3d.com.

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