Research
Focus area A “Materials and Processes”
Focus area A “Materials and Processes” centres on the investigation of basic principles for the development from scratch of unique AMC processes for concrete, steel, and timber. As mentioned above, the innovation potential of the proposal is based primarily on the merging of material and process developments produced in interdisciplinary research teams.
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Focus Area B “Computational Modelling and Control”
The experimentally driven investigations of focus area A ‘Materials and Processes‘ are enhanced by the corresponding projects of focus area B ‘Computational Modelling and Control’. All AM processes will be developed by taking into account assigned digital feedback obtained by computational modelling and process control.
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Focus area C “Design and Construction”
Focus area C “Design and Construction” addresses the most important subjects related to the implementation of additive manufacturing in the process chain of design and construction. The interaction between digital models and physical objects forms the methodical relationship within TRR 277 and connects the focus areas A and C.
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Vertex Morphing Applications, SiemensNX PlugIn, Carbody, AeroSpace Shape Opt. Topology Optimization of a Wing Box 3D-Printed Optimized Tensegrity Node, Made of Aluminum and Manufactured using Laser Po…
Project leaders
Dr. Sc. Pierluigi D’Acunto
is TT-assistant Professor at the Professorship of Structural Design –Technical University of Munich. In his doctoral research the focus is on vector- based 3D graphic statics and design of spatial structures based on the relation between form and forces.
Project(s)
3D Structural Puzzle – Numerical Multi Scale Shape and Topology Optimisation Methods to Additively Manufacture Optimal Structures from Optimised Pieces
Prof Dr.-Ing. Roland Wüchner
He has been Head of the Institute of Statics and Dynamics at TU Braunschweig since September 2021.
Project(s)
3D Structural Puzzle – Numerical Multi Scale Shape and Topology Optimisation Methods to Additively Manufacture Optimal Structures from Optimised Pieces
Contributors
M. Sc. Christiane Richter
Christiane Richter is a research associate and doctoral candidate at the Professorship of Structural Design at the TUM School of Engineering and Design. Under the guidance of Prof. Dr. Pierluigi D’Acunto, she is conducting research within the C02 project. With a solid foundation in structural engineering and expertise in concrete Additive Manufacturing, her primary focus lies in formulating a Holi…
Project(s)
3D Structural Puzzle – Numerical Multi Scale Shape and Topology Optimisation Methods to Additively Manufacture Optimal Structures from Optimised Pieces
Networking with other projects Integration of Passive and Active Functions in Additively Manufactured Construction Elements This project aims to develop and test additively manufactured building compo…
Project leaders
Prof. Dipl.-Ing. Thomas Auer
is the head of the Chair of Building Technology and Climate Responsive Design at TUM. As such, the core focus in teaching and research is a holistic design approach for buildings in consideration of sustainability and energy-efficiency. He guides scientific personnel within research projects on the application of simulation-software as planning instrument for the numerical calculation of thermal, lighting and flow specific processes. These insights with practical relevance can be made in the fields of thermal comfort, energy consumption and daylight supply. In research, the chair is conducting several projects with various sources of funding from public or private sector, on state, federal and European level.
Project(s)
Integration of Passive and Active Functions in Additively Manufactured Construction Elements
Contributors
M. Sc. David Briels
is a doctoral researcher and research associate at the Chair of Building Technology and Climate Responsive Design at TUM. Under the lead of Prof. Thomas Auer he conducts the research activities within C03. In particular he is developing a building simulation framework for a performance-based parametric design process, integrating passive and active functions in AM construction elements.
Project(s)
Integration of Passive and Active Functions in Additively Manufactured Construction Elements
M. Sc. Ahmad Nouman
is a research associate at the Chair of Building Technology and Climate Responsive Design. The doctoral researcher focuses on decentralizing the active strategies to minimize energy consumption and improve thermal and visual comfort in built environments. He shares all responsibilities in the context of C03 essentially, modeling the simulations and designing experiments to develop additive manufac…
Project(s)
Integration of Passive and Active Functions in Additively Manufactured Construction Elements
Networking with other projects Integrating Digital Design and Additive Manufacturing through BIM-Based Decision Support and Digital Twin Methods The project contributes to bridging the gap between dig…
Project leaders
Prof. Dr.-Ing. André Borrmann
acts as co-lead in project C04. He is responsible for leading and guiding WP2 and WP 3 and parts of WP 4. He is also responsible for coordinating the collaboration with other projects. He leads the doctoral researcher in the design and implementation of the virtual common research environment. He is responsible for the coordination of the projects in the TRR 277 and the coordination with the Leibniz Supercomputing Centre (LRZ).
Project(s)
Integrating Digital Design and Additive Manufacturing through BIM-Based Decision Support and Digital Twin Methods
Prof. Dr.-Ing. Frank Petzold
acts as co-lead in this research project. He is responsible for leading and guiding WP1 and parts of WP 4. He is also responsible for coordinating the collaboration with other projects. He leads the doctoral researcher in the design and implementation of the research data management & publication platform. He is responsible for the coordination of the research projects in the TRR 277 and the coordination with the University Library of the Technical University of Munich.
Project(s)
Integrating Digital Design and Additive Manufacturing through BIM-Based Decision Support and Digital Twin Methods
Contributors
M. Sc. Chao Li
His task is to develop a DDSS at a early design phase integrating AM. The expected system needs to combine both hard rules (boundary conditions) and experts’s experience, in order to advise the designer (architect) for feasible AM methods regarding to different building components.
Project(s)
Integrating Digital Design and Additive Manufacturing through BIM-Based Decision Support and Digital Twin Methods
M. Sc. Martin Slepicka
is developing a data structure and corresponding methods (WP 2) that enable a closed chain between digital design (e.g. BIM) and digital manufacturing (mainly Additive Manufacturing). For backwards communication of “as-built” information during and after a manufacturing process, digital twin methods are incorporated into the developed FIM system (WP 3).
Project(s)
Integrating Digital Design and Additive Manufacturing through BIM-Based Decision Support and Digital Twin Methods
Demonstrator Experimental Testing Specimens for compression strength analysis of dry joints Roughing and finishing tool along with the simulation of the C4 CNC process Evaluation of the 3D geometrical…
Project leaders
Prof. Dr.-Ing. Martin Empelmann
instructs the research engineer at iBMB in the conceptual structure, execution and evaluation of the theoretical, experimental and numerical research work.
Project(s)
Jointing Principles for Combination of Concrete Elements Produced by Different Additive Manufacturing Processes
Prof. Dr.-Ing. Harald Kloft
leads the scientific staff in the orientation and execution of the design process creation and supports them in an advisory capacity in the creation of test geometries and demonstrators. He is responsible for the content and organisational coordination of all work on the part of ITE. He instructs the research engineer at ITE in the conceptual structure, execution and evaluation of the theoretical and experimental research work. He is the spokesperson of the TRR 277.
Project(s)
Integrated Additive Manufacturing Processes for Reinforced Shotcrete 3D Printing (SC3DP) Elements with Precise Surface Quality
Wire and Arc Additive Manufacturing (WAAM) of Complex Individualized Steel Components
Earth Additive Manufacturing (EAM) – Material and Process Combinations for AM with Earth-based Materials
Jointing Principles for Combination of Concrete Elements Produced by Different Additive Manufacturing Processes
Central Tasks of the AMC
Contributors
Dr.-Ing. Abtin Baghdadi
is a research associate at Institute of Structural Design (ITE) of TU Braunschweig. He is responsible for experimental, theoretical and numerical research work as well as for the coordination of the cooperations within the SFB.
Project(s)
Integrated Additive Manufacturing Processes for Reinforced Shotcrete 3D Printing (SC3DP) Elements with Precise Surface Quality
Jointing Principles for Combination of Concrete Elements Produced by Different Additive Manufacturing Processes
Program Networking with other projects Integration of Additive Manufacturing in the Construction Process The introduction of additive manufacturing in construction is expected to lead to fundamental c…
Project leaders
Prof. Dr.-Ing. Markus Gerke
will instruct the other doc. researcher in the fields of surveying, scanning and machine learning. A particular task will be the coordination of participants involved with this and other projects.
Dipl.-Ing. M.A. AA Norman Hack
is supervising ITE`s requested doctoral researcher during all phases of the research. Additionally, he is actively involved in the conceptual phase, developing reinforcement concepts for the different AM methods.
Project(s)
Integration of Individualized Prefabricated Fibre Reinforcement in Additive Manufacturing with Concrete
Injection 3D Concrete Printing (I3DCP) – Material Efficient Lightweight Reinforced Concrete Structures Based on Spatially Complex Strut-and-Tie-Models
Integration of Additive Manufacturing in the Construction Process
Prof. Dr.-Ing. Patrick Schwerdtner
is superviser of project C06 and leads one of the Doc. researchers especially concerning the selection and assessment of parameters and the basic layout of the process analysis. His expertise is used to develop (new) process models and innovative delivery approaches in the later phase. He is also responsible for the overall coordination of project C06 and the projects belonging to different Work Programmes ( 1.1, 2.1 and 3.).
Contributors
Dr.-Ing. Mehdi Maboudi
is an associate researcher at the IGP and will help with supervision of one of the doctoral researchers. His expertise in computer vision, scanning technologies and implementing deep learning methods will be used in this project.
M. Sc. Karam Mawas
Doctoral researcher at IGP: The researcher Will Provide an inspection process chain utilizing new digital tools to perform the quality inspection of the as-built model of AMC products (mainly concrete) with its digital twin on the component level. Moreover, the next focus would be building scale monitoring of the construction site and establishing accurate coordinate systems to support the positio…
M. Sc. Gerrit Placzek
Doctoral researcher at IBB: The doc. researcher will perform a cross-sectional role and work closely with both the other doc. researchers in C06 and on all the other projects mentioned in order to investigate fundamental AM processes and their construction-operational parameters. He will extend the basic knowledge of AM processes through the analysis of AM produced components. Furthermore, he will…
Methods Networking with other projects Challenges of Additive Manufacturing – Technical Regulations and Qualification Requirements As a first step and according to the gap in theory, C07 considers a f…
Project leaders
Prof. Dr. phil. Daniel Pittich
leads the research fellows according to the WP in th eprocesses of exploration ,identification and evaluation of AM in the context of technology, parameters and operational processes. On this basis, he supports the analysis and transformation of the data for specific Qualification Concepts as well as the development of the framework of aspects of qualification concepts in AM. In co-operation with PL Winter, he is responsible for the co-ordinating adaptation to the cooperating projects of TRR 277 (WP 1).
Project(s)
Challenges of Additive Manufacturing – Technical Regulations and Qualification Requirements
Prof. Dr.-Ing. Stefan Winter
acts as supervisor for the research fellows and gives special input to the WPs related to Technical Regulations. He is responsible for the above allocated WPs and together with PL Pittich for cooperation with allocated projects of TRR 277 and the management of project C07.
Project(s)
Challenges of Additive Manufacturing – Technical Regulations and Qualification Requirements
Contributors
M. Sc. Birger Buschmann
is a mechanical engineer and doctoral researcher at TUM-HBB. For the project A08 he will work out the details of the fabrication process and is responsible for the topic of automatization. In C07 his responsibilities include the development of data acquisition concepts in order to identify relevant process parameters as well as the evaluation of generated data in order to form concepts for regulat…
Project(s)
Structural Timber by Individual Layer Fabrication (ILF)
Challenges of Additive Manufacturing – Technical Regulations and Qualification Requirements
M. Ed. Tobias Ludwig
is a doctoral researcher at the Professorship of Technical Education at TUM School of Social Sciences and Technology. The focus of his work in C07 is on the competence and qualification requirements of the involved experts in order to have trained professionals for a later implementation of AMC. For this, the different processes must be analyzed in their entirety from the perspective of handling a…
Project(s)
Challenges of Additive Manufacturing – Technical Regulations and Qualification Requirements
M. Sc. Daniel Talke
is a doctoral researcher and expert on additive manufacturing in construction. His previous work includes extrusion as well as selective binding processes of concrete. He will be responsible at TUM-HBB for all the collaborative work to be executed in conjunction with WKI in project A08, especially for WP 2.
Project(s)
Structural Timber by Individual Layer Fabrication (ILF)
Challenges of Additive Manufacturing – Technical Regulations and Qualification Requirements
Networking with other projects Environmental Life Cycle Assessment – Determination of Ecological Sustainability Potentials by AMC Additive manufacturing in construction (AMC) is a viable option…
Project leaders
Prof. Dipl.-Ing. Charlotte Thiel
is Professor of „Construction Materials “ at Regensburg University of Applied Sciences. She is Head of Concrete Laboratory and Head of Construction Materials Laboratory. Furthermore she coordinates all scientific and organisational work regarding testing and material modelling.
Project(s)
Environmental Life Cycle Assessment – Determination of Ecological Sustainability Potentials by AMC
Contributors
M. Eng. Sophie Viktoria Albrecht
Is a doctoral researcher at the faculty of civil engineering at the OTH Regensburg. She is responsible for the environmental Life Cycle Assessment of additive manufacturing techniques in construction. Furthermore, the researcher will establish a database for the environmental footprint of additive manufactured materials as well as methods, components and structures using AMC.
Project(s)
Environmental Life Cycle Assessment – Determination of Ecological Sustainability Potentials by AMC
Learning, Sustainability, Design: Gender-equitable introduction of AMC to the public TRR 277 AMC researches innovative additive manufacturing methods, materials, and optimized designs and processes to…
Project leaders
Prof. Dr. sc. Kathrin ETH Dörfler
leads the scientific staff in the conception and execution of the research, and in questions of validation of the proposed methods. She is also responsible for the coordination of the cooperating research projects in the TRR 277. She is the Co-Spokesperson of the TRR 277. Dörfler supports Kloft as contact person for the DFG, in general public relation matters and also in representing the TRR 277 externally. Internally, Dörfler assists Kloft in the coordination between the research projects, as well as in the decisions on the financing of research tasks in the TRR 277.
Project(s)
Earth Additive Manufacturing (EAM) – Material and Process Combinations for AM with Earth-based Materials
Principles of Mobile Robotics for Additive Manufacturing in Construction
Learning, Sustainability, Design: Gender-equitable introduction of AMC to the public
Central Tasks of the AMC
Prof. Dr. Anna Keune
is Professor at the School of Social Science and Technology ( Department of Educational Sciences) –Technical University of Munich. In her research she focuses on Education and learning Sciences.
Project(s)
Learning, Sustainability, Design: Gender-equitable introduction of AMC to the public
Prof. Dr.-Ing. Harald Kloft
leads the scientific staff in the orientation and execution of the design process creation and supports them in an advisory capacity in the creation of test geometries and demonstrators. He is responsible for the content and organisational coordination of all work on the part of ITE. He instructs the research engineer at ITE in the conceptual structure, execution and evaluation of the theoretical and experimental research work. He is the spokesperson of the TRR 277.
Project(s)
Integrated Additive Manufacturing Processes for Reinforced Shotcrete 3D Printing (SC3DP) Elements with Precise Surface Quality
Wire and Arc Additive Manufacturing (WAAM) of Complex Individualized Steel Components
Earth Additive Manufacturing (EAM) – Material and Process Combinations for AM with Earth-based Materials
Jointing Principles for Combination of Concrete Elements Produced by Different Additive Manufacturing Processes
Central Tasks of the AMC
Contributors
M. A. Živa Simšič
is a doctoral researcher at Rudolf Mößbauer Tenure Track Assistant Professorship of Learning Sciences and Educational Design Technologies, TUM School of Social Sciences and Technology, and TUM Institute for Advanced Study (IAS). Živa’s background in arts education serves Project Ö’s constructionist and design-based research initiative to create the AMC Edu:Lab, a dynamic learning space designed fo…
Project(s)
Learning, Sustainability, Design: Gender-equitable introduction of AMC to the public
The service project Information Infrastructure serves and supports all information and data infrastructure aspects of the TRR 277 in close cooperation with the Leibniz-Supercomputing Centre (LRZ) and…
Project leaders
Dr. rer. nat. Christine Wolter
Head of Research Data Services
Project(s)
The service project Information Infrastructure serves and supports all information and data infrastructure aspects of the TRR 277 in close cooperation with the Leibniz-Supercomputing Centre (LRZ) and the University Library at the Technical University of Munich and the University Library Braunschweig.
Contributors
Dr. Silke Sturm
Silke Sturm works at the University Library of the Technical University of Munich. In her function as Data Steward she is responsible for the Data Management strategies and support. She works on defining discipline-specific standards, repositories and research data infrastructure. Moreover, she develops new coaching material for various topics concerning best practices in research data management.
Project(s)
The service project Information Infrastructure serves and supports all information and data infrastructure aspects of the TRR 277 in close cooperation with the Leibniz-Supercomputing Centre (LRZ) and the University Library at the Technical University of Munich and the University Library Braunschweig.
Central Tasks of the AMC Central Tasks (CT) is dealing with day-to-day-management of the TRR 277 AMC. The CT Office supports the spokesperson Harald Kloft and co-spokesperson Kathrin Dörfler in managi…
Project leaders
Prof. Dr. sc. Kathrin ETH Dörfler
leads the scientific staff in the conception and execution of the research, and in questions of validation of the proposed methods. She is also responsible for the coordination of the cooperating research projects in the TRR 277. She is the Co-Spokesperson of the TRR 277. Dörfler supports Kloft as contact person for the DFG, in general public relation matters and also in representing the TRR 277 externally. Internally, Dörfler assists Kloft in the coordination between the research projects, as well as in the decisions on the financing of research tasks in the TRR 277.
Project(s)
Earth Additive Manufacturing (EAM) – Material and Process Combinations for AM with Earth-based Materials
Principles of Mobile Robotics for Additive Manufacturing in Construction
Learning, Sustainability, Design: Gender-equitable introduction of AMC to the public
Central Tasks of the AMC
Prof. Dr.-Ing. Harald Kloft
leads the scientific staff in the orientation and execution of the design process creation and supports them in an advisory capacity in the creation of test geometries and demonstrators. He is responsible for the content and organisational coordination of all work on the part of ITE. He instructs the research engineer at ITE in the conceptual structure, execution and evaluation of the theoretical and experimental research work. He is the spokesperson of the TRR 277.
Project(s)
Integrated Additive Manufacturing Processes for Reinforced Shotcrete 3D Printing (SC3DP) Elements with Precise Surface Quality
Wire and Arc Additive Manufacturing (WAAM) of Complex Individualized Steel Components
Earth Additive Manufacturing (EAM) – Material and Process Combinations for AM with Earth-based Materials
Jointing Principles for Combination of Concrete Elements Produced by Different Additive Manufacturing Processes
Central Tasks of the AMC
Contributors
Ms. B.Sc. Cecilia S. Ahumada
Finance Manager of TRR 277
M.A. Meike Bährens
PR & Communication Coordinator. She is in charge of the public relations and communication of the SFB TRR 277 AMC and presents the AMC to a broad interested public. She is part of the AMC office.
M. Sc. Gido Dielemans
is a doctoral researcher at the TT Professorship for Digital Fabrication within TUM. With background in structural design and engineering, he will develop strategies for using mobile robotic systems performing extrusion-based AM on construction sites. Fundamentally, this work is interdisciplinary, and he therefore strives for a high degree of collaboration within, but not limited to, the TRR277.
Project(s)
Principles of Mobile Robotics for Additive Manufacturing in Construction
Central Tasks of the AMC
Dr.-Ing. Jeldrik Mainka
General Manager / administrative coordinator. He is organizing the day-to-day management of the SFB TRR 277 AMC, supports the Speaker and Co- speaker such as the AMC Board in the coordination of the TRR 277. He is reporting to the AMC Board and is head of the AMC Business Office (AMC-Geschäftsstelle).
Ms. Yonca Taube
She supports the AMC in all administrative tasks.
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