Additive Manufacturing in Construction
AMC TRR 277

People

AMC Administration

Finance Manager of TRR 277

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Central Tasks of the AMC

She is interestet in the potential of using carbon fiber-reinforcement onto 3D-printed freeform formworks for the materialization of thin concrete components at DBT.

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Integration of Individualized Prefabricated Fibre Reinforcement in Additive Manufacturing with Concrete

AMC Administration

She has been appointed as co-coordinator of The Collaborative Research Center Transregio 277, Additive Manufacturing in Construction. Her research focus is the interface of structural engineering, architecture, and polymer science in order to adapt new technologies and materials in construction technology and design.

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Central Tasks of the AMC

is research associate at Fraunhofer Institute for Wood Research – Wilhelm-Klauditz-Institut WKI. In his doctoral research the focus is on the material development for additive manufacturing with wood.

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Structural Timber by Individual Layer Fabrication (ILF)

Project leader

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.

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Integration of Passive and Active Functions in Additively Manufactured Construction Elements

is a doctoral researcher for the duration of the research project.

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Wire and Arc Additive Manufacturing (WAAM) of Complex Individualized Steel Components

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.

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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

Siegfried Baehr is head of the department Additive Manufacturing at the iwb and assists Prof. Zaeh in leading the projects A02 and A06. He is instructing and supporting the academic staff regarding LPBF and WAAM.

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Particle-Bed 3D Printing by Selective Cement Paste Intrusion (SPI) – Particle Surface Functionalisation, Particle Synthesis and Integration of WAAM Reinforcement

Laser Powder-Bed Fusion (LPBF) of Steel Elements for Construction – Basics of Design and Mechanical Resilience.

AMC Administration

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.

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Central Tasks of the AMC

is a doctoral researcher at ima and investigating the automation of structure fabrication using fiber-reinforced composites. He concepts manufacturing methods and processes to increase the structural quality.

Project leader

is the head of the chair of structur alanalysis. He is responsible for all actions, in particular regarding research, education and administration. In particular he is responsible for the proposed project and its coordination within the TRR. He will guide all staff in that context and decide about research actions.

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3D Structural Puzzle – Numerical Multi Scale Shape and Topology Optimisation Methods to Additively Manufacture Optimal Structures from Optimised Pieces

Project leader

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).

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Integrating Digital Design and Additive Manufacturing through BIM-Based Decision Support and Digital Twin Methods

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.

conducted research at TUM’s Department of Computer-aided Modelling and Simulation and, as Chief Information Officer (CIO), is responsible for the university’s digitalisation.

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.

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Integration of Passive and Active Functions in Additively Manufactured Construction Elements

Project leader

has been working in the field of wood adhesives for many years. She gives guidance and support to the academic staff at WKI regarding the entire adhesive systems including adhesives, particles and pressing parameters.

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Structural Timber by Individual Layer Fabrication (ILF)

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 regulation and quality assessment.

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Structural Timber by Individual Layer Fabrication (ILF)

Challenges of Additive Manufacturing – Technical Regulations and Qualification Requirements

is an expert in mechanical engineering, specialized in development, CAD-Design and construction of complex machines at the Chair of Materials Handling, Material Flow, Logistics within TUM. He is responsible for design, construction, automation, simulation and optimization of the near-nozzle continuous mixing system developed in A03. Furthermore he is responsible for the material supply and the material discharge system within this project.

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Extrusion of Near-Nozzle Mixed Concrete –Individually Graded in Density and in Rate of 3D Fibre Reinforcement

is a doctoral researcher at the Institute for Machine Tools and Production Technology (IWF) at TU Braunschweig. He is working on the development of different end effectors for an automated concrete reinforcement as well as the surface processing of printed SC3DP elements. Additionally he is developing different nozzle geometries for the SC3DP process. Moreover, he will frequently publish the results achieved within the community.

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Integrated Additive Manufacturing Processes for Reinforced Shotcrete 3D Printing (SC3DP) Elements with Precise Surface Quality

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.

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Principles of Mobile Robotics for Additive Manufacturing in Construction

is a researcher at Institute of Building Materials, Concrete Construction and Fire Safety and works for the project A01.

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Particle-Bed 3D Printing by Selective Cement Activation (SCA) – Particle Surface Functionalisation, Particle-Bed Compaction and Reinforcement Implementation