Additive Manufacturing in Construction
AMC TRR 277

People

She supports the AMC in all administrative tasks.

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Central Tasks of the AMC

Project leader

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.

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Environmental Life Cycle Assessment – Determination of Ecological Sustainability Potentials by AMC

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Integration of Individualized Prefabricated Fibre Reinforcement in Additive Manufacturing with Concrete

Jan Thormählen is a doctoral researcher at the Institute for Construction Engineering and Management. In project C06, he is collaborating with the Digital Construction Site (DCS) to develop fabrication strategies and streamlined production processes for additive manufacturing. This involves a comparative analysis with conventional construction processes and working strategies to enhance productivity. Consequently, the implementation of additive manufacturing in construction will be facilitated by enhancing the integration of digital processes.

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Integration of Additive Manufacturing in the Construction Process

is a doctoral researcher at the TUM Professorship of Mineral Construction Materials with a focus on clays and clay minerals for the purposes of the A10 project.

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Earth Additive Manufacturing (EAM) – Material and Process Combinations for AM with Earth-based Materials

Project leader

is head of division Material behavior at IS and takes responsibility for management of this project in terms of content and organization. He supervises the research assistants of WG Thiele for novel material and component testing methods based on MultiCam Digital Image Correlation (DIC) and the development of complex material models to describe WAAM-component behavior.

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

has a background in industrial engineering and biomimetics. Currently he is a doctoral student at the Chair of Materials Handling, Material Flow, Logistics within TUM and is responsible for the design, automation, and advancement of the near-nozzle continuous mixing system that was developed during the first project phase of A03.

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

is a research assistant and doctoral student at the Professorship for Learning Sciences and Educational Design Technologies. She holds a background in educational and social psychology from the Universidad Nacional de Colombia and TUM. Daniela contributes to research focused on understanding the role of cultural literacy and arts-based education in fostering social cohesion.

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Learning, Sustainability, Design: Gender-equitable introduction of AMC to the public

has a background in lightweight structures’ design and computational mechanics. Currently, she is a doctoral researcher at the Institute of Structural Analysis at TU Braunschweig with a focus on embedded finite element techniques and applications in multi-physics simulations and structural optimization. Within project C02, Franziska mainly contributes to the high-fidelity optimization approach.

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

He is a Senior Scientist and Head of the Computational Simulation Lab at the Chair of Structural Analysis, Technical University of Munich. With a robust background in computational mechanics, structural mechanics, optimization, and fluid dynamics, his research centers on advancing and implementing cutting-edge continuous optimization techniques within the framework of the C02 project. In addition to his academic leadership, he serves as a technical committee member of the open-source KRATOS Multiphysics finite element framework, which plays a pivotal role in the development efforts of the C02 project.

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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 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.

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Challenges of Additive Manufacturing – Technical Regulations and Qualification Requirements

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is head of the Department of Research Data Services at the University Library of the Technical University of Munich. In the TRR, she guides the staff of the I – Information Infrastructure Project. She is responsible for developing and continuing the data strategy in close cooperation with the Board. The strategy focuses on communicating and collaborating with all sub-projects, finding FAIR solutions that support the TRR researchers and their data, and publishing data along with the research articles.

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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.

Project leader

is Professor of Statics and Dynamics at the Technical University of Munich. He is project leader of C02 – 3D Structural Puzzle – Numerical Multiscale Shape and Topology Optimisation Methods for the Additive Manufacturing of Optimal Structures from Optimised Parts and further develops the existing methods of the Continuum-based Optimisation Approach (COA) within his research group.

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

Is a doctoral researcher at the Institute of Structural Design (ITE) at TU Braunschweig.

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Injection 3D Concrete Printing (I3DCP) – Material Efficient Lightweight Reinforced Concrete Structures Based on Spatially Complex Strut-and-Tie-Models

is a civil engineer and doctoral researcher at the TU Braunschweig Institute for Structural Design (ITE). She is responsible for Project A10, where she is conducting research on Sprayed Earth Additive Manufacturing (SEAM). Her work involves exploring earthen construction techniques, enhancing the SEAM process, and optimizing material-process interactions. Within this project, she focuses on material development through experimental studies, data analysis, and investigating material behavior to identify and optimize the key parameters of the SEAM process.

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Earth Additive Manufacturing (EAM) – Material and Process Combinations for AM with Earth-based Materials

Project leader

guides the scientific staff in the execution of the LPBF experiments.He provides guidance in methods for analysing the main mechanisms of action and the correlation of the results for the whole process chain. Head of iwb and supports the academic staff regarding additive manufacturing, alignment and execution of numerical heat transport simulations, questions during validation and process development.

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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.

deputy director of the institute for particle technology, head of Division Powder and Slurry Processes, supports Prof. Kwade in leading the project.

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Particle-Bed 3D Printing by Selective Cement Activation (SCA) – Sustainability, process enhancement and material models

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

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