Additive Manufacturing in Construction
AMC TRR 277

Overview AMC Researchers

is a research associate in the work group of Prof. Dr.-Ing. Arno Kwade. He is responsible for the development of tailored particles for the combined process of SPI 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

is a research associate at the Working group of Prof. Dr.-Ing. Christoph Gehlen. Expert in material development of Extrusion Concrete for additive manufacturing.

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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 Assembly Technology and Robotics within Leibniz University Hannover. His background in mechatronics and robotics drives his work on mobile robotics. By synergizing elements from computer science, control theory, and mechanical design he enhances robotic autonomy and efficiency to enable print-while-driving

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Process Control and Adaptive Path Planning for Additive Manufacturing Processes Based on Industrial Robots with an Extended Degree of Freedom

is a doctoral researcher at the Chair for Computational Modeling and Simulation at TUM. Her research focuses on developing numerical methods to predict the failure behavior of structures. Specifically, she works on the Finite Cell Method, an embedded domain method that allows the simulation of complex geometries. An important aspect is the integration in high-performance settings to facilitate the numerical simulation of large-scale, physical problems.

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Bridging Scales – From Geometric Part Details to Construction Elements

M. Sc. Friedrich Herding is a research associate in the working group of Prof. Dr.-Ing. Dirk Lowke. He is researching the material-process interaction in the SCA process.

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

Kevin Hoefer works as a post-doc at the Chair of Welding Technology and is responsible for the department “Materials and Design”. In the project, he supports Prof. Jonas Hensel in the administration and management of A07, in particular in the areas of welding experiments, metallographic characterisation and residual stress determination.

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

doctoral researcher at IS. He is responsible for the planning and execution of all scientific work, both numerical and experimental, in the framework of WAAM. This includes material and component testing, material modeling, analysis all data, prepares reports, presentations and publications.

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

is a research associate at the Chair of Welding Engineering at Chemnitz University of Technology. His focus is process analysis of arc-processes. He is particularly concerned with sensor integration and anomaly detection in arc-welding processes and additive manufacturing with wire and arc (DED-Arc).

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

is a researcher at the TT Professorship for Digital Fabrication within TUM.  She received her architecture master’s degree at TUM in 2022, focusing on computational methods in architecture.  Project(s) Project A 10 Earth Additive Manufacturing (EAM) – Material and Process Combinations for AM with Earth-based Materials

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

Head of workgroup concrete technology and assists Prof. Gehlen in leading project A02. He instructs and supports the academic staff regarding additive manufacturing and concrete technological questions.

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

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

is the lead developer of the VirtualFluids software. In this function he is indispensable for the project as a new doc. res. could not possibly extend the existing framework (>700,000 lines of code) with the new models to be developed and adapted in WP 1-4. He is also experienced in conducting massively parallel runs on THIER-0 systems and analyzing huge data sets with more than 10 degrees of freedom.

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Modelling and Simulation of Shotcrete 3D Printing (SC3DP) Based on a Massively Parallel Multi-Phase, Multi-Component Coupled LBM-DEM Approach

is a postdoctoral researcher at the ITE. He is responsible for design strategies and possible applications. This includes the development of new structures, semi-finished parts and the concept for on-site WAAM as well as life cycle analysis and the creation of Digital Twins. He also prepares reports, presentations and publications.

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

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.

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

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 and problem-solving activities.

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Challenges of Additive Manufacturing – Technical Regulations and Qualification Requirements

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.

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Integration of Additive Manufacturing in the Construction Process

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 positioning during the project.

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Integration of Additive Manufacturing in the Construction Process

is a research associate in the work group of Prof. Dr.-Ing. Arno Kwade. He is responsible for the development of tailored particles for the SCA process.

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

is a post-doctoral researcher at the Institute of Applied Mechanics (TU Braunschweig). He is working in the intersection of Computational and Experimental Mechanics, dealing with, e.g., nonlinear, history-dependent materials as well as poromechanics.

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Material Modelling and Simulation of Deposition AM Processes on the Part Scale

doctoral researcher at IS. He is responsible for the planning and execution of all scientific work, both numerical and experimental, in the framework of WAAM. This includes material and component testing, material modeling, analysis of all data, preparation of reports, presentations and publications.

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

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 manufacturing elements with integrated passive and active functionalities.

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Integration of Passive and Active Functions in Additively Manufactured Construction Elements

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