guest researcher Archives - Additive Manufacturing in Construction (AMC) TRR277 https://amc-trr277.de/tag/guest-researcher/ AMC TRR 277 Tue, 22 Sep 2026 12:44:37 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.9.10 Prof. Ph.D. Simos Gerasimidis AMC-MERCATOR-FELLOW https://amc-trr277.de/trr277-people/prof-ph-d-simos-gerasimidis-amc-mercator-fellow/ Tue, 25 Mar 2025 11:59:02 +0000 https://amc-trr277.de/?post_type=trr277-people&p=7805 The collaboration between Prof. Gerasimidis and TRR 277 Additive Manufacturing in Construction (AMC), particularly with project A06, presents a great opportunity to achieve outstanding results. This partnership aims to push forward cutting-edge research that redefines how additively manufactured steel is used in large-scale construction. Topics such as architected steel lattices and novel structural designs are explored, with the potential to transform modern civil engineering practices through improved strength, durability, and design flexibility.

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With Prof. Simos Gerasimidis, we have attracted a highly qualified and internationally recognized AMC guest researcher. Prof. Gerasimidis, a faculty member at UMass Amherst and MIT, leads pioneering research at the intersection of architected materials and civil infrastructure. His work focuses on applying the principles of architected lattice materials—engineered structures with tailored geometries at the meso-scale—to enhance the performance of civil infrastructure systems. By designing materials with unique mechanical properties, such as auxetic behavior, his research addresses challenges like improving structural resilience, reducing material usage, and optimizing energy absorption in load-bearing applications. The significance of this research lies in its potential to revolutionize infrastructure design, enabling safer, more durable, and sustainable systems that can better withstand dynamic loading and environmental stresses.
 
The collaboration between Prof. Gerasimidis and TRR 277 Additive Manufacturing in Construction (AMC), particularly with project A06, presents a great opportunity to achieve outstanding results. This partnership aims to push forward cutting-edge research that redefines how additively manufactured steel is used in large-scale construction. Topics such as architected steel lattices and novel structural designs are explored, with the potential to transform modern civil engineering practices through improved strength, durability, and design flexibility.
 
For example, there is significant overlap between the work of UMass & MIT and A06/TUM regarding material and fatigue characterization of PBF-LB/M-manufactured steel parts. Furthermore, the second funding phase of A06 will focus on the application of lattice structures in steel nodes. This enables the bundling of knowledge and research activities from UMass, MIT, and TUM to develop high-grade steel connection nodes and members, as well as a visionary AMC demonstrator.

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]]> Prof. Dr. Carlos Lázaros AMC-MERCATOR-FELLOW https://amc-trr277.de/trr277-people/prof-dr-carlos-lazaros/ Wed, 12 Nov 2025 14:04:20 +0000 https://amc-trr277.de/?post_type=trr277-people&p=8177 AMC-Mercator-Fellow Prof. Dr.-Ing. Carlos Lázaro is the academic director of the master's degree in civil engineering at the Universitat Politècnica de València (UPV, Spain). He has worked as a structural engineer in Barcelona (1991–1992), Berlin (1992–1994) and Valencia (1994–2000), and was a founding partner of CMD Ingenieros (2006-2014), an engineering firm specialising in structural design. He has been the president of the International Association for Shell and Spatial Structures (IASS) since 2021, a leading scientific and technical association in the field of lightweight structures, founded by Eduardo Torroja in 1959. He received the Pioneers' Award from the Spatial Structures Research Centre at the University of Surrey in 2021 for his contributions and career in the field of structures. Carlos Lázaro's research builds upon his professional experience and explores the design, realisation and performance of structural systems. It comprises • the design of structures with non-conventional materials (Félix Candela's last shell structure in 2000, pioneering the application of fibre-reinforced concrete in architectural shells, and the Turia Bridge in Manises in 2009, first application of structural recycled aggregate concrete in a cable-stayed bridge); • Innovative lightweight structural systems (experimental bending-active footbridges made of GFRP tubes and of HPFRC prestressed slabs, and a patented 2-axes solar tracking system for energy generation using PV panels); • Conceptual design of non-conventional bridge structures (viaducts for the Hyperloop transportation system). His current research lines focus on structural resiliency, including the mitigation of wind-induced vibrations in long-span bridges (in collaboration with the Chair of Structural Analysis at the TU Munich) and the prevention of collapse in ageing steel bridges (one article published in the leading scientific journal Nature). Carlos Lázaro collaborates in project C02 of area C' Design and Construction'. The focus is on researching innovative structural systems suitable for production using additive manufacturing, including adapting the '3D structural puzzle' to various structural systems, integrating components made of different materials, and addressing key questions in design and optimisation for manufacturability. Carlos Lázaro's experience in designing structural systems that incorporate innovative technologies provides an enriching, holistic perspective for the research efforts of the TRR 277 AMC. His collaboration also contributes to identifying points of contact between projects in Area C – and, to some extent, also in Area B. Furthermore, Carlos Lázaro's leadership role in the International Association for Shell and Spatial Structures (IASS) provides opportunities to expand the network and promote exchange with other international experts worldwide.

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]]> Prof. Dr. Michela Turrin AMC-MERCATOR-FELLOW https://amc-trr277.de/trr277-people/prof-dr-ena-lloret-fritschi-amc-mercator-fellow-2/ Tue, 28 Jul 2026 09:56:18 +0000 https://amc-trr277.de/?post_type=trr277-people&p=8650 Prof. Dr. Michela Turrin is Associate Professor of Design Informatics at the Faculty of Architecture and the Built Environment of Delft University of Technology, where she leads the Digital Technologies Section – which brings together computational design and geomatics, proposing an integrated approach between context and design. Her work focuses on computational methods to inform design decisions on technical and human-aware scenarios, with focus on buildings to building components - Additive Manufacturing being key enabler. For a decade, she led the research at LAMA, Lab for Additive Manufacturing in Architecture - which focuses on the full-scale production of architectural components through integrated design, rationalisation, prototyping, analysis, and validation. Currently appointed as an AMC Mercator Fellow within the TRR277 “Additive Manufacturing in Construction,” her research on performance-driven design, with ML-supported, simulation-driven, multi-objective optimisation workflows shifts Additive Manufacturing from mere fabrication to a strategy for functional, integrated design.

At LAMA, she has led pioneering projects such as Spong3D, an adaptive façade panel with integrated air cavities and fluid channels for thermal storage, Double Face, featuring computationally optimised and AM-fabricated Trombe wall elements that encapsulate PCM and aerogel, and, more recently, Wood-Without-Trees, an innovative process towards wood-based extruded building components. She leads DigiPedia, an open education platform on computational methods, which includes a section on digital fabrication and additive manufacturing, broadly used by industry besides academia. Currently, she leads PLAIA, bringing together industry and academia on AI and soft values for architecture, exploring perceptual aspects. Across these and other interdisciplinary initiatives, she collaborates with industry and academia, pioneering performance-informed computational design to deliver customised, high-performing architectural components.

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]]> Prof. Dr. Ena Lloret-Fritschi AMC-MERCATOR-FELLOW https://amc-trr277.de/trr277-people/prof-dr-ena-lloret-fritschi-amc-mercator-fellow/ Fri, 20 Jan 2023 10:27:44 +0000 https://amc-trr277.de/?post_type=trr277-people&p=6380 AMC-Mercator-Fellow Prof. Dr. Ena Lloret-Fritschi is an architect with years of experience in digital processes with concrete. She is Assistant Professor of Fabrication and Materials Aware Architecture at the Accademia di Architettura Mendrisio, USI-ARC, Switzerland. Her research focuses on using novel processing techniques for mineral building materials like concrete. More specifically, her work focuses on using fast-setting concrete processed through Digital Casting Systems. This method enables the use of ultra-thin formwork made of paper, clay, or recycled polymers. Through research and design studies her research work investigates how these novel processing techniques impact how we can design and build more sustainable architecture in the near future.
Before joining the USI-ARC, Dr. Lloret-Fritschi held a Postdoctoral position in Digital Fabrication, at the NCCR, ETH. Here she was in a bridge position between two research groups, Gramazio Kohler Research (GKR) and Physical Chemistry of Building Materials (PCBM), focusing on shaping concrete with minimal materials using digital fabrication processes. Prof. Dr. Lloret-Fritschi also has several years of professional experience as an architect in practice, working for firms that include OMA in Holland, Allmann Sattler Wappner in Germany, and Dietrict Untertrifaller and Querkraft in Austria. She was the project leader for several architectural competitions and assisted in several projects.
In 2022, Ena Lloret-Fritschi was appointed Mercator Fellow by the TRR 277 AMC in honor of her contributions to the AMC. Within the context of her AMC cooperation, she contributed by sharing her experience in digital processing systems for concrete, as well as by cooperating for the development of printable earth mixtures in joint workshops involving both AMC senior researchers and AMC PhD students from TUBS and TUM. The ongoing collaboration focuses on advancing the extrusion 3D printing with natural and earth-based materials for reusable earth formworks, including building up processing twins, developing clear methodologies for experimental studies, and advancing dedicated material mixtures. As outcome of her Mercator Fellowship collaborative work, a final demonstrator will be printed together with AMC staff. The research will lead to a documentation of the process methodology and a validation with a final demonstrator, which will be published in a high-level journal anticipated in 2023. In addition to a rich exchange between the working groups of Prof. Dr. Hack and Prof. Dr. Dörfler, a new collaboration emerged with Dr. Ing. Inka Mai from the working group of Prof. Dr. Lowke. For the future, Prof. Dr. Ena Lloret-Fritschi aims to expand the collaboration that started with the AMC Mercator Fellowship and to develop a joint research grant application from it.

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]]> Prof. Dr. Laura De Lorenzis AMC-MERCATOR-FELLOW https://amc-trr277.de/trr277-people/prof-dr-laura-de-lorenzis-amc-mercator-fellow/ Thu, 25 Nov 2021 09:31:21 +0000 http://amc-trr277.de/?post_type=person&p=3492 AMC-Mercator-Fellow Prof. Dr. Laura De Lorenzis was Professor and Director of the Institute of Applied Mechanics at TU Braunschweig from 2013 to early 2020 and was part of the initial team of the AMC. In February 2020 she became Professor of Computational Mechanics at ETH Zurich. Since then, she nevertheless participated in the meetings of the AMC and thus continued to make a scientific contribution to the AMC. In honor of her recent and future contribution to the AMC Laura De Lorenzis was appointed as AMC-Mercator-Fellow by the TRR 277 AMC in late 2022.

In her AMC-Mercator-Fellowship she started to and will further integrate in the AMC the computational technology that her PhD student Helge Hille recently developed under her supervision (in collaboration with Sid Kumar, former Postdoc in the group and now Assistant professor at the TU Delft), which is denoted as Floating Isogeometric Analysis (FLIGA). This technology is currently the only option available to simulate in a Lagrangian setting mechanical problems involving material behavior with history variables and featuring extreme deformations along one characteristic direction, such as the extrusion problem. FLIGA will be specifically integrated with the future project A09 of PL Mai and PL Hack on Injection 3D Concrete Printing, in order to simulate this novel process. Once the simulation is calibrated and validated to be quantitatively predictive, it can be used to explore the vast design space of the process, explain observed instabilities, and ultimately optimize the process with virtual experiments, much faster and less expensive than actual ones. The first comparisons with preliminary experimental results at the TU Braunschweig have been carried out and a joint journal publication together with different AMC Project Leaders as well as joint presentations at international conferences (e.g. the upcoming Sim-Am conference in Munich, July 2023) are planned for the near future. The experimental results stemming from the AMC will be an important benchmark for FLIGA, as they will allow Prof. Dr. Laura De Lorenzis and her team at ETH Zürich to test FLIGA on a complicated challenge with quantitative results.

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]]> M. Sc. Anais Martinson https://amc-trr277.de/trr277-people/m-sc-anais-martinson/ Tue, 22 Sep 2026 12:42:46 +0000 https://amc-trr277.de/?post_type=trr277-people&p=8731 Anaïs Martinsohn graduated from ESME (École Spéciale de Mécanique et d’Électricité) with a specialization in design. During her final year of study, she joined TRR 277 at TU Braunschweig as a guest researcher.
Working at the Institute of Structural Design (ITE) and the Leichtweiß-Institute for Hydraulic Engineering and Water Resources (LWI), she contributed to the FLOWall project within the AMC research area A04, helping to establish the foundation for the project's further development. Her work focused on small-scale wave flume experiments investigating the influence of FLOWall’s characteristic horizontal undulation on wave overtopping in comparison with more conventional coastal protection structures, such as vertical and recurved walls.
One of the main objectives of her research is the development of design parameters for 3D-printed double-recurved FLOWall structures, with the aim of enabling future coastal protection systems that combine hydraulic efficiency with architectural quality.

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M. Sc. Anais Martinson

Current location: TU Braunschweig
Institute: Institute of Structural Design

ar.martinsohn@gmail.com

Anaïs Martinsohn graduated from ESME (École Spéciale de Mécanique et d’Électricité) with a specialization in design. During her final year of study, she joined TRR 277 at TU Braunschweig as a guest researcher.

Working at the Institute of Structural Design (ITE) and the Leichtweiß-Institute for Hydraulic Engineering and Water Resources (LWI), she contributed to the FLOWall project within the AMC research area A04, helping to establish the foundation for the project’s further development. Her work focused on small-scale wave flume experiments investigating the influence of FLOWall’s characteristic horizontal undulation on wave overtopping in comparison with more conventional coastal protection structures, such as vertical and recurved walls.

One of the main objectives of her research is the development of design parameters for 3D-printed double-recurved FLOWall structures, with the aim of enabling future coastal protection systems that combine hydraulic efficiency with architectural quality.

Project(s)

Project A 04

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

Publications

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]]> Ass. Prof. Dr. Mariana Popescu AMC-MERCATOR-FELLOW https://amc-trr277.de/trr277-people/ass-prof-dr-mariana-popescu/ Thu, 05 May 2022 08:39:27 +0000 https://amc-trr277.de/?post_type=trr277-people&p=5781 AMC-Mercator-Fellow Asst. Prof. Dr. Mariana Popescu is from the TU Delft and within architectural design, her area of expertise is computational and parametric design with a focus on digital fabrication and sustainable design. Her extensive involvement research projects related to promoting sustainability has led to a multilateral development of skills, which combine the fields of architecture, engineering, computational design, and digital fabrication. More specifically, her research is centred around digitally fabricated stay-in-place formwork systems for complex concrete geometries using 3D-knitting techniques. Her interest in additive manufacturing technologies, structural efficiency, and fabrication with material effectiveness is closely related the research of TRR 277 Additive Manufacturing in Construction (AMC). In 2022, Mariana Popescu was appointed as AMC-Mercator-Fellow by the TRR 277 AMC in honor of her contribution to the AMC

One of her contributions within the AMC was the joint development of a cross-university student summer school/ seminar between TU Munich, TU Braunschweig, and TU Delft in 2022 and 2023. The seminar aims to bridge fundamental principles of geometric computation and design and use these insights to develop new algorithms and tools for 3D shape generation, simulation, structural design, and manufacturing in design and engineering. Students joining from all three institutions are taught innovative computational design solutions for advanced manufacturing and construction at various scales through the development of a textile reinforced bridge demonstrator. The prototype combines digital from finding techniques, 3D knitted flexible formworks, and shotcrete 3D printing, thus bringing together researchers from several projects within the AMC (C06, A04, B04, C02, C03, C04).

The cooperation with the AMC has made it possible to scale-up and automate a previously developed technique. This is an important contribution as it takes one step closer to being able to apply these methods in a real-world environment in terms of construction. Moreover, in bringing together researchers and teaching students from different universities and different faculties the completion of the prototype also proves the importance of cross-disciplinary collaboration and, importantly, the education of a new type of professional in the field of construction.
Beyond this collaboration phase, new synergies have been created with researchers from the AMC and a sustained collaboration beyond the term of the fellowship is expected to emerge. In the short term this can be started through joint guidance of master thesis students.
Finally, Within the remaining time of the collaboration in 2023, the aim is to distil the opportunities and challenges identified within the development of the prototype and develop a joint research grant proposal that would enable a sustained collaboration.

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Ass. Prof. Dr. Mariana Popescu AMC-MERCATOR-FELLOW

Current location: TU Braunschweig
Institute:

Civil Engineering and Geosciences, TU Delft

M.A.Popescu@tudelft.nl

Mercator Fellow at the AMC

AMC-Mercator-Fellow Ass. Prof. Dr. Mariana Popescu, TU Delft and within architectural design, her area of expertise is computational and parametric design with a focus on digital fabrication and sustainable design. Her extensive involvement research projects related to promoting sustainability has led to a multilateral development of skills, which combine the fields of architecture, engineering, computational design, and digital fabrication. More specifically, her research is centred around digitally fabricated stay-in-place formwork systems for complex concrete geometries using 3D-knitting techniques. Her interest in additive manufacturing technologies, structural efficiency, and fabrication with material effectiveness is closely related the research of TRR 277 Additive Manufacturing in Construction (AMC). In 2022, Mariana Popescu was appointed as AMC-Mercator-Fellow by the TRR 277 AMC in honor of her contribution to the AMC.

Project(s)

Project A 04

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

Publications

2024|D. Lowke, A. Anton, R. Buswell, S.E. Jenny, R. J. Flatt, E.L. Fritschi, N. Hack, I. Mai, M. Popescu, H. Kloft: Digital fabrication with concrete beyond horizontal planar layers, Cement and Concrete Research Volume 186, 2024, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cemconres.2024.107663

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]]> Prof. Dr. Nicolas Roussel AMC-MERCATOR-FELLOW https://amc-trr277.de/trr277-people/prof-dr-nicolas-roussel/ Fri, 20 Jan 2023 09:48:29 +0000 https://amc-trr277.de/?post_type=trr277-people&p=6316 AMC-Mercator-Fellow Prof. Dr. Nicolas Roussel is in charge of the research activities dealing with rheology and processing of construction materials at the Navier Laboratory, FRANCE. He is the founding editor of the RILEM technical letters journal, president of the RILEM association and has received in 2007 the Robert L'Hermite award for his work on rheology of fresh concrete. With a Thompson Reuters H-index of 54 and more than 8.000 citations, he is the author or co-author of more than 130 papers in scientific journals such as Cement and Concrete Research, Physical Review letters or Journal of Non-Newtonian Fluid Mechanics. His research focus spreads from concrete rheology and rheometry to the understanding of construction processing technologies. Thereby his work covers various technology readiness levels and includes mixing and dispersion, centrifugation and granulation, vibration and compaction, molding, spraying and coating along with automation in construction.
In 2022, Nicolas Roussel was appointed as AMC-Mercator-Fellow by the TRR 277 AMC in honor of his contribution to the AMC. Within the context of its AMC cooperation, he recently contributed to a workshop on “Materials and Processes in Additive Manufacturing” at TUBS, having the opportunity to see and discuss the research results and outputs of several AMC PhD and post doc researchers. This intensive exchange has led to the planning of a number of joint and collective publications dealing with the rheology and thixotropy of cement-based materials.
According to Nicolas Roussel, the cooperation with the AMC as AMC-Mercator-Fellow "offers the opportunity to directly interact with high-level PhD students also in the coming years and thus to foster the AMC's strategic topics for the European industry".
As a result of the above interactions, Prof. Dirk Lowke and Prof. Nicolas Roussel are planning for the submission of Franco-German ANR/DFG research project.

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Prof. Dr. Nicolas Roussel AMC-MERCATOR-FELLOW

Current location: Université Gustave Eiffel Paris
Institute: Navier Laboratory, Université Gustave Eiffel

AMC-Mercator-Fellow Prof. Dr. Nicolas Roussel is in charge of the research activities dealing with rheology and processing of construction materials at the Navier Laboratory, FRANCE. He is the founding editor of the RILEM technical letters journal, president of the RILEM association and has received in 2007 the Robert L’Hermite award for his work on rheology of fresh concrete. With a Thompson Reuters H-index of 54 and more than 8.000 citations, he is the author or co-author of more than 130 papers in scientific journals such as Cement and Concrete Research, Physical Review letters or Journal of Non-Newtonian Fluid Mechanics. His research focus spreads from concrete rheology and rheometry to the understanding of construction processing technologies. Thereby his work covers various technology readiness levels and includes mixing and dispersion, centrifugation and granulation, vibration and compaction, molding, spraying and coating along with automation in construction.

In 2022, Nicolas Roussel was appointed as AMC-Mercator-Fellow by the TRR 277 AMC in honour of his contribution to the AMC.  Within the context of its AMC cooperation, he recently contributed to a workshop on “Materials and Processes in Additive Manufacturing” at TUBS, having the opportunity to see and discuss the research results and outputs of several AMC PhD and post doc researchers. This intensive exchange has led to the planning of a number of joint and collective publications dealing with the rheology and thixotropy of cement-based materials.

According to Nicolas Roussel, the cooperation with the AMC as AMC-Mercator-Fellow “offers the opportunity to directly interact with high-level PhD students also in the coming years and thus to foster the AMC’s strategic topics for the European industry”.

As a result of the above interactions, Prof. Dirk Lowke and Prof. Nicolas Roussel  are planning for the submission of Franco-German ANR/DFG research project.

Publications

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]]> Prof. Virginia San Fratello AMC-MERCATOR-FELLOW https://amc-trr277.de/trr277-people/prof-virginia-san-fratello/ Fri, 16 Jan 2026 13:01:31 +0000 https://amc-trr277.de/?post_type=trr277-people&p=8311 Virginia San Fratello is an architect, artist, and educator. She is Chair of The Department of Design at San José State University in Silicon Valley. San Fratello is a winner of the United States National Design Award for Digital Design, an International Interior Design Educator of the Year Award, and is also a winner of the Metropolis Magazine Next Gen Design Competition. Her creative practice, Rael San Fratello, was named an Emerging Voice by The Architectural League of New York, and in 2021, they were awarded the Beazley Design of the Year.

San Fratello is the co-author of Printing Architecture: Innovative Recipes for 3D Printing, a book that reexamines the building process from the bottom up and offers illuminating case studies for 3D printing with materials like chardonnay grape skins, salt, earth, and sawdust. She is a partner in Emerging Objects, a creatively driven, 3D Printing MAKE-tank specializing in innovations in 3D printing architecture, and a co-founder of Forust, a start-up focused on wood waste and additive manufacturing.

Her work is recognized by several institutions, including The National Building Museum, the Bellevue Museum, For Freedoms, and is included in the permanent collection of The Museum of Modern Art in New York, The Cooper Hewitt Smithsonian Design Museum, The San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, the CSMVS Museum in Mumbai, LACMA, and the Design Museum in London.

San Fratello will serve as a role model and mentor for AMC researchers and students across partner institutions and will be engaged in a collaborative exchange that aims to bring state-of-the-art mobile robotic systems together with earthen spray and traditional wattle-and-daub construction methods to explore new paradigms in earth-centered construction. Her expertise in bridging traditional material practices with digital fabrication presents a unique opportunity to position this project at the intersection of architectural innovation, sustainability, and material research.

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]]> Dr. Ryan J. Sherman AMC-MERCATOR-FELLOW https://amc-trr277.de/trr277-people/dr-ryan-j-sherman-amc-mercator-fellow/ Fri, 12 Dec 2025 14:51:30 +0000 https://amc-trr277.de/?post_type=trr277-people&p=8287 Dr. Ryan J. Sherman, P.E., is an Associate Professor in the Georgia Institute of Technology (Georgia Tech) School of Civil and Environmental Engineering. His expertise encompasses the material behavior and structural performance of metallic wire-arc additive manufacturing (WAAM), as well as large scale structural testing, fielding monitoring of in-service structures, and steel bridge design and evaluation. His current research focuses on the use of WAAM to advance the design of steel structures and on integrating advanced testing and monitoring to validate performance. Professor Sherman currently serves as the Chair of the American Institute of Steel Construction (AISC) Additive Manufacturing Exploratory Task Force and leads the AISC AM Demonstration Bridge Project. He will be commencing a collaboration with AMC project A07 (Hensel/Kloft/Unglaub). The collaboration between Professor Sherman and AMC aims to develop, manufacture, and test a large-scale demonstrator to advance high-level research on AM of steel structures. The demonstrator will combine Professor Sherman‘s expertise in WAAM, material and structural testing, and bridge engineering with AMC’s strengths in advanced manufacturing, design optimization, and physical and virtual component testing. The research will encompass a range of topics, including the combination of semi-finished parts and WAAM nodal connectors manufactured with as-built surfaces. These innovations have the potential to transform the approach in modern structural engineering, enhancing strength, durability, and design flexibility. The Mercator Fellowship will concentrate on fatigue performance, buckling behavior, and large-scale component performance of metallic WAAM structures.

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