Metal 3D printing
10 July 2024
Alper Kanyilmaz visited Prof. Martin Mensinger at his Metal Structures chair at the Technical University of Munich, marking the start of an exciting new collaboration. This partnership aims to accelerate advancements in sustainable large-part metal 3D printing.
Prof Kanyilmaz, TUM, in a lecture
Metal 3D printing
8 July 2024
Alper Kanyilmaz gave a lecture with title “Life cycle driven strategies for large-scale metal 3D printing” in the 2nd edition “Summer School of Metal 3D Printing in Construction” in University of Bologna. He was invited by Vittoria Laghi, coordinator of the summer school.
Metal 3D printing
10 April 2024
Beyond dreaming, the EU-funded R&D project ConstructAdd is making steps toward a future where metal 3D printing becomes “normal” in the construction and automotive industries. Companies willing to take part in this are invited to get in touch with the project coordinator Alper Kanyilmaz.
Alper Kanyilmaz, speaking in the video of ConstructAdd project meeting
Publications
8 February 2024
In his recent article, Dr. Kanyilmaz and his colleagues looked into the ways to successfully connect metal 3D printed (LPBF) parts to the conventional steel. In particular, they tested fatigue performance of hybrid metal additive manufactured joints vs EN 1993-1-9 steel joints, measured the defects shape and orientation
Publications
15 March 2019
New article published: “The problematic nature of steel hollow section joint fabrication, and a remedy using laser cutting technology: A review of research, applications, opportunities” by Alper Kanyilmaz.
Publications
03 March 2021
New article: Resource efficient joint fabrication by welding metal 3D printed parts to conventional steel: A structural integrity study: Together with Filippo Berto (Chair of Mechanics of Materials, Fracture Mechanics and Fatigue, NTNU Norway) and Martina Chierici (PhD candidate, Politecnico di Milano), we presented a ‘hybrid’ manufacturing approach
Graduations
22 July 2021
Our MSc student Muyao Li discussed successfully his thesis
Publications
1 August 2021
New article published: “Nature-inspired optimization of tubular joints for metal 3D printing”. We analyzed new tubular joint shapes using solid isotropic material with the penalization method (SIMP) in cooperation with multiple players (architects, manufacturers, producers). The article is open access, and can be downloaded from here.
News & Events
9 February 2023
ConstructAdd 2nd coordination meeting in Madrid took place in Madrid, Spain.
Project coordinator Alper Kanyilmaz from the Politecnico di Milano, Gorka Iglesias from ArcelorMittal Europe Tubular Products and Sastry Y Kandukuri from Det Norske Veritas (DNV-GL) share their thoughts on ConstructAdd at the six month mark.
ConstructAdd coordination meeting, Madrid, Spain
News & Events
21-22 September 2023
3rd coordination meeting of ConstructAdd project took place in Turin, Italy. ConstructAdd is a EU-RFCS project coordinated by Alper Kanyilmaz, and it aims to place the Metal Additive Manufacturing in the mainstream of Architecture Engineering, Construction (AEC), and Automotive industries. It will be achieved by developing design guidelines and processes for sustainable steel building and electric car