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
22 January 2024
In today’s Global Construction Review article, Dr. Kanyilmaz challenges the oversimplified views on sustainable construction. His team’s AI-powered tool emphasized that sustainability depends on multiple factors, including building design and material sourcing. Notably, reused steel is identified as exceptionally sustainable, surpassing traditional materials like timber and
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
News & Events
25 March 2021 11:30 CET Speaker in AI in AEC conference: “A multi-criteria conceptual design method using genetic algorithms to optimize structures’ cost and environmental impacts”
Dr. Kanyilmaz presented their latest research, where his team developed an AI-based computer-assisted design tool to assist structural engineers in the decision-making process of building design. The tool is
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
26 October 2021
The MSc thesis of Aleksei Kondratenko resulted in an elegant journal article (4 rounds of review in Bulletin of Earthquake Engineering). It is about Automated warehouses, which keep the goods arriving us from Amazon and more. Massive racking structures, reaching 40 m height + 100 m in plan, using often cold formed steel.
Publications
24 January 2022
Role of metal 3D printing to increase quality and resource-efficiency in the construction sector” is published in Additive Manufacturing journal: It is an opinion article discussing how metal 3D printing can help us make the construction industry better by reducing its lead times, embodied CO2 emissions and costs. It is
Publications
15 March 2022
A genetic algorithm tool for conceptual structural design with cost and embodied carbon optimization, Alper Kanyilmaz, Patricia Raquel Navarro Tichell, Daniele Loiacono, Engineering Applications of Artificial Intelligence, Volume 112, 2022, 104711, ISSN 0952-1976, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.engappai.2022.104711 In the article, we present the development and validation of a genetic algorithm tool based
News & Events
1 February 2023
3D Printing Industry published an article with Alper Kanyilmaz on how ConstructAdd project is aiming to increase resource efficiency in the automobile and construction sectors through the use of 3D-printed steels:
You can read the full article at the link.