ADDITIVE MANUFACTURING OF CONSTRUCTION MATERIALS

Alexandre PIERRE joined the Department of Civil Engineering and the laboratory of mechanics and civil engineering at CY Cergy Paris University as an Associate Professor in September 2014.
Alexandre PIERRE’s research interests are in the area of construction materials, in particular rheology and processing using additive manufacturing techniques such as 3D printing.
Recent efforts include investigating selective binding techniques and the integration of bio-based materials.

Tine Tysmans is an associate professor at the Vrije Universiteit Brussel, dept. Mechanics of Materials and Constructions. She graduated as Civil Engineer in 2006 and received her PhD degree - as a PhD-Fellow of the Research Foundation Flanders - in 2010 on the topic of thin shell structures in textile reinforced cement composites. Tine Tysmans is teaching courses within the field of Structural analysis, Structural design, Mechanics, and Lightweight cement composite structures.
Her research is on resource-efficient lightweight structures such as shells, scissor structures or sandwich panels, often using cement composites. She studies their mechanical performance by means of experimental testing, numerical modelling, form finding and structural optimisation.
In the past she was a visiting researcher at Princeton University (USA) and ENISE Saint-Etienne (France). She is an active member of two RILEM technical committees (MCC-Mechanical characterization and structural design of textile reinforced concrete and IMC-Durability of inorganic matrix composites used for strengthening of masonry constructions). She was and is involved in several international joint PhDs with University of Patras (Greece), Jimma University (Ethiopia) and CY Cergy Paris Université (France), the latter within the Eutopia framework.

Joško Valentinčič is an associate professor at the University of Ljubljana, Faculty of Mechanical Engineering. He was involved in development of machining processes and monitoring and control systems using robust design of experiments methods, inductive machine learning and neural networks. Currently he is working on additive manufacturing technologies focusing on using bio-based upcycled materials in 3D printing and 3D printing of soft tool inserts for micro injection moulding. He is also collaborating with Slovenian national building and civil engineering institute on 3D printing of concrete.

Damjan Klobčar is an associate professor at the Department of Materials Technology at the Faculty of Mechanical Engineering, University of Ljubljana. He is the head of the Laboratory of Welding and Joining. He teaches the subjects: "Welding and Joining Techniques", "Weldability of Materials", "Additive Manufacturing of Metals" and "Materials and Welding". His research interests include various welding and joining technologies (FSW - Friction stir welding, TIG welding, MIG / MAG welding, laser welding, ultrasonic welding of metals and polymers, robotic welding, brazing, and soldering, adhesive bonding), weldability of materials, additive manufacturing, arc additive manufacturing, welding process monitoring, and advanced characterization of materials and welds. Based on the research topics, he is involved in repair welding of industrial tooling, development of joining technologies for production of e.g. heat exchangers, battery systems, electrical contacts, development of arc additive manufacturing technology and assembly of sensors and devices using ultrasonic welding. He is a co-leader of the Vanguard Initiative's 3DP Pilot demo case Innovative hybrid (subtractive/additive) manufacturing processes for repairing added value damaged objects.

Deja Muck received her PhD in Graphic and Interactive Communication from the University of Ljubljana, Faculty of Natural Sciences and Engineering, Department of Information and Graphic Technology. Dr. Muck worked in the past on the development of paper coatings used especially for inkjet printing. Her current research focuses on printed electronics, particularly their use in print media and packaging in combination with interactive technologies. In recent years, she has also focused on the field of 3D technologies and 4D printing. She works as a full professor at the Faculty of Natural Sciences and Engineering in Ljubljana, Slovenia.

Prof. dr. ir. arch. Niels De Temmerman (°1977) is full time Associate Professor at the Department of Architectural Engineering of the Vrije Universiteit Brussel. He is an architectural engineer (2002) with a PhD on deployable scissor structures (2007). Within the VUB Architectural Engineering research group, he is co-leading the research on Circularity and Transformable Structures since 2009. Both in research and education his main expertise entails the design and analysis of transformable structures (deployable structures and kit-of-parts systems) for architectural applications, design for disassembly and circular/sustainable construction. Niels teaches architectural design and parametric design and has a keen interest in digital fabrication, including 3D-printing. In recent years, he conducted research as a Velux visiting professor at the Royal Danish Academy of Fine Arts in Copenhagen.In 2018 he co-founded a VUB-spin-off called Konligo, focusing on the creation of deployable scissor structures for a zero-waste event sector and in 2019 he co-realised the Circular Retrofit Lab, a demonstrator building for Circular Building at the VUB-campus.

Vasile Cojocaru is a lecturer at Babeș-Bolyai University, Faculty of Engineering. His main subjects are Strength of Materials and Computer Aided Design. Vasile Cojocaru's research areas include: characterization of the mechanical behavior of metallic, polymeric and composite materials; numerical analysis of the static and dynamic behavior of mechanical system components. He is currently involved in research related to the mechanical behavior of 3D printed parts (influence of process parameters on mechanical properties, honeycomb structures, topology optimization).