The Advanced Manufacturing Institute, located at the TUM Garching campus in Munich, Germany, will receive €3 mn in annual funding for an initial period of five years. During that time, plans are for the institute to carry out the supervision of up to 30 doctoral covering subjects such as the development of custom materials, printing methods, process-material interaction and the additive manufacturing (AM) process.
"Our research will focus primarily overcoming on technical obstacles in order to accelerate the development of metal 3D printing,” said Professor Nikolaus A Adams, TUM Chair of Aerodynamics and Fluid Mechanics. “Thus for example we are already working together on new highly stable lightweight alloys based on aluminum, which are in high demand in industry; we are also collaborating on demanding new simulation methods to predict metal powder melting and solidification processes as well as on the development of a digital process for certifying components for the aeronautics industry that have been produced using advanced manufacturing."
