FLAB-3Dprint

A picture is worth a thousand words 📸🤳 To celebrate the beginning of the new year, the Institute of Materials Science (IWK), which is one of various institutes involved in FLAB-3Dprint prepared a special gift for its members and friends – the IWK calendar (1st edition) 🗓️. The IWK works on alloy design for additive manufacturing and fatigue crack propagation, with a special focus on multi-material and hybrid additive manufacturing, composite materials, refractory materials and exploration of reactive gases to create new materials. Additive manufacturing leads to characteristic microstructures and that’s how we are all connected in our team – by the love for unique microstructures. We collected the most beautiful optical microscopy images of last year’s research of our team Eric Jägle Christian Felber Raphael Freundl Isabel P. Nandakishor Thamarassery Naveen Kumar Kanna Lucy Farquhar Thomas Stoll, Cornelia Mischo, Jürgen Bär, Christian Maierbacher, David Varga and created a wonderful calendar for the next exciting year to come 🥳.

Excited to try new things 🤩👀 This is how researchers look like who can’t wait to print with their new toy 🧸 by Schaeffler Aerosint #additivemanufacturing #research

Christmas is coming early this year🎄 We are extending our capabilities in multi-material additive manufacturing with our brand new Schaeffler Aerosint selective powder deposition recoater, replacing our previous model (with serial number 4!). The additional third drum included in the new model will give us more flexibility in printing multi-material AM parts, plus increased speed and resolution which will come in handy! Isabel P. uses Schaeffler Aerosint to print bimetallic metamaterials with a negative coefficient of thermal expansion for aerospace application within the satellite mission dtec.bw funded project SeRANIS - Mission. Our new colleague Lucy Farquhar will join Isabel in printing multi-material steel parts, as well as some other more unusual alloy combinations. Stay tuned for more… 👀 #additivemanufacturing #research

NEW PAPER 📝 Check out our newest research 👀 #research #additivemanufacturing

Collaboration is key 🤝🔑 Not long ago Siegfried Bähr and his team from the group of Additive Manufacturing at Institut für Werkzeugmaschinen und Betriebswissenschaften (iwb), TUM of the Technische Universität München have visited Universität der Bundeswehr München. During their visit Eric Jägle introduced our university and our project. A lot of our innovative research within our project was presented and led to interesting discussions. The highlight of the visit was the intensive lab tour in our metallic and polymer printing laboratories. FLAB-3Dprint combines many different AM technologies (PBF-LB, DED-LB, MEX, FDM, Material Jetting) to print parts in various sizes and all necessary periphery for pre- and postprocessing. The visit was concluded by a nice lunch where possibilities for future collaborations were discussed. Thank you for your visit and hopefully see you soon visiting your labs! #additivemanufacturing #collaboration #research #iwb #tum

🌟 FLAB-3Dprint at Formnext - Where ideas take shape 2024: Experience innovation up close! 🌟 Lea Strauß, Michael Ascher, Stefan Brenner, and Martin Moser had the great opportunity to visit Formnext - Where ideas take shape 2024 - the world's leading trade fair for additive manufacturing and innovative production technologies. 🎉 Formnext - Where ideas take shape not only offers the perfect platform to learn about the latest developments in the 3D-printing industry, but also to engage in dialogue with leading experts and companies in the sector. Our focus: 💡 New impulses for research: which innovations can drive material and process development in additive manufacturing? 🤝 Networking: Exchange ideas with other researchers, start-ups and companies shaping the future of 3D-printing. 🔍 Technology scouting: Inspiration for research opportunities #formnext2024 #AdditiveManufacturing #3DPrinting #Innovation #Research

Our Metal 3D-printer featured in a magazine article 📝 We are proud that our DMG MORI SLM 3D-printer is featured in the new inside.unibw of Bundeswehr University Munich. Often only known by 3D-printing experts, it is important to us to make SLM more known also among scientists from other fields who often associate only the FFF technology with 3D-printing. #additivemanufacturing #research #SLM

Presenting our innovative 3D-printing technology and research 🎙️🤩 The German Congress of Orthopaedics and Trauma Surgery (DKOU) is the most important congress in the field of orthopaedics and trauma surgery in Germany and also the largest in Europe. On October 25, 2024, Jay Phruekthayanon had the opportunity to present his work "Antimikrobielle 3D-gedruckte PEEK-Implantate mit Dünnschichtmetallen und –metalloxiden", which he and Marina Kühn-Kauffeldt have conducted in collaboration with Dr. Andreas Obermeier and Prof. Dr. Rainer Burgkart from Klinik für Orthopädie und Sportorthopädie Technische Universität München at the DKOU. This 3D printing technology combines filament-based 3D printing with PVD coating in a vacuum and has potential in the production of implants. it can produce customized PEEK parts with antimicrobial and osteoconductive coatings. These properties make it a promising candidate for the next generation of implant manufacturing. 👀 #conference #research #additivemanufacturing #DKOU

Great opportunity to become part of our amazing team 🤩 #additivemanufacturing #research

🌟 Exciting news from ICAM 2024! 🌟 We’re proud to share that two of our PhD students recently attended the ASTM International Conference on Advanced Manufacturing (ICAM 2024) in Atlanta, Georgia, where they presented their latest research findings. Michael Ascher presented his work on hybrid manufacturing, where he showcased how to implement 3D scarf adhesive joints using the PBF-LB/M process to overcome manufacturing constraints and reduce manufacturing cost. Lea Strauß presented her research on fatigue life prediction of additively manufactured PBF-LB/M materials using an equivalent stress approach. A huge thank you to ASTM and the organizers for hosting such an insightful and engaging event. The sessions and discussions provided valuable perspectives and fostered connections within the advanced manufacturing community. #additivemanufacturing #research #conference