After the official welcome from Prof. Ploshikhin (ISEMP Bremen), head of the Expert Committee and host of the meeting, each participant was given the opportunity to briefly introduce themselves. Then Prof. Ploshikhin continued with a short presentation in which a first analysis of the opinion poll on the positioning of the Expert Committee for the year 2025 was presented. A distinction was made between basic and application-oriented topics. Of highest priority for basic research-oriented research are both material behavior and development, which coincides with the topic in application orientation, material properties and development, which is also in first place. Defects and fatigue properties were named as the second topic of interest for the fundamentals, followed by simulation and knowledge-based process control. Among the application-oriented topics, process monitoring and process quality were still mentioned, and surface treatment in third place. In a next survey, the topics will be narrowed down more precisely.

Finally, Prof. Ploshikhin discussed the status quo of the approved project outlines, which are still in the application phase. In this session, five project ideas were presented, discussed, and voted on by the members of the IAB for endorsement following the public part. The five presenters were Tobias Vonderbank (RWTH Aachen), Tim Lantzsch (Fraunhofer ILT), Dr. Oliver Illies (ISEMP Bremen), Moritz Greifzu (Fraunhofer IWS) and Dr. Thomas Seefeld (BIAS). The topics partly reflected the results of the survey: two of the presentations dealt with the development of new materials for additive manufacturing, difficult-to-weld, high-strength aluminum alloys in laser powder cladding and the nickel-based superalloy Hastelloy-X. The topic of simulation and knowledge-based process control were also represented to prevent distortion-related process failures based on simulations. The last two presentations dealt with the development of new processes, liquid-based hot isostatic pressing and a hybrid process of LPBF and LMD. Both project ideas also focus intensively on material investigation, again representing material properties and behavior.

The international conference MSTAM cannot take place this year due to the current Corona pandemic.

Based on the current situation, the next meeting of the Exper Committee “Additive Manufacturing” is expected to be held online again. A date has not yet been announced.

Prof. Dr. Vasily Ploshihin
Head of the EC Additive Manufacturing