Vittoria Laghi (XXXIII Cycle) has been runner up of 2021 edition at the University of Bologna with the presentation "Study of innovative steel 3D-printing for structural engineering applications
Published on 16 March 2021 | Award
For the fourth year, the Alma Mater participates in the "3MT – Three Minute Thesis Competition", an initiative launched by the Coimbra Group, an international network of which the University is a member.
The Competition proposes a challenge to PhD students: to explain their research in English to an ‘intelligent lay audience’, therefore to a target of non-experts. The students have 3 minutes of time and 1 static slide to be projected during their speech.
Vittoria Laghi, EIT4SEMM third year student, has been runner up at 2021 edition of University of Bologna, her presentation his available here.
Futher information about 3MT Competition is available here.
Abstract of Vittoria Laghi's presentation:
With the advent of additive manufacturing, optimization tools have been widely used in the mechanical and aerospace field towards production advancement. On the construction industry, however, the impact has been damped by the feasibility of this process to realize large-scale elements. Recently, among additive manufacturing technologies, Wire-and-Arc Additive Manufacturing (WAAM) was adopted to print large-scale metal structures with high printing velocity and affordable costs. This PhD project will provide a first example in the application of computational structural design for steel elements fully realized in WAAM. Through ad-hoc computational design tools, an efficient use of the material is possible, both in terms of weight reduction and structural performances resulting in a highly aesthetical solution that could also be used for high-impact architectural buildings along the lines of the Guggenheim museum in New York or Paris’ Center Pompidou.