KU Leuven Additive Manufacturing Conference 2025 programme announced

Belgium’s KU Leuven Institute for Additive Manufacturing is organising the Leuven Additive Manufacturing Conference 2025, which will take place May 27-28, 2025, at KU Leuven’s Heverlee campus.

The event will include presentations in both oral and poster format from scientists and industrial partners, discussing the leading-edge challenges in Additive Manufacturing processes, materials and applications in various fields. Contributions related to technologies such as numerical simulation, topology optimisation, Powder Metallurgy, process optimisation, laser technologies, material tailoring and microstructure characterisation are also covered.

The conference programme is split into three parallel sessions and includes the following:

Tuesday May 27, 2025

• 08:45 – 09:00
  • Welcome ceremony
• 09:00 – 09:30
  • Keynote Lecture – Prof. em. Jean-Pierre Kruth
• 09:30 – 10:30
  • Metal AM: fatigue behaviour and prediction (1)
  • Powder bed fusion: material properties and development (1)
  • Polymer AM (1)
• 11:00 – 12:20
  • Metal AM: fatigue behaviour and prediction (2)
  • Powder bed fusion: material properties and development (2)
  • Polymer AM (2)
• 12:50 – 13:40
  • Poster session 1.1
  • Poster session 1.2
• 13:40 – 14:50
  • Metal AM: Damage tolerance
  • Powder bed fusion: material properties and development (3)
  • Polymer AM (3)
• 15:20 – 16:40
  • Powder bed fusion: process development
  • Powder bed fusion: modelling
  • Polymer AM (4)

Wednesday May 28, 2025

• 08:30 – 09:00

  • Keynote Lecture Dr. Evren Yasa

• 09:00 – 10:40

  • Directed Energy Deposition (1)
  • Leveraging AM: applications
  • Ceramic AM (1)

• 11:10 – 12:30

  • Directed Energy Deposition (2)
  • Monitoring and Quality Assurance in AM (1)
  • Ceramic AM (2) & Medical applications of AM (1)

• 13:00 – 13:50

  • Poster session 2.1
  • Poster session 2.2

• 13:50 – 15:30

  • Novel and emerging technologies
  • Monitoring and Quality Assurance in AM (2)
  • Medical applications of AM (2)

• 15:30 – 16:00

  • Closing & Award Ceremony

• 16:30 – 18:00
  • Lab tour 1: Department of Mechanical Engineering, with a focus on process development and monitoring
  • Lab tour 2: Department of Materials Engineering, with a focus on feedstock preparation, material consolidation & sintering, and characterisation

Registration for the event is available here.

am.kuleuven.be/conference/lamc-2025