GTU’s Project Receives Support from EUREKA

May 26, 2025 - GTU Office of Press and Public Relations

The project titled “Development of Next-Generation Aluminum Alloys for Additive Manufacturing Technologies,” led by Assoc. Prof. Sezgin Cengiz from Gebze Technical University Institute of Defense Technologies, with Research Assistants Doğancan Ceylan and Kral Ali Coşan as researchers, is awarded funding under the 2024 EUREKA Network Projects call for “Lightweighting Technologies.”

The project will be carried out under the coordination of ALPOMET in partnership with FSMVU ALUTEAM, Gebze Technical University, and 3D LAB.

The main goal of this project is to develop innovative aluminum alloys with high specific strength that can serve as alternatives to commonly-used alloys in additive manufacturing technologies such as AlSi10Mg and Al12Si, as well as existing commercial next-generation aluminum alloys. The developed alloys are expected to contribute to the civil aviation, aerospace, and automotive industries both in Türkiye and globally.

Alloy development work within the project will be conducted through computational materials engineering methods in a numerical modeling environment. This approach will enable the design of alloys with targeted microstructure and performance characteristics. The developed alloys will be converted into powder form by ultrasonic atomization, and process parameters will be optimized on these powders. Final part production will be performed using powder bed laser fusion (PBF-LB) and direct metal laser sintering (DMLS) technologies.

At the end of this process, high-performance, domestically produced next-generation aluminum alloys will be introduced to the field of additive manufacturing.