Materials Degradation mechanisms

The degradation and damage mechanisms of new materials and multi-material mixes as well as components made from them have not yet been sufficiently researched. Our focus is on the investigation of mechanical, thermal and corrosive stresses of new or already known materials from the field of metals, ceramics and polymers and their composites.

Safety-related requirements must be implemented from the conceptualization and design stage through production and assembly as well as the operating phase, including monitoring and repair, to dismantling and recycling. We help with the development and application of procedures for safety-related assessment and interdisciplinary failure analysis of technical systems and their components.

Selected projects

Mitigating grain-boundary decohesion during liquid-metal embrittlement in advanced high-strength steels

Multiphysikalische Simulation der Unterdrückung der wasserstoffinduzierten Porosität beim Hochleistungslaserstrahlschweißen mittels eines oszillierenden Magnetfelds

Fully digitalized & unified material modelling for real-time analysis of process & operational deformation & damage behaviour within digital component twins

Selected publications

Characterisation and Modelling of the Fibre-Matrix Interface of Short Fibre Reinforced Thermoplastics using the Push-Out Technique (2025)

Tensile Testing in high-pressure gaseous hydrogen using the hollow specimen method

Toward prediction and insight of porosity formation in laser welding: A physics-informed deep learning framework (2025)

Further publications can be found in our database PUBLICA