Strength & Durability of Materials
Understanding and predicting material failure and resistance to its environment
Sustainability in engineering relies heavily on reduced use of materials and increased service life, which calls for ever stronger, tougher and more durable materials. Their development, in turn, requires a deeper understanding of material failure and degradation mechanisms. New concepts, such as meta-materials or responsive and self-healing materials, and novel manufacturing technologies provide great potential for innovation and the development of tailored material properties. They are relevant for applications across all length scales ranging from microbotics over aerospace systems up to civil infrastructures. Major challenges associated to the development of novel material concepts include the accurate prediction of material strength and toughness, the full control over material degradation due to environmental and long term service conditions, and the optimal design of micro- and mesostructures for increased material performance and reliability. ‘Strength & Durability’ is multidisciplinary, covering theoretical, numerical and experimental techniques across scales and material classes. Core topics include new approaches for predictive modelling of material performance and its dependence on different manufacturing methods, high-performance computing for material mechanics, machine learning applied to material modelling and design, and advanced techniques for multiscale material characterisation.
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