We offer various services in our department including consultations and courses. The examples are listed below. Please contact us for more information.

Material tests Tensile tests for various strain rates up to 1200°C Uniaxial very high-cycle fatigue tests Fatigue-creep tests Axial-torsional low-/high-cycle fatigue tests up to 1200°C Short term creep rupture tests up to 1200°C Axial-torsional thermo-mechanical fatigue tests between 100°C and 1200°C for heating and cooling rates up to 10°C/s The tests can be performed under strain and stress control for plain and notched specimens with possible utilization of digital image correlation for various materials. The induction heating system allow us to test various metallic materials and metal matrix composites including aluminium, copper and nickel based alloys at elevated and variable temperatures.

Life prediction Life prediction under multixial low-/high-cycle fatigue loading Creep and ductile failure Life prediction for multixial thermo-mechanical fatigue loading Vibration fatigue analysis (stationary and non-stationary state), Life prediction in frequency domain The life prediction analysis can be performed for isotropic materials, anisotropic materials, additively manufactured materials and composites. We can utilize finite-element analysis results to calculate and visualize damage variables for complex components.

Finite-element analysis Creep, plasticity, viscoplasticity, damage evolution Steady-state and transient dynamics Random response analysis, vibration fatigue analysis Fluid and structure interaction Crack initiation and propagation

Machine learning Processing big data Data-driven numerical models Utilization of neural networks, convolutional and recurrent neural networks