Structural Durability

The Division ‘Structural Durability’ forms the basis of our applied research activities since the Fraunhofer LBF was founded. Since more than 85 years we support our customers to develop safe, reliable, light and sustainable products.   

For us ‘Structural Durability’ is more than doing tests and simulations. It is the knowledge to combine different information from manufacturing, design, local material behavior including defects with a precise definition of loads and system behavior to ensure the highest possible safety for light and cost-efficient systems.

We make lightweight and reliability for cyclically loaded systems possible. To ensure this, we work on new methods to describe and simulate the behavior of materials, components and systems to increase material utilization, system efficiency and reliability.

Structural durability - more than just carrying out tests and simulations

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In working with us you benefit from:

• 85 years of expertise in structural durability with a powerful knowledge in the collective
• our high reputation in assessing the structural durability of materials, components, assemblies and systems
• a wide-ranging and flexible infrastructure for fatigue investigations from small to large scale components
• no brand connection, especially for your system tests
• our scientific competence enabling astate of the art evaluation of your research objective
• our holistic approaches to assess the structural durability from material to the entire system
• our high problem solving skills

Our research goals and topics

• Increasing material utilization (scattering, recycling, defects) and also system efficiency (energy, availability, costs)
• Knowledge transfer from scientific research to industrial application through the development of application-oriented methods
• Reliability as the basis for a safe product, a sustainable product life cycle and a positive product and brand image
• Designing innovations at material, component and system level by reducing the risk of failure and damage