ERC Starting Grant · 2024
It appears paradoxical how today's frontier & high-impact research seeks for designing new materials to delay structural failures – especially fatigue – while the same effort is not seen concerning the way materials can be efficiently and safely used in real structural applications. BREAKDOWN aims to transform engineering products’ design methods by identifying and including a set of (sub)micro-scale material inhomogeneities characteristics in a novel probabilistic framework. The time has come to exploit modern experimental techniques to probe material properties at a small scale, which are scarcely involved in current fatigue characterisation schemes. To attain this very ambitious goal,…
From the public funding record at EU CORDIS. Describes the funded project, not the reviews below.