Research projects
Actual research projects
The Structural Durability Group is part of the Chair of Numerical and Experimental Solid Mechanics since 2022. Please click here to see our current research topics .
Successfully completed projects
Influence of characteristics of loading, of sequence and of mean stress
- Buxbaum/Kotte et al. (1994) - DFG-project: influence of sequence
- Sonsino/Kotte et al. (2000) - DFG-project: influence of mean stress variation
- Thesis of Sponheim (1995) - characteristic function of loading
- Thesis of Müller (2003) - influence of material and sequence
The local strain approach
- Thesis of Best (1992) - influences on the definition of parameters of defects
- Thesis of Rochlitz (1992), thesis of Hickethier (1999) - service life predictions using local parameters, without Miner's rule
- Thesis of Wang (1998) - relative Miner's rule and local approach
- Thesis of Wenzel (2000) - consideration of transient material behaviour
- Thesis of Hollmann (2004) - transferability of fatigue strength characteristics
Statistic methods
- Thesis of Mogwitz (1988)
- Thesis of Georges (1999) - spring steel
Collection of operational strength tests/evaluation of the accuracy of different methods of service life estimations
- Data bank DABEF (1994/1997)
- Habilitation of Eulitz (1999)
Fatigue behaviour of magnesium-components
- Kotte/Berger et al. (2001), final report on magnesium component behaviour
- Kotte/Berger et al. (2008), final report on magnesium component behaviour II