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Fraunhofer EMI

395 employees at three locations
Realization of cross-material experiments and simulations of crash, impact and shock wave phenomena
Applications in the fields of defense, security, automotive, aerospace, aviation and sustainability

Research for a safe future

The Ernst Mach Institute conducts research into fast-moving processes through experiments and simulations.

The institute's research is focused on enhancing safety and resilience. In particular, it examines processes that occur in fractions of a second, such as car crashes, battery explosions, and collisions in space. Based on this research, the institute develops safety concepts.

The institute's research areas include: safe mobility, battery safety, building protection, aircraft safety, satellite development, research for the German Armed Forces, safety in urban systems, and the resilience of infrastructure networks.

News

News/Press

Simulation Software Boosts Climate Resilience in Buildings

Fraunhofer EMI is developing software to assess the impact of extreme weather events.

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Automotive: Consulting for AI and Digital Engineering

Fraunhofer EMI to consult JSOL on Japanese automotive safety market.

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Expert forum: Safe batteries in electric cars

Fraunhofer EMI presents battery testing at the Efringen-Kirchen site.

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Safe batteries

Fraunhofer EMI makes battery systems safer. Here you can find out more about methodology, fields of application and current projects.

Battery safety: Expertise for the safe integration of batteries

Manufacturing small satellites faster and more cheaply

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Freiburg small satellite to recognise rocket launches

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Workshop Bau-Protect

Protect buildings, infrastructures and public spaces from extreme, highly dynamic loads.

Bau-Protect 2024 – register now

Annual Report 2023/24

The EMI Annual Report 2023/2024 provides an overview of successfully completed research projects, new research fields and a review of a successful year.

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Defense

Fraunhofer EMI analyzes modern concepts of protection and new materials for high-dynamic loading and develops sensor technology for ballistic application.

Security and Resilience

We research and develop technologies, methods and ideas to make our society and its infrastructures robust, error-tolerant and resilient towards hazardous events.

Automotive

Crashworthiness of vehicle structures and components as well as the challenges concerning electromobility and automated driving form the center of research of the business unit Automotive.

Space

Meteorites and space debris threaten spacecraft and satellites. At Fraunhofer EMI, we investigate hypervelocity impacts in order to improve the security of space systems.

Aviation

Aviation materials have to be light, loadable and reliable. We test structures, components and joints and optimize lightweight structures.

Locations

Freiburg

Ernst-Zermelo-Strasse 4

79104 Freiburg, Germany

Phone +49 761 2714-0

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Efringen-Kirchen

Am Klingelberg 1

79588 Efringen-Kirchen, Germany

Phone +49 7628 9050-0

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Kandern

Am Christianswuhr 2

79400 Kandern, Germany

Phone +49 7626 9157-0

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Fraunhofer Institute for High-Speed Dynamics, Ernst-Mach-Institut, EMI

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