Service offer

Material characterization

• Mechanical characterization of materials, fabrics and components
• Meso- and micromechanical determination of material characteristics
• Standardized nondestructive material testing
• Test methods for micro- and nanostructure of materials
• Acoustic microscopy and micro-computed tomography

 

Modeling and simulation

• Development and implementation of material models for all material groups and material structures concerning the requirements of quasi-tatic as well as high-dynamic strain rates
• Calibration and validation of material models in commercial finite-element codes
• Crash simulation from component levels up to complete vehicles
• Simulation of fluid-structure interactions
• Development of tools to support the calibration of material models

 

Crash Center of the Fraunhofer-Gesellschaft

• Crash center for new methods and materials
• Flexible and demand-dependent test setups
• Crash tests from component levels up to complete vehicles
• Development of measurement techniques and sensors for crash tests
• Support of crash tests through crash simulation

 

Active vehicle safety

• Reliability analyses of hard- and software systems
• Modeling of the technical system vehicle with hazard analysis, FTA, FMEA and more

 

New mobility concepts

• Modeling and simulation of vehicle batteries under dynamic loads
• Diagnosis tools for high-voltage components in electric vehicles
• Test bench to examine the crashworthiness of electric vehicle batteries
• Static and dynamic destructive testing methods for batteries