FOR 5657 explores material fatigue — a critical challenge to the integrity of both natural and engineered structures — by examining how biological systems, such as enamel, fishbone, wood, and coral, cope with repeated stress. The research highlights nature’s diverse strategies for managing fatigue through structural adaptation, healing, and composition. These insights offer valuable guidance for designing next-generation, fatigue-resistant materials and structures. By bridging biology and engineering, the work holds significant promise for developing more efficient, durable, and sustainable nanocomposites. These can only be achieved with advanced testing and characterisation procedures in standardised evaluation processes. The thereby developed workflows will be precisely characterised, and the results will be processed in a decentralised way.
| Acronym: | FOR 5657 |
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| Contact: | Prof. Dr.-Ing. Claudia Fleck, TU Berlin |
| DFG Classification: | 4.31-04 - Mechanical Properties of Metallic Materials and their Microstructural Origins 4.32-02 - Biomaterials |
| Material/ Methodology: | fatigue testing and structural characterization of hierarchical nanocomposites |
| Engagement: | Groups from 7 different institutes (national and international) |
NFDI-MatWerk
Funded by the Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG, German Research Foundation) under the National Research Data Infrastructure – NFDI 38/1 – project number 460247524.
NFDI-MatWerk
Funded by the Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG, German Research Foundation) under the National Research Data Infrastructure – NFDI 38/1 – project number 460247524.
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