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SUPOPETR-SUP-OED Petroleumssektor

Materials and Structural Integrity

Awarded: NOK 5.0 mill.

MATSINT is a strategic university project that is directed towards one of NTNU's strategic research areas: Materials. Within the strategic research area, Structural Integrity is defined as a focus area. Two faculties, Engineering Science and Technology and Natural Science and Technology, with a total of four departments are involved. The SINTEF group (Division of Materials and Chemistry and MARINTEK) will contribute in kind, through joint operation of laboratories and infrastructure. The project is pl anned for three years . The project will comprise five PhD students. Two PhD students will be funded by NTNU. Collaboration with identified research groups in Europe, US/Canada and Japan will be strengthened. The technical contents of the project is ba sic research into damage mechanics and degradation mechanisms for engineering materials, notably steel and other high-strength materials. Key words: Fracture Mechanics (fatigue and fracture), Ductile Collapse (collapse strength, post-collapse behaviour) , Cyclic Plasticity and Fatigue, Corrosion (general and localised corrosion, stress corrosion cracking), Creep, Wear, Corrosion Fatigue, Fretting Fatigue, Elastic-Plastic Fracture, Stress Corrosion Cracking. The research will be aimed at steel and other high-strength structural materials, new materials and materials in novel and demanding applications, extended service life/residual life analysis of structures. The main user groups are offshore industry, marine industry. Interest has also been generate d in other sectors (land based process industry, railroad, turbine, propulsion machinery, etc.)

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SUPOPETR-SUP-OED Petroleumssektor