• crashworthiness of light-weight automotive structures
• limit states for strain based design of pipelines (fracture mechanics approach),
• degradation mechanisms altering component/structure integrity over life-time (fatigue, corrosion-fatigue, hydrogen embrittlement, stress-corrosion, high-temperature corrosion, erosion)
• corrosion protection (cathodic protection, coating)
• welding technology (incl. hyperbaric welding) and residual stress simulation,
• mechanical testing and analyses; from small scale specimens – to full scale testing/verification.

• Arctic Materials
• DEEPIT - Deep water repair welding and hot tapping
• SmartPipe - Monitoring technical condition of offshore oil & gas pipelines
• Fevind - Thinner cast components for the windmills of the future
• Residual Stress Simulation for Integrity Assessment – RESIA.

Products and services:
Our department is divided into 4 research teams. Within each research area we have modern and well equipped laboratories

• Software
  - LINKpipe
• Laboratory services