OCAS has the ambition to further broaden the scope of the existing regional MaDurOS program geographically to a European context as well as to widen its application scope to other materials (non-ferrous metals, composites, …) as well as other asset-intensive sectors such as deep-sea mining, geothermal drilling,  renewables, power generation, oil&gas, … which are all facing a similar challenge that the absence of dedicated testing and simulation facilities to characterize the behaviour of materials and components under severe or harsh conditions, is a roadblock towards material driven innovations.  At the same time, the EIT Raw Materials provides a unique opportunity to further inventorize and enrich existing set-ups, identify testing blind spots as well as expand the predictive simulation models with complementary competences.

• OCAS N.V., Belgium (Lead Partner)
• Clausthal University of Technology, Germany
• DEME, Belgium
• ERAMET Research, France
• Ghent University, the Netherlands
• INESC TEC Instituto de Engenharia de Sistemas e Computadores do Porto (Institute for 51. Systems and Computer Engineering of Porto), Portugal
• Instytut Metali Niezelaznych, IMN (Institute of Non-Ferrous Metals), Poland
• Katholieke Universiteit te Leuven (KU Leuven), Belgium
• RISE Holding (RISE Research Institutes of Sweden), Sweden
• Technische Universiteit Delft (Delft University of Technology), the Netherlands

Contact: peter.giese(at)tu-clausthal.de

https://eitrawmaterials.eu/project/maduros-material-durability-for-off-shore/