Our mission is to develop new and fundamental understanding of corrosion mechanisms to enable better assessments and predictions of the performance of engineered materials and structures across disciplines. A particular aim is to improve the safety, sustainability, and durability of civil infrastructures – including bridges, tunnels, radioactive waste storage facilities, pipelines, energy installations, or additively manufactured structures.
By performing research at the interface of corrosion science and engineering, we deliver the scientific basis for the development of sensors, monitoring techniques, non-destructive test methods, predictive models, and corrosion protection strategies. We use experimental and computational methods across materials science, electrochemistry, porous media, reactive mass transport, and civil engineering. A key research interest is the interdependence of surface reactions (electrochemistry) and reactive transport in porous media, thus the coupled and complex processes occurring at the interface of a metal and the surrounding porous medium.
We transfer new knowledge to engineering practice through education, applied research projects, and (inter-)national committee work. Knowledge transfer is further strengthened by the creation of spin-offs from our research, such as external page DuraMon and external page Talpa Inspection.
The chair “Durability of Engineering Materials” is endowed by the external page Werner Siemens Foundation, the external page Dätwyler Foundation and the external page Albert Lück Foundation.
