To realize our ambition, we run a large variety of projects from the BSc level to the MSc and PhD levels. Some projects target clear applications and are typically in collaboration with industry. Other projects aim for more in-depth and fundamental research and are typically carried out with partners from other universities in Denmark, Scandinavia, the European Union and overseas countries, including USA. This approach allows us to maintain and strengthen our connection with the industry, while at the same time establishes our scientific leadership in the field nationally and internationally. This approach enables us to target various funding agencies to support our research activities such as the Independent Research Fund Denmark, Innovation Fund Denmark, Aarhus University Research Foundation, EU Horizon 2020, European Regional Development Fund, and private funds.
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Andrea Franza , Lars Vabbersgaard Andersen , Felipe Prada & Lau Fogh
The project tackles the geotechnical aspects of shared anchors for floating offshore wind turbines (FOWTs), needed by the EU to reach the targeted share of renewable energy. With a focus on anchors in sandy seabeds, the project will conceive and test an innovative grouped anchor concept.Description
01/01-2025 → 31/12-2027
Andrea Franza , Lars Vabbersgaard Andersen , Felipe Prada , Giuseppe Abbiati & Nikolaj Braüner Bjerge
This project focuses on improving the design of floating wind turbines (FOWTs) by developing a new approach for anchoring and mooring systems. These turbines are key to harnessing renewable energy from deep-water locations that are currently not suitable for traditional offshore wind farms. The main goal of the project is to create a new computational framework that can model multiple floating turbines connected by mooring lines to shared suction anchors. This model will help optimize the design of the anchoring systems for different environmental conditions.Description
01/11-2024 → 31/10-2027
Lars Vabbersgaard Andersen , Steffen Petersen , Søren Wandahl , Stephanie Therkelsen Salling , Laszlo Mangliar , Markus Matthias Hudert & Kristine Strøm
The construction sector accounts for around 40% of society's waste and energy consumption and 50% of the raw-material use, so it is imperative to find circular solutions. We need regenerative construction that promotes the green transition. In the interdisciplinary project ASCEND - Advancing Sustainable Circularity for Eco-friendly Net-zero Developments, researchers from Lund University and Aarhus University enter into dialogue with the construction industry in the Öresund-Kattegatt-Skagerrak region.
The mission is clear: We must have a common direction towards absolute sustainability!
We will work together in parallel in three different work packages:
EXISTING BUILDINGS can be viewed as material banks, but there are no established methods for assessing the balance of the account. We will therefore work with mapping of buildings and materials as well as risk-based decision support to decide whether buildings should be dismantled or preserved. This can assess whether renovation or conversion to other uses are better than reusing materials and components.
NEW BUILDINGS must be constructed from renewable materials and so that they can contribute to future reuse. Modular timber construction has great potential here. We therefore uncover the construction industry's current approach with a focus on identifying opportunities for better material utilization and reuse of materials in modules, just as we work with principles for disassembly and adaptation of modules.
MATERIALS AND COMPONENTS must allow safe deconstruction and their quality must be known for them to be optimally reused. We will therefore work with techniques for safe deconstruction of buildings as well as classification methods, where the quality of reused materials and components is determined through non-destructive testing methods.Description
01/10-2024 → 30/09-2027
The project investigates the seismic performance of pallet racking systems by means of shake table tests.Description
01/09-2024 → 31/08-2025
Urban densification, despite its economic and environmental opportunities, brings an increase in noise- and vibration-producing sources, which, when coupled with the rising use of lightweight buildings, risks deteriorating living conditions that have a negative impact on health. The densification of our cities will continue unabated, as will our reliance on lightweight buildings that is fueled by sustainability concerns.
We propose to develop a software using novel machine learning methods in combination with recently developed computational methods. We suggest that timely and informed decision-making in the design of lightweight buildings is necessary to mitigate the negative synergy of urban density, lightweight structures, and rise in noise sources. This can be achieved via the use of computational prediction tools, which are trained, calibrated and validated to measured data.
The research aims at easing vibroacoustic performance prediction during conceptual design of lightweight buildings, thus enabling mitigation of noise and vibration in urban environments and a more efficient structural design using less resources. The principal investigator has assembled a team of established international scholars, with complementary technical expertise. The software will ease the assessment of vibrations and structure-borne noise, which leads to resource-savings and mitigated effects of noise and vibrations, and a fair competitiveness of lightweight buildings in dense urban areas.Description
01/01-2024 → 31/12-2027
Giuseppe Abbiati , Peter Gorm Larsen , Martin Dalgaard Ulriksen & Lars Damkilde
The project develops a digital twin platform for machines and structures with particular focus on SMEs.Description
01/05-2023 → 30/04-2026
Giuseppe Abbiati , Peter Gorm Larsen & Cláudio Ângelo Gonçalves Gomes
The project develops a digital-twin concept for large-scale testing facilities for the wind industry.Layman's description
01/03-2023 → 28/02-2026
Giuseppe Abbiati , Cláudio Ângelo Gonçalves Gomes & Peter Gorm Larsen
The project develops hybrid testing for large wind turbine components such as blades and drive-train.Description
01/12-2022 → 31/05-2025
01/01-2022 → 31/12-2025
Kenny Kataoka Sørensen , Lars Vabbersgaard Andersen & Hans Henning Stutz
According to the Danish Energy Agency’s latest projection, the Danish power grid will reach 100% renewable energy no sooner than 2028. However, we can already now see a demand for a more flexible and secure power distribution due to the fluctuating energy production and consumption. Most experts suggest energy storage systems as the most sustainable, ideally suited and lasting solution.
The aim of this project is to develop and test critical parameters for a technology that enables storing energy in water according to the well-known principle of Pumped Hydro Storage (PHS) – but in an underground geomembrane, i.e. by installing a 10 x10 meter mock-up. The project focuses on geotechnical conditions and membrane design and will include the conduction of a range of examinations including the technological adaptation in the energy market in combination with various renewable energy sources and business cases.Description
01/09-2020 → 28/02-2022
Many Scandinavian municipalities have successfully reduced their energy consumption during operation according to the EU requirements, especially during the last 5¿10 years. However, not everyone and not to a minimum. Therefore, in the short term, a roll-out of best practices provides good opportunities, and in the long term it is necessary to address the embodied energy to avoid using more than half of the energy related to the life of a building, already in the production and construction phase. The project aims to answer two basic questions:
1. How can we reduce energy consumption in public buildings, reported as operational energy and embodied energy, while avoiding sub-optimization?
2. How can policies be formulated, and knowledge shared between stakeholders, such that the reduction becomes a reality for the benefit of society?
In this context, we study and develop good examples for minimizing operational energy and the right balance between the construction of new buildings and the renovation of existing one. This points towards two scenarios: building lightweight or reusing buildings/building components, thereby utilizing the already embodied energy in new or renovated buildings. We address the minimization of energy in public building while keeping an eye on a great indoor environment and good functionality of the design. Energy reduction can only be realized by considering, respectfully, the needs and behaviour of the end-users of a building.Description
01/07-2020 → 30/09-2022
The goal of the project is to develop a hybrid fire testing setup at the Danish Institute of Fire and Security Technology (DBI).Description
01/06-2019 → 31/05-2020
Asger Gramkow , Lars Vabbersgaard Andersen , Kenny Kataoka Sørensen & Hans Henning Stutz
Soil-membrane interface testing and modelling in connection to underground Pumped Hydro Storage systemDescription
01/02-2019 → 30/06-2019
Experimental evaluation on the post-earthquake fire performance of lowly-damaged and highly-damaged unprotected structural steel elements by using hybrid simulation.Description
01/10-2018 → 31/12-2020
01/02-2018 → 24/08-2025
The goal of this project is to prototype an hybrid testing setup that allows for coupling heat transfer between physica land numerical substructures.Description
01/01-2017 → 31/12-2017
The goal of this project is to develop a thermomechanical hybrid simulation setup for testing composite component for aerospace applications.Description
01/11-2016 → 31/01-2018
European Regional Development Fund, Interreg V.
co-applicant, Danish coordinatorDescription
01/01-2016 → 01/01-2018
Danish National Advanced Technology Foundation Description
01/01-2013 → 01/01-2016
Danish National Advanced Technology Foundation . Work package leaderDescription
01/01-2010 → 01/01-2014
European Regional Development Fund, Interreg IV. Work package leaderDescription
01/01-2010 → 01/01-2013
DSF. Work package leaderDescription
01/01-2009 → 01/01-2014
EFPDescription
01/01-2005 → 01/01-2007
