“Spotlight on Partners” series
TU Delft University of Technology
Partner TU Delft University of Technology
For 2025’s second post, we put in the spotlight one of our university partners in Netherlands : Delft University of Technology
TU Delft is the largest and oldest Dutch public technical university and hosts over 26000 students. Ranked among the top institutions in the world, it has a broad research portfolio that, divided across 40 departments and 8 faculties, spans almost the entire range of engineering sciences. TU Delft stands for high-quality research and innovation that combines science, technology and design while maintaining strong links to education. Its research is driven by the demand for technological solutions to social problems, in particular in health, energy, environment, infrastructures & mobility domains.
TU Delft researchers bring to D-STANDART their skills and knowledge on fatiguetesting, multi-scale modelling, vibration/fatigue models but also artificial intelligence AI and Machine Learning ML. A team from TU Delft | Aerospace Engineering and TU Delft | Civil Engineering and Geosciences focus on reducing the amount of time and effort needed to characterise the fatigue behaviour of composite structures by means of new testing techniques and linking these to AI-enabled surrogate models.
TU Delft also actively contributed to the revision of CWA- 17815:2021: “Materials Characterisation – Terminology, Metadata and Classification” coordinated by CEN and CENELEC. By providing specific field fatigue characterization metatada CHADA, TU Delft included the D-STANDART testing activities as a worked example for the implementation of the new standard with real-life, ISO 15114 -compliant, working sequences.
Finally, TU Delft is highly involved in dissemination, and technology transfer activities of D-STANDART, leading the training task: After coordinating various training workshops and hosting one last year, our partner also launched the D-STANDART Academy initiative, offering free online resources on fatigue evaluation and testing of composites.
“Bonus track”:
- Interested in the workshop dedicated to fatigue testing of composite materials? You can find videos, tutorials and practical exercises in our Virtual Academy: D-standart – Training Workshops and Panel Discussions at JEC2025
- We invite you to meet TU Delft researchers at JEC2025 at our booth 6D114-02 but also:
- During a presentation on “More efficient fatigue evaluation of composite structures by leveraging machine learning and surrogate modelling” John-Alan Pascoe (Tue 4 March at 10 am)
- During a session on “Uncertainty quantification and surrogate modelling in the Dynamics of Composite Structures” at our second training workshop Vahid Yaghoubi Georgios Soimoiris (Wed 5 March at 9.10 am): D-standart – Training Workshops and Panel Discussions at JEC2025