The Mechanics of Materials Lab pushes the boundaries of solid mechanics to address the scientific and industrial challenges associated with fatigue and fracture of advanced structural materials and structures, including steels, aluminium alloys, nickel-based alloys, and components such as additively manufactured alloys and welded pipelines, as well as the design and testing of energy infrastructure. With a strong focus on advanced steels, metals, welds, welded structures and additively manufatured alloys, we lead the design, fabrication, and testing of metallic infrastructure for regular engineering applications in air and for energy systems involving hydrogen, ammonia, CO₂, and methanol, enabling their integration into aerospace, maritime, railway, and other transportation sectors, driving innovation toward durable, lightweight, and sustainable energy and mobility technologies.
Head of the laboratory
Masoud Moshtaghi
Research areas
- Solid Mechanics
- Fatigue
- Hydrogen embrittlement
- Mechanics of Materials
- Additive manufacturing
- Welding processes
- Advanced steels
- Metals & Alloys
- Multiscale Fatigue Assessment
- Welded structures
- Multiscale microstructural characterisation
- Design and testing of energy infrastructure
- Structural Integrity
- Hydrogen, Ammonia, CO2, Methanol
- Extreme environment
Infrastructure
- Advanced multiscale experimental and computational techniques
- Mechanical testing of metals and alloys for energy infrastructure, metal industries, batteries, transportation, and extreme environments
- Fatigue testing in hydrogen, CO2, and other environmental effects
- X-ray and neutron-based techniques
- Thermal desorption spectroscopy (TDS)
- Hydrogen permeation set-up
- Advanced hydrogen mapping techniques
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Lab News
16.07.2026 - LUT Mechanics of Materials Lab participated in the 79th International Institute of Welding Annual Assembly, Salzburg, Austria. More info: https://www.linkedin.com/feed/update/urn:li:activity:7483581565705502720
22.06.2026 – THERMIND Project Funded! Mechanics of Materials Lab has been awarded major funding through the Horizon Europe programme for the THERMIND project. We are recruiting 4 Doctoral Researchers to join the project and contribute to research in Solid Mechanics, Structural Mechanics, Fatigue, Welding, Sustainability, Lifetime Assessment, and Fatigue Prediction. For more info, please contact the head of the lab.
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