Our colleague Alexander Seidel recently participated in the general assembly of the platform MaterialDigital at the Bundesanstalt für Materialforschung und -prüfung (BAM) in Berlin. During the two-day event, research partners from academia and industry came together to discuss the current progress of the MaterialDigital initiative's ongoing projects and their future direction. Several presentations and workshops were additionally held to discuss how the digitalisation of materials sciences in Germany and Europe can generate added value in the future.

Alexander Seidel presented the final results of the project SensoTwin on behalf of the project consortium (consisting of the technology campuses Freyung and Hutthurm of the Deggendorf Institute of Technology alongside the Chair of Carbon Composites) and, as a result, a software demonstrator for creating digital twins of fibre-reinforced polymer structures. Using the example of a wind turbine rotor blade, the demonstrator shows the interaction between process and structure simulation as well as a new type of material ontology for estimating the blade’s remaining lifetime. The success of the project was further emphasised by the reception of the award for the best demonstrator at the general assembly.

We would like to thank the platform MaterialDigital once again for organising this successful event and wish all new projects in the initiative success for the future.