HELSINKI UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY (HUT)

Brief profile

Helsinki University of Technology is the main and largest technical university in Finland. Founded in 1849, university status was achieved in 1908. The university employs about 200 professors and associate professors and about 600 people of teaching and research staff. HUT provides highest levels of technical education and carries out scientific research in most fields of technology. There are twelve degree programmes at HUT ranging from electrical engineering and information technology to surveying and architecture.

HUT's Department of Mechanical Engineering, the biggest and oldest academic unit in Finland, focusses on transportation facilities, machine construction, mechanical engineering, construction/production engineering and energy engineering. It has 14 laboratories and 25 professors, approx. 320 employees and about 2,100 degree or postgraduate students. The department's Laboratory on Strength and Materials is engaged in research areas like finite element analysis, dynamics of machines and structures, ice mechanics, structural optimisation, fracture mechanics and experimental mechanical testing.
 
 

 
Ice mechanical tests and full scale measurements as typically conducted and applied to the LOLEIF project by HUT in the Baltic Sea off the Finnish coast . 

Images courtesy of M. Määttänen, HUT

HUT's Laboratory for Mechanics of Materials (LMM) is specialised in theoretical and experimental research of mechanical behaviour of materials and structures under stress and strain, both in static and dynamic conditions. Professor Mauri Määttänen is the head of the laboratory and represents the laboratory in the LOLEIF project.

The main research areas are the accuracy and reliability of finite element analysis, dynamics of machines and structures, ice mechanics, structural optimisation, fracture mechanics, and experimental mechanical testing. LMM has state-of-art test equipment, instrumentation, and computer resources for advanced in-field measurements and laboratory testing and simulation of materials and products in mechanical engineering.
 
 

Involvement in and contributions to the LOLEIF project

HUT led Subtask 2.2 - Ridge Mechanical Properties and Subtask 4.3 - Ridge Load Model and contributed to Subtask 2.4 - Determination and Transfer of Ice Force Affecting Parameters and Subtask 4.2 - Dynamic Ice - Structure Interaction Model as well as to Task 5 - Recommendation of Ice Forces on Coastal Structures.
 
 

Contacts
 

Helsinki University of Technology Department of Mechanical Engineering P.O. Box 4100 Otakaari 4 FIN-02015 HUT Finland    Tel.: +358 9 45 13 - 439 Fax.: +358 9 45 13 - 443 WWW: www.hut.fi

For information regarding  HUT's participation in  the LOLEIF project:  Prof. Dr. Tech. Mauri Määttänen Department of Mechanical Engineering Laboratory of Mechanics and Materials   Tel.: +358 9 45 13 - 440 E-mail: Mauri.Maattanen@hut.fi

Please visit also the web sites of HUT, the university's Department of Mechanical Engineering and the Laboratory for Mechanics of Materials (LMM) for further information.
 

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Last update: 2001-10-29