HELSINKI UNIVERSITY

OF TECHNOLOGY (HUT)

Department of Mechanical Engineering

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 STRICE 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 STRICE 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 STRICE project

HUT leads the work packages Ridge full scale measurements (WP 4.4) and the thereto related Data processing and evaluation of results (WP 5)

The institution contributes to the work packages End user workshop (WP 1), Correlation of existing and new data with predictions (WP 6), Recommendations towards codes (WP 7) and Reporting and dissemination of results (WP 9).

Contacts

Helsinki University of Technology
Department of Mechanical Engineering
P.O. Box 4100
Otakaari 4
FIN-02015 HUT
Finland

Tel.: +358 9 4 51 34 39

Fax.: +358 9 4 51 34 43

WWW: www.hut.fi

For information regarding HUT's participation in
the STRICE project:
Prof. Dr. Tech. Mauri Määttänen
Professor at Department of Mechanical Engineering
Laboratory of Mechanics and Materials

Tel.: +358 9 4 51 34 40

Email: Mauri.Maattanen@hut.fi

M.Sc. Eng. Jaakko Heinonen
Project Scientist at Department of Mechanical Engineering
Laboratory of Mechanics and Materials

Tel.: +358 9 4 51 34 43

Email: Jaakko.Heinonen@hut.f i

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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