Project
Project description
ERC Funding
DREAM-ON has received funding from the European Research Council (ERC), as part of the European Union's Horizon Europe research and innovation program for the period 2021-2026 under the grant agreement No. 101002857.
The project has a Consolidator grant status and is part of the research panel PE8 - Product and Process Engineering.
Its funding amounts to 1.937.500 €.
Issue
In a digital world with the expansion of connected systems, and with regards to damage phenomena which remain a perpetual engineering concern with potentially dramatic consequences, the design of mechanical structures with integrated Structural Health Monitoring (SHM) capabilities is still an open question.
Such structures yet represent a critical need in several areas such as transport or energy, for more reliability but also more performance, with optimized maintenance and capability to operate in degraded mode.
The scientific issue is in the monitoring of large complex systems such as aircrafts, bridges, or wind turbines. Despite advances in sensing technologies and numerical methods, it remains difficult for data science to manage and interpret sensor information, to predict the structural behavior involving multiscale phenomena in complex materials (composite, concrete), and to make safe decision within a changing environment.
Project concept
The innovative concept of the project is a continuous and synergistic dialog between advanced structural sensing and command, and the most powerful modeling and simulation tools of computational mechanics.
The employed numerical methodology integrates effective tools for data assimilation, adaptive modeling, and certified command synthesis. It represents a key enabler for the next generation of on-board Structural Health Monitoring (SHM) technologies employed on large structures.
It is expected that the project outcomes impact various engineering fields, and open new perspectives for the design of modern self-aware systems.
