Department of Steel and Light Alloy Construction (VAKA)

at Karlsruhe Institute of Technology

Specialist areas

  • Fatigue behaviour of wind energy specific notch details
  • Extension of the fatigue life of wind energy plants using post weld treatment methods
  • Early damage detection in wind energy structures by infrared thermography and other monitoring methods
  • Joining technologies in wind energy constructions using adhesive bonding and grouting