Prof. Dr. Marcus Rutner

Institute Director Institute for Metal and Composite Structures Hamburg University of Technology (TUHH)

Dr. Rutner received his Engineering Diploma (Dipl.-Ing.) and Doctorate (Dr.-Ing.) from the Technical University Munich in 1999 and 2003, respectively, spent two years as Monbusho Scholar at the Osaka Institute of Technology/Japan (2000-2002) and spent his postdoc as German Research Foundation (DFG) Scholar at University of California, Berkeley (2005-2007). Dr. Rutner finished his Habilitation at Technical University Munich in 2012. Dr. Rutner worked as Consulting Engineer at the Applied Science Department, Weidlinger Associates, Inc., New York from 2007 to 2013. He was involved in the vulnerability assessment and blast protection of the PATH Station and World Trade Center Transportation Hub (Oculus), New York City. Dr. Rutner was appointed Associate Professor at Stevens Institute of Technology, USA, in 2013. In 2017, Dr. Rutner was appointed Professor and Institute Director of the Institute for Metal and Composite Structures at Hamburg University of Technology (TUHH). His research focusses on nanostructured metal composites and 3D-metal printing in order to address questions in respect to material fatigue

2nd Conference Day, Wednesday, 28 August 2024

2:00 PM Lifetime Extension and Mass Savings of Monopiles Through Postweld Treatment with Nanolaminate Metal Composites

• Increase of notch class of double-V butt weld from FAT class 80 to FAT class 190

• Elimination of fatigue as governing load case in the design of offshore windtubine foundations

• 600% increase in lifetime of monopiles

• About 30% mass savings of monopiles

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