Technical safety

Safety considerations and the assessment of systems, units and components are a key area of competence at the Fraunhofer ICT. Important fields include experimental investigations, fault simulations, and also the determination of worst case scenarios, from a laboratory to a real-life scale.

Research is carried out into gas explosions under plugging conditions or on open-air test sites, DDT-behaviour, particle-air mixtures, tank explosions and fires. Systems investigated include vehicles with new propulsion concepts such as fuel cells or gas propulsion systems (e.g. hydrogen), and also vehicles with conventional propulsion systems. The safety analysis of complex systems means that more detailed investigations are required, as well as the use of validated measurement systems and the development of new measurement processes.

Rapid sound, pressure and temperature measurements are also carried out, such as rapid spectroscopic methods to detect radiation output and reaction temperatures, as well as more contact-free imaging methods.