Fraunhofer Institute for High-Speed Dynamics, Ernst-Mach-Institut, EMI

Fraunhofer Institute for High-Speed Dynamics, Ernst-Mach-Institut, EMI

Annual report 2023/2024

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SMAUG — what is happening, if an aircraft collides with a drone?

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Artificial intelligence for real-time injury prediction

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Fraunhofer EMI

  • 395 employees at three locations
  • Realization of cross-material experiments and simulations of crash, impact and shock wave phenomena
  • Applications in the fields of defense, security, automotive, aerospace, aviation and sustainability

Research for a safe future

 

 

 


The Ernst Mach Institute conducts research into fast-moving processes through experiments and simulations.
 

The institute's research is focused on enhancing safety and resilience. In particular, it examines processes that occur in fractions of a second, such as car crashes, battery explosions, and collisions in space. Based on this research, the institute develops safety concepts.


The institute's research areas include: safe mobility, battery safety, building protection, aircraft safety, satellite development, research for the German Armed Forces, safety in urban systems, and the resilience of infrastructure networks.

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ERNST: The countdown is on

Fraunhofer's first small satellite is about to be launched into orbit. Livestream available. 

 

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Annual Report 2023/24

The EMI Annual Report 2023/2024 provides an overview of successfully completed research projects, new research fields and a review of a successful year.

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Defense

Fraunhofer EMI analyzes modern concepts of protection and new materials for high-dynamic loading and develops sensor technology for ballistic application.

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Security and Resilience

We research and develop technologies, methods and ideas to make our society and its infrastructures robust, error-tolerant and resilient towards hazardous events.

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Automotive

Crashworthiness of vehicle structures and components as well as the challenges concerning electromobility and automated driving form the center of research of the business unit Automotive.

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Space

Meteorites and space debris threaten spacecraft and satellites. At Fraunhofer EMI, we investigate hypervelocity impacts in order to improve the security of space systems.

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Aviation

Aviation materials have to be light, loadable and reliable. We test structures, components and joints and optimize lightweight structures.

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Locations

 

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Freiburg

Ernst-Zermelo-Strasse 4

79104 Freiburg, Germany

Phone +49 761 2714-0 

 

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Efringen-Kirchen

Am Klingelberg 1

79588 Efringen-Kirchen, Germany

Phone +49 7628 9050-0

 

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Kandern

Am Christianswuhr 2

79400 Kandern, Germany

Phone +49 7626 9157-0