
AMADE studies the behavior of advanced materials, especially composites. It offers standard, cutting-edge technological tests and develops numerical models, oriented to industry needs.
Universitat de Girona (UdG)
Composite materials; adhesives; simulation; fracture; experimental characterization; constitutive models; damage; structural efficiency; structural integrity
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Technological capabilities
AMADE regularly collaborates with industrial sectors to link the research and development needs of companies with the University's research lines. AMADE offers:
- Design tools with predictive capacity for the in-service behavior of composite materials.
- Determination of the physical and mechanical properties of newly developed composite materials candidates to be incorporated into the structural components of the aeronautical industry.
- Optimize materials, structural elements and the structures themselves to obtain improved mechanical and use properties.
- Conception and design of lightweight structures.
- Incorporation of new environmentally sustainable materials.
- Development of components where the structure incorporates functional attributes, be they aesthetic, energy storage or others.
- Innovation in Civil Engineering and Construction in the use of new materials and new applications of existing ones.
Technological fields

Additive Manufacturing

Frontier materials, Sustainable materials

Hydrogen

Recycling and valorization
Relevant equipment
AMADE has a fully equipped laboratory for carrying out mechanical tests of composites. It also has non-destructive inspection equipment and a calculation cluster for simulations.
AMADE location
