The MaDurOS project has the ambition to further broaden the scope of the existing regional MaDurOS program geographically to a European context, as well as to widen its application scope to other materials (aluminium, composites, etc.), as well as other asset-intensive sectors such as deep-sea mining, geothermal drilling, renewables, power generation and oil & gas. These sectors are all facing a similar challenge that the absence of dedicated testing facilities to characterize the behaviour of materials under severe or harsh conditions, is a roadblock towards material driven innovations. At the same time, the EIT RawMaterials would provide a unique opportunity to further inventorize and enrich existing set-ups, identify testing blind spots, as well as expand the predictive simulation models with complementary competences (soil mechanics, wave/tidal mechanics, etc.)

The objectives of the project are therefore to:

• Bring a unique and complete testing/simulation offer towards asset-intensive industries which will trigger application driven collaborative R&D projects aimed at reducing design conservatism in using and exploiting raw materials.
• Establish a single-point-of-contact and compensation for discounted access price to facilitate the uptake, acceptance and access to the infrastructure.