The activities of the division are focused to mechanical modelling of structures/components/processes along with the involved materials, thereby providing mechanics-based solutions and tools to our engineering problem challenges. Towards a more sustainable society, the research Is linked strategically to material science, production technology and transport research via the research areas:

• Material mechanics
• Process modelling and simulation
• Railway mechanics

The applications are found primarily within the car and manufacturing industries, and concerns typically development of novel computational methods and simulation tools on the finite element method for the analysis of materials and structures. Some specific projects are: crack and fatigue modelling in railway rails and wheels, optimized micro-structural design of duplex stainless steel, process modelling of fibre composites etc.

Teaching activities of the division mainly concerns the master-programs "Solid and Fluid Mechanics" and "Structural Engineering and Building Performance Design". Courses like “Finite element method”, “Continuum mechanics”, “Material mechanics” and “Fatigue design” are taught in these programs.