Prof. Dr. Harald Sack

NFDI MatWerk and the Platform MaterialDigital (PMD) are two leading German initiatives driving the digital transformation of materials science and engineering. Within the context of their ontology development efforts, this thesis proposes the creation of an application-level ontology for creep testing, based on the NFDI MatWerk Ontology (MWO) and the Platform Material Digital Core Ontology (PMDco). The ontology will be structured according to BFO2020 principles, ensuring semantic clarity and promoting interoperability with other ontologies across the NFDI ecosystem. By using real-world creep testing data from publicly available reference datasets, the student will produce a usable and understandable ontology-driven use case tailored to the needs of the NFDI MatWerk community. The project will also explore how the results can be extended to other mechanical testing datasets, contributing to the semantic alignment of existing tensile, fatigue, and hardness ontologies.