cross-ING is pleased to support the student space project PEGASUS  by the Academic Space Initiative Switzerland (ARIS) as a main partner. PEGASUS is an ETH Focus Project within ARIS, where students from ETH Zurich are working on the development of a Rotating Detonation Rocket Engine (RDRE) . Unlike conventional combustion, RDREs generate thrust through continuous detonation waves, promising higher efficiency and an improved thrust-to-weight ratio. The goal of the project is to develop and...

AI regulation in Europe is no longer on the horizon. It is already unfolding. While many companies are still experimenting with AI, the EU AI Act, new machinery rules, and stricter liability frameworks are coming into force. For Swiss industrial and medtech companies, this creates a new reality: compliance is becoming a competitive factor. What is considered innovation today may be classified as high-risk tomorrow – with direct consequences for certification, documentation, and liability. Our...

When a steel component fails, the cause can often be explained using well-established fatigue models. With elastomers, however, the situation is far more complex. Materials such as rubber behave viscoelastically under load. Phenomena such as hysteresis , the Mullins effect , or environmental influences like ozone  can significantly affect the behaviour of a component. In dynamic applications, the energy dissipated within the material can lead to internal heating – a phenomenon known as heat...