PREDHYMA is a Marie-Curie EID (European Industrial Doctorates) program gathering two universities (INSA Lyon and Ecole Centrale de Lyon) and the company ANDRITZ Hydro, a global supplier of electro-mechanical systems and services (“water to wire“) for hydropower plants and one of the leaders in the world market for hydraulic power generation. Objectives of the project are to predict the life expectancy of the machines from detailed numerical simulations of damaging phenomena.