TY - CONF A1 - Casperson, Ralf A1 - Pohl, Rainer A1 - Munzke, Dorit A1 - Becker, Ben A1 - Pelkner, Matthias T1 - Eddy current testing of composite pressure vessels T2 - AIP Conference Proceedings N2 - The use of composite pressure vessels instead of conventional vessels made of steel or aluminum grew strongly over the last decade. The reason for this trend is the tremendous weight saving in case of composite vessels. However, the long-time behavior is not fully understood for filling and discharging cycles and creep strength and their influence on the CFRP coating (carbon fiber reinforced plastics) and the internal liner (steel, aluminum, or plastics). The CFRP ensures the pressure resistance while the inner liner is used as container for liquid or gas. To overcome the missing knowledge of ageing BAM started an internal project to investigate degradation of these material systems. Therefore, applicable testing methods like eddy current testing are needed. Normally, high-frequency eddy current testing (HF-ET, f > 10 MHz) is deployed for CFRP due to its low conductivity of the fiber, which is in the order of 0.01 MS/s, and the capacitive coupling between the fibers. Nevertheless, in some cases conventional ET can be applied. We show a concise summary of studies on the application of conventional ET of composite pressure vessels. T2 - QNDE 2017 CY - Provo, Utah, USA DA - 16.07.2017 KW - Eddy current KW - Composite KW - Pressure vessel PY - 2018 SN - 978-0-7354-1644-4 DO - https://doi.org/10.1063/1.5031622 SN - 0094-243X VL - 1949 SP - UNSP 160004, 1 EP - 8 AN - OPUS4-45051 LA - eng AD - Bundesanstalt fuer Materialforschung und -pruefung (BAM), Berlin, Germany ER -