TY - CONF A1 - Baensch, Franziska A1 - Baer, Wolfram A1 - Wossidlo, Peter A1 - Habib, Abdel Karim T1 - Non-threshold acoustic emission analysis of damage evolution in pipe segments of steel S355J2H under bending load T2 - 33rd European Conference on Acoustic Emission Testing N2 - Four-point bending tests were carried out to analyze the acoustic characteristics of damage development in pipe segments made of steel, grade S355J2H, being 2.5 m long with an outer diameter of 168 mm and 16 mm wall thickness. To induce stable crack growth, the pipe segments were pre-damaged by a 90°circumferential notch in the middle of the pipe length. While the pipe was quasi-statically loaded, microscopic damage and plastic deformation accumulated to form a macroscopic crack that grew through the pipe wall until leakage. For acoustic emission (AE) monitoring, four broadband sensors of type VS 900 M were mounted close to the notch. Continuous AE signal detection was performed by the non-threshold method. Advantages and disadvantages of the non-threshold AE monitoring compared to a commonly employed method analyzing only signals exceeding a predefined threshold are discussed. The results of AE analysis are compared to additional information on the crack growth detected by the direct current potential drop (DCPD) technique. These studies were carried out in the course of the interdisciplinary research project AGIFAMOR, Ageing infrastructures - distributed acoustic monitoring of pipes at BAM. T2 - 33rd European Conference on Acoustic Emission Testing CY - Senlis, France DA - 12.09.2018 KW - Acoustic emissions (AE) KW - Four-point bending test KW - Steel pipe KW - Crack initiation KW - Crack growth PY - 2018 SP - 340 EP - 347 CY - France, Senlis AN - OPUS4-45960 LA - deu AD - Bundesanstalt fuer Materialforschung und -pruefung (BAM), Berlin, Germany ER -