TY - CONF A1 - Linnemann, Konrad A1 - Ballheimer, Viktor A1 - Sterthaus, Jens A1 - Rolle, Annette A1 - Wille, Frank A1 - Vlassopoulos, Efstathios A1 - Papaioannou, Dimitrios T1 - Numerical simulation of spent fuel segments under transport loads N2 - Packages for the transport of spent nuclear fuel shall meet the International Atomic Energy Agency regulations to ensure safety under different Transport conditions. The physical state of spent fuel and the fuel rod cladding as well as the geometric configuration of fuel assemblies are important inputs for the evaluation of package capabilities under these conditions. Generally, the mechanical behavior of high burn-up spent fuel assemblies under Transport conditions shall be analyzed with regard to the assumptions which are used in the containment and criticality safety analysis. In view of the complexity of the interactions between the fuel rods as well as between the fuel assemblies, basket, and cask containment, the exact mechanical analysis of such phenomena is nearly impossible. The gaps in information concerning the material properties of cladding and pellet behavior, especially for the high burn-up fuel, make the analysis more complicated additionally. As a result, enveloping analytical approaches are usually used by BAM within the safety assessment of packages approved for transport of spent nuclear fuel. To justify the safety margins of such approaches additional analyses are necessary. In this paper, numerical simulations of a segment of a spent fuel assembly are presented. The segment modeled represents the part of a generalized BWR fuel assembly between two spacers. Explicit dynamic finite element calculations are performed to simulate the spent fuel behavior under regulatory defined accident conditions of transport. A beam element formulation is used for the modeling of the fuel rods representing the compound consisting of claddings and fuel pellets. The load applied is gathered from experimental drop tests with spent fuel casks performed at BAM. A hot cell bending test performed at JRC Karlsruhe is the basis for obtaining the material behavior of the fuel rods. The material properties are determined by simulating the test setup of JRC and optimizing the results to fit the experimental load deflection curve. The simulations of the fuel Assembly segment are used to get a better understanding about the loads on fuel rods under accident conditions of transport. T2 - 17th International High-Level Radioactive Waste Management Conference (IHLRWM 2019) CY - Knoxville, Tennessee, USA DA - 14.04.2019 KW - Spent Nuclear Fuel KW - Finite Element Simulation KW - Transport packages PY - 2019 AN - OPUS4-52047 LA - eng AD - Bundesanstalt fuer Materialforschung und -pruefung (BAM), Berlin, Germany ER - TY - CONF A1 - Garde, Raul A1 - Abad Andrade, Carlos Enrique A1 - Recknagel, Sebastian A1 - Nakadi, F. A1 - Garcia-Ruiz, E. A1 - Resano, M. T1 - Simultaneous determination of halogens by high resolution absortion spectrometry N2 - The high ionization potentials and low wavelength emission lines of halogens difficult the analysis of their organohalogen compounds by ICP-based methods [1]. Other techniques, such as combustion ion chromatography (CIC) or ion-selective electrodes have proven to be more reliable to determine these elements. However, these techniques are more time-consuming and/or have lower precision and accuracy. High resolution continuum source graphite furnace molecular absorption spectrometry (HR CS GFMAS) allows the determination of solid and liquid samples by monitoring a molecule formed with the analyte and a molecule forming reagent. In the case of F, Cl and Br, several molecule forming agents have been studied for their determination. Among all of them, calcium can form a stable bond with the three elements and provides optimal analytical properties for trace analysis [2]. However, the spectral window of commercially available continuum source AAS instruments is not broad enough to cover the wavelength range necessary for a simultaneous determination. Thus, coupling it with a modular simultaneous echelle spectrograph (MOSES), which can register around 200 nm in a single measure, allows the simultaneous study of the three analytes [3]. This instrumentation is capable of register more than 200 nm of the spectra per measure keeping a high resolution. This spectral window is suitable for the monitorization of a variety of transitions of the three molecules. However, some of them are overlapped and the competitive mechanism of formation of the three molecules modify their sensitivity depending on the proportions in the sample. In this study, a compromise in the conditions and modifiers were selected in order to maximize the sensitivity and signal to noise ratio for the three molecules. The determination was carried out by standard addition of CaF and Cl and Br were obtained from the PLS model. References: [1] X. Bu, T. Wang, G. Hall, J. Anal. At. Spectrom., 18, 1443–1451 (2003) [2] M. Resano, E. García-Ruiz, M. Aramendía, M. A. Belarra, J. Anal. At. Spectrom., 34, 59–80 (2019) [3] S. Geisler, M. Okruss, H. Becker-Ross, M. Dong Huang, N. Esser, S. Florek, Spectrochimica Acta PartB, 107, 11–16 (2015) T2 - Adlershofer Forschungsforum CY - Berlin, Germany DA - 11.11.2019 KW - Halogens KW - Fluorine KW - Simultaneous determination KW - MOSES KW - Chemometry KW - Interferences PY - 2019 AN - OPUS4-51998 LA - eng AD - Bundesanstalt fuer Materialforschung und -pruefung (BAM), Berlin, Germany ER - TY - CONF A1 - Schürmann, K. A1 - Pittner, Andreas A1 - Schaumann, P. A1 - Rethmeier, Michael T1 - Fatigue resistance of automatically welded tubular X-joints for jacket support structures N2 - To increase the competitiveness of jacket substructures compared to monopiles a changeover from an individual towards a serial jacket production based on automated manufactured tubular joints com-bined with standardized pipes has to be achieved. Therefore, this paper addresses fatigue tests of automatical-ly welded tubular X-joints focusing on the location of the technical fatigue crack. For this X-joint, the detect-ed location of the technical crack is then compared to numerical investigations predicting the most fatigue prone notch considering the structural stress approach as well as the notch stress approach. Additionally, the fatigue prone hot spot according to both approaches is compared for a typical offshore jacket double-K-joint to emphasize the significance of the presented outcomes for the existing offshore structures. Besides, the welding process of the automated manufactured tubular X-joints is presented. T2 - 9th International Conference Offshore Foundations CY - Bremen, Germany DA - 09.07.2019 KW - Notch stress approach KW - Fatigue tests KW - Automated manufacturing KW - Tubular X-joints KW - Structural stress approach PY - 2019 AN - OPUS4-51874 LA - eng AD - Bundesanstalt fuer Materialforschung und -pruefung (BAM), Berlin, Germany ER - TY - CONF A1 - Schürmann, K. A1 - Pittner, Andreas A1 - Schaumann, P. A1 - Rethmeier, Michael T1 - Prediction of the Initial Fatigue Crack Location of Automatically Welded Tubular Joints for Jacket Support Structures N2 - To increase the competitiveness of jacket substructures compared to monopiles a changeover from an individual towards a serial jacket production based on automated manufactured tubular joints com-bined with standardized pipes has to be achieved. Therefore, this paper addresses fatigue tests of automatical-ly welded tubular X-joints focusing on the location of the technical fatigue crack. For this X-joint, the detect-ed location of the technical crack is then compared to numerical investigations predicting the most fatigue prone notch considering the structural stress approach as well as the notch stress approach. Additionally, the fatigue prone hot spot according to both approaches is compared for a typical offshore jacket double-K-joint to emphasize the significance of the presented outcomes for the existing offshore structures. Besides, the welding process of the automated manufactured tubular X-joints is presented. T2 - 7th International Conference on Structural Engineering, Mechanics and Computation (SEMC) CY - Cape Town, SOUTH AFRICA DA - 02.09.2019 KW - Arc welding automation KW - Fatigue tests KW - Tubular X-joints KW - Technical crack detection KW - Local fatigue approaches PY - 2019 AN - OPUS4-51872 LA - eng AD - Bundesanstalt fuer Materialforschung und -pruefung (BAM), Berlin, Germany ER - TY - CONF A1 - Schürmann, K. A1 - Pittner, Andreas A1 - Schaumann, P. A1 - Rethmeier, Michael T1 - Automatically Welded Tubular X-Joints for Jacket Substructures – Prediction of the Technical Fatigue Crack Location N2 - To increase the competitiveness of jacket substructures compared to monopiles a changeover from an individual towards a serial jacket production based on automated manufactured tubular joints combined with standardized pipes has to be achieved. Therefore, this paper addresses fatigue tests of automatically welded tubular X-joints focusing on the location of the technical fatigue crack. The detected location of the technical crack is compared to numerical investigations predicting the most fatigue prone notch considering the structural stress approach as well as the notch stress approach. Besides, the welding process of the automated manufactured tubular X-joints is presented. T2 - Nordic Steel 2019 CY - Copenhagen, Denmark DA - 18.09.2019 KW - Arc welding automation KW - Tubular X-joints KW - Fatigue tests KW - Technical crack detection KW - Local fatigue approaches PY - 2019 AN - OPUS4-51871 LA - eng AD - Bundesanstalt fuer Materialforschung und -pruefung (BAM), Berlin, Germany ER - TY - CONF A1 - Schürmann, K. A1 - Pittner, Andreas A1 - Schaumann, P. A1 - Rethmeier, Michael T1 - Automatically Welded Tubular X-Joints –Welding Procedure and Prediction of the Technical Fatigue Crack Location N2 - To increase the competitiveness of jacket substructures compared to monopiles a changeover from an individual towards a serial jacket production based on automated manufactured tubular joints combined with standardized pipes has to be achieved. Therefore, this paper ad-dresses the welding process of automated manufactured tubular X-joints. Additionally, fatigue tests of the automatically welded tubular joints are presented focusing on the location of the technical fatigue crack. The detected location of the technical crack is compared to numerical investigations predicting the most fatigue prone notch considering the structural stress approach as well as the notch stress approach. T2 - ISOPE-2019 Honolulu Conference The 29th International Ocean and Polar Engineering Conference CY - Honolulu, Hawaii, USA DA - 16.06.2019 KW - Notch stress approach KW - Tubular X-joints KW - Automated manufacturing KW - Fatigue tests KW - Structural stress approach PY - 2019 AN - OPUS4-51870 LA - eng AD - Bundesanstalt fuer Materialforschung und -pruefung (BAM), Berlin, Germany ER - TY - GEN A1 - Danielewski, A. A1 - Nöller, Renate ED - Collatz, C.-F. ED - Hansen, S. ED - Witte, R. T1 - Zerfallen, zerteilt, zerschnitten: die Humboldt Fragmente IX-XII und ihre Rekonstruktion N2 - In Berlin befinden sich Fragmente indigener Bilderhandschriften, die Alexander von Humboldt aus Mexiko mitbrachte. Fast alle stammen sie aus der ehemaligen Sammlung des Italieners Lorenzo Boturini, deren Reste heute über mehrere Länder verstreut sind. Der hohe Fragmentierungsgrad sowie ungeklärte Fragen zur Provenienz und Genese der Bruchstücke machen es schwierig, sie zu rekontextualisieren. Um dies dennoch zu erreichen, kommen einander ergänzende moderne natur- und kulturwissenschaftliche Methoden zum Einsatz. Als Beispiel einer Neuzuordnung werden die Humboldt-Fragmente IX-XII vorgestellt. Dass die vier Bruchstücke verwandt sind, wurde schon lange vermutet, nicht jedoch, dass sie zusammen mit einem nicht mehr vorhandenen Mittelteil ein einziges Dokument gebildet haben. Die Gründe für eine derartige Rekonstruktion werden als Ergebnis der Forschungsarbeiten diskutiert. KW - Zeichenmaterialien KW - Zerstörungsfreie Prüfung KW - Farbmittel PY - 2019 SN - 0002-6646 VL - 64 SP - 99 EP - 116 PB - ISENSEE VERLAG CY - Oldenburg AN - OPUS4-51929 LA - deu AD - Bundesanstalt fuer Materialforschung und -pruefung (BAM), Berlin, Germany ER - TY - GEN A1 - Winkelmann, A. A1 - Britton, T. B. A1 - Nolze, Gert T1 - EBSD Kikuchi Pattern Analysis, Silicon 15kV N2 - Supplementary data and images for Si EBSD pattern analysis as presented in: A. Winkelmann, T.B. Britton, G. Nolze "Constraints on the effective electron energy spectrum in backscatter Kikuchi diffraction", Physical Review B (2019). KW - EBSD KW - Electron energy KW - Energy distribution KW - Kikuchi pattern KW - Simulation PY - 2019 DO - https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.2565061 PB - Zenodo CY - Geneva AN - OPUS4-51907 LA - eng AD - Bundesanstalt fuer Materialforschung und -pruefung (BAM), Berlin, Germany ER - TY - GEN A1 - Kowarik, Stefan A1 - Pithan, L. T1 - kowarik-labs/AI-reflectivity: v0.1 N2 - AI-reflectivity is a code based on artificial neural networks trained with simulated reflectivity data that quickly predicts film parameters from experimental X-ray reflectivity curves. This project has a common root with (ML-reflectivity)[https://github.com/schreiber-lab/ML-reflectivity] and evolved in parallel. Both are linked to the following publication: Fast Fitting of Reflectivity Data of Growing Thin Films Using Neural Networks A. Greco, V. Starostin, C. Karapanagiotis, A. Hinderhofer, A. Gerlach, L. Pithan, S. Liehr, F. Schreiber, S. Kowarik (2019). J. Appl. Cryst. For an online live demonstration using a pre-trained network have a look at github. KW - Artificial neural networks KW - X-ray reflectivity PY - 2019 DO - https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.3477583 PB - Zenodo CY - Geneva AN - OPUS4-51888 LA - eng AD - Bundesanstalt fuer Materialforschung und -pruefung (BAM), Berlin, Germany ER - TY - CONF A1 - Schaumann, P. A1 - Schürmann, K. A1 - Pittner, Andreas A1 - Rethmeier, Michael T1 - Automatically Welded Tubular X Joints for Jacket Substructures – Prediction of the Technical Fatigue Crack Location N2 - To increase the competitiveness of jacket substructures compared to monopiles a changeover from an individual towards a serial jacket production based on automated manufactured tubular joints combined with standardized pipes has to be achieved. Therefore, this paper addresses fatigue tests of automatically welded tubular X-joints focusing on the location of the technical fatigue crack. The detected location of the technical crack is compared to numerical investigations predicting the most fatigue prone notch considering the structural stress approach as well as the notch stress approach. Besides, the welding process of the automated manufactured tubular X-joints is presented. T2 - Nordic Steel 2019 CY - Copenhagen, Denmark DA - 18.09.2019 KW - Automated arc welding KW - Fatigue tests KW - Tubular X-joints KW - Technical crack detection KW - Local fatigue approaches PY - 2019 UR - https://nbn-resolving.org/urn:nbn:de:kobv:b43-518490 DO - https://doi.org/10.1002/cepa.1140 VL - 3 IS - 3-4 SP - 823 EP - 828 PB - Wiley-VCH Verlag GmbH on behalf of Ernst & Sohn Verlag für Architektur und technische Wissenschaften GmbH & Co. KG CY - Berlin AN - OPUS4-51849 LA - eng AD - Bundesanstalt fuer Materialforschung und -pruefung (BAM), Berlin, Germany ER -