TY - CONF A1 - Helmerich, Rosemarie A1 - Niederleithinger, Ernst A1 - Wiggenhauser, Herbert T1 - A toolbox with non-destructive testing methods for the condition assessment of railway bridges N2 - The unified economic structure of the European market requires a unified transport infrastructure to ensure seamless and barrierfree transportation of passengers and goods. The European commission is funding the European Integrated Project Sustainable Bridges to comply with future traffic demands. The main objective of the project is to reliably assess and upgrade the bridge infrastructure for the required increase of axle loads and transport volume. 32 Institutes from 12 countries develop unified procedures for the assessment and improvement of the existing railway bridge stock under the guidance and review of six major European railway companies. Non destructive testing (NDT) is given a high priority. One of the work packages concentrates on the potential of advanced NDT-methods and creates a toolbox with advisable methods for the condition assessment of all types of railway bridges. Although NDT-methods are implemented in the quality assurance process in many industries, their application in the railway infrastructure is not common. Only a few countries have included selected NDT-methods into advanced condition assessment procedures for the management of their bridge stock. This paper describes also current activities to enhance pulse-phase thermography, impulse-radar and acoustic methods. The advanced methods enable infrastructure owners to verify construction plans, to assess structures, repair and strengthening quality or to identify in-service damages. Latest development is an automated scanning system for combined acoustic and electromagnetic measurements. The results are then combined through data fusion techniques to further increase their value for the bridge owners. T2 - 85th TRB Annual Meeting CY - Washington, DC, USA DA - 2006-01-22 KW - Non-Destructive Testing KW - Thermography KW - Railway Bridges KW - NDT-toolbox PY - 2006 SP - 1 EP - 12(?) PB - TRB CY - Washington, D.C. AN - OPUS4-12037 LA - eng AD - Bundesanstalt fuer Materialforschung und -pruefung (BAM), Berlin, Germany ER - TY - CONF A1 - Wolf, Julia A1 - Mielentz, Frank A1 - Milmann, Boris A1 - Helmerich, Rosemarie A1 - Köpp, Christian A1 - Wiggenhauser, Herbert A1 - Kurz, J.H. A1 - Moryson, R.M. A1 - Samokrutov, A. A1 - Alekhin, S. G. A1 - Alver, Ninel A1 - Sazak, H.Ö. T1 - An ultrasound monitoring system for concrete structures N2 - The research project "Ultrasonic Net for Concrete Monitoring (UNeCOM)" aims at developing a methodology for an embedded ultrasonic network for the condition assessment of infrastructure constructions. Civil engineering structures made of concrete, which are located in tectonically active regions or undergo special loading conditions, may require continuous monitoring. It is important to assess the condition of the building and its stability to recognise and classify the effect of a seismic event or evolving damage at early stages before failure occurs. Embedded ultrasonic sensors offer the possibility to detect changes in the material and degradation mechanisms from inside the structure in areas which are difficult or impossible to inspect otherwise. In contrast to conventional ultrasonic testing methods, where the concrete surfaces are scanned with ultrasound probes, this new approach uses sensors, which are embedded into concrete, eliminating the effect of variable coupling conditions between sensors and concrete. This method allows an integral detection of changes in the concrete structure, for example due to seismic activities, to detect mechanical impacts, as well as degradation of the material due to overloading. Such methods have great relevance especially for the monitoring of constructions like power plants, bridges, offshore structures and other structures with high technical safety requirements. The sensor network can be controlled remotely through the internet which is also being used for data transfer. The embedded sensor network is designed to monitor structural damage and concrete degradation globally with high sensitivity. T2 - Istanbul bridge conference 2014 CY - Istanbul, Turkey DA - 11.08.2014 KW - Ultrasound KW - Concrete KW - Monitoring PY - 2014 SN - 978-605-64131-6-2 SP - Paper 32, 1 EP - 9 AN - OPUS4-32028 LA - eng AD - Bundesanstalt fuer Materialforschung und -pruefung (BAM), Berlin, Germany ER - TY - CONF A1 - Kühn, B. A1 - Sedlacek, G. A1 - Helmerich, Rosemarie A1 - Nussbaumer, A. ED - Gebbeken, N. T1 - Assessment of existing steel structures - A guideline for estimation of the remaining fatigue life T2 - Munich Bridge Assessment Conference (MBAC 2007) CY - Munich DA - 2007-07-09 KW - Existing structures KW - Fatigue life KW - Bridge assessment KW - Non-destructive testing PY - 2007 SP - 1 EP - 15 PB - Institut für Konstruktiven Ingenieurbau CY - Neubiberg AN - OPUS4-15743 LA - eng AD - Bundesanstalt fuer Materialforschung und -pruefung (BAM), Berlin, Germany ER - TY - CONF A1 - Niederleithinger, Ernst A1 - Helmerich, Rosemarie A1 - Streicher, Doreen A1 - Stoppel, Markus A1 - Wiggenhauser, Herbert ED - Forde, M. T1 - Automated non-destructive investigation of railway bridge condition T2 - 11th International Conference and Exhibiton "Structural Faults and Repair - 2006" CY - Edinburgh, Scotland, UK DA - 2006-06-13 KW - Non-Destructive Testing KW - Automated scanning device KW - Combination of methods KW - Ultrasonic-echo KW - Impact-echo KW - Impulse radar PY - 2006 SN - 0-947644-59-8 SP - 1 EP - 8(?) PB - Engineering Technics Pr., CY - Edingburgh AN - OPUS4-12530 LA - eng AD - Bundesanstalt fuer Materialforschung und -pruefung (BAM), Berlin, Germany ER - TY - CONF A1 - Helmerich, Rosemarie A1 - Milmann, Boris A1 - Wöstmann, Jens T1 - Bond durability of CFRP-laminates on concrete bridges N2 - Trans-European corridors for transport of people and goods require strengthening of bridges to carry increased axle loads in terms of absolute axle loads and of their frequency. Most of the bridges along highways are reinforced or prestressed concrete bridges. Since the late 1990s, CFRP laminates have been applied to box girder and T-beam bridges to increase the overall capacity. Although regular inspections are carried out, no special method was available to test the bond condition of CFRP laminates after being in Service for more than ten years. The German Center of Competence in Civil Engineering is aware of this need and funded a research project to investigate the bond condition by means of advanced non-destructive testing (NDT). T2 - 31st Danubia-Adria Symposium on advances in experimental mechanics CY - Kempten, Germany DA - 24.09.2014 KW - Concrete bridges KW - Strengthening KW - Non-destructive testing KW - CFRP KW - Durability KW - Inspection PY - 2014 SN - 978-3-00-046740-0 SP - 1 EP - 2 AN - OPUS4-33116 LA - eng AD - Bundesanstalt fuer Materialforschung und -pruefung (BAM), Berlin, Germany ER - TY - CONF A1 - Helmerich, Rosemarie A1 - Niederleithinger, Ernst A1 - Algernon, Daniel A1 - Streicher, Doreen A1 - Wiggenhauser, Herbert T1 - Bridge inspection and condition assessment in Europe T2 - TRB 87th annual meeting CY - Washington, D.C., USA DA - 2008-01-13 KW - Construction KW - Environment and Energy PY - 2008 IS - CD-ROM (Paper 08-1450 / Session 568) SP - 1 EP - 13 PB - TRB CY - Washington, DC AN - OPUS4-16651 LA - eng AD - Bundesanstalt fuer Materialforschung und -pruefung (BAM), Berlin, Germany ER - TY - CONF A1 - Helmerich, Rosemarie ED - Bittencourt, Tulio Nogueira ED - Frangopol, Dan ED - Beck, Andre T1 - Bridge knowledge management using ontologies N2 - The amount of new knowledge about bridges, about the materials they are made of, deterioration processes for the different materials, typical defects, methods for early detection of them and related causes for damage increases day by day. Often the knowledge remains in the heads of ageing specialists leaving the inspection teams or universities. This paper presents a feasibility study about application of a new tool from artificial in-telligence, ontology, for modeling and organizing bridge engineering knowledge from a domain expert´s view. Exemplarily, knowledge and not only data from bridge testing in the field and in the laboratory were formalized for the presentation of the functionality of ontologies. The open source ontology editor Protégé was ap-plied to test the feasibility. T2 - IABMAS Conference 2016 CY - Foz Do Iguacu, Brazil DA - 26.06.2016 KW - Knowledge Representation KW - Ontology KW - Bridge Knowledge KW - Riveted Bridges PY - 2016 SN - ISBN 9781138028517 PB - CRC Press AN - OPUS4-38082 LA - eng AD - Bundesanstalt fuer Materialforschung und -pruefung (BAM), Berlin, Germany ER - TY - CONF A1 - Helmerich, Rosemarie ED - Frangopol, Dan ED - Bittencourt, Tulio N. ED - Beck, André T. T1 - Bridge knowledge management using ontologies N2 - The amount of new knowledge about bridges, materials they are made of, deterioration processes for the different materials, resulting defects, methods for early detection of them and related causes for damage increases day by day. Often the knowledge remains in the heads of ageing specialists leaving the inspection teams or universities. This paper presents a feasibility study about application of a new tool from artificial intelligence to model and organize bridge engineering knowledge from a domain expert´s view. Exemplarily, knowledge and not only data from bridge testing in the field and in the laboratory were formalized for the presentation of the functionality of ontologies. T2 - IABMAS Conference 2016 CY - Foz Do Iguacu, Brasilien DA - 26.06.2016 KW - Ontology KW - riveted steel bridges KW - Bridge knowledge KW - representation of knowledge PY - 2016 SN - 1138028517 SP - 455 EP - 455 PB - CRC PRess Balkema CY - Leiden, Netherlands AN - OPUS4-38494 LA - eng AD - Bundesanstalt fuer Materialforschung und -pruefung (BAM), Berlin, Germany ER - TY - CONF A1 - Friese, Martin A1 - Helmerich, Rosemarie A1 - Effner, Ute A1 - Mielentz, Frank ED - Frangopol, D. ED - Sause, R. ED - Kusko, C. T1 - Capabilities of non-destructive testing of RC structures - quality assurance for crack repair using ultrasonic echo T2 - IABMAS 2010 - Bridge maintenance, safety, management and life-cycle optimization CY - Philadelphia, PA, USA DA - 2010-07-11 KW - Zerstörungsfreie Prüfung KW - Ultraschall KW - Risse KW - Erfolgskontrolle Rissinjektion PY - 2010 SN - 978-0-415-87786-2 SP - 1524 EP - 1531 PB - CRC Press AN - OPUS4-22548 LA - eng AD - Bundesanstalt fuer Materialforschung und -pruefung (BAM), Berlin, Germany ER - TY - CONF A1 - Helmerich, Rosemarie A1 - Häcker, Ralf A1 - Zunkel, Astrid ED - Biliszczuk, Jan ED - Bien, Jan T1 - Cast iron arch bridges - part of the world heritage N2 - Cast iron arch bridges were built in the late 18th and early 19th century across Europe. After the famous Iron Bridge in the Ironbridge Gorge in Coalbrookdale in England, being now part of the UNESCO world heritage, many cast iron bridges followed and substituted timber bridges. A series of cast iron bridges has been built in central Europe, in Laasan, Breslau, (now Wrocław), in Berlin, Potsdam, Bad Muskau and Schwerin. The paper gives an overview about the current state of some remaining cast iron arch bridges, typical damage cases, material properties and rehabilitation. Most of the old cast iron arch bridges serve as pedestrian bridges. Some of these bridges have been strengthened to increase the traffic load. Different rehabilitation measures as substitution of parts of the bridges and strengthening using Carbon Reinforced Polymers (CFRP) are discussed. T2 - Arch 2016 CY - Wroclaw, Poland DA - 05.10.2016 KW - Arch bridges KW - Cast iron KW - Materials parameters KW - Rehabilitytion PY - 2016 SN - 978-83-7125-265-5 SP - 194 EP - 197 PB - Dolnośląskie wydawnictwo edukacyjne CY - Wroclaw, Poland AN - OPUS4-38476 LA - eng AD - Bundesanstalt fuer Materialforschung und -pruefung (BAM), Berlin, Germany ER - TY - CONF A1 - Bien, J. A1 - Helmerich, Rosemarie A1 - Niederleithinger, Ernst A1 - Kubiak, Z. T1 - Condition assessment of old railway bridges, a scientific cooperation between Berlin and Wroclaw N2 - Two years ago, the East Prussian and the Low-Silesian Railway lines celebrated their 160th anniversaries. The history of both first railway connections in the Eastern railway network development in the whole region in the 19th century is presented together with information about the railway between Berlin and Wroclaw. Special attention is paid to the railway bridges built in this period. The first large iron bridges and typical masonry arch structures are presented. Special attention is paid to masonry arches. The condition appraisal of existing masonry arches requires new developed technical methodologies, effective tools and procedures for the description of the bridges current state and function. Their current technical condition as well as service-ability is described. T2 - 3rd international congress on construction history CY - Cottbus, Germany DA - 2009-05-20 KW - Historische Eisenbahnlinien KW - Infrastruktur KW - Erhaltung KW - Wissenschaftliche Zusammenarbeit PY - 2009 VL - 1 SP - 205 EP - 211 AN - OPUS4-19532 LA - eng AD - Bundesanstalt fuer Materialforschung und -pruefung (BAM), Berlin, Germany ER - TY - CONF A1 - Helmerich, Rosemarie A1 - Moldenhauer, Laura A1 - Voigt, Gerrit A1 - Köppe, E. T1 - Considerations for identification of moisture in building materials using Bluetooth (R) N2 - The vulnerability of low-quality concrete of some bridges to ageing and deterioration while they are exposed to environmental conditions during their service life, influence of growing population and climate changes, is a well-known effect and requires survey. For survey, the development of a low cost, cost-efficient sensor network to be embedded for continuous or attached to the surface for periodic monitoring is essential. Changing ground water conditions, flood or even leakage in fresh or disposal of waste water can lead to in-creased moisture content in building materials and structural elements as walls or floors. Moisture allows the transport of other adverse chemicals that might reduce the durability of structures. The paper presents a feasibility study about the capability of microwave modules as bluetooth® or ZigBee with frequency range at 2,4 GHz to create advanced Wireless Sensor Networks (WSN) for estimation and visualization of moisture distribution in infrastructure assets. It was found that the value of the received signal strength indication (RSSI) depends on the moisture content and can be the basis for the moisture distribution inside a massive structure. The microwave modules may be used to compose networks outside and inside of building materials or structural elements. The higher the number of connections between BLE modules, the more precise and the more distant information can be obtained from the network. Mesh networking was applied to increase the quantitative information. T2 - 9th International Conference on Bridge Maintenance, Safety and Management (IABMAS) CY - Melbourne, Australia DA - 09.07.2018 KW - Structural Health Monitoring KW - Moisture KW - Bluetooth PY - 2018 SN - 978-1-315-18939-0 SN - 978-1-138-73045-8 SP - 2752 EP - 2759 AN - OPUS4-50340 LA - eng AD - Bundesanstalt fuer Materialforschung und -pruefung (BAM), Berlin, Germany ER - TY - CONF A1 - Helmerich, Rosemarie A1 - Milmann, Boris ED - Frangopol, D. ED - Sause, R. ED - Kusko, C. T1 - Contribution on non-destructive defect detection to bridge management T2 - IABMAS 2010 - Bridge maintenance, safety, management and life-cycle optimization CY - Philadelphia, PA, USA DA - 2010-07-11 KW - Ultrasonic measurement KW - Transversal waves KW - Bond defect KW - Defect detection KW - Concrete structures KW - Debonded area visualisation PY - 2010 SN - 978-0-415-87786-2 SP - 1 EP - 8(?) PB - CRC Press AN - OPUS4-22680 LA - eng AD - Bundesanstalt fuer Materialforschung und -pruefung (BAM), Berlin, Germany ER - TY - CONF A1 - Helmerich, Rosemarie A1 - Milmann, Boris A1 - Wöstmann, Jens A1 - Feistkorn, S. ED - Barros, J. ED - Sena-Cruz, J. T1 - Durability of CFRP-laminate strengthening T2 - FRPRCS-11 - 11th International symposium on fiber reinforced polymer for reinforced concrete structures CY - Guimaraes, Portugal DA - 2013-06-26 KW - CFRP-Laminate KW - Debonding KW - Flexural strengthening KW - Bridge KW - NDT KW - Durability test KW - Inspection PY - 2013 SN - 978-972-8692-84-1 SP - 41 EP - 42 (Session 6.5) AN - OPUS4-28859 LA - eng AD - Bundesanstalt fuer Materialforschung und -pruefung (BAM), Berlin, Germany ER - TY - CONF A1 - Moldenhauer, Laura A1 - Helmerich, Rosemarie A1 - Köppe, Enrico A1 - Haamkens, Frank A1 - Wittmann, Jochen ED - Aulova, Alexandra ED - Rogelj Ritonja, Alenka ED - Emri, Igor T1 - Experimental feasibility study about moisture in building materials measured with bluetooth N2 - Structural health monitoring contributes to early damage detection in the built infrastructure. During the last two decades, the sensor networks transferred from wired to wireless sensor networks. Several methods exist to measure moisture in building materials. Most of the introduced commercial humidity measurement methods as provide information about the local or near surface moisture. A feasibility study is presented to demonstrate, how the Received Signal Strength Indicator (RSSI) of a BlueTooth® Low Energy (BLE) signal, transmitted from the BLE-module embedded in building materials with changing moisture content. The BLE-module communicates with a mobile Smart Device as tablet or mobile phone. The RSSI indicates to what extend the received signal strength is changed due to moisture, while the transmitted signal strength remains constant. T2 - The 33rd Danubia Adria Symposium on Advances in experimental mechanics CY - Portoroz, Slovenia DA - 20.09.2016 KW - Bluetooth KW - Moisture KW - Measurement KW - Water dipoles KW - RSSI PY - 2016 SN - 978-961-94081-0-0 SP - 60 EP - 61 PB - SSEM--Slovene Society of Experimental Mechanics CY - Ljubljana, Slovenia AN - OPUS4-38086 LA - eng AD - Bundesanstalt fuer Materialforschung und -pruefung (BAM), Berlin, Germany ER - TY - CONF A1 - Moldenhauer, Laura A1 - Helmerich, Rosemarie A1 - Köppe, E. A1 - Wittmann, J. ED - Cosmi, F. T1 - Experimental modeling approach for determining the moisture damping exponent of a Bluetooth Low Energy signal in moist building material N2 - The presented development of a damping model is a research component of an experimental feasibility study about moisture in building materials measured with Bluetooth® Low Energy (BLE) signals. This study may be part of a structural health monitoring aiming on early damage detection in the built infrastructure and is increasingly focusing on wireless sensor Network technology. It is investigated, how the Received Signal Strength Indicator (RSSI) of a BLE signal, transmitted from the BLE-module embedded in building materials with changing moisture content is damped. The BLE-module communicates with a mobile Smart Device as tablet or mobile phone via 2.45 GHz-ISMfrequency band where water dipoles start to oscillate. If the BLE-signal transfers through a moist material, the moisture Content influences the RSS-Indicator. The damping model demonstrates this damping effect on RSSI by the abstraction of the reality observed in a real system. T2 - 34th Danube Adria Symposium CY - Trieste, Italy DA - 19.09.2017 KW - Moisture damping coefficient, KW - Buliding materials KW - Bluetooth Low Energy KW - RSSI KW - Experimental approach PY - 2017 SN - 978-88-8303-863-1 U6 - https://doi.org/https://www.openstarts.units.it/handle/10077/14834 SP - 141 EP - 142 CY - Trieste, Italy AN - OPUS4-44528 LA - eng AD - Bundesanstalt fuer Materialforschung und -pruefung (BAM), Berlin, Germany ER - TY - CONF A1 - Helmerich, Rosemarie ED - Biondini, F. ED - Frangopol, D.M. T1 - Full scale fatigue testing of original truss members and connections T2 - IABMAS 2012 - 6th International conference on bridge maintenance, safety and management CY - Stresa, Lake Maggiore, Italy DA - 2012-07-08 KW - Existing bridges KW - Laboratory testing KW - Fatigue KW - Remaining service life KW - Weak details KW - Materials testing PY - 2012 SN - 978-0-415-62124-3 SN - 978-0-203-10338-8 SP - 8 pages PB - CRC Press CY - London, UK AN - OPUS4-29455 LA - eng AD - Bundesanstalt fuer Materialforschung und -pruefung (BAM), Berlin, Germany ER - TY - CONF A1 - Kowitz, Astrid A1 - Wu, Cheng-Chieh A1 - Hille, Falk A1 - Helmerich, Rosemarie A1 - Kadoke, Daniel A1 - Gründer, Klaus-Peter A1 - Hauser, S. A1 - Schwarzinger, H. ED - Pastramă, Ş. D. ED - Constantinescu, D. M. T1 - Impact on a micro-reinforced UHPC: Experimental studies versus numerical modeling N2 - Within the presented research project, experimental and numerical investigations were performed to develop a thin-shelled, modular, mobile element system made of a micro-reinforced ultra-high-performance ductile concrete (DUCON®). Material parameters were experimentally determined to adapt the material model within the numerical analysis applying the Drucker-Prager relationship. Afterwards, for validation of the numerical models, quasi-static and high-velocity impact tests were performed on plate-like structures. Finally, a suitable geometry of transportable barrier elements will be designed, which provides a maximum of resistance against impact by a minimum of weight and a maximum of mobility. T2 - 35th Danubia-Adria Symposium on Advances in Experimental Mechanics CY - Sinaia, Romania DA - 25.09.2018 KW - E-modulus KW - Impact KW - UHPC KW - DUCON® KW - Quasi-static and dynamic tests KW - Micro-reinforcement KW - Ductility KW - Mobile elements KW - Numerical modeling KW - Stereo photogrammetry KW - Compressive strength PY - 2018 UR - https://www.das2018.ro/ SN - 978-606-23-0874-2 SP - 11 EP - 12 PB - Editura Printech CY - Bucarest, Romania AN - OPUS4-47001 LA - eng AD - Bundesanstalt fuer Materialforschung und -pruefung (BAM), Berlin, Germany ER - TY - CONF A1 - Bartholmai, Matthias A1 - Werner, Klaus-Dieter A1 - Kohlhoff, Harald A1 - Helmerich, Rosemarie A1 - Daum, Werner ED - Aulova, Alexandra ED - Rogelj Ritonja, A. ED - Emri, I. T1 - Long-Term measurement of vertical displacements at the outer concrete bridges of the Berlin Main Station N2 - Berlin Main Station is the largest multi-level station in Europe. Its daily passenger number amounts to over 300.000. Structures built for such a large number of people require a high-level safety standard. The station was built on the inner city site of the historic Lehrter Bahnhof. The conditions for building and start of operation were challenging by several reasons. The typical sandy ground with a high level of groundwater makes the permanent static stability of such a complex structure difficult. Several completed, ongoing, and planned construction activities in the immediate vicinity of the station influence the ground settlement of the whole area. On basis of the structural design an impact prediction was calculated, which expected certain vertical displacements particularly between the single columns of the outer concrete bridges of the building. These columns support the glass roof construction, which only allows a defined limit of displacement. In order to avoid damage, a concept for monitoring and adjusting potentially occurring displacements was developed for installation at the outer bridges of the station. T2 - 33rd Danubia- Adria Symposium on Advances in Experimental Mechanics CY - Portorož, Slovenia DA - 20.09.2016 KW - Berlin Main Station KW - Differential displacements KW - Hydraulic levelling system KW - Laser-based displacement measuring system KW - Monitoring KW - Strain measurements PY - 2016 SN - 978-961-94081-0-0 SP - 166 EP - 167 CY - Ljubljana AN - OPUS4-37646 LA - eng AD - Bundesanstalt fuer Materialforschung und -pruefung (BAM), Berlin, Germany ER - TY - CONF A1 - Hong, Shuxian A1 - Lai Wai-Lok, Wallace A1 - Helmerich, Rosemarie T1 - Monitoring accelerated corrosion in chloride contaminated concrete with ground penetrating radar T2 - 14th International conference on ground penetrating radar - GPR 2012 CY - Shanghai, China DA - 2012-06-04 KW - GPR KW - Reinforcing steel KW - Corrosion KW - Chloride PY - 2012 SN - 978-1-4673-2663-6 SP - 1 EP - 6(?) AN - OPUS4-26122 LA - eng AD - Bundesanstalt fuer Materialforschung und -pruefung (BAM), Berlin, Germany ER - TY - CONF A1 - Hong, Shuxian A1 - Lai Wai-Lok, Wallace A1 - Helmerich, Rosemarie A1 - Milmann, Boris ED - Biondini, F. ED - Frangopol, D.M. T1 - NDT-based monitoring of accelerated steel corrosion in concrete T2 - IABMAS 2012 - 6th International conference on bridge maintenance, safety and management CY - Stresa, Lake Maggiore, Italy DA - 2012-07-08 KW - Concrete KW - Reinforcement corrosion KW - Nondestructive testing KW - Ground penetration radar KW - Ultrasonic echo PY - 2012 SN - 978-0-415-62124-3 SN - 978-0-203-10338-8 SP - 1 EP - 8(?) PB - CRC Press CY - London, UK AN - OPUS4-29581 LA - eng AD - Bundesanstalt fuer Materialforschung und -pruefung (BAM), Berlin, Germany ER - TY - CONF A1 - Helmerich, Rosemarie A1 - Röllig, Mathias A1 - Maierhofer, Christiane A1 - Schultz, A. A1 - Vielhaber, J. A1 - Loehr, M. T1 - Non-destructive CFRP-bond evaluation T2 - 8th International Symposium on Fiber Reinforced Polymer Reinforcement for Concrete Structures (FRPRCS-8) CY - Patras, Greece DA - 2007-07-16 KW - Bond behaviour KW - Impulse thermography KW - Effectiveness of repair KW - CFRP-strengthening KW - Large scale testing KW - Validation KW - Acoustic emission KW - Combination of NDT-methods PY - 2007 SP - 106-107 (2-24) CY - Patras, Greece AN - OPUS4-15706 LA - eng AD - Bundesanstalt fuer Materialforschung und -pruefung (BAM), Berlin, Germany ER - TY - CONF A1 - Hong, Shuxian A1 - Helmerich, Rosemarie T1 - Non-destructive corrosion monitoring in concrete with ground penetrating radar N2 - In this research, laboratory experiments were carried out to investigate the feasibility of using ground penetrating radar (GPR) for corrosion detection and/or monitoring, and the mechanism of corrosion caused GPR signal changes, taking into account the influence of several parameters: Chloride, rebar size and cover depth. With the understanding of the mechanism, a novel method for detecting reinforcement corrosion in concrete with GPR is proposed, together with a series of signal processing toolkits for corrosion visualization and image comparison. T2 - SmartEN Marie Curie ITN Final Conference CY - Limassol, Cyprus DA - 09.10.2013 KW - Concrete KW - Reinforcement corrosion KW - Nondestructive testing KW - Ground penetration radar KW - Long term corrosion monitoring KW - Periodic monitoring PY - 2013 SP - 1 EP - 6 AN - OPUS4-29580 LA - eng AD - Bundesanstalt fuer Materialforschung und -pruefung (BAM), Berlin, Germany ER - TY - CONF A1 - Helmerich, Rosemarie A1 - Wiggenhauser, Herbert T1 - Non-destructive testing of concrete structures T2 - 4th International Conference on Advances in Mechanical Engineering and Mechanics (ICAMEM2008) CY - Sousse, Tunisia DA - 2008-12-16 KW - Non-destructive testing KW - Civil engineering KW - Inspection KW - Knowledge transfer KW - Case study PY - 2008 SP - 1 EP - 10 AN - OPUS4-18655 LA - eng AD - Bundesanstalt fuer Materialforschung und -pruefung (BAM), Berlin, Germany ER - TY - CONF A1 - Helmerich, Rosemarie A1 - Hong, Shuxian ED - Miyamoto, A. ED - Hakola, I. ED - Yabe, A. ED - Emoto, H. T1 - Nondestructive evaluation and structural health monitoring T2 - CSHM-5 - 5th International workshop on civil structural health monitoring - Structural health monitoring and maintenance of short- & medium-span bridges CY - Ube, Yamaguchi, Japan DA - 2013-10-24 KW - Non-destructive testing KW - Requirements for NDE KW - Reinforced concrete bridges KW - Corrosion detection KW - Ground penetrating radar KW - Chloride contamination PY - 2013 IS - Keynote paper 4 SP - 49 EP - 56 AN - OPUS4-29510 LA - eng AD - Bundesanstalt fuer Materialforschung und -pruefung (BAM), Berlin, Germany ER - TY - CONF A1 - Helmerich, Rosemarie T1 - Opportunities and limitation of non-destructive testing in condition assessment of bridge structures T2 - Munich bridge assessment conference (MBAC 2009) CY - Munich, Germany DA - 2009-05-27 KW - Non-destructive testing KW - Condition assessment KW - Data fusion KW - Concrete bridges PY - 2009 SP - 1 EP - 13 AN - OPUS4-19597 LA - eng AD - Bundesanstalt fuer Materialforschung und -pruefung (BAM), Berlin, Germany ER - TY - CONF A1 - Maierhofer, Christiane A1 - Arndt, Ralf A1 - Röllig, Mathias A1 - Helmerich, Rosemarie A1 - Walther, A. A1 - Hillemeier, B. A1 - Rieck, C. T1 - Quantification of Voids and Elaminations in Real Concrete and Masonry Structures with Active Thermography: Case Studies T2 - 8th International Conference on Quantitative InfraRed Thermography (QIRT 2006) CY - Padova, Italy DA - 2006-06-28 KW - Non-destructive testing in civil engineering KW - Active thermography KW - Pulse-phase thermography KW - Plaster KW - Tiles KW - Asphalt KW - Numerical simulation PY - 2006 UR - http://qirt.gel.ulaval.ca/archives/qirt2006/papers/049.pdf SP - 49, 1 EP - 10 (?) CY - Padova, Italy AN - OPUS4-15710 LA - eng AD - Bundesanstalt fuer Materialforschung und -pruefung (BAM), Berlin, Germany ER - TY - CONF A1 - Arndt, Ralf A1 - Helmerich, Rosemarie A1 - Maierhofer, Christiane A1 - Röllig, Mathias ED - Forde, M. T1 - Quantitative Pulse-Phase-Thermography for Composites and Concrete Structures N2 - The active approach for non-destructive-testing in Civil Engineering (NDT-CE) with infraredthermography (IR), developed at the Federal Institute for Materials Research and Testing (BAM), is described in part one of this contribution. The active IR-approach is based on the principles of impulse- (IT) and pulse-phase-thermography (PPT). The concept is a direct result of a research project at the BAM in cooperation with the Technical University of Berlin (TUB) and was funded by the Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG). In the second part results of the new thermography-scanning system (thermo-scanner) of BAM on debonding of multi-layered structures, especially carbon fibre reinforced plates (CFRP) on concrete are presented. Both, the thermo-scanner developed at BAM, and the investigations carried out, are part of the EU-Project Sustainable Bridges. In the third part of the paper the characteristic frequency of the optimum phase-contrast as a means for the characterization of defects’ depth in CE by means of PPT is introduced. A new quantitative approach is tested and discussed on concrete structures with defects of polystyrene and gas concrete. T2 - 11th International Conference and Exhibiton "Structural Faults and Repair - 2006" CY - Edinburgh, Scotland, UK DA - 2006-06-13 KW - Quantitative NDT KW - Impulse-thermography KW - Pulse-phase-thermography KW - Blind / characteristic frequency KW - Concrete KW - Thermo-scanner KW - CFRP-laminates KW - Debonding KW - Voids PY - 2006 SN - 0-947644-59-8 SP - 1(?) EP - 17(?) PB - Engineering Technics Pr., CY - Edingburgh AN - OPUS4-13794 LA - eng AD - Bundesanstalt fuer Materialforschung und -pruefung (BAM), Berlin, Germany ER - TY - CONF A1 - Bien, J. A1 - Helmerich, Rosemarie ED - Jasienko, J. T1 - Theoretical and experimental analysis of historical bridges T2 - SAHC 2012 - 8th International conference on structural analysis of historical constructions CY - Wroclaw, Poland DA - 2012-10-15 KW - Historical bridges KW - Theoretical analysis KW - Experiments KW - Diagnostics PY - 2012 SN - 978-83-7125-216-7 SN - 0860-2395 VL - 1 SP - 45 EP - 63 PB - DWE CY - Wroclaw, Poland AN - OPUS4-26830 LA - eng AD - Bundesanstalt fuer Materialforschung und -pruefung (BAM), Berlin, Germany ER - TY - CONF A1 - Herter, Jürgen A1 - Brandes, Klaus A1 - Helmerich, Rosemarie T1 - Tragsicherheit und Restlebensdauer von genieteten Stahlbrücken T2 - Fachtagung "Sonderkapitel aus dem Brücken- und Ingenieurbau" CY - Berlin, Deutschland DA - 2000-11-13 PY - 2000 SP - 57 EP - 69 PB - BAM CY - Berlin AN - OPUS4-1035 LA - deu AD - Bundesanstalt fuer Materialforschung und -pruefung (BAM), Berlin, Germany ER - TY - CONF A1 - Wolf, Julia A1 - Milmann, Boris A1 - Helmerich, Rosemarie A1 - Köpp, Christian A1 - Mielentz, Frank A1 - Wiggenhauser, Herbert A1 - Kurz, J.H. A1 - Moryson, R.-M. A1 - Samokrutov, A. A1 - Alekhin, S. G. A1 - Alver, Ninel A1 - Sazak, H.-Ö. ED - Xu, Y. L. ED - Zhu, S. ED - Xia, Y. ED - Ni, Y.Q. ED - Law, S.S. ED - Yin, J. H. ED - Su, Z.Q. T1 - Ultrasound based monitoring system for concrete monolithic objects N2 - Ultrasound sensors should be embedded into concrete for monitoring concrete properties. These new longitudinal wave sensors with a center frequency of 60 kHz were examined regarding their suitability for ultrasonic measurements in concrete structures in terms of emission characteristics, sensitivity and frequency ränge. For the measurement of the radiation patterns, the sensors were embedded vertically and horizontally in concrete cylinders. The directivity pattern was measured using a laser vibrometer. The sensitivity of the sensor was determined in water using different sensors of the same type. It shows changes in the signal amplitude as well as variations in the frequency ränge for different transmitter-receiver combinations. The attenuation of the concrete affects the achievable resolution of the measurements and thus, the maximum possible spacing of the sensors within a concrete element. Experimental tests helped optimizing the distances with respect to the required resolution and the effort of embedding the sensors. The signal attenuation in the concrete was measured in the frequency ränge of 60 kHz in response to various degrees of reinforcement and grain size. For this purpose, the sensors were cast at different distances in the specimens studied. The recorded Signals were evaluated for their amplitude and frequency spectrum. T2 - SHMII-6 - 6th International conference on structural health monitoring of intelligent infrastructure CY - Hong Kong, China DA - 09.12.2013 KW - Ultrasound KW - Concrete KW - Monitoring system KW - Ultrasonic network KW - Embedded sensor PY - 2013 SN - 978-962-367-768-4 SP - 1 EP - 6 AN - OPUS4-29642 LA - eng AD - Bundesanstalt fuer Materialforschung und -pruefung (BAM), Berlin, Germany ER - TY - CONF A1 - Helmerich, Rosemarie T1 - Wrought iron arch bridge: measurements and materials testing N2 - In 1882, the East-West suburban train viaduct was built through Berlin as part of the public traffic solution in the late 19th Century. Today, the only left over iron arch bridge is a pair of two arches Crossing the Spree river in the middle of Berlin. Before dismantling the former parallel two original pairs of iron arches and rebuilding new arches for the high-speed railway line through Berlin in 1997, BAM was involved in an extensive test program of the heritage iron arch structure. Especially the estimation of accumulated damage in critical details and the verification of the old material properties at early stage was important information to the bridge owners. The testing program included two strain and displacement measurement campaigns, non-destructive testing, materials testing and microscale metallographic analysis of critical details. The measured strain cycles were significant lower in number and size than expected. Most of the cycles were compression stress cycles only. The work was planned in Cooperation with the Berlin consultancy Professor Hilbers that was responsible for the design and calculation of the reconstruction measures. Additionally, after calculation of the possible reuse of the old arches, we compared measured data from strain measurements with the results from calculation. The measured data and the calculated data show a good qualitative correlation. T2 - 12th ICMS - Progress in steel and composite structures CY - Wroclaw, Poland DA - 15.06.2011 KW - Iron arch bridge KW - Strain measurement KW - Displacement measurement KW - Tension test KW - Crack propagation test KW - Magnetic powder test PY - 2011 SN - 978-83-7125-202-0 SP - 1 EP - 8 AN - OPUS4-24157 LA - eng AD - Bundesanstalt fuer Materialforschung und -pruefung (BAM), Berlin, Germany ER -