TY - CONF A1 - Helmerich, Rosemarie T1 - Practical applications of recent BAM-research results of NDT and monitoring in civil engineering N2 - Nondestructive testing and monitoring was of mayor interest in BAM-research related to the survey of civil engineering structures during the last two decades. Three case studies about research projects carried out at BAM were presented. All three projects focussed on the survey of parameters and safety related tasks in bridge engineering and inspection. First, the monitoring of the Berlin main station was presented with focus on the sensors developed specifically for this project. The second case study presented and application of guided ultrasonic waves to CFRP-strengthened bridges. The method was sucsessully applied to two of four different strengthening measures carried out min. 10 years ago. The last project presented the feasibility study of a network consisting of simple Bluetooth modules to survey changes in the moisture content in sand and massive concrete. T2 - Workshop CY - University of New South Wales, Sydney, Australia DA - 17.07.2018 KW - Monitoring KW - Wireless sensor network (WSN), KW - NDT KW - Guided waves KW - Bluetooth modules KW - Inspection KW - Civil infrastructure PY - 2018 AN - OPUS4-45657 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 - JOUR A1 - Moldenhauer, Laura A1 - Helmerich, Rosemarie A1 - Köppe, E. A1 - Wittmann, H.-J. 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- and long-term monitoring aiming at 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 aim of the modelling is the derivation of a damping equation for the formal model to determine the moisture damping exponent to finding a correlation. T2 - 34th Danubia Adria Symposium on Advances in Experimental Mechanics CY - Trieste, Italy DA - 19.09.2017 KW - BLE Bluetooth low energy KW - Sensor network KW - RSSI Received Signal Strength Indicator KW - Structural Health Monitoring KW - Moisture measurements PY - 2018 U6 - https://doi.org/10.1016/j.matpr.2018.08.124 SN - 2214-7853 VL - 5 IS - Issue 13, Part 2 SP - 26469 EP - 26792 PB - Elsevier Ltd. CY - Radarweg 29, 1043 NX Amsterdam, The Netherlands AN - OPUS4-47171 LA - eng AD - Bundesanstalt fuer Materialforschung und -pruefung (BAM), Berlin, Germany ER - TY - CHAP A1 - Helmerich, Rosemarie ED - Hu, Chang Bin T1 - Engineering Education in Europe N2 - The book chapter first analyses the history of higher education in Europe. Second step describes the current Bologna process. Finally, the rule of the Bundesanstalt für Materialforschung und -Prüfung (BAM) in supporting PhD-students during their research and preparation of theire theses in cooperation with Universities is described KW - History of education KW - Bologna process KW - BAM PY - 2018 SN - 978-7-114-14938-2 SP - 61 EP - 71 PB - China Communication Press Co., Ltd. CY - Fuzhou, China ET - 1. AN - OPUS4-46871 LA - eng AD - Bundesanstalt fuer Materialforschung und -pruefung (BAM), Berlin, Germany ER - TY - CONF A1 - Helmerich, Rosemarie T1 - Feasibility study about monitoring moisture inside massive concrete N2 - Current measurement methods for dertermination of moisture analyse near-surface moisture distribution. During an externally funded research project, microwaves in the Bluetooth(R) frequency band width were utilized for Setting-up a module network. Without additional sensors, the feasibility study confirmed that threedimensional data can collected to obtain a threedimensional data set as basis for the estimation of moisture distribution inside massive building materials. T2 - 2nd International Conference on Ultrahigh Performance Concrete, UHPC2018 CY - Fuzhou, China DA - 07.11.2018 KW - Moisture KW - Bluetooth KW - Microwaves KW - Monitoring PY - 2018 AN - OPUS4-46872 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 T1 - Active thermography N2 - Active thermography is introduced as tool for diagnostics in civil engineering structures. Aside from basic information, examples for applications of active thermography in different types of structures was presented. Active thermography was applied in historic structures to reveal former components or even ancient openings. Other examples present active thermography as a tool for nondestructive detection of debonding in CFRP strengthened structures. The way is explained, how the system was optimized for different materials. T2 - NDT&E Advanced Training Workshop CY - Berlin, Germany DA - 05.07.2017 KW - Active thermography KW - Strengthening KW - Nondestructive testing KW - Civil structures PY - 2017 AN - OPUS4-42920 LA - eng AD - Bundesanstalt fuer Materialforschung und -pruefung (BAM), Berlin, Germany ER - TY - CONF A1 - Helmerich, Rosemarie A1 - Werner, Klaus-Dieter A1 - Kohlhoff, Harald A1 - Bartholmai, Matthias A1 - Daum, Werner T1 - Long-Term measurement of vertical displacements at the outer concrete bridges of the Berlin Main Station N2 - The Berlin Main Station was built between 2000 and 2006. At the occasion of the 10th anniversary after the Berlin Main Station was officially opened to train traffic, a view back on eight years of monitoring was given. For the period of the construction with different load cases, the monitoring system was required by the Railway Authorities (Eisenbahnbundesam, EBA) to survey differential vertical displacements between neighbouring supports of the glas roof and the partially prestressed middle bridges. 128 sensors were installed.The data was published in the Internet with access restricted to the BAM scientists and the owner of the station, the German Railways DB AG. T2 - 33rd Danubia- Adria Symposium on Advances in Experimental Mechanics CY - Portorož, Slovenia DA - 20.09.2016 KW - Strain measurements KW - Monitoring KW - Differential displacements KW - Berlin Main Station KW - Hydraulic levelling system KW - Laser-based displacement measuring system PY - 2016 AN - OPUS4-37540 LA - eng AD - Bundesanstalt fuer Materialforschung und -pruefung (BAM), Berlin, Germany ER - TY - CONF A1 - Helmerich, Rosemarie T1 - Is data obtained through Non-destructive Testing reliable? N2 - Civil engineers, who are involved in nondestructive testing have to solve an essential task: the transfer of the results of NDT-research into practice. NDT in civil Engineering is a quite new discipline. The results must meet the needs of the infrastructure owners to convince them about the usefulness of NDT. The issue of reliability of the NDT-data was discussed. T2 - Reliability Workshop Polytechnical University HongKong CY - Hong Kong, China DA - 06.04.2016 KW - Civil infrastructure KW - Reliability KW - POD KW - NDT PY - 2016 AN - OPUS4-37545 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 - Helmerich, Rosemarie A1 - Feistkorn, S. A1 - Taffe, A. A1 - Wilsch, Gerd T1 - Reliability of NDE Data obtained from Concrete bridges N2 - Die Zuverlässigkeit von Daten, die mit zerstörungsfreien Prüfmethoden gewonnen werden sind von vielen Faktoren abhängig, z.B. dem Gerät, dem menschlichen Faktor, dem Materialeinfluss, dem Detail, dem Schadensteil aber auch von der Datenbearbeitung und -interpretation. Der Vortrag stellt den Stand der Möglichkeiten zur Quantifizierung von Ergebnissen der zerstörungsfreien Prüfung dar. N2 - The reliability of data, obtained from nondestructive testing depends on many different factors as e.g. the equipment, the human factor, the influence of material properties, geometrical accessibility of the given detail, the structure of the detail, but also from data acquisition, processing and interpretation. The presentation introduces to current possibilities for the quantification of measurement results received during nondestructive testing. T2 - Symposium on Jointless and Sustainable Bridges CY - Fuzhou, Fujian Province, China DA - 12.05.2016 KW - Probability of Detection KW - Nondestructive testing KW - Nondestructive evaluation KW - Reliability PY - 2016 AN - OPUS4-38081 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 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 - Riveted steel bridges KW - Ontology KW - Knowledge representation PY - 2016 AN - OPUS4-38083 LA - eng AD - Bundesanstalt fuer Materialforschung und -pruefung (BAM), Berlin, Germany ER - TY - CONF A1 - Helmerich, Rosemarie T1 - Is data obtained through non-destructive testing reliable? N2 - The presentation tries to contribute an answer to the question about reliability of nondestructive evaluation of structures in civil engineering T2 - IABSE Joint summit CY - Helsinki-Barcelona, Finland / Spain DA - 10.03.2016 KW - Nondestructive testing KW - Nondestructive evaluation KW - Reliability KW - Probability of detection PY - 2016 AN - OPUS4-38085 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 - Helmerich, Rosemarie A1 - Zunkel, Astrid A1 - Häcker, Ralf 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 - 8th International Conference on arch bridges CY - Wroclaw, Poland DA - 05.10.2016 KW - Arch bridges KW - Cast iron KW - Materials parameter KW - Rehabilitation PY - 2016 AN - OPUS4-38088 LA - eng AD - Bundesanstalt fuer Materialforschung und -pruefung (BAM), Berlin, Germany ER - TY - CONF A1 - Helmerich, Rosemarie T1 - Bridge knowledge management using ontologies N2 - Bridges represent a crucial part of traffic infrastructure networks for both, freight transport and transport of people. None the less, sometimes it is not easy for infrastructure owners to manage or extract data and knowledge of interest about specific bridges from bridge management systems, e.g. along a line. In case of search for a special material parameter or for a recent strengthening measure, the selection of the wanted information may be time consuming. The search process depends on the complexity of the selected issue. The paper presents the applicability of ontologies, a new tool from artificial intelligence transferred to bridge engineering issues. Current modern ontologies consider the rules from the World Wide Web consortium (W3C), use a defined Web Ontology Language (OWL) and the Dublin Core Metadata Initiative (DCMI®) to describe the members of a domain and the relations between them in a machine readable manor. Any information, data as well as text information is broken down to a simple triple (RDF) in a subject- predicate- object relation to organize the link between them. Advantage over any type of data base is processibility due to the use of restrictions and axioms. Visualization plug-ins, as OntoGraph or GraphViz, can visualize the structure of the ontology or parts of it and the described relations. In the recent years, ontology editors like e.g. Protégé, were developed to enable domain experts to structure a specific domain. The editor is still under development. None the less, the study shows exemplarily, how an ontology for riveted steel bridges could consider results from testing in the laboratory and in the field. Besides typical materials, typical damage processes defects and structures, applicable methods are formalized, classified and described. Queries using e.g. DL-Query may address tasks of interest and extract it from the ontology. T2 - IABMAS Conference 2016 CY - Foz do Iguacu, Brazil DA - 26.06.2016 KW - Bridge KW - Bridge testing KW - Defect KW - Semantic knowledge management KW - Ontology PY - 2016 AN - OPUS4-38477 LA - eng AD - Bundesanstalt fuer Materialforschung und -pruefung (BAM), Berlin, Germany ER - TY - CONF A1 - Helmerich, Rosemarie T1 - Active Thermography N2 - Active thermography is a nondestructive testing method for identification of near surface defects and signs of early deterioration. The presentation explains the potential and Limits of the method and the equipment for application to concrete structures. Advanced data analysis can increase the quality of imaging of the measurement. The method is usually applied once for analysis of the current condition. If applied periodically, the method can be used for observation of a deterioration process. T2 - NDT&E Advanced Training Workshop 2016 CY - Berlin, Germany DA - 14.07.2016 KW - Active thermography KW - Nondestructive testing KW - Data analysis KW - Imaging KW - Bond defect detection KW - Defect localization KW - Automated scanning PY - 2016 AN - OPUS4-38478 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 - Moldenhauer, Laura A1 - Helmerich, Rosemarie A1 - Köppe, Enrico A1 - Haamkens, Frank A1 - Wittmann, Jochen T1 - Experimental feasibility study about moisture in building materials measured with bluetooth N2 - This feasibility study presents 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, is damped. The BLE-module (TRANSMITTER) communicates with a mobile Smart Device as tablet or mobile phone (RECEIVER) [Fig. 1]. The measured RSSI indicates to what extend the received signal strength is changed due to moisture, while the transmitted signal strength remains constant. T2 - Danube Adria Symposium DAS2016 CY - Portoroz, Slovenia DA - 20.09.2016 KW - Bluetooth Low Energy KW - Moisture KW - Experimental study PY - 2016 AN - OPUS4-38522 LA - eng AD - Bundesanstalt fuer Materialforschung und -pruefung (BAM), Berlin, Germany ER -