TY - CONF A1 - Mair, Georg W. A1 - Becker, Ben T1 - Monte-Carlo-analysis of minimum load cycle requirements for composite cylinders for hydrogen N2 - Existing regulations and standards for the approval of composite cylinders in hydrogen service are currently based on deterministic criteria (ISO 11119-3, UN GTR No. 13). This paper provides a systematic analysis of the load cycle properties resulting from these regulations and standards. Their characteristics are compared with the probabilistic approach of the BAM. Based on Monte-Carlo simulations the available design range of all concepts is compared. In addition, the probability of acceptance for potentially unsafe design types is determined. T2 - ICHS 2017 CY - Hamburg, Germany DA - 11.09.2017 KW - Monte-Carlo KW - Hydrogen KW - Regulations KW - Probabilitic approach PY - 2017 SP - ID 202, 1 EP - 11 PB - HySafe CY - Hamburg AN - OPUS4-41944 LA - eng AD - Bundesanstalt fuer Materialforschung und -pruefung (BAM), Berlin, Germany ER - TY - CONF A1 - John, Sebastian A1 - Mair, Georg W. T1 - Sensitivity analysis of residual stresses in composite pressure vessels via modal analysis N2 - Due to high specific stiffness a nd strength properties, fibre reinforced plastics are used more and more often for the construction of pressure vessels. Within a recent research project run by the Federal Institute for Materials Research and Testing (BAM), aging process of composite pressure vessels is investigated in order to be able to give more accurate lifetime predictions in the future. Focus is set on type III pressure vessels consisting of an aluminium tank which is fully wrapped with carbon fibre reinforced plastics. In order to increase high-cycle fatigue, residual stresses are induced into the pressure vessel during manufacturing process. In particular, residual compressive stresses within the inner aluminium layer have been defined as a main parameter affecting fatigue strength. The aim is to identify and evaluate residual stresses of the pressure vessel by analysing its modal parameters. Through the set-up of a finite-element model potential capability and validity for the use of modal analysis is proven and evaluated, considering influences resulting from manufacturing deviations, too. In the following, a number of stress sensitive modes are defined. Based on these preliminary numerical investigations, a test bench is set up in order to measure pressure vessels via an experimental modal analysis. A final critical evaluation regarding the accuracy of the modal analysis is made by comparing experimental results with data obtained through simulations. T2 - INTER-NOISE 2017 46th International Congress and Exposition on Noise Control Engineering CY - Hong Kong, People's Republic of China DA - 27.08.2017 KW - Composite pressure vessel KW - Modal analysis PY - 2017 SP - 6309 EP - 6316 CY - Hong Kong AN - OPUS4-41842 LA - eng AD - Bundesanstalt fuer Materialforschung und -pruefung (BAM), Berlin, Germany ER - TY - CONF A1 - Mair, Georg W. T1 - Hydrogen onboard storage - an insertion of the probalistic approach into standards & regulations? T2 - International Conference on Hydrogen Safety CY - Pisa, Italy DA - 2005-09-08 PY - 2005 UR - http://www.storhy.net/pdf/ICHS_Hydrogen_Onboard_Storage_BAM_2005-09-09.pdf SP - 42 pages PB - University of Pisa CY - Pisa AN - OPUS4-11299 LA - eng AD - Bundesanstalt fuer Materialforschung und -pruefung (BAM), Berlin, Germany ER - TY - CONF A1 - John, Sebastian A1 - Mair, Georg W. A1 - Schoppa, André A1 - Szczepaniak, Mariusz T1 - Monitoring of residual stresses in composite pressure vessels via modal analysis N2 - Within a current research project at the Federal Institute for Materials Testing and Research (BAM), the degradation process of composite pressure vessels is studied to be able to give more accurate lifetime predictions in future. The presented research is based on type III pressure vessels consisting of an aluminium tank which is fully wrapped with carbon fibre reinforced plastics. Focus is set on the analysis of residual stresses which are induced into the pressure vessel during manufacturing process in order to increase high cycle fatigue. However, with increasing lifetime residual stress conditions do change. To be able to measure and monitor stress conditions, the application of a non-destructive measurement method is aspired. In this paper, potential of an experimental modal analysis is worked out to capture and monitor aging and degradation effects in pressure vessels. With the presented method, information about changes in residual stress can be obtained via an analysis of the modal parameters. To realize an application, first, a finite element simulation is used to prove and evaluate potential capability and validity. In the following, a test bench is set up and successively optimized in its accuracy and efficiency. Sensitivity of the applied measurement technique is experimentally ascertained trough the measurement of several prestress modified pressure vessels. Finally, experimental results are interpreted and evaluated with the help of numerically gained findings. T2 - NOVEM 2018 CY - St. Eulalia, Ibiza, Spain DA - 07.05.2018 KW - Composite pressure vessel KW - Residual stress KW - Modal analysis PY - 2018 VL - 6 SP - Paper 175090, 1 EP - 9 AN - OPUS4-45220 LA - eng AD - Bundesanstalt fuer Materialforschung und -pruefung (BAM), Berlin, Germany ER - TY - CONF A1 - Mair, Georg W. A1 - Hoffmann, Martin A1 - Scherer, Florian T1 - Type approval of composite gas cylinders - Probabilistic analysis of rc&s concerning minimum burst pressure T2 - EHEC 2014 - European hydrogen energy conference CY - Seville, Spain DA - 2014-03-12 KW - Composite cylinders KW - Cost optimisation KW - Hydraulic cycle testing KW - Residual strength KW - Safety KW - Scatter KW - Slow burst KW - Pressure rate KW - Sustained load PY - 2014 SP - HS2-6, 242-244 AN - OPUS4-30739 LA - eng AD - Bundesanstalt fuer Materialforschung und -pruefung (BAM), Berlin, Germany ER - TY - CONF A1 - López, E. A1 - Rengel, R. A1 - Mair, Georg W. A1 - Isorna, F. ED - Tejera, E.P. ED - Morales, C.A. ED - Marrero, J.L.R. ED - Coello, P.N. ED - Morales, J.C.R. ED - Huerta, M.V.M. ED - Elorri, M.J.L. ED - Acosta, E. A. T1 - Analysis of high-pressure hydrogen and natural gas cylinders explosions through TNT equivalent method T2 - HYCELTEC 2015 - 5th Iberian symposium on hydrogen, fuel cells and advanced batteries CY - Tenerife, Spain DA - 2015-07-05 KW - Hydrogen KW - High-pressure KW - Explosion KW - TNT equivalent KW - Safety-distances PY - 2015 SN - 978-84-606-8621-7 SP - P_35, 302 EP - 308 AN - OPUS4-33154 LA - eng AD - Bundesanstalt fuer Materialforschung und -pruefung (BAM), Berlin, Germany ER - TY - CONF A1 - Mair, Georg W. A1 - Becker, Ben A1 - Duffner, Eric A1 - Gregor, Christian A1 - Saul, Herbert A1 - Schoppa, André T1 - Composite gas cylinders - probabilistic analysis of minimum load cycle requirements N2 - Composite materials show a degradation of properties depending on Service life. This creates the necessity to find tailored methods to determine strength and residual strength of composite cylinders. The determination can be done e.g. by load cycles tests. The result needs a Statistical assessment for the precise description of strength. Especially the Statistical assessment of load cycle strength properties has a high uncertainty. It is unclear if a Log-Normal distribution, a WEIBULL distribution or others, describe the scatter behaviour of residual strength properties correctly. Distribution functions aim at approximating the frequency of occurrence of residual load cycle strength for high survival rates. An assumption has to be found and confirmed to prevent overestimation of reliability. T2 - ICHS2015 - 6th International conference on hydrogen safety CY - Yokohama, Japan DA - 19.10.2015 KW - Failure rate KW - Confidence level KW - Scatter KW - StorHy KW - Sample performance chart PY - 2015 SN - 978-2-9601366-1-6 SP - 1 EP - 14 AN - OPUS4-34804 LA - eng AD - Bundesanstalt fuer Materialforschung und -pruefung (BAM), Berlin, Germany ER - TY - CONF A1 - Mair, Georg W. A1 - Becker, Ben A1 - Scholz, Irene T1 - Assessment of the type of statistical distribution concerning strength properties of composite cylinders N2 - Composite materials show a degradation of properties depending on service life. This creates the necessity to find tailored methods to determine strength and residual strength of composite cylinders. The determination can be done e.g. by load cycles tests. The result needs a statistical assessment for the precise description of strength. Especially the statistical assessment of load cycle strength properties has a high uncertainty. It is unclear if a Log-Normal distribution, a WEIBULL distribution or others, describe the scatter behaviour of residual strength properties correctly. Distribution functions aim at approximating the frequency of occurrence of residual load cycle strength for high survival rates. An assumption has to be found and confirmed to prevent over-estimation of reliability. T2 - ICCM20 - 20th International conference on composite materials CY - Copenhagen, Denmark DA - 19.07.2015 KW - Composite cylinder KW - Load cycle test KW - Statistical assessment KW - Distribution function PY - 2015 SN - 978-1629931999 SP - P-ID 2217-2/Track 4-04, 1-11 AN - OPUS4-33792 LA - eng AD - Bundesanstalt fuer Materialforschung und -pruefung (BAM), Berlin, Germany ER - TY - CONF A1 - de Miguel, N. A1 - Mair, Georg W. A1 - Acosta, B. A1 - Szczepaniak, Mariusz A1 - Moretto, P. T1 - Hydraulic and pneumatic pressure cycle life test results on composite reinforced tanks for hydrogen storage N2 - Current standards governing the design, qualification and in-service inspection of carbon fibre composite cylinders do not facilitate to optimise cylinder design. The requirements have been adapted from standards for metallic cylinders and cannot easily quantify the degradation processes in composite materials. In this article, the results of hydraulic and hydrogen pressure cycle life tests performed on composite reinforced tanks with a metal liner (type 3) and with a high density polymer liner (type 4) are shown. Moreover, the degradation measured by means of residual strength of the tanks after the cycling tests have been compared. It has been found that the most critical aging for metal based composite cylinder is the gaseous cycling while type 4 designs seem to be more sensitive to hydraulic cycling at high temperature. T2 - ASME 2016 Pressure Vessels and Piping Conference CY - Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada DA - 17.07.2016 KW - Composite reinforced tanks KW - Compressed hydrogen storage KW - Design and qualification standards KW - Pressure cycle life tests KW - Safety factors PY - 2016 SN - 978-0-7918-5035-0 VL - 1A SP - 63568-1 EP - 63568-10 PB - ASME CY - Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada AN - OPUS4-36275 LA - eng AD - Bundesanstalt fuer Materialforschung und -pruefung (BAM), Berlin, Germany ER - TY - CONF A1 - Becker, Ben A1 - Mair, Georg W. T1 - Risks and safety level of composite cylinders N2 - The increasing amount of composite transport systems for hydrogen leads to new and therefore unknown potential hazards for general public. Due to lack of experience, risks of new technologies tend to be rated as higher than existing familiar applications. An approach for probabilistic safety assessment of technologies or products requires the definition of minimal acceptable reliability levels. This ensures that the probability of a critical failure with a certain consequence is limited to an acceptable risk. But what is the acceptable risk and which risk results from specific probabilities of occurrence and consequences? This is always a very complex question. The following example is based on a probabilistic approach for safety assessment of composite cylinders developed at the BAM (Federal Institute for Materials Research and Testing). T2 - WHEC 2016 CY - Saragossa, Spain DA - 13.06.2016 KW - Hydrogen composite cylinder risk consequence PY - 2016 VL - 2016 SP - 41 EP - 42 AN - OPUS4-36666 LA - eng AD - Bundesanstalt fuer Materialforschung und -pruefung (BAM), Berlin, Germany ER - TY - CONF A1 - Mair, Georg W. A1 - Hoffmann, Martin A1 - Schönfelder, Thorsten ED - Carcassi, M.N. T1 - The slow burst testing of composite cylinders - Part I: Slow burst testing of samples as a method for quantification of cylinder degradation N2 - The current practise of focusing the periodic retesting of composite cylinders primarily on the hydraulic pressure test has to be evaluated as critical - with regard to the damage of the specimen as well as in Terms of their significance. This is justified by micro damages caused to the specimen by the test itself and by a lack of informative values. Thus BAM Federal Institute of Materials Research and Testing (Germany) uses a new approach of validation of composite for the determination of re-test periods. It enables the description of the state of a population of composite cylinders based on destructive tests parallel to operation. An essential aspect of this approach is the prediction of residual safe service life. In cases where it cannot be estimated by means of hydraulic load cycle tests, as a replacement the creep or burst test remains. As a combination of these two test procedures BAM suggests the 'slow burst test SBT'. On this a variety of about 150 burst test results on three design types of cylinders with plastic liners are presented. For this purpose both, the parameters of the test protocol as well as the nature and intensity of the pre-damage artificially aged test samples are analysed statistically. This leads first to an evaluation of the different types of artificial ageing but also to the clear recommendation that conventional burst tests be substituted totally if indented for assessment of composite pressure receptacles. T2 - ICHS2013 - 5th International conference on hydrogen safety CY - Brussels, Belgium DA - 09.09.2013 KW - Residual strength KW - CFRP KW - Gas storage KW - Reliability KW - Sample testing PY - 2013 SN - 978-2-9601366-0-9 SP - 1 EP - 12 AN - OPUS4-29260 LA - eng AD - Bundesanstalt fuer Materialforschung und -pruefung (BAM), Berlin, Germany ER - TY - CONF A1 - Mair, Georg W. A1 - Scherer, Florian ED - Carcassi, M.N. T1 - The slow burst testing of composite cylinders - Part II: Statistic evaluation of sample test results T2 - ICHS2013 - 5th International conference on hydrogen safety CY - Brussels, Belgium DA - 2013-09-09 KW - Residual strength KW - CFRP KW - Gas storage KW - Reliability KW - Sample testing PY - 2013 SN - 978-2-9601366-0-9 SP - 12 EP - 20 AN - OPUS4-29261 LA - eng AD - Bundesanstalt fuer Materialforschung und -pruefung (BAM), Berlin, Germany ER - TY - CONF A1 - John, Sebastian A1 - Duffner, Eric A1 - Mair, Georg W. T1 - Degradation and damage analysis of composite pressure vessels via experimental modal analysis N2 - For mobile gas storage systems, the application of type IV pressure vessels is state of the art. Type IV tanks consist of an inner polymer liner fully wrapped with fibre-reinforced plastic (FRP). Because of the complex fabric of the FRP as well as a difficulty estimable interaction behaviour between the single components under load, there are still no satisfying non-destructive testing methods to assess the current state of failure nor to estimate the level of degradation accurately and economically. At BAM division 3.5, analysing the ageing process of mobile composite pressure vessels is a major task to ensure safe usage over the whole lifetime. In this context, key aspects of our ongoing research activities are the invention of new test procedures and the development of accurate lifetime prediction models. In order to determine the level of degradation or damage, one meaningful non-destructive approach is to analyse the structural dynamic behaviour via an experimental modal analysis (EMA). Over the last few years, different types and sizes of composite pressure vessels have been tested in several research projects. The presented paper gives an insight into how to extract and interpret modal parameters and how to fit them to the results of residual strength tests. T2 - NOVEM Conference 2023 CY - Auckland, New Zealand DA - 09.01.2023 KW - Composite material KW - Pressure vessel KW - Degradation KW - Modal analysis PY - 2023 SP - 57-1 EP - 57-6 AN - OPUS4-58062 LA - eng AD - Bundesanstalt fuer Materialforschung und -pruefung (BAM), Berlin, Germany ER - TY - CONF A1 - Popiela, Bartosz A1 - Günzel, Stephan A1 - Mair, Georg W. A1 - Seidlitz, Holger ED - Nabizada, A. ED - Dechany, A. ED - Carré, B. ED - Ghogare, D. ED - Stendardo, E. ED - Lappa, F. ED - Vanlaere, J. ED - Mendoza, M. J. ED - Dejonghe, M. ED - Daese, M. ED - Namazifard, N. ED - Jacops, R. ED - Jottrand, S. ED - Pahlavan, S. T1 - Modelling of the Manufacturing Process Related Residual Stresses in Type 4 Pressure Vessels for Hydrogen Storage N2 - The publication is an extended abstract on the modelling of the manufacturing process related residual stresses in type 4 pressure vessels for hydrogen storage. A 2D analytical model based on the classical laminate theory and a 3D finite element model are introduced. The calculated residual stress state after the filament winding process as well as the stress state in service are presented and discussed. T2 - European PhD Hydrogen Conference 2024 (EPHyC2024) CY - Ghent, Belgium DA - 20.03.2024 KW - Composite KW - Hydrogen KW - Pressure vessel KW - Residual stresses KW - Filament winding KW - Carbon fiber PY - 2024 VL - 2024 SP - 445 EP - 450 PB - Hydrogen Europe Research, BE-HyFE AN - OPUS4-59779 LA - eng AD - Bundesanstalt fuer Materialforschung und -pruefung (BAM), Berlin, Germany ER - TY - CONF A1 - Mair, Georg W. A1 - Scherer, Florian A1 - Scholz, Irene A1 - Schönfelder, Thorsten T1 - The residual strength of breathing air composite cylinders towards the end of their service life - A first assessment of a real-life sample N2 - Emergency response units increasingly use pressure cylinders made from fibre composites for breathing air as elements of personal protective equipment (PPE). Such applications expose the composite cylinders to harsh temperature and handling conditions. At least in Europe, standards have been used for certifying PPE, which are designed and mandatory for the approval of pressure receptacles for the transport of dangerous goods. Therefore, service conditions specific to PPEs are not accounted for in these standards. In this paper, BAM (Federal Institute for Materials Research and Testing) investigates the residual safety of a composite cylinder design at the end of their designated service life of 15 years. The cylinders (test pressure PH 450 bars; 6.8 Litres) are of one design type with aluminium liner and fully wrapped with carbon fibres, which is commonly considered a “Type III” cylinder. All cylinders were used as PPE by the Berlin fire department and randomly picked in three samples of 25 cylinders each before tested. At BAM, the cylinder samples underwent hydraulic load cycle tests (LCT), conventional burst tests (BT) and so called slow burst tests (SBT). A concept for quantification of strength degradation already introduced by BAM was applied. This concept is based on a probabilistic assessment of the average strength and scatter of each sample of cylinders. The strength distributions of the used PPEcylinders is shown and analysed. Some unexpected effects are shown and a refinement of the statistical assessment is introduced. T2 - ASME 2014 Pressure Vessels and Piping Conference CY - Anaheim, CA, USA DA - 20.07.2014 KW - Composite KW - Assessment KW - Cylinder KW - Residual strenght PY - 2014 SN - 978-0-7918-4603-2 SP - PVP2014-28168, 1 EP - 9 AN - OPUS4-40173 LA - eng AD - Bundesanstalt fuer Materialforschung und -pruefung (BAM), Berlin, Germany ER - TY - CONF A1 - Eisermann, René A1 - Basedau, Frank A1 - Kadoke, Daniel A1 - Gründer, Peter A1 - Schoppa, André A1 - Lehr, Christian A1 - Szczepaniak, Mariusz A1 - John, Sebastian A1 - Schukar, Marcus A1 - Munzke, Dorit A1 - Mair, Georg W. T1 - Distributed strain sensing with sub-centimetre resolution for the characterisation of structural inhomogeneities and material degradation of industrial high-pressure composite cylinders N2 - Fibre-reinforced plastics (FRP) especially carbon-fibre-reinforced polymer (CFRP) and glass-fibre-reinforced polymer (GFRP) are commonly used materials in high pressure vessels and storage units for automotive and aerospace purposes. Optical fibres are suitable to be integrated or directly applied to the surface of FRP components. Using optical fibres it is possible to monitor the distributed strain profiles and changes within the fatigue life of a pressure vessel to ensure the operational safety. Within artificial ageing experiments we used swept wavelength interferometry (SWI) based distributed strain sensing for the monitoring of commercial high-pressure composite cylinder. This artificial ageing was performed using test conditions of 503bar pressure load (service pressure 300 bar) and 89 °C for 100 h. The polyimide coated optical fibres were glued to the surface externally in circumferential and axial direction. Using distributed strain sensing (DSS) material expansion of over 0.5% were monitored with sub-centimetre spatial resolution. Within the circumferential direction we observed up to 10 % local fluctuation compared to the median strain caused by inhomogeneous material expansion, which could cause local material fatigue. In addition, we determined material degradation manifested itself as localized remaining material expansion and/or contraction. Results have been validated by other non-destructive methods like digital strip projection. T2 - 9th European Workshop on Structural Health Monitoring (EWSHM) CY - Manchester, UK DA - 10.07.2018 KW - Distributed fibre optic sensors KW - Optical backscatter reflectometry KW - Swept wavelength interferometry (SWI) KW - Structural health monitoring (SHM) KW - Composite structures KW - Optical fibre PY - 2018 UR - https://nbn-resolving.org/urn:nbn:de:kobv:b43-458926 SP - 1 EP - 8 AN - OPUS4-45892 LA - eng AD - Bundesanstalt fuer Materialforschung und -pruefung (BAM), Berlin, Germany ER - TY - CONF A1 - Popiela, Bartosz A1 - Schukar, Marcus A1 - Breithaupt, Mathias A1 - Günzel, Stephan A1 - Mair, Georg W. A1 - Krebber, Katerina A1 - Seidlitz, Holger T1 - Embedding of Fiber Optic Sensors Under Industrial Conditions and Distributed Strain Sensing in Type 4 Composite Pressure Vessels N2 - The number of in-operation composite pressure vessels is increasing, partly due to their attractiveness for on-board compressed gas storage and transport applications. A possible way to maintain the highest safety levels is through the structural health monitoring of the composite cylinders. Here, the use of fiber optic sensors appears to be a promising approach. However, the integration of the optical fibers into the composite structure of a pressure vessel has been shown to be challenging. In this study, insights on the embedding of optical fibers in the composite structure under industrial conditions are provided. A protection concept for the ingress and egress of the optical fibers is presented. Finally, the results from destructive slow burst tests are evaluated, showing no clear trend in the impact of the embedded optical fibers on the performance of composite pressure vessels. T2 - 24th International Conference on Composite Materials CY - Baltimore, Maryland, USA DA - 04.08.2025 KW - Composite KW - Pressure vessel KW - Filament winding KW - Fiber optic sensors PY - 2025 SP - 3710 EP - 3717 AN - OPUS4-63886 LA - eng AD - Bundesanstalt fuer Materialforschung und -pruefung (BAM), Berlin, Germany ER - TY - CONF A1 - Mair, Georg W. A1 - Günzel, Stephan A1 - Bock, Robert T1 - Risk management and consequence control in hydrogen transport - volume dependent pressure limitation as a scientific approach for consequence control N2 - With technological development, the transport units for compressed gases are becoming larger and their number is increasing. Simultaneously, the filling pressure for hydrogen in transport has increased far beyond the 200 bar, which has been the common European standard for decades. In total, this increases the potential consequences of an incident, which needs to get limited for ensuring acceptance in current practice with pressure vessels from large serial production. Consequently, the measures for new developments of extremely large and highly pressurised pressure vessels should meet a risk based higher level of requirements. For this purpose, the so-called pressure-volume product was proposed as a safety related criteria to the relevant regulatory bodies in 2020. The approach was accepted, and a working group was set up at the United Nations for developing a broadly accepted limitation of today's established pressure vessels compared to future units with even more gas content. The path to the finally decided limit value of 1.5 million bar litres is presented here for hydrogen with its individual steps: ‘Boundary between major accident and disaster’, ‘The effect of pressure waves on the human body’, ‘The propagation of pressure waves’, ‘The reference value for population density’ and ‘Impact of pressure waves’. This result of the UN working group has been accepted in December 2023 and will lead to a binding limitation of the pressure volume product for the so called pressure receptacles by 2027. The work on units larger than this pV-limit is going on at ISO level. T2 - 11th International Conference on Hydrogen Safety ICHS 2025 CY - Seoul, South Korea DA - 22.09.2025 KW - Safety KW - Hydrogen transport KW - Major accident KW - Pressure wave KW - Population density KW - UN Model Regulations PY - 2025 SP - 1 EP - 14 AN - OPUS4-64199 LA - eng AD - Bundesanstalt fuer Materialforschung und -pruefung (BAM), Berlin, Germany ER - TY - CONF A1 - Krentel, Daniel A1 - Tschirschwitz, Rico A1 - Kluge, Martin A1 - Askar, Enis A1 - Kohlhoff, Harald A1 - Mair, Georg W. A1 - Rudolph, Michael A1 - Schoppa, Andre A1 - Storm, Sven-Uwe A1 - Szcepaniak, Mariusz T1 - Consequences of the failure of mobile gas vessels N2 - Small, mobile propane gas vessels are widely spread and comprise additional hazards in case of a surrounding, intensive fire. The aim of the presented work is to holistically investigate the potential consequences of failure of these off-the-shelf propane gas vessels in case of an absence or malfunction of safety devices. In order to generate a statistically valid dataset, a total of 15 identical propane gas bottles without pressure relief device, each containing m = 11 kg of liquid propane, were underfired in horizontal position. For each selected fire type (wood fire, petrol pool fire, propane gas fire), five vessels were tested under identical conditions. Next to extensive camera equipment including a high-speed camera, systems to record the internal pressure of the gas cylinder, the resulting shock wave overpressure (three positions) and the flame and vessel temperature (three + three positions) during the underfiring were used. Also the unsteady, highly dynamical thermal radiation caused by the explosion of the expanding gas cloud was logged. The fragments were georeferenced and weighed after each test. The experiments prove the failure of all the gas cylinders at a burst pressure of pb = [71 … 98 bar] with a fragmentation into up to seven parts (average: four objects) and a subsequent explosion of the expanding vapour after mixing with the surrounding air. The overpressure measured in the close-up range (distance to the cylinder d = 5 m) resulting from the shockwave caused by the cylinder burst was up to pmax = 0.27 bar, which can potentially lead to significant injuries to humans and damage to building structures and infrastructure, especially in connection with the explosion and the resultant thermal radiation. The distance covered by the fragments after the failure was up to r = 260 m; 47% of the fragments hit the ground more than r = 50 m away from the position of failure. T2 - Hazards 27 CY - Birmingham, UK DA - 10.05.2017 KW - Failure of gas vessels KW - Propane cylinder KW - Gas explosion KW - Consequences KW - Fragmentation PY - 2017 SN - 978-1-911446-57-6 SP - 1 EP - 12 PB - Instiution of Chemical Engineers CY - Rugby, UK AN - OPUS4-41160 LA - eng AD - Bundesanstalt fuer Materialforschung und -pruefung (BAM), Berlin, Germany ER - TY - CONF A1 - Mair, Georg W. A1 - Bock, Robert A1 - Günzel, Stephan A1 - Gesell, Stephan T1 - Monte-Carlo-Analysis of Minimum Burst Requirements for Composite Cylinders for Hydrogen Service N2 - For achieving Net Zero-aims hydrogen is an indispensable component, probably the main component. For the usage of hydrogen, a wide acceptance is necessary, which requires trust in hydrogen based on absence of major incidents resulting from a high safety level. Burst tests stand for a type of testing that is used in every test standard and regulation as one of the key issues for ensuring safety in use. The central role of burst and proof test is grown to historical reasons for steam engines and steel vessels but - with respect for composite pressure vessels (CPVs) - not due an extraordinary depth of outcomes. Its importance results from the relatively simple test process with relatively low costs and gets its importance by running of the different test variations in parallel. In relevant test und production standards (as e. g. ECE R134) the burst test is used in at least 4 different meanings. There is the burst test on a) new CPVs and some others b) for determining the residual strength subsequent to various simulations of ageing effects. Both are performed during the approval process on a pre-series. Then there is c) the batch testing during the CPVs production and finally d) the 100% proof testing, which means to stop the burst test at a certain pressure level. These different aspects of burst tests are analysed and compared with respect to its importance for the resulting safety of the populations of CPVs in service based on experienced test results and Monte-Carlo simulations. As main criterial for this the expected failure rate in a probabilistic meaning is used. This finally ends up with recommendations for relevant RC&S especially with respect to GTR 13. T2 - 9th International Conference on Hydrogen Safety CY - Online meeting DA - 21.09.2021 KW - Hydrogen KW - Burst test KW - Composite pressure vessels KW - Net zero KW - Monte-Carlo-Analysis PY - 2021 SP - 133 EP - 146 PB - IGEM AN - OPUS4-55668 LA - eng AD - Bundesanstalt fuer Materialforschung und -pruefung (BAM), Berlin, Germany ER -