TY - CONF A1 - Pittner, Andreas A1 - Fabry, Cagtay A1 - Rethmeier, Michael T1 - Automated welding of support structures for offshore wind turbines N2 - Offshore wind energy plays an important role for the desired transition towards a carbon dioxide free industry within the next decades. However, the grounding of the offshore wind plants governs the overall installation process besides bureaucratic bottlenecks. The application of lightweight principles in steel construction, e.g. the usage dissolved load-bearing structures, so called Jackets foundations, offer great potential in reducing the resource consumption, especially with respect to the needed amount of steel. In this context this paper focuses on a fully digitalization of the welding manufacturing and as well as testing chain to enable a fully automated manufacturing as well as quality assessment of tubular nodes as key element of Jackets foundation structures. Furthermore, the relationship between the seam shape geometry and resulting fatigue strength is evaluated by numerical methods incorporating bionic principles. It is shown that tubular nodes can be welded fully automatically taking geometry tolerances into account. Moreover, the seam shape could be manufactured as requested by the numerical models which offers great potential for an extended lifetime. Subsequently, the improvements in resource efficiency and reduction of carbon dioxide emissions are evaluated by a life-cycle-assessment. T2 - THERMEC'2023 International Conference on PROCESSING & MANUFACTURING OF ADVANCED MATERIALS: Processing, Fabrication, Properties, Applications CY - Vienna, Austria DA - 02.07.2023 KW - Offshore Wind energy KW - Automated welding KW - Life cycle assessment KW - Jacket foundations KW - Fatigue life PY - 2023 AN - OPUS4-59501 LA - eng AD - Bundesanstalt fuer Materialforschung und -pruefung (BAM), Berlin, Germany ER - TY - JOUR A1 - Pittner, Andreas A1 - Rethmeier, Michael T1 - Life Cycle Assessment of Fusion Welding Processes - A Case Study of Resistance Spot Welding Versus Laser Beam Welding JF - Advanced Engineering Materials N2 - The high amount of resource consumption of fusion welding processes offers the potential to reduce their environmental impact. While the driving forces are known froma qualitative perspective, the quantitative assessment of the crucial parameters is not a trivial task. Therefore, herein, a welding-specific methodology to utilize life cycle assessment as a tool for evaluating the environmental impact of fusion welding processes is presented. In this context, two welding processes, resistance spot welding and laser beam welding, are analyzed for two different use cases. These comprise the welding of shear test specimens and a cap profile made of electrogalvanized sheets of DC 05รพ ZE (1.0312) as representative of an automotive application. For both welding processes, the main influences on the resulting environmental impact categories are evaluated and compared. The requirements for ecological efficient welding processes are discussed and implemented. KW - Resistance spot welding KW - Carbon dioxide footprint KW - Environmental impact categories KW - Laser beam welding KW - Life cycle assessment PY - 2022 UR - https://nbn-resolving.org/urn:nbn:de:kobv:b43-566458 DO - https://doi.org/10.1002/adem.202101343 SN - 1438-1656 VL - 24 IS - 6 SP - 1 EP - 14 PB - Wiley-VCH CY - Weinheim AN - OPUS4-56645 LA - eng AD - Bundesanstalt fuer Materialforschung und -pruefung (BAM), Berlin, Germany ER -