TY - CHAP A1 - Klinger, Christian ED - Czichos, Horst T1 - Failure analysis: case studies N2 - Failure analysis is needed as a diagnostic tool to assess the sequence of primary, secondary and perhaps tertiary damage of different parts in a damaged system. This is a prerequisite to identify the contributing causes and the root cause for the causal failure. KW - Failure analysis KW - ICE3 axle fracture KW - Non metallic inclusions KW - Münsterland black out KW - Thomas steel embrittlement PY - 2013 SN - 978-3-642-25849-7 SN - 978-3-642-25850-3 DO - https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-25850-3_18 IS - Chapter 18 SP - 355 EP - 385 PB - Springer CY - Berlin Heidelberg AN - OPUS4-27652 LA - eng AD - Bundesanstalt fuer Materialforschung und -pruefung (BAM), Berlin, Germany ER - TY - JOUR A1 - Zerbst, Uwe A1 - Beretta, S. A1 - Köhler, G. A1 - Lawton, A. A1 - Vormwald, M. A1 - Beier, H.T. A1 - Klinger, Christian A1 - Cerný, I. A1 - Rudlin, J. A1 - Heckel, Thomas A1 - Klingbeil, Dietmar T1 - Safe life and damage tolerance aspects of railway axles - A review N2 - The paper gives an overview on safe life and damage tolerance methods applied to railway axles. It describes failure scenarios due to fatigue crack initiation and propagation. Besides common aspects of design, specific features such as corrosion and impact damage from flying ballast are discussed which may reduce the fatigue strength of axles during service. Potential effects of non-metallic inclusions from the steel manufacturing process are addressed in the context of the very high number of loading cycles railway axles are designed for. With respect to damage tolerance general lines of fracture mechanics residual lifetime analyses are introduced. More specific discussion is provided on aspects such as the threshold value of fatigue crack propagation and reliability aspects of non-destructive inspection. KW - Railway axle KW - Safe life design KW - Damage tolerance KW - Fatigue strength KW - Fatigue crack propagation KW - Inspection intervals PY - 2013 DO - https://doi.org/10.1016/j.engfracmech.2012.09.029 SN - 0013-7944 SN - 1873-7315 VL - 98 SP - 214 EP - 271 PB - Elsevier Science CY - Kidlington AN - OPUS4-27779 LA - eng AD - Bundesanstalt fuer Materialforschung und -pruefung (BAM), Berlin, Germany ER - TY - JOUR A1 - Klinger, Christian A1 - Bettge, Dirk T1 - Axle fracture of an ICE3 high speed train N2 - In July 2008 an ICE3 high speed train rated for 330 km/h service speed derailed during departure from Cologne, Central Station, Germany, due to fatigue failure of one of the driving axles. The train was emergency stopped immediately and, due to low travel speed at this point, no serious injuries occurred to passengers. Referring to public interest, the public attorney’s office solicited the German Federal Institute for Materials Research and Testing (BAM) for the analysis of the root cause. No deviations from specification were found in the geometries of the basic parts of the bogie or the wheelset assembly. Inspection of the axle fragments using standard acoustic non-destructive testing (NDT) techniques revealed no additional cracks and no indications of oversized discontinuities. Metallographic and chemical inspection of the axle material and its microstructure revealed all parameters to be acceptable except for an elevated impurity level. The fracture surfaces of the axle fragments were heavily damaged due to some continued travel after final breakage on the high speed line before Cologne Central Station. Extensive visual inspection of the remaining beachmarks was carried out to find the origin of the fatigue crack. The region of the crack origin was located near the axle surface but could not be analysed in detail due to secondary damage. Fatigue was identified as the mechanism of crack growth until final fracture, but the reasons for crack initiation initially remained unclear. Neither standard NDT techniques nor metallography according to the relevant axle specifications were able to identify inclusions in the material that could have served as crack initiation sites. However, discontinuities were detected near the crack origin in micro computer tomography and ultrasonic immersion testing. Subsequent metallographic sample preparation was targeted to specific areas based on the location coordinates of the flaws identified by these NDT techniques. These revealed non-metallic inclusions that were much larger than admissible for the relevant specifications. It is likely that the fatigue crack in the highly loaded axle volume initiated at those non-metallic inclusions. KW - Railway axle fracture KW - Fatigue crack KW - Non-metallic inclusions KW - Ultrasonic immersion technique KW - Micro computer tomography PY - 2013 DO - https://doi.org/10.1016/j.engfailanal.2012.11.008 SN - 1350-6307 SN - 1873-1961 VL - 35 SP - 66 EP - 81 PB - Elsevier Science Publ. CY - Oxford AN - OPUS4-29663 LA - eng AD - Bundesanstalt fuer Materialforschung und -pruefung (BAM), Berlin, Germany ER - TY - JOUR A1 - Zerbst, Uwe A1 - Klinger, Christian A1 - Klingbeil, Dietmar T1 - Structural assessment of railway axles - A critical review N2 - The safety assessment of railway axles is based on a two-stage approach: fatigue strength design and regular inspections which, in terms of a general safety philosophy refer to safe-life and damage tolerance concepts. Starting with a recent failure case, a broken axle of a German high speed train, a discussion is presented on issues of both safety levels. These include ideas for finite life design, the treatment of in-service effects on the fatigue strength due to flying ballast damage and corrosion pits, the effect of corrosion on fatigue crack initiation and propagation, potential effects of non-metallic inclusions in steels, the way to detect them by quality control measures and reliability aspects of non-destructive testing with respect to the detection of fatigue cracks. Proposals are made how the safety level could be further improved. KW - Railway axles KW - Safe life design KW - Damage tolerance design KW - Non-destructive testing KW - Flying ballast impact KW - Corrosion KW - Non-metallic inclusions PY - 2013 UR - http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S1350630712002531 SN - 1350-6307 SN - 1873-1961 VL - 35 IS - Special issue on ICEFA V- Part 1 SP - 54 EP - 65 PB - Elsevier Science Publ. CY - Oxford AN - OPUS4-29715 LA - eng AD - Bundesanstalt fuer Materialforschung und -pruefung (BAM), Berlin, Germany ER - TY - CONF A1 - Klingbeil, Dietmar A1 - Zerbst, Uwe A1 - Klinger, Christian ED - Yu, S. ED - Feng, X.-Q. T1 - Safe life and damage tolerance concepts of railway axles N2 - On July 9, 2008 a high speed train derailed in Cologne main Station, Germany at a low speed because an axle was broken. Fortunately, the derailment happened at a low speed so that nobody was injured. The reason for the broken axle was investigated and it turned out that most likely large inclusions located shortly undemeath the surface in a T-transition were the origin of the final crack. Basing on that result, a systematic investigation on existing safety assessments of railway axles was performed. This results in an analysis of the production process of axles and in a critical review of existing of existing assessments. Improvements and future developments are outlined. T2 - ICF13 - 13th International conference on fracture CY - Beijing, China DA - 16.06.2013 KW - Railway axles KW - Derailment KW - Service loading fatigue KW - Inclusions KW - Safety assessment PY - 2013 SN - 978-988-12265-2-5 SP - 1 EP - 10 AN - OPUS4-29651 LA - eng AD - Bundesanstalt fuer Materialforschung und -pruefung (BAM), Berlin, Germany ER - TY - CONF A1 - Zerbst, Uwe A1 - Klinger, Christian T1 - Anmerkungen zur Auslegung und zum sicheren Betrieb von Radsatzwellen aus der Sicht von Betriebsfestigkeit und Bruchmechanik N2 - Die Sicherheit von Radsatzwellen beruht gegenwärtig auf zwei Säulen: der Schwingfestigkeitsauslegung und periodischen Inspektionen. Ausgehend von einem Schadensfall, der gebrochenen ICE 3-Welle von Köln, 2008, sollen ausgewählte Aspekte beider Säulen diskutiert und Vorschläge zur weiteren Verbesserung gemacht werden. Diese betreffen u.a. Fragen einer Betriebszeitbegrenzung, Veränderungen der Schwingfestigkeit während des Betriebs infolge von Korrosion und Steinschlag, den Einfluss von Korrosion auf Schwingrissinitiierung und -fortschritt, den potentiellen Einfluss nichtmetallischer Einschlüsse auf die Schwingfestigkeit, die Möglichkeiten sie im Rahmen der Qualitätssicherung zu detektieren sowie Fragen der Bruchmechanik und der Zuverlässigkeit zerstörungsfreier Schwingriss-Prüfverfahren im Rahmen eines Konzepts regelmäßiger Inspektionen. T2 - 40. Tagung des DVM-Arbeitskreises Betriebsfestigkeit CY - Herzogenaurach, Germany DA - 09.10.2013 KW - Radsatzwellen KW - Schwingfestigkeit KW - Sichere Lebensdauer KW - Schadenstoleranz KW - Zerstörungsfreie Inspektion KW - Korrosion KW - Steinschlag KW - Nichtmetallische Einschlüsse KW - Railway axles KW - Fatigue strength KW - Safe life design KW - Damage tolerance design KW - Non-destructive inspection KW - Corrosion KW - Flying ballast impact KW - Non-metallic inclusions PY - 2013 N1 - Serientitel: DVM-Bericht – Series title: DVM-Bericht VL - 140 SP - 69 EP - 80 AN - OPUS4-29458 LA - deu AD - Bundesanstalt fuer Materialforschung und -pruefung (BAM), Berlin, Germany ER - TY - GEN A1 - Klinger, Christian A1 - Kinder, Joachim A1 - Ell, Matthias A1 - Klingbeil, Dietmar ED - Lange, G. T1 - Zwillingsbildung in Schiffbaustahl am Beispiel der M.V. ESTONIA T2 - 19. Tagung Werkstoffprüfung CY - Bad Nauheim, Deutschland DA - 2001-12-06 PY - 2001 SN - 3-527-30538-6 SP - 133 EP - 145 PB - Wiley-VCH CY - Weinheim AN - OPUS4-1220 LA - deu AD - Bundesanstalt fuer Materialforschung und -pruefung (BAM), Berlin, Germany ER - TY - CONF A1 - Klinger, Christian A1 - Klingbeil, Dietmar A1 - Kinder, Joachim A1 - Österle, Werner T1 - ESTONIA-Katastrophe - Werkstoffuntersuchungen der BAM an Prüfstücken des Frontschotts T2 - 5. Kolloquium "Werkstoff- und Bauteilprüfung in der Schweißtechnik" CY - Halle (Saale), Deutschland DA - 2001-10-10 PY - 2001 SP - 1(?) EP - 65(?) AN - OPUS4-1174 LA - deu AD - Bundesanstalt fuer Materialforschung und -pruefung (BAM), Berlin, Germany ER - TY - CONF A1 - Kinder, Joachim A1 - Klinger, Christian A1 - Österle, Werner A1 - Klingbeil, Dietmar ED - Portella, Pedro Dolabella T1 - Mechanisch induzierte Zwillingsbildung in Blechen aus Baustahl T2 - 35. Metallographie-Tagung CY - Neu-Ulm, Deutschland DA - 2001-09-19 PY - 2002 SN - 3-88355-303-4 SN - 0343-3579 SP - 47 EP - 52 PB - Werkstoff-Informationsges. CY - Frankfurt AN - OPUS4-1364 LA - deu AD - Bundesanstalt fuer Materialforschung und -pruefung (BAM), Berlin, Germany ER - TY - CONF A1 - Klinger, Christian A1 - Klingbeil, Dietmar A1 - Kinder, Joachim A1 - Österle, Werner T1 - ESTONIA - Katastrophe - Werkstoffuntersuchungen der BAM an Prüfstücken des Frontschotts T2 - Landesfachtagung 2002 "Schweißtechnik" CY - --- DA - 2002-11-15 PY - 2002 SP - 1(?) EP - 6(?) AN - OPUS4-1925 LA - deu AD - Bundesanstalt fuer Materialforschung und -pruefung (BAM), Berlin, Germany ER -