TY - CONF A1 - Küttenbaum, Stefan A1 - Maack, Stefan A1 - Taffe, A. A1 - Braml, T. T1 - Non-destructive testing in civil engineering: A valuable source of information for reliability assessments T2 - IABSE SYMPOSIUM GUIMARÃES 2019. Towards a Resilient Built Environment — Risk and Asset Management N2 - The reassessment of bridges is becoming increasingly important. The basic requirement for analyses of structural safety is reliable knowledge about individual structures. This paper introduces the new approach to evaluate the quality of measured data gained from non-destructive testing (NDT) to provide reliable, objective, and relevant information about existing bridges. The purpose is to relate this validated knowledge to probabilistic analyses. Bridging the gap between NDT and numerical reassessments indicates reduced numerical uncertainties and residual service time extensions. This paper deals with an application of this approach using measurement data collected by ultrasonic technique at a prestressed concrete bridge. T2 - IABSE Symposium 2019 CY - Guimarães, Portugal DA - 27.03.2019 KW - NDT KW - Measurement KW - Structural safety KW - Uncertainty KW - Existing bridges PY - 2019 SN - 978-3-85748-163-5 VL - 112 SP - 1132 EP - 1139 PB - IABSE (International Association for Bridge and Structural Engineering) CY - Zurich, Switzerland AN - OPUS4-47815 LA - eng AD - Bundesanstalt fuer Materialforschung und -pruefung (BAM), Berlin, Germany ER - TY - CONF A1 - Küttenbaum, Stefan A1 - Taffe, A. A1 - Braml, T. A1 - Maack, Stefan ED - Alexander, M. G. ED - Beushausen, H. ED - Dehn, F. ED - Moyo, P. T1 - Reliability assessment of existing bridge constructions based on results of non-destructive testing T2 - International Conference on Concrete Repair, Rehabilitation and Retrofitting (ICCRRR 2018) N2 - The non-destructive testing methods available for civil engineering (NDT-CE) enable the measurements of quantitative parameters, which realistically describe the characteristics of existing buildings. In the past, methods for quality evaluation and concepts for validation expanded into NDT-CE to improve the objectivity of measured data. Thereby, a metrological foundation was developed to collect statistically sound and structurally relevant information about the inner construction of structures without destructive interventions. More recently, the demand for recalculations of structural safety was identified. This paper summarizes a basic research study on structural analyses of bridges in combination with NDT. The aim is to use measurement data of nondestructive testing methods as stochastic quantities in static calculations. Therefore, a methodical interface between the guide to the expression of uncertainty in measurement and probabilistic approximation procedures (e.g. FORM) has been proven to be suitable. The motivation is to relate the scientific approach of the structural analysis with real information coming from existing structures and not with those found in the literature. A case study about the probabilistic bending proof of a reinforced concrete bridge with statistically verified data from ultrasonic measurements shows that the measuring results fulfil the requirements concerning precision, trueness, objectivity and reliability. T2 - International Conference on Concrete Repair, Rehabilitation and Retrofitting (ICCRRR 2018) CY - Cape Town, South Africa DA - 19.11.2018 KW - NDT KW - Concrete KW - Probabilistic reassessment KW - Bridge PY - 2018 UR - https://nbn-resolving.org/urn:nbn:de:kobv:b43-467898 DO - https://doi.org/10.1051/matecconf/201819906001 SN - 2261-236X VL - 199 SP - 06001, 1 EP - 9 PB - MATEC Web of Conferences AN - OPUS4-46789 LA - eng AD - Bundesanstalt fuer Materialforschung und -pruefung (BAM), Berlin, Germany ER - TY - CONF A1 - Küttenbaum, Stefan A1 - Braml, T. A1 - Maack, Stefan T1 - Refining stochastic models for the reassessment of bridges using advanced NDT-methods T2 - Proceedings of the 17th International Probabilistic Workshop N2 - Increasing requirements on the infrastructure caused by more and heavier traffic coincide with both the aging and the progressive degradation of bridge constructions. These exemplary issues lead to a non-negligible need for reassessments of existing bridges. Compared to the new building design, safety reserves can be used in the evaluation of such existing structures, since uncertainties that may arise during the design, construction and previous Service time are better known or no longer present. Uncertainties can be evaiuated more precisely by measurements. In the meantime, the application of advanced NDT-methods on concrete structures have become so capable, that crucial structure Parameters like certain material properties or geometrical dimensions can be quantified without significant destructive interventions. The measured data can be explicitly incorporated into the probabilistic computation models used for the bridge reassessment in form of random variables. Therewith, a previously insufficient model can be refined to achieve a higher level of approximation. This contribution emphasises two fundamental steps of the measured data based probabilistic reassessment: The sensitivity analyses to identify the cruciai Parameters and the needed accuracy of the related information as well as the comparison with expected uncertainties of non-destructively measured Parameters. T2 - 17th International Probabilistic Workshop CY - Edinburgh, UK DA - 11.09.2019 KW - Measurement KW - Reassessment KW - NDT KW - Concrete bridges PY - 2019 SP - 99 EP - 105 AN - OPUS4-48998 LA - eng AD - Bundesanstalt fuer Materialforschung und -pruefung (BAM), Berlin, Germany ER - TY - CONF A1 - Knackmuß, J. A1 - Maack, Stefan A1 - Creutzburg, R. T1 - Comparative visualization of geometry of a hollow box girder using 3D-LiDAR – Part 1: Cross sectional area T2 - Journal of Electronic Imaging N2 - With the mandatory introduction of the directive for recalculation of bridges in May 2011 in Germany, the administrations of the federal and state governments have a duty to demonstrate the stability of their bridge inventory. The requisite verification will be realized under consideration of the new increased traffic loads on the construction, in a four-step process. Particularly in older bridges the verification succeeds only using the computational resources of the original structural design. One option these reserves to be considered is the exact determination of the dead weight of the bridge. Since the existing as-built documents of the construction often digress significantly from the real dimensions, there are two options to resolve the issue. In addition to the technically very complicated and relatively expensive method of weighing the construction, the calculation can also be done indirectly through a combined process of hotogrammetric measurement and non-destructive testing. On a practical case study will be demonstrated how the solution of this problem can succeed. For this is done in the first step to scan in detailed the inner topography of a part of the construction by a 3D laser scanner. The results of these tests are compared with the existing stock plans of the building. The aim of this study is to determine the dead weight of structure. Therefore, in the first part of this work sectional plans were extracted of the technical drawing and the point cloud to calculate the area of the interior. Based on the calculated areas in the sectional planes, the volume calculation should take place in the next step. T2 - IS&T International Symposium on Electronic Imaging 2016 CY - San Francisco, CA, USA DA - 14.02.2016 KW - Laserscanner KW - LiDAR KW - Bridge KW - NDT PY - 2016 UR - http://www.ingentaconnect.com/contentone/ist/ei/2016/00002016/00000007/art00015 DO - https://doi.org/10.2352/ISSN.2470-1173.2016.7.MOBMU-296 SN - 1017-9909 SP - MOBMU-296.1 EP - MOBMU-296.10 PB - SPIE AN - OPUS4-38829 LA - eng AD - Bundesanstalt fuer Materialforschung und -pruefung (BAM), Berlin, Germany ER - TY - CONF A1 - Bühling, Benjamin A1 - Strangfeld, Christoph A1 - Maack, Stefan T1 - Entwicklung eines luftgekoppelten Ultraschall-Echo-Prüfverfahrens mittels fluidischer Anregung T2 - Tagungsband der DACH-Jahrestagung 2019 N2 - In vielen technischen Bereichen werden Ultraschallverfahren zur zer-störungsfreien Werkstoffprüfung eingesetzt. Dabei wird ein Schallpuls von einem Prüfkopf in ein Prüfobjekt eingebracht. Der Puls kann unter anderem durch Membra-nen oder Piezoelemente erzeugt werden und wird in der Regel durch direkten Kontakt oder über ein Koppelmittel an das Objekt übertragen. Luftgekoppelter Ultraschall spielt in kommerziellen Anwendungen bisher eine untergeordnete Rolle, da die Dif-ferenz der akustischen Impedanzen von Luft und Festkörpern immense Verluste beim Übergang des Schallsignals hervorruft. In diesem Beitrag soll ein neuartiges Anregungsprinzip vorgestellt werden, mit dem ein Großteil dieser Verluste vermieden wird. Anstelle eines Festkörpers soll mit Hilfe einer fluidischen Düse Druckluft zur Signalerzeugung eingesetzt werden. In die-ser Düse wird eine selbsterhaltende Strömungsinstabilität erzeugt, die einen Schall-puls von bis zu 100 kHz hervorruft, sodass der Impedanzverlust in die Umgebungsluft entfällt. Da die charakteristische Frequenz eines fluidisch generierten Pulses maßgeb-lich von der Bauform der Düse und dem anliegenden Druck abhängt, lässt sich mittels einer geeigneten Strömungsregelung ein breiter Frequenzbereich zur Abtastung nut-zen. Die so emittierten Pulse werden auf das Prüfobjekt gerichtet und die reflektierten Signale mit einem Laservibrometer an der Oberfläche des Objekts im Echo-Verfahren abgetastet. Von drei signalmindernden Materialübergängen bei gewöhnlichem luftge-koppeltem Ultraschall bleibt in dem hier vorgeschlagenen Messystem lediglich die Grenzfläche von Luft zu Prüfkörper, sodass eine höhere Signalausbeute als bisher er-wartet werden kann. T2 - DACH-Jahrestagung 2019 CY - Friedrichshafen, Germany DA - 27.05.2019 KW - Ultraschall KW - Ultrasound KW - Air-coupled KW - Luftgekoppelt KW - Fluidic oscillator KW - Fluidischer Oszillator KW - Laser-Doppler-Vibrometer KW - Refraktovibrometrie KW - Refracto-vibrometry KW - NDT KW - ZfP PY - 2019 UR - https://nbn-resolving.org/urn:nbn:de:kobv:b43-481207 VL - 2019 SP - 1 EP - 8 PB - DGZfP Deutsche Gesellschaft für Zerstörungsfreie Prüfung AN - OPUS4-48120 LA - deu AD - Bundesanstalt fuer Materialforschung und -pruefung (BAM), Berlin, Germany ER - TY - CONF A1 - Maack, Stefan A1 - Knackmuß, J. A1 - Creutzburg, R. T1 - Comparative visualization of the geometry of a hollow box girder using 3D-LiDAR – Part 2: Reconstruction of 3D Geometric Model T2 - Journal of Electronic Imaging N2 - With the mandatory introduction of the May 2011 directive for reassessment of bridges in Germany, the administrations of the federal and state governments have the duty to prove the stability of their bridge stock. Verification of bridge stability will be realized with consideration of the newly increased traffic loads. Particularly in older bridges, the verification can only be achieved if calculative surplus load capacity of the original structural design is taken into account in the recalculation. One option for considering these reserves is the exact determination of the dead weight of the bridge. Within this case study, it will be demonstrated how the problem can be practically solved. In order to determine the dead weight of a concrete bridge, its volume has to be calculated. as a first step, a 3D laser scanner is used to record the internal geometry of a hollow box bridge girder. For the determination of the thickness of the concrete member, the non-destructive technique ultrasonic echo is applied. The construction must be segmented in approximately equidistant parts in order to be able to carry out an economic and efficient investigation. The description of the segmentation of the point cloud, carried out in a 2D model, was presented in the first part of the publication. The subject of this presentation is the merging of 2D cross sections into a 3D model, from which the weight of the bridge can be calculated. T2 - IS&T International Symposium on Electronic Imaging 2017 CY - San Francisco, CA, USA DA - 29.01.2017 KW - LiDAR KW - Zerstörungsfreie Prüfung KW - Brücken KW - NDT KW - Bridge inspection PY - 2017 DO - https://doi.org/10.2352/ISSN.2470-1173.2017.6.MOBMU-308 SP - 255 EP - 264 PB - Society for Imaging Science and Technology AN - OPUS4-39242 LA - eng AD - Bundesanstalt fuer Materialforschung und -pruefung (BAM), Berlin, Germany ER -