TY - CONF A1 - Trappe, Volker T1 - Effective composite testing – from specimen size to component scale N2 - Even for the basic measurements of material data for design and engineering of composite structures there is a need to upgrade standards. With a new shear frame test rig more precise values can be obtained. With advanced methods in the research on the fatigue behaviour of FRP it was found a load level of infinite life for GFRP and CFRP. This is in the range of typical strain values of airliners and rotor blades in normal operation. Statistically the mean time between damage events on rotor blades is 6 years (Deutscher Windenergie Report 2006). Due to imperfection in the production the shell structures get cracks after a few years fare before the designed life time. A shell test rig was built at BAM for efficient research on the effects of defects in production. Test blades of ~10m are an efficient way for SHM research and evaluation of NDT-methods and blade geometry. T2 - colloquium genesis-puc CY - Rio de Janeiro, Brazil DA - 01.11.2019 KW - Polymer matrix composites KW - Nondestructive testing KW - New standards PY - 2019 AN - OPUS4-50129 LA - eng AD - Bundesanstalt fuer Materialforschung und -pruefung (BAM), Berlin, Germany ER -