TY - CONF A1 - Kemmler, Samuel T1 - Large-scale simulations of piping erosion during suction bucket installations N2 - Piping erosion and related fluidization phenomena present major challenges for the installation of offshore suction bucket foundations. We present a fully-resolved, 3D fluid-coupled micromechanical model using the lattice Boltzmann and discrete element methods to simulate suction installation. Validated against benchmark tests and experimental data, the model captures key fluidization behaviors. This presentation goes beyond prior work by showcasing the first large-scale simulations at real bucket dimensions, offering new insights into local soil-fluid interactions during installation and demonstrating the model's scalability and practical relevance. T2 - Gesinus-Treffen 2025 CY - Munich, Germany DA - 12.06.2025 KW - Micromechanical simulation KW - Suction bucket foundation KW - Piping erosion PY - 2025 AN - OPUS4-63381 LA - eng AD - Bundesanstalt fuer Materialforschung und -pruefung (BAM), Berlin, Germany ER - TY - CONF A1 - Kemmler, Samuel T1 - Investigating Piping Erosion during Suction Bucket Installations using Fully-Resolved LBM-DEM Simulations N2 - Suction bucket foundations are an innovative, cost-effective, and environmentally sustainable solution for offshore wind turbine installations. Their deployment relies on generating suction pressure inside the bucket to achieve full embedment into the seabed. However, a critical challenge during installation is piping erosion, a process where particle fluidization beneath the bucket wall tip leads to a sudden drop in suction pressure, potentially causing installation failure. Despite its practical significance, the underlying physics governing piping erosion remain insufficiently understood due to the complex interplay between hydrodynamic forces and sediment transport. To bridge this knowledge gap, we employ a three-dimensional, fully-resolved coupled lattice Boltzmann method - discrete element method simulation to investigate the fundamental mechanisms driving piping erosion. The approach allows the capture of grain-scale interactions with high fidelity, enabling the identification of key parameters influencing erosion onset and progression. However, achieving physically representative problem sizes—comprising hundreds of thousands of grains—requires immense computational resources due to the high-resolution nature of the simulations. To address this computational challenge, simulations are performed on the LUMI supercomputer, leveraging hundreds of GPUs to execute large-scale, high-fidelity calculations. We present simulation results that showcase the method’s capability to resolve the intricate physics of piping erosion, offering new insights into the conditions that trigger erosion and its impact on suction bucket performance. These findings contribute to a deeper understanding of suction bucket installation dynamics and support the development of optimized, failure-resistant foundation designs for offshore wind applications. T2 - PARTICLES 2025 CY - Barcelona, Spain DA - 20.10.2025 KW - Micromechanical simulation KW - Suction bucket foundation KW - Piping erosion PY - 2025 AN - OPUS4-64460 LA - eng AD - Bundesanstalt fuer Materialforschung und -pruefung (BAM), Berlin, Germany ER - TY - CONF A1 - Nerger, Deborah T1 - Impact damage characterization at RC plates with planar tomography and FEM N2 - Prediction of dynamic effects of reinforced concrete structures under impact loading is a technical challenge. This is a consequence of the great variability of the physical properties resulting from the wide adaptability of reinforced concrete and a consequence of the wide range of impact loading. Experiments and numerical investigations are normally used on a small scale to address the problem. In this paper, impact tests on reinforced conrete plates with the lateral dimensions of 1.5 m x 1.5 m and a thickness of 30 cm are presented. In bending reinforcement, besides the velocity two properties are varied, the diameter and the spatial distribution of the rebars. Experiments are performed at the Otto-Mohr-Laboratory of the Institute of Concrete Structures of the Technische Universit¨at Dresden. Due to the accelerated fall of the impactor the velocity ranges between 20 and 70 m/s. In addition to the measured quantities such as bearing forces, accelerations are also measured at 4 different positions on and under the plate, as well as the deflection at several positions. The measured data are used for the analysis of the damage form and the numerical examinations with the program Ansys Autodyn and the material model after Drucker-Prager. Numerical investigations support the tests, with detailed analysis of individual effects. These numerical computations and the planar tomographic investigations were carried out at BAM in Berlin. With the help of planar tomographic evaluation, the damaged structure is made visible and compared with the numerical results. Influences of the bending reinforcement are explained on the basis of damage evaluation in the local area and on selected measured values. In addition to the test evaluation, the tomographic and numerical methods are presented. T2 - XI International Conference on Structural Dynamics (EURODYN 2020) CY - Online meeting DA - 23.11.2020 KW - Post-impact evaluation KW - Damage characterization KW - Planar tomography KW - Drucker-Prager KW - Ansys Autodyn PY - 2020 AN - OPUS4-51768 LA - eng AD - Bundesanstalt fuer Materialforschung und -pruefung (BAM), Berlin, Germany ER - TY - CONF A1 - Niederleithinger, Ernst T1 - Überwachung der Brücke Altstädter Bahnhof, Branden-burg./H. N2 - Die B1 Brücke am Altstädter Bahnhof in Brandenburg an der Havel wurde im Dezember 2019 aufgrund von während einer turnusmäßigen Inspektion entdeckten Rissen und Hohlstellen entlang der vorgespannten Längsträger gesperrt und im Mai 2021 abgebrochen. In der Zwischenzeit wurde die Brücke detailliert überwacht. Vor dem Abriss wurden zudem umfangreiche Untersuchungen zur Bestandsaufnahme und Schadensanalyse sowie Tests moderner Sensorik vorgenommen. Dabei konnte sowohl die richtige, zuvor nicht sicher bekannte Anzahl von Spanngliedern in den Querträgern sicher ermittelt werden als auch durch moderne Varianten der Schwingungsmessungen und der faseroptischen Sensorik zusätzliche Kenntnisse püber das Bauwerksverhalten ermittelt werden . In dem Beitrag werden die Verfahren mit ihren Möglichkeiten und Grenzen vorgestellt, die Ergebnissee an der Brücke in Brandenburg erläutert und zukünftige Einsatzmöglichkeiten diskutiert. T2 - 5. Brückenkolloquium CY - Ostfildern, Germany DA - 06.09.2022 KW - Monitoring KW - Brücke KW - Radar KW - Vibration KW - Faseroptik PY - 2022 AN - OPUS4-55628 LA - deu AD - Bundesanstalt fuer Materialforschung und -pruefung (BAM), Berlin, Germany ER - TY - CONF A1 - Pittner, Andreas A1 - Winterkorn, René A1 - Fabry, Çağtay A1 - Rethmeier, Michael A1 - Ratkovac, Mirjana A1 - Thiele, Marc A1 - Baeßler, Matthias T1 - Innovative Design- und Fertigungsstrategien zur Steigerung der Leichtbaupotenziale im Stahlbau N2 - Ziel des Verbundvorhabens „SmartWeld“ ist es, für die schweißtechnische Fertigung von Stahlbaustrukturen exemplarisch am Beispiel von Hohlprofilknoten, welche als designrelevante Elemente von Gründungsstrukturen für Offshore-Windenergieanlagen (OWEA) einsetzbar sind, die Möglichkeiten des Leichtbaus unter konsequenter Digitalisierung der Fertigungskette aufzuzeigen, um einerseits die Ressourceneffizienz zu forcieren und gleichzeitig wettbewerbsfähige Fertigungsstrategien aufzuzeigen. Innerhalb von „SmartWeld“ werden daher die Möglichkeiten einer wirtschaftlichen Fertigung von Leichtbau-Gründungsstrukturen am Beispiel aufgelöster Tragstrukturen (Jackets) aufgezeigt. Eine lastgerechte Auslegung der Schweißverbindungen nach bionischen Prinzipien ermöglicht, weitere Einsparpotenziale an Ressourcen bei gleichzeitiger Erhöhung der Lebensdauer zu erschließen. Die Ausnutzung konstruktiver Prinzipien des Leichtbaus zur Erzeugung innovativer und ressourcenschonender Produkte erfordert den Einsatz digitaler Werkzeuge in der Designphase, der virtuellen Absicherung, der Fertigung und Qualitätsüberwachung sowie nachgelagerten Bauteilprüfung zur Abbildung der Nutzungsphase. Im Rahmen der Arbeiten wird daher der gesamte Produktentstehungs- und Prüfprozess betrachtet. Dies beinhaltet das Design im Kontext des konstruktiven Leichtbaus, den schweißtechnischen Fertigungsprozess, die Bauteilprüfung sowie den Transfer der Ergebnisse in die Industrie durch serientaugliche Demonstratoren. Der Fokus der Arbeiten ist, die Fertigung auch im Umfeld eines für großskalige Stahlstrukturen üblichen hohen Individualisierungsgrades schweißtechnisch zu automatisieren und das Leichtbaupotenzial gezielt umzusetzen. Die Vorgaben aus der Designphase hinsichtlich einer lastgerechten Gestaltung bzw. Implementierung bionischer Ansätze können so gezielt durch einen adaptiven, automatisierten Schweißprozess eingestellt werden. Dies führt zu einer Erhöhung der Ermüdungs¬festigkeit und damit Produktlebensdauer, wodurch die Strukturen dünnwandiger ausgeführt und Ressourcen sowie CO2 eingespart werden können. T2 - 9. Forum Leichtbau - Fortschrittliche Fertigungstechnologien und Werkstoffe für den Klimaschutz CY - Berlin, Germany DA - 29.09.2022 KW - Offshore Windenergieanlagen KW - Gründungsstrukturen KW - Leichtbau KW - Bionik KW - Automatisierte schweißtechniche Fertigung PY - 2022 AN - OPUS4-56655 LA - deu AD - Bundesanstalt fuer Materialforschung und -pruefung (BAM), Berlin, Germany ER - TY - CONF A1 - Ramasetti, Eshwar Kumar A1 - Herrmann, Ralf A1 - Degener, Sebastian A1 - Baeßler, Matthias T1 - Development of generic AI models to predict the movement of vehicles on bridges N2 - For civil, mechanical, and aerospace structures to extend operation times and to remain in service, structural health monitoring (SHM) is vital. SHM is a method to examining and monitoring the dynamic behavior of essential constructions. Because of its versatility in detecting unfavorable structural changes and enhancing structural dependability and life cycle management, it has been extensively used in many engineering domains, especially in civil bridges. Due to the recent technical developments in sensors, high-speed internet, and cloud computing, data-driven approaches to structural health monitoring are gaining appeal. Since artificial intelligence (AI), especially in SHM, was introduced into civil engineering, these modern and promising methods have attracted significant research attention. In this work, a large dataset of acceleration time series using digital sensors was collected by installing a structural health monitoring (SHM) system on Nibelungen Bridge located in Worms, Germany. In this paper, a deep learning model is developed for accurate classification of different types of vehicle movement on the bridge from the data obtained from accelerometers. The neural network is trained with key features extracted from the acceleration dataset and classification accuracy of 98 % was achieved. T2 - SMAR 2024 - 7th International Conference on Smart Monitoring, Assessment and Rehabilitation of Civil Structures CY - Salerno, Italy DA - 04.09.2024 KW - Machine learning KW - Structural Health Monitoring (SHM) PY - 2024 AN - OPUS4-61375 LA - eng AD - Bundesanstalt fuer Materialforschung und -pruefung (BAM), Berlin, Germany ER - TY - CONF A1 - Ratkovac, Mirjana T1 - Perspectives on Wind and Wave Load Reconstruction from SHM Data for Offshore Wind Turbines N2 - As many wind turbines approach the end of their design lifetime, from a technical point of view, comprehensive fatigue analysis of all critical parts is necessary to decide what comes after – continued operation, repowering, or decommissioning. Typically, it is a two-stage evaluation process consisting of a physical inspection of the structure and an analytical part to compare the design and actually experienced loading conditions. Structural health monitoring helps to reduce the uncertainties in the estimations by providing insight into deviations between the designed and the built structure. Furthermore, it allows the evaluation of the consumed fatigue lifetime by analyzing the strain measurements that mirror the actual structural response to experienced environmental and operational conditions. However, the measurement values are limited to a sparse number of instrumented spots on the structure, and further extrapolation to the non-instrumented (critical) sections is required to perform a complete fatigue assessment. One known approach is the external force reconstruction, which has only scarcely been considered for application in offshore wind turbines. In order to extend the previously developed thrust force reconstruction framework, this work discusses the possibilities and challenges of wind and wave loading reconstruction in offshore wind turbine support structures. T2 - 4th International Conference on Health Monitoring of Civil & Maritime Structures (HeaMES 2023) CY - Online meeting DA - 12.06.2023 KW - Wind turbines KW - Force reconstruction KW - Structural Health Monitoring PY - 2023 AN - OPUS4-57687 LA - eng AD - Bundesanstalt fuer Materialforschung und -pruefung (BAM), Berlin, Germany ER - TY - CONF A1 - Rogge, Andreas T1 - Large scale impact tests with reinforced concrete plates for impact safety N2 - As part of a nuclear safety research project, large-scale impact tests were conducted on reinforced concrete slabs to investigate the structural integrity of containment structures under aircraft crash scenarios. The aim was to experimentally validate numerical models for both hard and soft impact conditions. Using a drop tower, concrete slabs were subjected to controlled impacts with a 404 kg impactor dropped from a height of 9.5 meters. The tests included force measurements, photogrammetric evaluations, and 3D scans to analyze deformations and damage. A total of six impact experiments were performed (2x hard impact, 2x combined hard/soft impact). The results provide a robust basis for advancing safety assessments of nuclear facilities. T2 - SMiRT28 - 28th International Conference on Structural Mechanics In Reactor Technology CY - Toronto, Canada DA - 10.08.2025 KW - Experimental mechanics KW - Aircraft crash scenario KW - Coupled impact loading PY - 2025 AN - OPUS4-64126 LA - eng AD - Bundesanstalt fuer Materialforschung und -pruefung (BAM), Berlin, Germany ER - TY - CONF A1 - Sanayei, Mohammad Hassan A1 - Farhat, A. A1 - Luu, Li-Hua A1 - Werner, L. A1 - Rettinger, C. A1 - Philippe, P. A1 - Cuéllar, Pablo T1 - Micromechanical framework for a 3D solid cohesion model - Implemantation, validation and perspectives N2 - This article presents a solid cohesion model for the simulation of bonded granular assemblies in the frame of 3D discrete element approaches (DEM). A simple viscoplastic cohesion model for 2D geometries is extended to 3D conditions, while its yield criterion is generalized as a hyper-surface in the space of bond solicitations to include torsional moments. The model is then calibrated using experimental results of uniaxial traction at both the microscopic and macroscopic scales with an artificial granular cohesive soil. The paper finally presents some simulated results on the macromechanical sample traction application and briefly discusses the model's current limitations and promising prospects for subsequent works. T2 - VII International Conference on Particle-Based Methods PARTICLES 2021 CY - Hamburg, Germany DA - 04.10.2021 KW - Granular Cohesive Materials, KW - DEM KW - Micromechanical Tensile Failure KW - Macromechanical Sample Strength PY - 2021 AN - OPUS4-53726 LA - eng AD - Bundesanstalt fuer Materialforschung und -pruefung (BAM), Berlin, Germany ER - TY - CONF A1 - Schepers, Winfried T1 - Korrelationen zwischen Sondierungen und dynamischen Bodeneigenschaften N2 - Wir zeigen, dass bei homogenen ausgeprägt sandartigen Böden mit statistisch ermittelten Korrelationen die dynamischen Bodensteifigkeiten mit einer Genauigkeit abgeschätzt werden können, die mit der Ungenauigkeit der seismischen Verfahren übereinstimmt. Mit zunehmenden Feinkornanteil werden die Unsicherheiten der statistischen Korrelationen größer. Bei stark überkonsolidierten glazialen Böden sollte von der Anwendung empirischer Korrelationen Abstand genommen werden. T2 - 18. D-A-CH-Tagung für Erdbebeningenieurwesen und Baudynamik CY - Kiel, Germany DA - 14.09.2023 KW - Baugrunddynamik KW - Dynamische Bodenkennwerte KW - Statistische Korrelationen PY - 2023 AN - OPUS4-58581 LA - deu AD - Bundesanstalt fuer Materialforschung und -pruefung (BAM), Berlin, Germany ER - TY - CONF A1 - Schepers, Winfried T1 - Cone penetration tests and dynamic soil properties N2 - Current standards like ISO 14837-32:2015 and DIN EN 1998-1/NA:2021 as well as prEN 1997-2:2022 allow for using correlations between the results of in-situ soil penetration tests and shear wave velocity (or shear modulus) to determine soil properties to be used in dynamic analyses. While the ISO and prEN standards even provide some recommendations on specific correlations to be used, the DIN standard does not. Due to the statistical nature of such correlations their general applicability has to be verified. We collected data sets from test sites from Germany as well as New Zealand at which cone penetration tests (CPT) as well as seismic site investigation methods were conducted. These sites comprise sandy soils as well as clayey soils, mixed soils as well as glacial soils. We compare the results of several correlations between CPT results and shear wave velocity. The accuracy of such correlations is assessed with respect to the accuracy of seismic in-situ tests. It turns out that for clean sands such correlations between CPT and Vs have a similar order of variability as seismic in-situ tests conducted at the same site. The higher the fines portion of the soil, the higher the variability of the statistical correlations, and consequently the less the general applicability. For glacial soils and other special soil types usage of statistical correlations to determine dynamic soil properties is not recommended. T2 - Eurodyn 2023 CY - Delft, Netherlands DA - 02.07.2023 KW - Dynamic soil properties KW - Statistical correlations PY - 2023 AN - OPUS4-58582 LA - eng AD - Bundesanstalt fuer Materialforschung und -pruefung (BAM), Berlin, Germany ER - TY - CONF A1 - Schepers, Winfried T1 - Recommendations on finite Element modelling of non-seismic excitation in soil-structure interaction problems N2 - Nowadays geotechnical engineering firms have powerful software tools to extent their consulting business also into dynamic soil-structure interaction, which before has been restricted to a rather small community of specialized experts in this field, and they certainly do. This is particularly true with respect to non-seismic sources, that is all kinds of human induced vibrations. Hence, there is a demand from clients as well as from contractors to have guidance on the requirements as well as the limits of numerical modelling of soil-structure interaction. From the literature as well as from relevant standards, recommendations for the numerical modelling of soil-structure interaction problems involving seismic actions are well known, e. g. ASCE/SEI 4-16. There are, however, some particularities when dealing with human-induced vibrations, which are absent in seismic analyses. For human-induced excitations very little specific guidance has been published in the past. A machine foundation on a homogeneous half space excited by harmonic loads with excitation frequency between 4 Hz and 64 Hz has been analysed by means of several commercially available software packages. Parametric studies have been performed to verify if recommendations for seismic soil-structure analyses are valid for non-seismic analyses as well. This paper provides details on the benchmark example and the most important conclusions from the undertaken parametric studies. T2 - Eurodyn 2023 CY - Delft, Netherlands DA - 02.07.2023 KW - Numerical analysis KW - Vibrations KW - Soil-structure interaction PY - 2023 AN - OPUS4-58583 LA - eng AD - Bundesanstalt fuer Materialforschung und -pruefung (BAM), Berlin, Germany ER - TY - CONF A1 - Schepers, Winfried T1 - Kritische Betrachtung der Impedanzfunktionen harmonisch angeregter Fundamente N2 - In den aktuellen Entwürfen des Eurocode 8 Teil 5 (FprEN 1998-5:2024) und auch des Euro-codes 7 Teil 3 (E DIN EN 1997-3:2022-10) werden Formeln für die Steifigkeiten eines Hal-braums mit einem darin eingebetteten starren masselosen Rechteckfundament gegenüber einer harmonischen Anregung angegeben. Die Formeln sind im Wesentlichen eine Kombination der Ergebnisse der Veröffentlichungen von Gazetas (1991) und Pais et al. (1988) über Forschungs-arbeiten, die in den 1980er Jahren durchgeführt wurden. Sie basieren auf numerischen Berech-nungen, deren Ergebnisse durch Ausgleichskurven approximiert wurden. Eine genauere Analyse der den Formeln zugrunde liegenden Veröffentlichungen zeigt einige Inkonsistenzen zwischen Eurocodes und den ursprünglichen Veröffentlichungen, deren Ursache nicht ohne weiteres er-kennbar ist. Darüber hinaus werden in den Eurocodes nur frequenzunabhängige Steifigkeiten angegeben. Das führt zu der Frage, wie verlässlich die Formeln sind. An zwei Beispielen wird nachfolgend die Notwendigkeit einer kritischen Verwendung der Impedanzfunktionen gezeigt. T2 - 19. D-A-CH Tagung Erdbebeningenieurwesen und Baudynamik CY - Vienna, Germany DA - 18.9.2025 KW - Impedanzen KW - Wellenausbreitung KW - Erschütterungen PY - 2025 AN - OPUS4-64188 LA - deu AD - Bundesanstalt fuer Materialforschung und -pruefung (BAM), Berlin, Germany ER - TY - CONF A1 - Schneider, Ronald T1 - Towards predictive maintenance of bridges N2 - Key features of predictive maintenance of structural systems are discussed and demonstrated in two examples. Challenges and needs for further research are discussed. T2 - Workshop Bridge Maintenance CY - Online Meeting DA - 09.04.2021 KW - Predictive maintenance KW - Deterioration KW - Structural systems PY - 2021 AN - OPUS4-52768 LA - eng AD - Bundesanstalt fuer Materialforschung und -pruefung (BAM), Berlin, Germany ER - TY - CONF A1 - Schneider, Ronald T1 - Cumulative failure probability of deteriorating structures: Can it drop? N2 - The reliability of deteriorating structures at time t is quantified by the probability that failure occurs within the period leading up to time t. This probability is often referred to as cumulative failure probability and is equal to the cumulative distribution function of the time to failure. In structural reliability, an estimate of the cumulative failure probability is obtained based on probabilistic engineering models of the deterioration processes and structural performance. Information on the condition and the loading contained in inspection and monitoring data can be included in the probability estimate through Bayesian updating. Conditioning the probability of failure on the inspection or monitoring outcomes available at time t (e.g. detections or no detection of damages) can lead to a reduction in that probability. Such a drop in the cumulative failure probability might seem counterintuitive since the cumulative failure probability is a non-decreasing function of time. In this paper, we illustrate—with the help of a numerical example—that such a drop is possible because the cumulative probability before and after the updating is not based on the same information, hence not on the same probabilistic model. T2 - 18th Internatinoal Probabilistic Workshop (IPW 2020) CY - Online Meeting DA - 12.05.2021 KW - Deterioration KW - Structural systems KW - Time-variant reliability KW - Bayesian updating KW - Inspection KW - Monitoring PY - 2021 AN - OPUS4-52770 LA - eng AD - Bundesanstalt fuer Materialforschung und -pruefung (BAM), Berlin, Germany ER - TY - CONF A1 - Schneider, Ronald T1 - A risk-based framework for optimizing inspection and maintenance of deteriorating structures monitored by vibration-based monitoring systems N2 - In this presentation, a framework for integrating vibration-based structural health monitoring data into the optimization of inspection and maintenance of deteriorating structural systems is presented. The framework is demonstrated in an illustrative example considering a steel frame subject to fatigue. T2 - EERA JP Wind WORKSHOP on Ongoing research in offshore wind structures CY - Online meeting DA - 16.09.2021 KW - Structural Health Monitoring KW - Inspection KW - Maintenance KW - Deterioration KW - Vibration KW - Structural Systems PY - 2021 AN - OPUS4-53749 LA - eng AD - Bundesanstalt fuer Materialforschung und -pruefung (BAM), Berlin, Germany ER - TY - CONF A1 - Schneider, Ronald T1 - Überwachung von Brücken mit digitalen Methoden N2 - Brücken werden durch Inspektionen und teilweise durch Monitoring überwacht, um Daten und Informationen über den Zustand und die Einwirkungen zu sammeln. Auf deren Grundlage werden Entscheidungen hinsichtlich Maßnahmen zur Gewährleistung der Sicherheit und Verfügbarkeit getroffen. In diesem Vortrag werden die Potentiale der Digitalisierung zur Unterstützung und Verbesserung der Brückenüberwachung diskutiert. Insbesondere werden die Bereiche Datenmanagement, Brückenmodellierung und Entscheidungsfindung betrachtet. T2 - BVPI Arbeitstagung 2022 CY - Berlin, Germany DA - 16.09.2022 KW - Entscheidungsfindung KW - Brücken KW - Überwachung KW - Digitalisierung KW - Datenmanagement KW - Modellierung PY - 2022 AN - OPUS4-55770 LA - deu AD - Bundesanstalt fuer Materialforschung und -pruefung (BAM), Berlin, Germany ER - TY - CONF A1 - Schneider, Ronald T1 - Structural integrity management research at BAM N2 - This presentation provides an overview on the structural integrity management research at BAM. In addition, a framework for monitoring and risk-informed inspection and maintenance planning for offshore steel structures is presented. T2 - Structural Health Monitoring Using Statistical Pattern Recognition CY - Berlin, Germany DA - 20.03.2023 KW - Structural integrity KW - Monitoring KW - Maintenance KW - Inspeciton KW - Bridges KW - Offshore wind PY - 2023 AN - OPUS4-57864 LA - eng AD - Bundesanstalt fuer Materialforschung und -pruefung (BAM), Berlin, Germany ER - TY - CONF A1 - Schneider, Ronald T1 - Impulsvortrag: Ermüdungslebensdauerbewertung mittels Informationen aus Monitoring und Inspektionen N2 - Kontext: Ermüdungsbeanspruchte Tragstrukturen von Windenergieanlagen, Bestimmung der Ermüdungsbeanspruchungen und -zuverlässigkeit auf der Grundlage von Simulationen aus dem Design unter Berücksichtigung von Modellunsicherheiten, Aktualisierung der Ermüdungsbeanspruchungen und -zuverlässigkeit auf der Grundlage von globalen Monitoring- und lokalen Inspektionsinformationen aus dem Betrieb unter Berücksichtigung von Modell- und Messunsicherheiten T2 - 3. Verbundtreffen ReNEW CY - Berlin, Germany DA - 05.09.2024 KW - Modellunsicherheiten KW - Windenergie KW - Ermüdungslebensdauer KW - Tragstrukturen KW - Monitoring KW - Inspektionen PY - 2024 AN - OPUS4-61427 LA - deu AD - Bundesanstalt fuer Materialforschung und -pruefung (BAM), Berlin, Germany ER - TY - CONF A1 - Schneider, Ronald T1 - Modeling in support of offshore wind farm end-of-life decision making N2 - The EU member states have set out ambitious long-term goals for deploying offshore wind energy. The installed offshore wind capacity is set to increase from 14.6 GW in 2021 to around 320 GW in 2050. This signifies the role of offshore wind energy as a major contributor to reaching the EU’s climate and energy goals. To ensure that the defined targets are met, a significant number of new wind farms has to be installed and existing wind farms reaching the end of their planned life need to be reused efficiently. Some of the relevant reuse alternatives are lifetime extension, repowering based on the existing support structures and repowering with new turbines. As a basis of the decision-making regarding the reuse of existing offshore wind farm, the expected utility of each relevant option should be determined based on the associated expected rewards, costs and risks. The optimal concept maximizes the utility of the decision-maker and fulfills the existing constraints and requirements. To facilitate such a quantitative decision-making, models and methods have to be developed. In particular, models are required that enable predictions of (a) the condition and performance of the turbines and support structures and (b) the renumeration, costs and consequences of adverse events. These predictions have to consider (a) the governing uncertainties, (b) the available information from the planning, construction, installation and operating phase, (b) potential repair, retrofitting and strengthening schemes and (c) possible monitoring, inspection and maintenance regimes for the future operating phase. Over the past years, several models, methods and tools have been developed at the Bundesanstalt für Materialforschung und -prüfung (BAM) to support the structural integrity management of offshore wind turbine substructures. These include: (a) a prototype for reliability-based, system-wide, adaptive planning of inspections of welded steel structures in offshore wind farms, (b) a method for monitoring and risk-informed optimization of inspection and maintenance strategies for jacket structures subject to fatigue, and (c) a probabilistic cost model of inspection and maintenance of welded steel structures in offshore wind farms. This contribution provides an overview on these works and discusses how they can be adapted and extended to support the decision-making regarding lifetime extensions and repowering of offshore wind farms. T2 - 12th International Forum on Engineering Decision Making (12th IFED) CY - Stoos, Switzerland DA - 05.12.2023 KW - Windenergie KW - Offshore Wind KW - Lifetime Extension KW - Repowering PY - 2023 AN - OPUS4-60430 LA - eng AD - Bundesanstalt fuer Materialforschung und -pruefung (BAM), Berlin, Germany ER -