TY - JOUR A1 - Pelkner, Matthias A1 - Casperson, Ralf A1 - Pohl, Rainer A1 - Munzke, Dorit A1 - Becker, Ben T1 - Eddy current testing of composite pressure vessels N2 - The application of composite pressure vessels is of great interest due to tremendous weight saving. Nevertheless, ageing of CFRP (carbon fiber reinforced plastic) composites pressure vessels underlies complex interactions between metallic liner and composite and is not fully understood yet. One main challenge is the application of appropriate testing methods for detecting the influences of pressure cycles and creep behavior on the material. This contribution presents results achieved by using conventional eddy current testing (ET) and high frequency ET. Here, we could show that also conventional ET with low frequencies are useable to investigate pressure vessels of different material combinations like aluminum-CFRP and synthetics-CFRP. KW - CFRP KW - Eddy current KW - Ageing KW - Composite PY - 2019 U6 - https://doi.org/10.3233/JAE-171044 VL - 59 IS - 4 SP - 1221 EP - 1226 PB - IOP Publ. Ltd. AN - OPUS4-47803 LA - eng AD - Bundesanstalt fuer Materialforschung und -pruefung (BAM), Berlin, Germany ER - TY - CONF A1 - Casperson, Ralf A1 - Pohl, Rainer A1 - Munzke, Dorit A1 - Becker, Ben A1 - Pelkner, Matthias T1 - Eddy current testing of composite pressure vessels N2 - The use of composite pressure vessels instead of conventional vessels made of steel or aluminum grew strongly over the last decade. The reason for this trend is the tremendous weight saving in case of composite vessels. However, the long-time behavior is not fully understood for filling and discharging cycles and creep strength and their influence on the CFRP coating (carbon fiber reinforced plastics) and the internal liner (steel, aluminum, or plastics). The CFRP ensures the pressure resistance while the inner liner is used as container for liquid or gas. To overcome the missing knowledge of ageing BAM started an internal project to investigate degradation of these material systems. Therefore, applicable testing methods like eddy current testing are needed. Normally, high-frequency eddy current testing (HF-ET, f > 10 MHz) is deployed for CFRP due to its low conductivity of the fiber, which is in the order of 0.01 MS/s, and the capacitive coupling between the fibers. Nevertheless, in some cases conventional ET can be applied. We show a concise summary of studies on the application of conventional ET of composite pressure vessels. T2 - QNDE 2017 CY - Provo, Utah, USA DA - 16.07.2017 KW - Eddy current KW - Composite KW - Pressure vessel PY - 2018 SN - 978-0-7354-1644-4 U6 - https://doi.org/10.1063/1.5031622 SN - 0094-243X VL - 1949 SP - UNSP 160004, 1 EP - 8 AN - OPUS4-45051 LA - eng AD - Bundesanstalt fuer Materialforschung und -pruefung (BAM), Berlin, Germany ER -