TY - CONF A1 - Pelkner, Matthias A1 - Pohl, Rainer A1 - Erthner, Thomas A1 - Stegemann, Robert A1 - Kreutzbruck, Marc A1 - Sergeeva-Chollet, N. T1 - Eddy current testing with high-spatial resolution probes using MR arrays as receiver N2 - Magneto-resistive (MR) sensor arrays are suited for high resolution eddy current testing (ET) of aerospace components due to two significant advantages compared to conventional coil systems. First, to obtain high spatial resolution they can be manufactured down to the µm-regime without losing their outstanding field sensitivity. Secondly, MR technology has a relatively frequency-independent sensitivity in the range of common ET-frequencies thus providing a benefit for low frequency applications. This paper presents measurements using MR array probes consisting of 32 TMR-elements (tunnel magneto resistance), an ASIC, and subsequent readout components. A source for generating the eddy currents inside the material under test is also implemented onboard of the PCB. These probes were developed in the IMAGIC-project* for detection and imaging of surface breaking defects. The performance of the new sensor system has been investigated for several mock-ups, Aluminum and Titanium plate specimens having small adjacent boreholes with diameter of 0.44 mm and micro notches in the µm-range, respectively. To compare our results we used conventional eddy current probes. The MR sensor elements have a length of around 60 µm leading to a nearly 'point like' measurement. Neighbouring boreholes (depth 0.25 mm) with a separation of 0.6 mm between their centres could be resolved with a good SNR, and more important, the boreholes could be confidently distinguished using the TMR-probes. In case of conventional probes a reliable separation was not possible. In this paper we present the MR-ET-probes of the IMAGIC consortium and a comparison with conventional techniques. *The IMAGIC-project ('Integrated Magnetic imagery based on spIntronics Components', 2011 – 2014, project reference: 288381) was funded by the European Commission, Seventh Framework Programme. Further partners involved in the consortium beside BAM and CEA were INESC-ID and INESC-MN (Portugal), Sensitec GmbH (Germany), Tecnatom S.A. (Spain), and Airbus Group (France). T2 - 7th International symposium on NDT in aerospace CY - Bremen, Germany DA - 16.11.2015 KW - TMR KW - GMR KW - Sensor array KW - Eddy current testing (ET) KW - Aerospace PY - 2015 UR - https://nbn-resolving.org/urn:nbn:de:kobv:b43-344254 SN - 978-3-940283-76-4 N1 - Serientitel: DGZfP-Proceedings – Series title: DGZfP-Proceedings IS - DGZfP-BB 156 SP - We.5.A.4, 1 EP - 8 PB - Deutsche Gesellschaft für Zerstörungsfreie Prüfung e.v. (DGZfP) AN - OPUS4-34425 LA - eng AD - Bundesanstalt fuer Materialforschung und -pruefung (BAM), Berlin, Germany ER - TY - CONF A1 - Sarif, Raduan A1 - Tiebe, Carlo A1 - Herglotz, Christian T1 - Early Response Prediction for H2 Sensors N2 - Green hydrogen (H2) is essential for the global transition to clean energy; it will significantly reduce emissions from heavy industry and the long-distance transport system. H2 can be used as fuel in fuel cells, storing surplus renewable energy, and as a feedstock in industrial processes. However, H2 faces significant safety challenges during storage and transportation. Accidents due to H2 leakage and explosions raise serious concerns due to its high flammability, rapid diffusion in air, and extremely low ignition energy. To mitigate risks associated with H2 leakages, reliable and automated H2 safety systems are essential for emergency repairs or shutdown. An early response from H2 sensors is crucial for early warning in accidents. The earlier response time of H2 sensors is often constrained by their sensor principle, which is heavily influenced by the sensor material’s properties. This study explores methods for earlier sensor response through predictive algorithms. Specifically, we investigate transient response predictions using a First-Order (FO) model and propose improvements through the First-Order with early response and the First-Order with adapted early response model. Both models can predict the stable value of the H2 sensor response from a small time window, which is 70.89% and 83.72% earlier, respectively, than the time required for the sensor hardware to reach it physically. The model’s performance is evaluated by calculating the fitting error with a 2 % threshold. Our current research lays the groundwork for future advancements in real-time sensor response predictions for hydrogen leakage. T2 - IARIA Congress 2025 : The 2025 IARIA Annual Congress on Frontiers in Science, Technology, Services, and Applications CY - Venice, Italy DA - 06.07.2025 KW - H2 Safety KW - H2 leakage detection KW - First-Order (FO) model KW - H2 Sensor data analysis KW - H2 sensor response predictions PY - 2025 UR - https://nbn-resolving.org/urn:nbn:de:kobv:b43-640676 UR - https://www.thinkmind.org/articles/iaria_congress_2025_1_250_50159.pdf SN - 978-1-68558-284-5 SP - 1 EP - 8 PB - IARIA Press CY - Wilmington AN - OPUS4-64067 LA - eng AD - Bundesanstalt fuer Materialforschung und -pruefung (BAM), Berlin, Germany ER - TY - CONF A1 - Bertola, N. A1 - Schumacher, T. A1 - Niederleithinger, Ernst A1 - Bruehwiler, E. T1 - Early detection of structural damage in UHPFRC structures through the combination of acoustic emission and ultrasonic stress wave monitoring N2 - Ultra-High-Performance Fiber-Reinforced Cementitious Composite (UHPFRC) offers several advantages compared to concrete, notably due to the strain hardening behavior under tensile actions. Structures made of this composite material are lightweight and highly durable, thanks to the UHPFRC waterproofing quality. Nonetheless, the tensile behavior leads to a different cracking pattern than conventional concrete and is not fully understood yet. This paper presents a combined approach using both passive ultrasonic (US) stress wave (or acoustic emission) and active US stress wave monitoring to localize and quantify damage progression in a full-scale UHPFRC beam during experimental load testing. The proposed monitoring approach involves 24 US transducers that are embedded randomly throughout a 4.2- meter-long laboratory UHPFRC T-beam. Continuous monitoring enabled accurate localization of US stress sources caused by loading-induced cracking as well as from pulses generated by the embedded US transducers. This study shows that it is possible to predict the location and shape of the macro-crack that is linked to structural failure early on, i.e., just after the end of the elastic domain. This combined approach opens new possibilities to monitor the structural behavior and detect damage on UHPFRC structures before they affect the structural behavior in terms of deflection and strain. T2 - 11th European Workshop on Structural Health Monitoring (EWSHM 2024) CY - Potsdam, Germany DA - 11.6.2024 KW - UHPFRC KW - Acoustic emission KW - Damage detection PY - 2024 UR - https://nbn-resolving.org/urn:nbn:de:kobv:b43-604708 UR - https://www.ndt.net/article/ewshm2024/papers/477_manuscript.pdf DO - https://doi.org/10.58286/29698 SN - 1435-4934 SP - 1 EP - 8 PB - NDT.net AN - OPUS4-60470 LA - eng AD - Bundesanstalt fuer Materialforschung und -pruefung (BAM), Berlin, Germany ER - TY - CONF A1 - Trappe, Volker A1 - Sachs, Patrick ED - Vassilopoulos, A. P. ED - Michaud, V. T1 - Dynamic mechanical analysis of epoxy-matrix cross linking measured in-situ using an elastomer container N2 - A new patented dynamic mechanical analysis (DMA) is presented, where the tensile, bending- or torsional stiffness of a media can be characterized in-situ during the phase transition from liquid to solid. An epoxy system, e.g. Hexion L285/H287, is filled into an elastomer container, such as a silicone tube. This can be mounted into a conventional OMA and, based on a linear viscoelastic approach, the storage modulus (E';G'), the loss modulus (E'';G'') and the loss angle tan(δ) can be measured at constant temperature as a function of time in order to investigate the liquid to sol-gel to solid transition. With this new method, the stiffness increase as a result of the cure process can be directly measured more precisely than with a rheometer in a shear plate set-up, because using an elastomer container gives a defined cross section for calculating the Young's modulus. T2 - 20th European Conference on Composite Materials CY - Lausanne, Switzerland DA - 26.06.2022 KW - Cross linking KW - Dynamic mechanical analysis (DMA) KW - Thermoset polymers KW - Cure process PY - 2022 UR - https://nbn-resolving.org/urn:nbn:de:kobv:b43-569651 UR - https://infoscience.epfl.ch/record/298799 SN - 978-2-9701614-0-0 VL - Vol. 5 - Applications and structures SP - 181 EP - 186 PB - Composite Construction Laboratory (CCLab) CY - Lausanne AN - OPUS4-56965 LA - eng AD - Bundesanstalt fuer Materialforschung und -pruefung (BAM), Berlin, Germany ER - TY - CONF A1 - Huschke, Philip A1 - Unger, Jörg F. ED - von Scheven, M. ED - Keip, M.-A. ED - Karajan, N. T1 - Domain decomposition methods for fracture mechanics problems and its application to fiber reinforced concrete N2 - A finite element tearing and interconnecting (FETI) approach for phase-field models and Gradient enhanced damage models is presented. These diffusive crack models can solve fracture mechanics problems by integrating a set of partial differential equations and thus avoid the explicit treatment of discontinuities. However, they require a fine discretization in the vicinity of the crack. FETI methods distribute the computational cost among multiple processors and thus speed up the computation. T2 - 7th GACM Colloquium on Computational Mechanics for Young Scientists from Academia and Industry CY - Stuttgart, Germany DA - 11.10.2017 KW - FETI KW - Domain decomposition methods KW - Fracture mechanics problems PY - 2017 UR - https://nbn-resolving.org/urn:nbn:de:kobv:b43-436764 DO - https://doi.org/10.18419/opus-9334 VL - 7 SP - 444 EP - 448 PB - Institute for Structural Mechanics, University of Stuttgart CY - Stuttgart AN - OPUS4-43676 LA - eng AD - Bundesanstalt fuer Materialforschung und -pruefung (BAM), Berlin, Germany ER - TY - CONF A1 - Eisermann, René A1 - Basedau, Frank A1 - Kadoke, Daniel A1 - Gründer, Peter A1 - Schoppa, André A1 - Lehr, Christian A1 - Szczepaniak, Mariusz A1 - John, Sebastian A1 - Schukar, Marcus A1 - Munzke, Dorit A1 - Mair, Georg W. T1 - Distributed strain sensing with sub-centimetre resolution for the characterisation of structural inhomogeneities and material degradation of industrial high-pressure composite cylinders N2 - Fibre-reinforced plastics (FRP) especially carbon-fibre-reinforced polymer (CFRP) and glass-fibre-reinforced polymer (GFRP) are commonly used materials in high pressure vessels and storage units for automotive and aerospace purposes. Optical fibres are suitable to be integrated or directly applied to the surface of FRP components. Using optical fibres it is possible to monitor the distributed strain profiles and changes within the fatigue life of a pressure vessel to ensure the operational safety. Within artificial ageing experiments we used swept wavelength interferometry (SWI) based distributed strain sensing for the monitoring of commercial high-pressure composite cylinder. This artificial ageing was performed using test conditions of 503bar pressure load (service pressure 300 bar) and 89 °C for 100 h. The polyimide coated optical fibres were glued to the surface externally in circumferential and axial direction. Using distributed strain sensing (DSS) material expansion of over 0.5% were monitored with sub-centimetre spatial resolution. Within the circumferential direction we observed up to 10 % local fluctuation compared to the median strain caused by inhomogeneous material expansion, which could cause local material fatigue. In addition, we determined material degradation manifested itself as localized remaining material expansion and/or contraction. Results have been validated by other non-destructive methods like digital strip projection. T2 - 9th European Workshop on Structural Health Monitoring (EWSHM) CY - Manchester, UK DA - 10.07.2018 KW - Distributed fibre optic sensors KW - Optical backscatter reflectometry KW - Swept wavelength interferometry (SWI) KW - Structural health monitoring (SHM) KW - Composite structures KW - Optical fibre PY - 2018 UR - https://nbn-resolving.org/urn:nbn:de:kobv:b43-458926 SP - 1 EP - 8 AN - OPUS4-45892 LA - eng AD - Bundesanstalt fuer Materialforschung und -pruefung (BAM), Berlin, Germany ER - TY - CONF A1 - Wosniok, Aleksander A1 - Königsbauer, Korbinian A1 - Nöther, Nils A1 - Färber, Jan A1 - Schaller, M.-Barbara A1 - Krebber, Katerina T1 - Distributed polymer optical fiber sensors using digital I-OFDR for geotechnical infrastructure health monitoring N2 - We present a distributed polymer optical fiber sensor system for deformation monitoring of geotechnical infrastructure. The sensor system is based on the digital incoherent optical frequency domain reflectometry (I-OFDR) for the detection of local strain events along a perfluorinated polymer optical fiber (PF-POF) used as a sensing fiber. For the best possible load transfer, the PF-POFs were integrated onto geosynthetics which pose a sensor carrier for the sensing fiber. By using elastic PF-POF instead of a standard glass fiber as a sensing fiber the strain range of geosynthetics-integrated fiber optic sensors could be extended up to 10 % in accordance with the end-user requirements. T2 - 11th European Workshop on Structural Health Monitoring CY - Potsdam, Germany DA - 10.06.2024 KW - Digital I-OFDR KW - Distributed polymer optical fiber sensor KW - Ddistributed strain sensing KW - Smart geosynthetics KW - Structural health monitoring PY - 2024 UR - https://nbn-resolving.org/urn:nbn:de:kobv:b43-603096 SP - 1 EP - 7 PB - NDT.net AN - OPUS4-60309 LA - eng AD - Bundesanstalt fuer Materialforschung und -pruefung (BAM), Berlin, Germany ER - TY - CONF A1 - Wosniok, Aleksander A1 - Schukar, Marcus A1 - Woody, Paul A1 - Wang, Bin A1 - Breithaupt, Mathias A1 - Kriegsmann, Andreas T1 - Distributed fiber optic strain sensing for structural health monitoring of 70 MPa hydrogen vessels N2 - We report on the development and testing of 70 MPa hydrogen pressure vessels with integrated fiber optic sensing fibers for automotive use. The paper deals with the condition monitoring of such composite pressure vessels (CPVs) using the optical backscatter reflectometry (OBR) applied for a distributed fiber optic strain sensing along fully integrated polyimide-coated single-mode glass optical fiber (SM-GOF). The sensing fibers were embedded into the vessel structure by wrapping them over the polymer liner during the manufacturing process of the carbon fiber reinforced polymer (CFRP). Detecting local strain events by the integrated fiber optic sensors can be an opportunity for monitoring the material degradation of CPVs under static and cyclic loading. T2 - 11th European Workshop on Structural Health Monitoring CY - Potsdam, Germany DA - 10.06.2024 KW - Fiber optic sensor KW - Distributed strain sensing KW - Composite pressure vessel KW - Structural health monitoring KW - Fiber-reinforced plastics PY - 2024 UR - https://nbn-resolving.org/urn:nbn:de:kobv:b43-603105 SP - 1 EP - 8 PB - NDT.net AN - OPUS4-60310 LA - eng AD - Bundesanstalt fuer Materialforschung und -pruefung (BAM), Berlin, Germany ER - TY - CONF A1 - Wosniok, Aleksander A1 - Krebber, Katerina T1 - Distributed fiber optic radiation sensors N2 - In this work, we present our results achieved in several research activities for development of distributed fiber optic radiation sensors using glass and polymer optical fibers. The findings show that both the measurement of the radiation-induced attenuation (RIA) along the entire sensing fiber and the accompanying change in the refractive index of the fiber core can be used for distributed radiation monitoring. T2 - safeND CY - Online meeting DA - 10.11.2021 KW - Distributed fiber optic radiation sensors KW - Radiation-induced attenuation KW - Optical fiber sensor KW - Incoherent optical frequency domain reflectometry PY - 2021 UR - https://nbn-resolving.org/urn:nbn:de:kobv:b43-537531 DO - https://doi.org/10.5194/sand-1-15-2021 VL - 1 SP - 15 EP - 16 AN - OPUS4-53753 LA - eng AD - Bundesanstalt fuer Materialforschung und -pruefung (BAM), Berlin, Germany ER - TY - CONF A1 - Wosniok, Aleksander A1 - Schukar, Marcus A1 - Breithaupt, Mathias A1 - Kriegsmann, Andreas T1 - Distributed Fibre Optic Monitoring of Hydrogen Storage Composite Pressure Vessels for Automotive Use N2 - We present our research work on the condition monitoring of hydrogen storage composite pressure vessels using distributed fibre optic sensors. The sensing fibres are integrated into the composite structure by wrapping them over the polymer liner in the helical and circumferential direction during the manufacturing process of the carbon fibre reinforced polymer. The following use of optical backscatter reflectometry allows for continuous condition monitoring and precise detection and localization of structural damages during the entire service life. To account for the time-dependent strength degradation of the composite pressure vessels, both slow burst and ambient hydraulic cycling tests, respectively, were conducted on five 70 MPa pressure vessels with integrated fibre optic sensors. The results achieved via distributed fibre optic strain sensing demonstrate a near linear strain response to pressure suitable for sensitive condition monitoring and confirm the required robustness of the selected sensor solution. T2 - DGZfP-Jahrestagung 2025 CY - Berlin, Germany DA - 26.05.2025 KW - Distributed fibre optic sensor (DFOS) KW - Composite pressure vessel KW - Optical backscatter reflectometry KW - Slow burst test KW - Ambient hydraulic cycling test PY - 2025 UR - https://nbn-resolving.org/urn:nbn:de:kobv:b43-653067 DO - https://doi.org/10.58286/32344 SP - 1 EP - 8 PB - NDT.net AN - OPUS4-65306 LA - eng AD - Bundesanstalt fuer Materialforschung und -pruefung (BAM), Berlin, Germany ER -