TY - JOUR A1 - Tran, T. A1 - Kodisch, C. A1 - Schöttle, M. A1 - Pech May, Nelson Wilbur A1 - Retsch, M. T1 - Characterizing the thermal diffusivity of single, micrometer-sized fibers via high-resolution lock-in thermography N2 - Many advanced materials consist of fibers. They are used as nonwovens, fabrics, or in composite materials. Characterization of individual fibers allows us to predict resulting material properties. We present a measurement setup and analysis software to characterize individual, micrometer-sized fibers fast and reliably. The setup is based on the lock-in thermography principle. Thermal diffusivity values of seven reference samples agree very well with previously reported values. We use our setup to investigate critical measurement parameters like excitation frequency, excitation power, pixel size, and fiber orientation. Our results show that fibers with subpixel diameters can be measured even if they are not aligned. However, special care has to be taken to choose an adequate excitation power. Measurements at high intensities can underestimate thermal diffusivity even though the raw data looks reasonable. By automatically measuring at different excitation powers, our setup solves this issue. KW - Surfaces, coatings and films KW - Physical and theoretical chemistry KW - General energy KW - Electronic, optical and magnetic materials PY - 2022 DO - https://doi.org/10.1021/acs.jpcc.2c04254 SN - 1932-7455 VL - 126 IS - 32 SP - 14003 EP - 14010 PB - American Chemical Society (ACS) CY - Washington, DC AN - OPUS4-58128 LA - eng AD - Bundesanstalt fuer Materialforschung und -pruefung (BAM), Berlin, Germany ER - TY - JOUR A1 - Torres, Benjamin Moreno A1 - Völker, Christoph A1 - Firdous, Rafia T1 - Concreting a sustainable future: A dataset of alkali-activated concrete and its properties N2 - This data article introduces a dataset comprising 1630 alkali-activated concrete (AAC) mixes, compiled from 106 literature sources. The dataset underwent extensive curation to address feature redundancy, transcription errors, and duplicate data, yielding refined data ready for further data-driven science in the field of AAC, where this effort constitutes a novelty. The carbon footprint associated with each material used in the AAC mixes, as well as the corresponding CO2 footprint of every mix, were approximated using two published articles. Serving as a foundation for future expansions and rigorous data applications, this dataset enables the characterization of AAC properties through machine learning algorithms or as a benchmark for performance comparison among different formulations. In summary, the dataset provides a resource for researchers focusing on AAC and related materials and offers insights into the environmental benefits of substituting traditional Portland concrete with AAC. KW - Multidisciplinary KW - Data Set KW - Alkali Activated Concrete KW - Data driven design PY - 2023 UR - https://nbn-resolving.org/urn:nbn:de:kobv:b43-589974 DO - https://doi.org/10.1016/j.dib.2023.109525 SN - 2352-3409 VL - 50 SP - 1 EP - 9 PB - Elsevier B.V. AN - OPUS4-58997 LA - eng AD - Bundesanstalt fuer Materialforschung und -pruefung (BAM), Berlin, Germany ER - TY - JOUR A1 - Thummerer, G. A1 - Mayr, G. A1 - Hirsch, Philipp Daniel A1 - Ziegler, Mathias A1 - Burgholzer, P. T1 - Photothermal Image Reconstruction in Opaque Media with Virtual Wave Backpropagation N2 - Thermographic reconstruction of defects that lie in the bulk of a sample is a difficult task because entropy production during heat diffusion leads to information loss. To reconstruct defects one has to solve an inverse heat conduction problem. The quality of the reconstruction is closely related to the information content of the observed data set that is reflected by the decreasing ability to spatially resolve a defect with growing defect depth. In this work we show a 2D reconstruction of rectangular slots with different width-to-depth ratios in a metallic sample. For this purpose, we apply the virtual wave concept and incorporate positivity and sparsity as prior information to overcome the diffusion-based information loss partially. The reconstruction is based on simulated and experimental pulse thermography data. In the first reconstruction step, we compute a virtual wave field from the surface temperature data. This allows us, in the second step, to use ultrasonic backpropagation methods for image reconstruction. KW - Virtual wave concept KW - Thermography KW - Photothermal Technique KW - Image reconstruction PY - 2020 UR - https://nbn-resolving.org/urn:nbn:de:kobv:b43-506166 DO - https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ndteint.2020.102239 VL - 112 SP - 102239 PB - Elsevier Ltd. CY - Netherlands AN - OPUS4-50616 LA - eng AD - Bundesanstalt fuer Materialforschung und -pruefung (BAM), Berlin, Germany ER - TY - JOUR A1 - Thiel, Erik A1 - Ziegler, Mathias A1 - Studemund, Taarna T1 - Localization of subsurface defects in uncoated aluminum with structured heating using high-power VCSEL laser arrays N2 - We report on photothermal detection of subsurface defects by coherent superposition of thermal wave fields. This is made possible by structured heating using high-power VCSEL laser arrays whose individual emitter groups can be arbitrarily controlled. In order to locate the defects, we have developed a scanning method based on the continuous wavelet transformation with complex Morlet wavelet using the destructive interference effect of thermal waves. This approach can also be used for thermally very fast and highly reflective materials such as uncoated aluminum. We show that subsurface defects at an aspect ratio of defect width to defect depth down to 1/3 are still detectable in this material. KW - Thermography KW - Heat diffusion KW - Laser thermography KW - Structured heating KW - NDT KW - Subsurface defects KW - Thermal wave KW - VCSEL KW - Wavelet transformation PY - 2019 DO - https://doi.org/10.1007/s10765-018-2478-9 SN - 1572-9567 SN - 0195-928X VL - 40 IS - 2 SP - 17, 1 EP - 13 PB - Springer Science+Business Media, LLC, part of Springer Nature 2019 AN - OPUS4-47208 LA - eng AD - Bundesanstalt fuer Materialforschung und -pruefung (BAM), Berlin, Germany ER - TY - JOUR A1 - Tang, Chi-Long A1 - Seeger, Stefan A1 - Röllig, Mathias T1 - Improving the comparability of FFF-3D printing emission data by adjustment of the set extruder temperature N2 - Fused filament fabrication (FFF) is a material extrusion-based technique often used in desktop 3D printers. Polymeric filaments are melted and are extruded through a heated nozzle to form a 3D object in layers. The extruder temperature is therefore a key parameter for a successful print job but also one of the main emission driving factors as harmful pollutants (e.g., ultrafine particles) are formed by thermal polymer degradation. The awareness of potential health risks has increased the number of emission studies in the past years. However, studies usually refer their calculated emission data to the printer set extruder temperature for comparison purposes. In this study, we used a thermocouple and an infrared camera to measure the actual extruder temperature and found significant temperature deviations to the displayed set temperature among printer models. Our result shows that printing the same filament feedstocks with three different printer models and with identical printer set temperature resulted in a variation in particle emission of around two orders of magnitude. A temperature adjustment has reduced the variation to approx. one order of magnitude. Thus, it is necessary to refer the measured emission data to the actual extruder temperature as it poses a more accurate comparison parameter for evaluation of the indoor air quality in user scenarios or for health risk assessments. KW - Ultrafine particles KW - Infrared thermography KW - Thermocouple KW - Indoor air quality KW - FFF-3D printer PY - 2023 UR - https://nbn-resolving.org/urn:nbn:de:kobv:b43-572842 DO - https://doi.org/10.1016/j.aeaoa.2023.100217 VL - 18 SP - 100217 PB - Elsevier Ltd. CY - Amsterdam, Niederlande AN - OPUS4-57284 LA - eng AD - Bundesanstalt fuer Materialforschung und -pruefung (BAM), Berlin, Germany ER - TY - JOUR A1 - Sprengel, Maximilian A1 - Mohr, Gunther A1 - Altenburg, Simon A1 - Evans, Alexander A1 - Serrano Munoz, Itziar A1 - Kromm, Arne A1 - Pirling, T. A1 - Bruno, Giovanni A1 - Kannengießer, Thomas T1 - Triaxial Residual Stress in Laser Powder Bed Fused 316L: Effects of Interlayer Time and Scanning Velocity N2 - The triaxial distribution of the residual stress in laser powder bed fused austenitic steel 316L was determined by X-ray and neutron diffraction. The residual stress analysis results were linked to the thermal history of the specimens, which were manufactured with varying inter-layer-times and scanning velocities. A clear link between the in-process temperature of the specimens and the residual stress was found, based on in-situ monitoring data. KW - Stainless Steel KW - AGIL KW - Residual Stress KW - X-ray and Neutron Diffraction KW - Additive Manufacturing PY - 2022 UR - https://nbn-resolving.org/urn:nbn:de:kobv:b43-542620 DO - https://doi.org/10.1002/adem.202101330 SP - 1 EP - 13 PB - Wiley-VCH GmbH AN - OPUS4-54262 LA - eng AD - Bundesanstalt fuer Materialforschung und -pruefung (BAM), Berlin, Germany ER - TY - JOUR A1 - Singh, S. A1 - Palani, I. A. A1 - Paul, C. P. A1 - Funk, Alexander A1 - Gokuldoss, P. K. T1 - Wire Arc Additive Manufacturing of NiTi 4D Structures: Influence of Interlayer Delay N2 - Shape memory alloy structures for actuator and vibration damper applications may be manufactured using wire arc additive manufacturing (W AAM), which is one of the additive manufacturing technologies. Multilayer deposition causes heat accumulation during W AAM, which rises the preheat temperature of the previously created layer. This leads to process instabilities, which result in deviations from the desired dimensions and mechanical properties changes. During W AAM deposition of the wall structure, a systematic research is carried out by adjusting the interlayer delay from 10 to 30 s. When the delay period is increased from 10 to 30 s, the breadth decreases by 45% and the height increases by 33%. Grain refinement occurs when the interlayer delay duration is increased, resulting in better hardness, phase transformation temperature, compressive strength, and shape recovery behavior. This study shows how the interlayer delay affects the behavior of W AAM-built nickel-titanium alloy (NiTi) structures in a variety of applications. KW - Wire are additive manufacturing KW - Shape memory alloy KW - Nitinol KW - Interlayer delay PY - 2022 DO - https://doi.org/10.1089/3dp.2021.0296 SN - 2329-7662 SP - 1 EP - 11 PB - Liebert CY - New Rochelle, NY AN - OPUS4-55795 LA - eng AD - Bundesanstalt fuer Materialforschung und -pruefung (BAM), Berlin, Germany ER - TY - JOUR A1 - Silva, W. A1 - Zscherpel, Uwe A1 - Ewert, U. A1 - Lopes, R. T1 - Analysis of angular dependent spatial frequency response of Digital Coplanar Translational Laminography N2 - Digital Coplanar Translational Laminography (CTL) is a radiographic imaging technique that permits the visualization of structural details and discontinuities in the object of interest after 3D reconstruction from multiple projections. This technique becomes quite competitive regarding to computed tomography in situations of arrangements in which no complete rotation of the X-ray source - detector system around the object of interest is accessible or in cases where the part to be inspected has a high geometric asymmetry. The literature does not show many studies about image quality for different laminographic reconstructions and scan geometries. Different methodologies for measuring the Modulation Transfer Function (MTF) as a key image quality parameter for the aforementioned technique are applied. The MTF was measured using different approaches, presampled MTF or sampled MTF, both based on the Fourier Transform-Magnitude Spectrum or the square wave MTF using line pattern gauges. A sample known as Siemens Star with a converging line pattern was used to measure the circular square wave MTF. This circular MTF provides information on the direction dependent contrast transfer related to the measurement conditions, the reconstruction algorithms and the translational scan direction. For this purpose, several MTF measurements were performed in multiple angular directions. Beyond it, reconstructions were performed using different algorithms (Filtered Shifted Average) and an iterative one (MART – Multiplicative Algebraic Reconstruction Technique). Image quality analysis were done for both reconstruction methods. MART showed an image quality improvement for challenging conditions for laminographic arrangements, such as for a low number of projections (down to 25 for this study, considered as limited view, limited angle reconstruction). Additionally, a Gadolinium gauge with parallel line patterns within a range from 10 μm to 1000 μm was used to compare the square wave MTF with the sine MTFs, measured by the different techniques mentioned above. The results show that the MTF techniques presented are equivalent in this study. The results obtained for this Gadolinium plate showed a good agreement between MTF10% and SRb image measurements. The methodology presented here is used for the characterization of the frequency dependent spatial resolution of measurements obtained from different laminographic reconstruction techniques and scan geometries. Finally, from the acquisitions and reconstructions obtained with the Siemens Star, cross laminographic images were calculated in order to improve the direction dependent sensitivity. The results showed a better detectability for cross laminographic images in comparison to unidirectional coplanar translational laminographic images covering dead zones. KW - Laminography KW - Image quality KW - Modulation transfer function KW - Cross laminography KW - Reconstruction algorithms PY - 2021 DO - https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ndteint.2021.102546 SN - 0963-8695 VL - 124 SP - 1 EP - 13 PB - Elsevier Ltd. CY - Amsterdam AN - OPUS4-53845 LA - eng AD - Bundesanstalt fuer Materialforschung und -pruefung (BAM), Berlin, Germany ER - TY - JOUR A1 - Silva, W. A1 - Lopes, R. A1 - Zscherpel, Uwe A1 - Meinel, Dietmar A1 - Ewert, Uwe T1 - X-ray imaging techniques for inspection of composite pipelines N2 - The literature has shown that the application of laminography provides advantages as 3D radiographic imaging with depth information for in house and mobile testing. This permits to distinguish between overlapping indications, measure the extension along radiation direction and classify indications as surface open or subsurface ones as required in critical engineering assessment. This work provides a comparative study and measurements of the three techniques Digital Radiography (DR) with Digital Detector Arrays (DDA), Coplanar Translational Laminography (CTL) and Computed Tomography (CT), applied for composite pipeline inspection. It is demonstrated that CTL and CT provide advantages for the evaluation of pipe-to-pipe connections and the evaluation of adhesive applications. They show indications of discontinuities with higher contrast sensitivity than radiography. Beyond it, two specimen, namely Phantom 1 and Phantom 2, were developed and manufactured by additive manufacturing to analyze the preferential detection sensitivity and the direction of features and depth information for laminographic measurements. Another goal was to show the laminographic capabilities to distinguish between overlapping discontinuities. CTL is especially suitable for mobile inspection. Special glass fiber reinforced polymer samples (GRP) were manufactured for further analysis and comparisons between the abovementioned techniques. Finally, Phantoms 1 and 2 show the capability of laminography to detect overlapping indications and also show that discontinuities oriented perpendicular to the scan direction have the highest contrast sensitivity for laminographic measurements. KW - Digital Radiography KW - Laminography KW - Computed Tomography KW - Composite Pipes KW - Image Quality PY - 2021 DO - https://doi.org/10.1016/j.micron.2021.103033 SN - 0968-4328 VL - 145 SP - 103033 PB - Elsevier Ltd. AN - OPUS4-52415 LA - eng AD - Bundesanstalt fuer Materialforschung und -pruefung (BAM), Berlin, Germany ER - TY - JOUR A1 - Schumacher, David A1 - Sharma, R. A1 - Grager, J.-C. A1 - Schrapp, M. T1 - Scatter and beam hardening reduction in industrial computed tomography using photon counting detectors N2 - Photon counting detectors (PCD) offer new possibilities for x-ray micro computed tomography (CT) in the field of non-destructive testing. For large and/or dense objects with high atomic numbers the problem of scattered radiation and beam hardening severely influences the image quality. This work shows that using an energy discriminating PCD based on CdTe allows to address these problems by intrinsically reducing both the influence of scattering and beam hardening. Based on 2D-radiographic measurements it is shown that by energy thresholding the influence of scattered radiation can be reduced by up to in case of a PCD compared to a conventional energy-integrating detector (EID). To demonstrate the capabilities of a PCD in reducing beam hardening, cupping artefacts are analyzed quantitatively. The PCD results show that the higher the energy threshold is set, the lower the cupping effect emerges. But since numerous beam hardening correction algorithms exist, the results of the PCD are compared to EID results corrected by common techniques. Nevertheless, the highest energy thresholds yield lower cupping artefacts than any of the applied correction algorithms. As an example of a potential industrial CT application, a turbine blade is investigated by CT. The inner structure of the turbine blade allows for comparing the image quality between PCD and EID in terms of absolute contrast, as well as normalized signal-to-noise and contrast-to-noise ratio. Where the absolute contrast can be improved by raising the energy thresholds of the PCD, it is found that due to lower statistics the normalized contrast-to-noise-ratio could not be improved compared to the EID. These results might change to the contrary when discarding pre-filtering of the x-ray spectra and thus allowing more low-energy photons to reach the detectors. Despite still being in the early phase in technological progress, PCDs already allow to improve CT image quality compared to conventional detectors in terms of scatter and beam hardening reduction. KW - X-ray computed tomography KW - Photon counting detector KW - CdTe sensor KW - Non-destructive testing KW - Beam hardening KW - Scattered radiation PY - 2018 UR - http://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.1088/1361-6501/aabef7/meta DO - https://doi.org/10.1088/1361-6501/aabef7 SN - 1361-6501 VL - 29 IS - 7 SP - 075101, 1 EP - 12 PB - IOP Publishing CY - Bristol, UK AN - OPUS4-44959 LA - eng AD - Bundesanstalt fuer Materialforschung und -pruefung (BAM), Berlin, Germany ER - TY - JOUR A1 - Scheuschner, Nils A1 - Altenburg, Simon A1 - Pignatelli, Giuseppe A1 - Maierhofer, Christiane A1 - Straße, Anne A1 - Gornushkin, Igor B. A1 - Gumenyuk, Andrey T1 - Vergleich der Messungen der Schmelzbadtemperatur bei der Additiven Fertigung von Metallen mittels IR-Spektroskopie und Thermografie T1 - Comparison of measurements of the melt pool temperature during the additive production of metals by means of IR spectroscopy and thermography N2 - Im Rahmen des Themenfeldprojektes „Process Monitoring of AM“ (ProMoAM) evaluiert die Bundesanstalt für Materialforschung und -Prüfung (BAM) gegenwärtig die Anwendbarkeit verschiedenster ZfP-Verfahren zur in-situ Prozessüberwachung in der additiven Fertigung (AM) von Metallen in Hinblick auf die Qualitätssicherung. Einige der wichtigsten Messgrößen sind hierbei die Temperatur des Schmelzbades und die Abkühlrate, welche starken Einfluss auf das Gefüge und die Eigenspannung haben. Aufgrund der Zugänglichkeit zum Werkstück während des Bauprozesses bieten sich optische Verfahren zu Temperaturbestimmung an. Hierbei stellen jedoch u. a. die hohe Bandbreite der zu messenden Temperaturen, die Bestimmung der Emissivität und ihre Änderung bei Phasenübergängen der verwendeten Legierung große experimentelle Herausforderungen dar. Eine weitere Herausforderung stellt für die IR-Spektroskopie die Absorption durch das Schutzgas und weitere optische Elemente dar. Um diese auch in einem industriellen Umfeld kompensieren zu können, wurde eine Methode entwickelt, die das gemessene Spektrum bei der Verfestigung des Werkstoffes als Referenz nutzt. In diesem Beitrag wird die Anwendung dieser Methode für die IR-Spektrometrie als auch Thermografische Messungen beim Laser-Pulver-Auftragschweißen von 316L gezeigt, wobei beide Methoden weiterhin in Hinblick auf ihre individuellen Vor- und Nachteile miteinander verglichen werden. N2 - Within the topic area project “Process Monitoring of AM” (ProMoAM) the Federal Institute for Materials Research and Testing is currently evaluating the applicability of various NDT methods for in-situ process Monitoring in the additive manufacturing (AM) of metals with regard to quality assurance. Two of the most important variables to measure are the temperature of the molten pool and the cooling rate, which have a strong influence on the microstructure and the residual stress. Due to the accessibility of the workpiece during the construction process, optical methods for temperature determination are suitable. However, the wide range of temperatures to be measured, the determination of emissivity and its change during phase transitions of the alloy pose great experimental challenges. Another challenge for IR spectroscopy is the absorption by the inert gas and other optical elements. In order to be able to compensate for this in an industrial environment, a method was developed which uses the measured spectrum as a reference when the material is solidified. This paper shows the application of this method for IR spectrometry as well as thermographic measurements during laser powder cladding of 316L. Furthermore both methods are compared with respect to their individual Advantages and disadvantages. KW - Laser-Pulver-Auftragschweißen KW - Thermografie KW - Direct Energy Deposition KW - IR-Spektroskopie KW - Additive Fertigung KW - Laser metal deposition KW - Thermography KW - IR-spectroscopy KW - Additive manufacturing PY - 2021 DO - https://doi.org/10.1515/teme-2021-0056 VL - 88 IS - 10 SP - 626 EP - 632 PB - De Gruyter CY - Oldenburg AN - OPUS4-52987 LA - deu AD - Bundesanstalt fuer Materialforschung und -pruefung (BAM), Berlin, Germany ER - TY - JOUR A1 - Schade, U. A1 - Dawei, C. A1 - Puskar, L. A1 - Ritter, E. A1 - Beckmann, Jörg T1 - Removal of Etalon Features in the Far-Infrared–Terahertz Transmittance Spectra of Thin Polymer Films N2 - Etalon features in infrared spectra of stratified samples, their influence on the interpretation and methods to circumvent their presence in infrared spectra have been in discussion for decades. This paper focuses on the application of a method originally developed to remove interference fringes in the mid-infrared spectra for far-infrared Fourier transform spectroscopy on thin polymer films. We show that the total transmittance-reflectance technique, commonly used for mid-infrared, also works successfully in the far infrared spectral range where other approaches fail. Experimental spectra obtained by such technique are supported by model calculations and reveal the possibility and limits to obtain almost undisturbed far-infrared spectra which are suitable to determine low energy vibrations of ionomer salts under certain sample conditions. KW - Far-infrared spectroscopy KW - Absorption KW - Etalon feature KW - Total transmittance reflectance PY - 2020 DO - https://doi.org/10.1177/0003702820922295 VL - 74 IS - 12 SP - 1530 EP - 1539 PB - Sage journals AN - OPUS4-51367 LA - eng AD - Bundesanstalt fuer Materialforschung und -pruefung (BAM), Berlin, Germany ER - TY - JOUR A1 - Puthiyaveettil, N. A1 - Thomas, K. R. A1 - Myrach, Philipp A1 - Ziegler, Mathias A1 - Rajagopal, P. A1 - Balasubramaniamam, K. T1 - Defect detection in steel bars up to 600 °C using laser line thermography N2 - Crack detection in steel bars at high surface temperatures is a critical problem in any manufacturing industry. Surface breaking cracks are the major problems during the billet casting. Many NDT techniques are proven its capability in crack detection at room temperature. Here, we are demonstrating the possibility of exposure of cracks using laser line thermography at higher surface temperatures (up to 600 °C). A continuous-wave (CW) laser is used to excite the sample kept at higher surface temperatures. The temperature distribution over the sample due to the laser line scanning is captured using a temperature calibrated infrared (IR) thermal camera. The response of the sample temperature in crack detection is investigated using a validated FE model. The impact of the oxide layer in crack detection is investigated by using two types of samples; one without any oxide layer and the second is with the oxide layer. The influence of laser power in the detection of defects at high temperatures is studied. 3D numerical models were developed for the cases; when the sample is with oxide layer and without any oxide layer for a better understanding of physics. The surface temperature rise due to laser heating is higher for the scaled sample compared to the no-scale sample. The presence of the oxide layer above the parent metal will reduce the reflectivity of the surface. Lower reflectivity will lead to increased absorption of incident energy so that the surface temperature rise will be higher than the surface with no scale. Thermal contrast linearly depends on laser power, which means higher laser power will increase the defect detectability even at a higher surface temperature. KW - Laser thermography KW - High temperature KW - Modeling KW - Surface cracks KW - Non-destructive testing PY - 2020 DO - https://doi.org/10.1016/j.infrared.2020.103565 SN - 1350-4495 VL - 111 SP - 103565 PB - Elsevier B.V. AN - OPUS4-51573 LA - eng AD - Bundesanstalt fuer Materialforschung und -pruefung (BAM), Berlin, Germany ER - TY - JOUR A1 - Puthiyaveettil, N. A1 - Thomas K, R. A1 - Unnikrishnakurup, S. A1 - Myrach, Philipp A1 - Ziegler, Mathias A1 - Balasubramaniam, K. T1 - Laser line scanning thermography for surface breaking crack detection modeling and experimental study N2 - Crack detection in metallic samples at high surface temperature, hostile and hazardous environments, etc. is challenging situation in any manufacturing industries. Most of the present NDE methods are suitable only for lower surface temperatures, especially room temperature. In this situation, we need a fast and non-contact NDT method which can be applied even in high sample surface temperature. Laser thermography is one of the techniques having a high potential in non-contact inspection. As a preliminary investigation, in this article, we have studied the potentiality of laser line thermography in crack detection at room temperature. In laser line thermography, a continuous wave (CW) laser is used to generate a laser line, which in turn is used to scan the metal surface. The heat distribution over the sample surface is recorded by an infrared thermal (IR) camera. Two different approaches are reported in this work. Firstly, a stationary laser line source and its interaction with cracks; secondly, moving laser line source scanning over a surface with crack. When the distance between crack centre to laser line centre increases, crack detectability will decrease; and when laser power increases, crack detectability will increase. A dedicated image processing algorithm was developed to improve the detectability of the cracks. To understand the heat transfer phenomenon, a simplified 3D model for laser thermography was developed for the heat distribution during laser heating and was validated with experimental results. Defects were incorporated as a thermally thin resistive layer (TTRL) in numerical modeling, and the effect of TTRL in heat conduction is compared with experimental results. KW - Thermography KW - Laser Thermography KW - Cracks KW - FEM KW - NDT PY - 2019 DO - https://doi.org/10.1016/j.infrared.2019.103141 VL - 104 SP - 103141 PB - Elsevier B.V. AN - OPUS4-49941 LA - eng AD - Bundesanstalt fuer Materialforschung und -pruefung (BAM), Berlin, Germany ER - TY - JOUR A1 - Plarre, Rüdiger A1 - Zocca, Andrea A1 - Spitzer, Andrea A1 - Benemann, Sigrid A1 - Gorbushina, Anna A1 - Li, Y. A1 - Waske, Anja A1 - Funk, Alexander A1 - Wilgig, Janka A1 - Günster, Jens T1 - Searching for biological feedstock material: 3D printing of wood particles from house borer and drywood termite frass N2 - Frass (fine powdery refuse or fragile perforated wood produced by the activity of boring insects) of larvae of the European house borer (EHB) and of drywood termites was tested as a natural and novel feedstock for 3D-printing of wood-based materials. Small particles produced by the drywood termite Incisitermes marginipennis and the EHB Hylotrupes bajulus during feeding in construction timber, were used. Frass is a powdery material of particularly consistent quality that is essentially biologically processed wood mixed with debris of wood and faeces. The filigree-like particles flow easily permitting the build-up of woodbased structures in a layer wise fashion using the Binder Jetting printing process. The Quality of powders produced by different insect species was compared along with the processing steps and properties of the printed parts. Drywood termite frass with a Hausner Ratio HR = 1.1 with ρBulk = 0.67 g/cm3 and ρTap = 0.74 g/cm3 was perfectly suited to deposition of uniformly packed layers in 3D printing. We suggest that a variety of naturally available feedstocks could be used in environmentally responsible approaches to scientific material sciences/additive manufacturing. KW - 3D printing KW - X-ray tomographic KW - SEM micrography KW - Drywood termite PY - 2021 UR - https://nbn-resolving.org/urn:nbn:de:kobv:b43-521517 DO - https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0246511 VL - 16 IS - 2 SP - e0246511 AN - OPUS4-52151 LA - eng AD - Bundesanstalt fuer Materialforschung und -pruefung (BAM), Berlin, Germany ER - TY - JOUR A1 - Pech May, Nelson Wilbur A1 - Ziegler, Mathias T1 - Detection of surface breaking cracks using flying line laser thermography: A Canny-based algorithm N2 - In this work, we introduce a new algorithm for effectual crack detection using flying line laser thermography, based on the well-known Canny approach. The algorithm transforms the input thermographic sequence into an edge map. Experimental measurements are performed on a metallic component that contains surface breaking cracks due to industrial use. The specimen is tested using flying line thermography at different scanning speeds and laser input powers. Results obtained with the proposed algorithm are additionally compared with a previously established algorithm for flying spot thermography. The proposed Canny-based algorithm can be used in automated systems for thermographic non-destructive testing. T2 - Advanced Infrared Technology and Applications 2021 CY - Online meeting DA - 26.10.2021 KW - Canny approach KW - Flying line thermography KW - Crack detection PY - 2021 UR - https://nbn-resolving.org/urn:nbn:de:kobv:b43-539628 DO - https://doi.org/10.3390/engproc2021008022 SN - 2673-4591 VL - 8 IS - 1 SP - 1 EP - 4 PB - MDPI CY - Basel AN - OPUS4-53962 LA - eng AD - Bundesanstalt fuer Materialforschung und -pruefung (BAM), Berlin, Germany ER - TY - JOUR A1 - Pech May, Nelson Wilbur A1 - Tabasco-Novelo, Carolina A1 - Quintana, Patricia A1 - Rodriguez-Gattorno, Geonel A1 - Alvarado-Gil, Juan J. T1 - Evidence of a Thermal Diffusivity Gap in Sintered Li–Co–Sb–O Solid Solutions N2 - In this work, the thermal properties of ternary Li₃ₓCo₇₋₄ₓSb₂₊ₓO₁₂ solid solutions are studied for different concentrations in the range 0 ≤ x ≤ 0.7. Samples are elaborated at four different sintering temperatures: 1100, 1150, 1200 and 1250 °C. The effect of increasing the content of Li⁺ and Sb⁵⁺, accompanied by the reduction of Co²⁺, on the thermal properties is studied. It is shown that a thermal diffusivity gap, which is more pronounced for low values of x, can be triggered at a certain threshold sintering temperature (around 1150 °C in this study). This effect is explained by the increase of contact area between adjacent grains. Nevertheless, this effect is found to be less pronounced in the thermal conductivity. Moreover, a new framework for heat diffusion in solids is presented that establishes that both the heat flux and the thermal energy (or heat) satisfy a diffusion equation and therefore highlights the importance of thermal diffusivity in transient heat conduction phenomena. KW - General Chemical Engineering KW - General Chemistry PY - 2023 UR - https://nbn-resolving.org/urn:nbn:de:kobv:b43-593248 DO - https://doi.org/10.1021/acsomega.2c07557 SN - 2470-1343 VL - 8 IS - 8 SP - 7808 EP - 7815 PB - American Chemical Society (ACS) CY - Washington, DC AN - OPUS4-59324 LA - eng AD - Bundesanstalt fuer Materialforschung und -pruefung (BAM), Berlin, Germany ER - TY - JOUR A1 - Pech May, Nelson Wilbur A1 - Lauster, T. A1 - Retsch, M. T1 - Design of Multimodal Absorption in the Mid-IR: A Metal Dielectric Metal Approach N2 - Specific control on the mid-infrared (mid-IR) Emission properties is attracting increasing attention for thermal camouflage and passive cooling applications. Metal−dielectric−metal (MDM) structures are well known to support strong magnetic polariton resonances in the optical and near-infrared range. We extend the current understanding of such an MDM structure by specifically designing Au disc arrays on top of ZnS−Au−Si substrates and pushing their resonances to the mid-IR regime. Therefore, we combine fabrication via lift-off photolithography with the finite element method and an inductance−capacitance model. With this combination of techniques, we demonstrate that the magnetic polariton resonance of the first order strongly depends on the individual disc diameter. Furthermore, the fabrication of multiple discs within one unit cell allows a linear combination of the fundamental resonances to conceive broadband absorptance. Quite importantly, even in mixed resonator cases, the absorptance spectra can be fully described by a superposition of the individual disc properties. Our contribution provides rational guidance to deterministically design mid-IR emitting materials with specific narrow- or broadband properties. KW - Mid-IR absorption KW - Thermal emission PY - 2021 DO - https://doi.org/10.1021/acsami.0c18160 VL - 13 IS - 1 SP - 1921 EP - 1929 PB - ACS Publications AN - OPUS4-52070 LA - eng AD - Bundesanstalt fuer Materialforschung und -pruefung (BAM), Berlin, Germany ER - TY - JOUR A1 - Ou, D. A1 - Schumacher, David A1 - Zscherpel, Uwe A1 - Xiao, Y. T1 - Dual-energy materials characterization methods for laminography image enhancement based on photon counting detector N2 - Laminography is a widely used NDT technique for large flat object which cannot be investigated by traditional computed tomography. However, due to the limited scanning angle of laminography, the reconstructed image has more artifact interference, which seriously affects the reconstructed image quality. Reducing artifacts of the laminography image and enhancing the images have become important research effort. In this paper, we present dual-energy materials characterization methods based on photon counting detectors to reduce artifacts and enhance image for laminography. The photon counting detector used in this study allows the setting of two independent energy thresholds in order to acquire dual-energy images for laminography from a single scan. The dual energy imaging methods of basis material decomposition (BMD) and weighted logarithmic subtraction (WLS) were studied in the paper with respect to laminography image enhancement. A fast decomposition algorithm on laminographic projection domain with approximating the inverse dual-energy equations to calculate the thickness of basic materials was used in the BMD dual-energy imaging methods. The experimental results show that the BMD method can characterize materials and enhance features of the basic material within the laminographic dataset. In the WLS method, a linear operation was applied on dual-energy images reconstruction directly, which can eliminate the attenuation of one specific material in the resultant image by setting an appropriate weighting factor. In our experiments. WLS method was used successfully to eliminate the strong artifacts generated by the special material and enhance the images. Dual-energy materials characterization methods based on photon counting detectors show potential applications in laminography. KW - Photon Counting Detectors KW - Dual Energy Imaging KW - Data Processing KW - X-ray PY - 2019 DO - https://doi.org/10.1088/1748-0221/14/02/P02018 SN - 1748-0221 VL - 14 SP - P02018, 1 EP - 13 PB - IOP Publishing CY - Bristol, UK AN - OPUS4-47573 LA - eng AD - Bundesanstalt fuer Materialforschung und -pruefung (BAM), Berlin, Germany ER - TY - JOUR A1 - Osterloh, Kurt A1 - Röhrs, S. A1 - Schwabe, A. A1 - Radujcovic, S. A1 - Bücherl, T. A1 - Dangendorf, V. A1 - Zscherpel, Uwe A1 - Reiche, I. A1 - Nüsser, A. ED - Zscherpel, Uwe ED - Kasperl, S. T1 - Elucidating the distribution of organic consolidants in wood by Neutron Tomography N2 - While the absorption of X-rays and gamma radiation is determined by the Z-number of the elements a specimen is composed of, it is the hydrogen making an effective contrast with neutron imaging. As a consequence, interrogating with neutrons presents a suitable tool to study the distribution of organic consolidants in materials such as wood as encountered in impregnated wooden artworks. Four different examples of objects are presented here to demonstrate the potential of neutron CT: 1) small wooden pieces of ship wrecks (< 2 cm thickness) interrogated with cold neutrons (0.5 meV at the ANTARES facility of the FRM II in Garching) to demonstrate the potential and the limitation of using low energy neutrons, 2) a wooden statue soaked with carbolineum (fission neutrons 1.8 MeV at the NECTAR facility of the FRM II), 3) a smaller wooden figure of a skull heavily soaked with carbolineum so it was too tight for the fission neutrons used before with accelerator neutrons (broad range about 5.5 MeV at the PTB in Braunschweig) and 4) pieces of charred wood to study the impregnation with a consolidant (NECTAR, FRM II). With the exception of the last example, all results have been combined with X-ray tomography (BAM 8.3 in Berlin). In the case of the charred wood specimens (example 4) the density histograms of the neutron tomography results were compared with those obtained from untreated references. The observed gain in specific density of the soaked specimens corresponded with an increase of specific weight. All results obtained so far showed distinct distribution patterns attributable to structural peculiarities or organic consolidants providing valuable support for subsequent restoration works. T2 - International symposium on digital industrial radiography and computed tomography DIR2019 CY - Fürth, Germany DA - 02.07.2019 KW - Neutron Imaging KW - Cold to fast neutron testing KW - Tomography of wood samples KW - Art restauration PY - 2019 UR - https://nbn-resolving.org/urn:nbn:de:kobv:b43-505326 UR - https://www.ndt.net/search/docs.php3?id=24740 SN - 1435-4934 VL - 24 IS - 11 SP - 1 EP - 8 PB - NDT.net CY - Kirchwald AN - OPUS4-50532 LA - eng AD - Bundesanstalt fuer Materialforschung und -pruefung (BAM), Berlin, Germany ER - TY - JOUR A1 - Oster, Simon A1 - Scheuschner, Nils A1 - Chand, Keerthana A1 - Altenburg, Simon A1 - Gerlach, G. T1 - Potentials and challenges of deep-learning-assisted porosity prediction based on thermographic in-situ monitoring in laser powder bed fusion N2 - Laser powder bed fusion is one of the most promising additive manufacturing techniques for printing complex-shaped metal components. However, the formation of subsurface porosity poses a significant risk to the service lifetime of the printed parts. In-situ monitoring offers the possibility to detect porosity already during manufacturing. Thereby, process feedback control or a manual process interruption to cut financial losses is enabled. Short-wave infrared thermography can monitor the thermal history of manufactured parts which is closely connected to the probability of porosity formation. Artificial intelligence methods are increasingly used for porosity prediction from the obtained large amounts of complex monitoring data. In this study, we aim to identify the potential and the challenges of deep-learning-assisted porosity prediction based on thermographic in-situ monitoring. Therefore, the porosity prediction task is studied in detail using an exemplary dataset from the manufacturing of two Haynes282 cuboid components. Our trained 1D convolutional neural network model shows high performance (R² score of 0.90) for the prediction of local porosity in discrete sub-volumes with dimensions of (700 x 700 x 40) μm³. It could be demonstrated that the regressor correctly predicts layer-wise porosity changes but presumably has limited capability to predict differences in local porosity. Furthermore, there is a need to study the significance of the used thermogram feature inputs to streamline the model and to adjust the monitoring hardware. Moreover, we identified multiple sources of data uncertainty resulting from the in-situ monitoring setup, the registration with the ground truth X-ray-computed tomography data and the used pre-processing workflow that might influence the model’s performance detrimentally. T2 - XXXVII. Messtechnisches Symposium 2023 CY - Freiburg, Germany DA - 27.09.2023 KW - Porosity prediction KW - Defect detection KW - Laser powder bed fusion (PBF-LB/M, L-PBF) KW - Selective laser melting KW - Thermography KW - Machine learning PY - 2023 DO - https://doi.org/10.1515/teme-2023-0062 SN - 0171-8096 SN - 2196-7113 VL - 90 SP - 85 EP - 96 PB - De Gruyter CY - Berlin AN - OPUS4-58366 LA - eng AD - Bundesanstalt fuer Materialforschung und -pruefung (BAM), Berlin, Germany ER - TY - JOUR A1 - Oster, Simon A1 - Fritsch, Tobias A1 - Ulbricht, Alexander A1 - Mohr, Gunther A1 - Bruno, Giovanni A1 - Maierhofer, Christiane A1 - Altenburg, Simon T1 - On the Registration of Thermographic In Situ Monitoring Data and Computed Tomography Reference Data in the Scope of Defect Prediction in Laser Powder Bed Fusion N2 - The detection of internal irregularities is crucial for quality assessment in metal-based additive manufacturing (AM) technologies such as laser powder bed fusion (L-PBF). The utilization of in-process thermography as an in situ monitoring tool in combination with post-process X-ray micro computed tomography (XCT) as a reference technique has shown great potential for this aim. Due to the small irregularity dimensions, a precise registration of the datasets is necessary as a requirement for correlation. In this study, the registration of thermography and XCT reference datasets of a cylindric specimen containing keyhole pores is carried out for the development of a porosity prediction model. The considered datasets show variations in shape, data type and dimensionality, especially due to shrinkage and material elevation effects present in the manufactured part. Since the resulting deformations are challenging for registration, a novel preprocessing methodology is introduced that involves an adaptive volume adjustment algorithm which is based on the porosity distribution in the specimen. Thus, the implementation of a simple three-dimensional image-to-image registration is enabled. The results demonstrate the influence of the part deformation on the resulting porosity location and the importance of registration in terms of irregularity prediction. KW - Selective laser melting (SLM) KW - Laser powder bed fusion (L-PBF) KW - Additive manufacturing (AM) KW - Process monitoring KW - Infrared thermography KW - X-ray computed tomography (XCT) KW - Defect detection KW - Image registration PY - 2022 UR - https://nbn-resolving.org/urn:nbn:de:kobv:b43-549412 DO - https://doi.org/10.3390/met12060947 VL - 12 IS - 6 SP - 1 EP - 21 PB - MDPI AN - OPUS4-54941 LA - eng AD - Bundesanstalt fuer Materialforschung und -pruefung (BAM), Berlin, Germany ER - TY - JOUR A1 - Oster, Simon A1 - Breese, Philipp Peter A1 - Ulbricht, Alexander A1 - Mohr, Gunther A1 - Altenburg, Simon T1 - A deep learning framework for defect prediction based on thermographic in-situmonitoring in laser powder bed fusion N2 - The prediction of porosity is a crucial task for metal based additive manufacturing techniques such as laser powder bed fusion. Short wave infrared thermography as an in-situ monitoring tool enables the measurement of the surface radiosity during the laser exposure. Based on the thermogram data, the thermal history of the component can be reconstructed which is closely related to the resulting mechanical properties and to the formation of porosity in the part. In this study, we present a novel framework for the local prediction of porosity based on extracted features from thermogram data. The framework consists of a data pre-processing workflow and a supervised deep learning classifier architecture. The data pre-processing workflow generates samples from thermogram feature data by including feature information from multiple subsequent layers. Thereby, the prediction of the occurrence of complex process phenomena such as keyhole pores is enabled. A custom convolutional neural network model is used for classification. Themodel is trained and tested on a dataset from thermographic in-situ monitoring of the manufacturing of an AISI 316L stainless steel test component. The impact of the pre-processing parameters and the local void distribution on the classification performance is studied in detail. The presented model achieves an accuracy of 0.96 and an f1-Score of 0.86 for predicting keyhole porosity in small sub-volumes with a dimension of (700 × 700 × 50) μm3. Furthermore, we show that pre-processing parameters such as the porosity threshold for sample labeling and the number of included subsequent layers are influential for the model performance. Moreover, the model prediction is shown to be sensitive to local porosity changes although it is trained on binary labeled data that disregards the actual sample porosity. KW - Laser Powder Bed Fusion (PBF-LB/M, L-PBF) KW - Selective Laser Melting (SLM) KW - SWIR thermography KW - Online monitoring KW - Flaw detection KW - Machine learning KW - Convolutional neural networks (CNN) PY - 2023 UR - https://nbn-resolving.org/urn:nbn:de:kobv:b43-575148 DO - https://doi.org/10.1007/s10845-023-02117-0 SN - 0956-5515 SP - 1 EP - 20 PB - Springer AN - OPUS4-57514 LA - eng AD - Bundesanstalt fuer Materialforschung und -pruefung (BAM), Berlin, Germany ER - TY - JOUR A1 - Nerger, Deborah A1 - Moosavi, Robabeh A1 - Bracklow, F. A1 - Hering, M. A1 - Kühn, T. A1 - Curbach, M. A1 - Hille, Falk A1 - Rogge, Andreas T1 - Planar tomography and numerical analysis for damage characterization of impact loaded RC plates N2 - The damage analysis of reinforced concrete (RC) is of high interest for reasons of effective maintenance and structural safe-ty of buildings. The damage structures of RC plates loaded by an impact were investigated, applying X-ray planar tomogra-phy and finite element method (FEM). Planar tomography allows getting three-dimensional information of the RC elements and the damage including crack, spalling and scabbing. The FEM model validated on the tomography data justifies the appli-cation for further predictions of the damage description. In this study, we investigated concrete plates of three different thick-ness subjected to impacts at different low- and medium-velocity, whereby the used impactor had a flat tip, which resulted in small penetrations on the front side and scabbing on the rear side. In order to quantify the damage, the damage volume and its distribution through the plate were computed and the correlations between degree of damage and impact velocity were found out. KW - Impact KW - Damage characterization KW - Planar tomography KW - Numeric simulation KW - Reinforced concrete structure PY - 2020 DO - https://doi.org/10.1002/cend.202000017 VL - 8 SP - 1 EP - 19 PB - Wiley AN - OPUS4-51117 LA - eng AD - Bundesanstalt fuer Materialforschung und -pruefung (BAM), Berlin, Germany ER - TY - JOUR A1 - Müller, Jan Peter A1 - Dell'Avvocato, G. A1 - Krankenhagen, Rainer T1 - Assessing overload-induced delaminations in glass fiber reinforced polymers by its geometry and thermal resistance N2 - The one-dimensional thermal quadrupole method is used to evaluate a pulsed thermography measurement at delaminations in a glass-fiber reinforced plastic plate quantitatively. The large-scale delaminations have been induced by tension overload and are air-filled and are usually located at the same depth as the notch bottom of a notch on the rear side. While classical evaluation methods like pulsed phase thermography and thermal Signal reconstruction are focused on the delamination depth only, the thermal quadrupole method determines spatially resolved two parameters for delaminations, delamination depth and local thermal resistance. Interestingly, lateral heat flows do not disturb this kind of depth evaluation. KW - Pulsed thermography KW - Delamination KW - Debond KW - Composite materials PY - 2020 DO - https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ndteint.2020.102309 VL - 116 SP - 102309 PB - Elsevier Ltd. AN - OPUS4-50937 LA - eng AD - Bundesanstalt fuer Materialforschung und -pruefung (BAM), Berlin, Germany ER - TY - JOUR A1 - Müller, Jan P. A1 - Krankenhagen, Rainer T1 - Optimizing thermographic testing of thick GFRP plates by assessing the real energy absorbed within the material N2 - Active thermography is a well suited non-destructive testing method for the challenging inspection of wind rotor blades. Since the GFRP structures are up to some centimetres thick, long pulse heating is required to provide an appropriate energy input into the structure. So far, no best practice exists to guarantee a reliable detection of deep-lying flaws. In this work, a step wedge specimen having a maximum thickness of 34mm is systematically investigated by experiment and well-matched simulations to assess the influence of the experimental parameters, like the absorbed energy, on thermal contrasts. Finally, a scheme to conduct full-scale test of a wind rotor blade in less than three hours is proposed. KW - Pulsed thermography KW - Wind rotor blade KW - GFRP PY - 2019 DO - https://doi.org/10.1016/j.compstruct.2019.02.027 SN - 0263-8223 VL - 215 SP - 60 EP - 68 PB - Elsevier CY - Amsterdam AN - OPUS4-47396 LA - eng AD - Bundesanstalt fuer Materialforschung und -pruefung (BAM), Berlin, Germany ER - TY - JOUR A1 - Munsch, Sarah Mandy A1 - Strangfeld, Christoph A1 - Kruschwitz, Sabine ED - Kärger, J. ED - Heitjans, P. T1 - Determining the pore size distribution in synthetic and building materials using 1D NMR N2 - NMR is gaining increasing interest in civil engineering applications for the use of microstructure characterization as e.g. pore size determination and monitoring of moisture transport in porous materials. In this study, the use of NMR as a tool for pore size characterization was investigated. For our study we used screed and synthetic materials at partial and full saturation. A successful determination could be achieved when having a reference or calibration method, although partly diffusion effects have been registered. Due to these diffusion effects, for the determination of pore size distributions of synthetic materials another NMR device was needed. Finally, the determination of the surface relaxivity of screed (50 μm/s) led to a higher value than first expected from literature. T2 - 14th International Bologna Conference on Magnetic Resonance in Porous Media CY - Gainesville, FL, USA DA - 18.02.2018 KW - NMR relaxometry KW - Pore size distribution KW - Building materials KW - Porous materials KW - Surface relaxivity PY - 2019 UR - https://nbn-resolving.org/urn:nbn:de:kobv:b43-483680 UR - https://diffusion.uni-leipzig.de/pdf/volume31/diff_fund_31(2019)02.pdf SN - 1862-4138 N1 - Geburtsname von Munsch, Sarah Mandy: Nagel, S. M. - Birth name of Munsch, Sarah Mandy: Nagel, S. M. VL - 31 IS - 2 SP - 1 EP - 9 PB - University of Leipzig CY - Leipzig AN - OPUS4-48368 LA - eng AD - Bundesanstalt fuer Materialforschung und -pruefung (BAM), Berlin, Germany ER - TY - JOUR A1 - Munsch, Sarah Mandy A1 - Strangfeld, Christoph A1 - Kruschwitz, Sabine T1 - Application of 1H proton NMR relaxometry to building materials - A review N2 - Since nuclear magnetic resonance with focus on 1H protons is highly sensitive to pore filling fluids, it is nowadays often applied for the investigation of porous media. Mainly in materials research and especially in the field of non-destructive testing in civil engineering it is increasingly used. Scientific questions about and based on NMR meanwhile cover a broad spectrum. To give an overview, we have reviewed various studies dealing with the determination of moisture contents and parameters such as the pore-size distribution, surface relaxivity, porosity, etc. In some papers, the monitoring of moisture transport in connection with degradation processes or admixtures was the main objective. In other papers, NMR was used for pore space analysis or even applied on site to assess the state of conservation of cultural heritage. Building materials that have been investigated in the presented studies are for example cement, concrete, woods, sandstones etc. In this paper, short descriptions and the significant results of the reviewed articles are summarized and their measurement problems and discrepancies are pointed out. A special feature of this review article is the concise tabular compilation of determined 𝑇1 and 𝑇2 relaxation times, as well as of surface relaxivity values for various materials and components. Finally, relevant aspects are summed up and conclusions about the increasing potential of NMR relaxometry for investigations of porous building materials are drawn, followed by an outlook about future applications and the need for technical development. KW - NMR relaxometry KW - Building materials KW - Natural stones KW - Relaxation times KW - Surface relaxivities KW - Moisture KW - Pore space characterization PY - 2021 UR - https://nbn-resolving.org/urn:nbn:de:kobv:b43-521888 DO - https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jmro.2021.100012 N1 - Geburtsname von Munsch, Sarah Mandy: Nagel, S. M. - Birth name of Munsch, Sarah Mandy: Nagel, S. M. VL - 6-7 SP - 100012 PB - Elsevier Inc. CY - Amsterdam AN - OPUS4-52188 LA - eng AD - Bundesanstalt fuer Materialforschung und -pruefung (BAM), Berlin, Germany ER - TY - JOUR A1 - Moskovchenko, A. I. A1 - Vavilov, V. P. A1 - Bernegger, Raphael A1 - Maierhofer, Christiane A1 - Chulkov, A. O. T1 - Detecting Delaminations in Semitransparent Glass Fiber Composite by Using Pulsed Infrared Thermography N2 - Thanks to its good strength/mass ratio, a glass fibre reinforced plastic (GFRP) composite is a common material widely used in aviation, power production, automotive and other industries. In its turn, active infrared (IR) nondestructive testing (NDT) is a common inspection technique for detecting and characterizing structural defects in GFRP. Materials to be tested are typically subjected to optical heating which is supposed to occur on the material surface. However, GFRP composite is semitransparent for optical radiation of both visual and IR spectral bands. Correspondingly, the inspection process represents a certain combination of both optical and thermal phenomena. Therefore, the known characterization algorithms based on pure heat diffusion cannot be applied to semi-transparent materials. In this study, the phenomenon of GFRP semi-transparency has been investigated numerically and experimentally in application to thermal NDT. Both Xenon flash tubes and a laser have been used for thermal stimulation of opaque and semi-transparent test objects. It has been shown that the Penetration of optical heating radiation into composite reduces detectability of shallower defects, and the signal-to-noise ratio can be enhanced by applying the technique of thermographic signal reconstruction (TSR). In the inspection of the semi-transparent GFRP composite, the most efficient has been the laser heating followed by the TSR data processing. The perspectives of defect characterization of semi-transparent materials by using laser heating are discussed. A neural network has been used as a candidate tool for evaluating defect depth in composite materials, but its training should be performed in identical with testing conditions. KW - Infrared thermography KW - Thermal testing KW - GFRP KW - Semi-transparent composite KW - Laser heating PY - 2020 DO - https://doi.org/10.1007/s10921-020-00717-x VL - 39 SP - 69 PB - Springer Science+Business Media, LLC, part of Springer Nature 2020 AN - OPUS4-51179 LA - eng AD - Bundesanstalt fuer Materialforschung und -pruefung (BAM), Berlin, Germany ER - TY - JOUR A1 - Moreno Torres, Benjamí A1 - Völker, Christoph A1 - Munsch, Sarah Mandy A1 - Hanke, T. A1 - Kruschwitz, Sabine ED - Tosti, F. T1 - An Ontology-Based Approach to Enable Data-Driven Research in the Field of NDT in Civil Engineering N2 - Although measurement data from the civil engineering sector are an important basis for scientific analyses in the field of non-destructive testing (NDT), there is still no uniform representation of these data. An analysis of data sets across different test objects or test types is therefore associated with a high manual effort. Ontologies and the semantic web are technologies already used in numerous intelligent systems such as material cyberinfrastructures or research databases. This contribution demonstrates the application of these technologies to the case of the 1H nuclear magnetic resonance relaxometry, which is commonly used to characterize water content and porosity distri-bution in solids. The methodology implemented for this purpose was developed specifically to be applied to materials science (MS) tests. The aim of this paper is to analyze such a methodology from the perspective of data interoperability using ontologies. Three benefits are expected from this ap-proach to the study of the implementation of interoperability in the NDT domain: First, expanding knowledge of how the intrinsic characteristics of the NDT domain determine the application of semantic technologies. Second, to determine which aspects of such an implementation can be improved and in what ways. Finally, the baselines of future research in the field of data integration for NDT are drawn. KW - Ontology Engineering KW - Interoperability KW - Data-integration KW - NMR relaxometry KW - materials informatics PY - 2021 UR - https://nbn-resolving.org/urn:nbn:de:kobv:b43-529716 DO - https://doi.org/10.3390/rs13122426 SN - 2072-4292 N1 - Geburtsname von Munsch, Sarah Mandy: Nagel, S. M. - Birth name of Munsch, Sarah Mandy: Nagel, S. M. VL - 13 IS - 12 SP - 2426 PB - Multidisciplinary Digital Publishing Institute (MDPI) CY - Basel, Switzerland AN - OPUS4-52971 LA - eng AD - Bundesanstalt fuer Materialforschung und -pruefung (BAM), Berlin, Germany ER - TY - JOUR A1 - Mohr, Gunther A1 - Sommer, Konstantin A1 - Knobloch, Tim A1 - Altenburg, Simon A1 - Recknagel, Sebastian A1 - Bettge, Dirk A1 - Hilgenberg, Kai T1 - Process Induced Preheating in Laser Powder Bed Fusion Monitored by Thermography and Its Influence on the Microstructure of 316L Stainless Steel Parts N2 - Undetected and undesired microstructural variations in components produced by laser powder bed fusion are a major challenge, especially for safety-critical components. In this study, an in-depth analysis of the microstructural features of 316L specimens produced by laser powder bed fusion at different levels of volumetric energy density and different levels of inter layer time is reported. The study has been conducted on specimens with an application relevant build height (>100 mm). Furthermore, the evolution of the intrinsic preheating temperature during the build-up of specimens was monitored using a thermographic in-situ monitoring set-up. By applying recently determined emissivity values of 316L powder layers, real temperatures could be quantified. Heat accumulation led to preheating temperatures of up to about 600 °C. Significant differences in the preheating temperatures were discussed with respect to the individual process parameter combinations, including the build height. A strong effect of the inter layer time on the heat accumulation was observed. A shorter inter layer time resulted in an increase of the preheating temperature by more than a factor of 2 in the upper part of the specimens compared to longer inter layer times. This, in turn, resulted in heterogeneity of the microstructure and differences in material properties within individual specimens. The resulting differences in the microstructure were analyzed using electron back scatter diffraction and scanning electron microscopy. Results from chemical analysis as well as electron back scatter diffraction measurements indicated stable conditions in terms of chemical alloy composition and austenite phase content for the used set of parameter combinations. However, an increase of the average grain size by more than a factor of 2.5 could be revealed within individual specimens. Additionally, differences in feature size of the solidification cellular substructure were examined and a trend of increasing cell sizes was observed. This trend was attributed to differences in solidification rate and thermal gradients induced by differences in scanning velocity and preheating temperature. A change of the thermal history due to intrinsic preheating could be identified as the main cause of this heterogeneity. It was induced by critical combinations of the energy input and differences in heat transfer conditions by variations of the inter layer time. The microstructural variations were directly correlated to differences in hardness. KW - Additive manufacturing KW - Laser powder bed fusion KW - In-situ process monitoring KW - Thermography KW - Heat accumulation KW - Inter layer time KW - Cellular substructure PY - 2021 UR - https://nbn-resolving.org/urn:nbn:de:kobv:b43-529240 DO - https://doi.org/10.3390/met11071063 VL - 11 IS - 7 SP - 1063 PB - MDPI CY - Basel, Schweiz AN - OPUS4-52924 LA - eng AD - Bundesanstalt fuer Materialforschung und -pruefung (BAM), Berlin, Germany ER - TY - JOUR A1 - Mohr, Gunther A1 - Scheuschner, Nils A1 - Hilgenberg, Kai T1 - In situ heat accumulation by geometrical features obstructing heat flux and by reduced inter layer times in laser powder bed fusion of AISI 316L stainless steel N2 - Material qualification for laser powder bed fusion (L-PBF) processes are often based on results derived from additively manufactured (AM) bulk material or small density cubes, although it is well known that the part geometry has a tremendous influence on the heat flux and, therefore, on the thermal history of an AM component. This study shows experimentally the effect of simple geometrical obstructions to the heat flux on cooling behavior and solidification conditions of 316L stainless steel processed by L-PBF. Additionally, it respects two distinct inter layer times (ILT) as well as the build height of the parts. The cooling behavior of the parts is in-situ traced by infrared (IR) thermography during the built-up. The IR signals reveal significant differences in cooling conditions, which are correlated to differences in melt pool geometries. The acquired data and results can be used for validation of computational models and improvements of quality assurance. KW - Selective laser beam melting KW - Thermography KW - Melt pool depth KW - Inter layer time KW - Ppreheating temperature KW - Additive Manufacturing PY - 2020 UR - https://nbn-resolving.org/urn:nbn:de:kobv:b43-512549 DO - https://doi.org/10.1016/j.procir.2020.09.030 VL - 94 SP - 155 EP - 160 PB - Elsevier B.V. AN - OPUS4-51254 LA - eng AD - Bundesanstalt fuer Materialforschung und -pruefung (BAM), Berlin, Germany ER - TY - JOUR A1 - Mohr, Gunther A1 - Nowakowski, Susanna A1 - Altenburg, Simon A1 - Maierhofer, Christiane A1 - Hilgenberg, Kai T1 - Experimental Determination of the Emissivity of Powder Layers and Bulk Material in Laser Powder Bed Fusion Using Infrared Thermography and Thermocouples N2 - Recording the temperature distribution of the layer under construction during laser powder bed fusion (L-PBF) is of utmost interest for a deep process understanding as well as for quality assurance and in situ monitoring means. While having a notable number of thermal monitoring approaches in additive manufacturing (AM), attempts at temperature calibration and emissivity determination are relatively rare. This study aims for the experimental temperature adjustment of an off-axis infrared (IR) thermography setup used for in situ thermal data acquisition in L-PBF processes. The temperature adjustment was conducted by means of the so-called contact method using thermocouples at two different surface conditions and two different materials: AISI 316L L-PBF bulk surface, AISI 316L powder surface, and IN718 powder surface. The apparent emissivity values for the particular setup were determined. For the first time, also corrected, closer to real emissivity values of the bulk or powder surface condition are published. In the temperature region from approximately 150 °C to 580 °C, the corrected emissivity was determined in a range from 0.2 to 0.25 for a 316L L-PBF bulk surface, in a range from 0.37 to 0.45 for 316L powder layer, and in a range from 0.37 to 0.4 for IN718 powder layer. KW - Emisssivity KW - Laser Powder Bed Fusion (L-PBF) KW - Selective Laser Melting (SLM) KW - Additive Manufacturing (AM) KW - Process monitoring KW - Infrared thermography PY - 2020 UR - https://nbn-resolving.org/urn:nbn:de:kobv:b43-516148 DO - https://doi.org/10.3390/met10111546 VL - 10 IS - 11 SP - 1546 PB - MDPI CY - Basel, Schweiz AN - OPUS4-51614 LA - eng AD - Bundesanstalt fuer Materialforschung und -pruefung (BAM), Berlin, Germany ER - TY - JOUR A1 - Mohr, Gunther A1 - Altenburg, Simon A1 - Ulbricht, Alexander A1 - Heinrich, Ph. A1 - Baum, D. A1 - Maierhofer, Christiane A1 - Hilgenberg, Kai T1 - In-Situ Defect Detection in Laser Powder Bed Fusion by Using Thermography and Optical Tomography—Comparison to Computed Tomography N2 - Among additive manufacturing (AM) technologies, the laser powder bed fusion (L-PBF) is one of the most important technologies to produce metallic components. The layer-wise build-up of components and the complex process conditions increase the probability of the occurrence of defects. However, due to the iterative nature of its manufacturing process and in contrast to conventional manufacturing technologies such as casting, L-PBF offers unique opportunities for in-situ monitoring. In this study, two cameras were successfully tested simultaneously as a machine manufacturer independent process monitoring setup: a high-frequency infrared camera and a camera for long time exposure, working in the visible and infrared spectrum and equipped with a near infrared filter. An AISI 316L stainless steel specimen with integrated artificial defects has been monitored during the build. The acquired camera data was compared to data obtained by computed tomography. A promising and easy to use examination method for data analysis was developed and correlations between measured signals and defects were identified. Moreover, sources of possible data misinterpretation were specified. Lastly, attempts for automatic data analysis by data Integration are presented. KW - Laser powder bed fusion (L-PBF) KW - Selective laser melting (SLM) KW - Additive manufacturing (AM) KW - Process monitoring KW - Infrared thermography KW - Optical tomography KW - Computed tomography (CT) KW - Data fusion KW - Lack-of-fusion PY - 2020 UR - https://nbn-resolving.org/urn:nbn:de:kobv:b43-502417 DO - https://doi.org/10.3390/met10010103 VL - 10 IS - 1 SP - 103 PB - MDPI CY - Basel, Schweiz AN - OPUS4-50241 LA - eng AD - Bundesanstalt fuer Materialforschung und -pruefung (BAM), Berlin, Germany ER - TY - JOUR A1 - Mohr, Gunther A1 - Altenburg, Simon A1 - Hilgenberg, Kai T1 - On the limitations of small cubes as test coupons for process parameter optimization in laser powder bed fusion of metals N2 - The capability to produce complexly and individually shaped metallic parts is one of the main advantages of the laser powder bed fusion (PBF LB/M) process. Development of material and machine specific process parameters is commonly based on results acquired from small cubic test coupons of about 10 mm edge length. Such cubes are usually used to conduct an optimization of process parameters to produce dense material. The parameters are then taken as the basis for the manufacturing of real part geometries. However, complex geometries go along with complex thermal histories during the manufacturing process, which can significantly differ from thermal conditions prevalent during the production of simply shaped test coupons. This may lead to unexpected and unpredicted local inhomogeneities of the microstructure and defect distribution in the final part and it is a root cause of reservations against the use of additive manufacturing for the production of safety relevant parts. In this study, the influence of changing thermal conditions on the resulting melt pool depth of 316L stainless steel specimens is demonstrated. A variation of thermo-graphically measured intrinsic preheating temperatures was triggered by an alteration of inter layer times and a variation of cross section areas of specimens for three distinct sets of process parameters. Correlations between the preheating temperature, the melt pool depth, and occurring defects were analyzed. The limited expressiveness of the results of small density cubes is revealed throughout the systematic investigation. Finally, a clear recommendation to consider thermal conditions in future process parameter optimizations is given. T2 - Icaleo 2023 CY - Chicago, IL, USA DA - 16.10.2023 KW - Additive manufacturing KW - Heat accumulation KW - Thermal history KW - In situ monitoring KW - Representative specimens KW - Thermography PY - 2023 UR - https://nbn-resolving.org/urn:nbn:de:kobv:b43-586558 DO - https://doi.org/10.2351/7.0001080 SN - 1042-346X VL - 35 IS - 4 SP - 1 EP - 10 AN - OPUS4-58655 LA - eng AD - Bundesanstalt fuer Materialforschung und -pruefung (BAM), Berlin, Germany ER - TY - JOUR A1 - Mohr, Gunther A1 - Altenburg, Simon A1 - Hilgenberg, Kai T1 - Effects of inter layer time and build height on resulting properties of 316L stainless steel processed by laser powder bed fusion N2 - Laser powder bed fusion (L-PBF) is the most prominent additive manufacturing (AM) technology for metal part production. Among the high number of factors influencing part quality and mechanical properties, the inter layer time (ILT) between iterative melting of volume elements in subsequent layers is almost completely unappreciated in the relevant literature on L-PBF. This study investigates the effect of ILT with respect to build height and under distinct levels of volumetric energy density (VED) using the example of 316L stainless steel. In-situ thermography is used to gather information on cooling conditions during the process, which is followed by an extensive metallographic analysis. Significant effects of ILT and build height on heat accumulation, sub-grain sizes, melt pool geometries and hardness are presented. Furthermore, the rise of defect densities can be attributed to a mutual interplay of build height and ILT. Hence, ILT has been identified as a crucial factor for L-PBF of real part components especially for those with small cross sections. KW - Laser powder bed fusion (L-PBF) KW - Laser beam melting (LBM) KW - Selective laser melting (SLM) KW - Dwell-time KW - Thermography PY - 2020 UR - https://nbn-resolving.org/urn:nbn:de:kobv:b43-503300 DO - https://doi.org/10.1016/j.addma.2020.101080 SN - 2214-8604 VL - 32 SP - 101080-1 EP - 101080-13 PB - Elsevier CY - Amsterdam AN - OPUS4-50330 LA - eng AD - Bundesanstalt fuer Materialforschung und -pruefung (BAM), Berlin, Germany ER - TY - JOUR A1 - Millar, Steven A1 - Kruschwitz, Sabine A1 - Wilsch, Gerd T1 - Determination of total chloride content in cement pastes with laser-induced breakdown spectroscopy (LIBS) N2 - The presented work discusses the accuracy of Laser Induced Breakdown Spectroscopy (LIBS) in determining the total chloride content in cement pastes. LIBS as an emission spectroscopy method is used to detect simultaneously several elements present in cement-based materials. By scanning surfaces the variability in the spatial distribution of elements can be visualised. However, for a quantification of the results, studies are necessary to characterise possible influences due to the wide variation of the chemical compositions in which cement can occur. It is shown how the calibration can be done, how the calibration samples were produced, and which statistical parameters are necessary to describe the precision of the regression. The performance of LIBS is estimated by detecting chloride in validation samples. Therefore, 55 samples and 7 ets with changing mix ompositions were produced. The presented study deals with possible influences of different mix compositions, ncluding different cations of chloride, varying w/c-ratios and the artial replacement of Portland cement with last furnace slag (50% BFS) and limestone (30% LS). Comparing the LIBS results with otentiometric titration, n accuracy of±0.05 wt%/total has been determined. KW - Spectroscopy KW - LIBS KW - Chloride KW - Quantification KW - Cement PY - 2019 DO - https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cemconres.2018.12.001 SN - 0008-8846 VL - 117 IS - March SP - 16 EP - 22 PB - Elsevier CY - Amsterdam AN - OPUS4-47059 LA - eng AD - Bundesanstalt fuer Materialforschung und -pruefung (BAM), Berlin, Germany ER - TY - JOUR A1 - Millar, Steven A1 - Gottlieb, Cassian A1 - Sankat, Nina A1 - Wilsch, Gerd A1 - Kruschwitz, Sabine T1 - Chlorine determination in cement-bound materials with Laser-induced Breakdown Spectroscopy (LIBS) – A review and validation N2 - The determination of chloride is still one of the main tasks for the evaluation of reinforced concrete structures. The corrosion of the reinforcement induced by the penetrating chlorides is the dominant damage process affecting the lifetime of concrete structures. In the recent years different research groups demonstrated that LIBS can be a fast and reliable method to quantify chlorine in cement-bound materials. Because chlorine in concrete can only occur as solved ions in the pore solution or bound in salts or hydrated cement phases, the detected emission of chlorine can be correlated with the chloride concentration determined e.g. with potentiometric titration. This work inter alia describes the production of reference samples and possible side effects during the production process. Due to transport processes in the porous matrix of the cement a misinterpretation of the concentrations is possible. It is shown how to overcome these effects and higher precisions of the single measurements can be realised. Using the calibration method, blank sample method and noise method, three different ways of calculating the limit of detection (LOD) and limit of quantification (LOQ) are compared. Due to the preparation of the reference samples a precision of the whole calibration model of sx0 = 0.023 wt% is determined. The validation of the model is based on different test sets, which are varying in their composition (different Cl-salts, water-to-cement ratios and additives). The determined mean error of the validation is 0.595 ± 0.063 wt%, which is comparable to standardised methods like potentiometric titration, direct potentiometry or photometry (0.40 ± 0.06 wt%) [1]. KW - LIBS KW - Chlorine KW - Cement KW - Calibration KW - Validation PY - 2018 DO - https://doi.org/10.1016/j.sab.2018.05.015 SN - 0584-8547 VL - 147 IS - September SP - 1 EP - 8 PB - Elsevier B.V. CY - Amsterdam AN - OPUS4-46558 LA - eng AD - Bundesanstalt fuer Materialforschung und -pruefung (BAM), Berlin, Germany ER - TY - JOUR A1 - Metz, Christian A1 - Franz, Philipp A1 - Fischer, C. A1 - Wachtendorf, Volker A1 - Maierhofer, Christiane T1 - Active thermography for quality assurance of 3D-printed polymer structures N2 - Additively manufactured test specimens made of polyamide 12 (PA 12) by Laser Sintering as well as of acrylonitrile butadiene styrene (ABS) by Fused Layer Modelling, were characterised with active thermography directly after manufacturing and after artificial weathering. For this, two different excitation methods (flash and pulse heating) were used and compared, regarding their suitability for the detection of constructed and imprinted defects inside the test specimens. To increase the quality of the thermograms, data processing methods like thermal signal reconstruction (TSR) and Fourier Transformation after TSR were applied. To further investigate the long-term stability of the additively manufactured test specimens towards environmental stress, like UV radiation, heat, humidity, water contact and frost with active thermography, an artificial weathering test over 2000 hours (~3 months) was applied to the specimens. The monitoring of the changes in the optical properties of the weathered plastics was supplemented by spectral reflectance and UV/VIS spectroscopy. KW - Additive manufacturing KW - Polymers KW - Artificial weathering KW - Active thermography KW - UV/VIS spectroscopy PY - 2019 DO - https://doi.org/10.1080/17686733.2019.1686896 SN - 1768-6733 (Print) 2116-7176 (Online) VL - 18 IS - 1 SP - 50 EP - 72 PB - Taylor & Francis AN - OPUS4-49817 LA - eng AD - Bundesanstalt fuer Materialforschung und -pruefung (BAM), Berlin, Germany ER - TY - JOUR A1 - Maierhofer, Christiane A1 - Röllig, Mathias A1 - Gower, M. A1 - Lodeiro, M. A1 - Baker, G. A1 - Monte, C. A1 - Adibekyan, A. A1 - Gutschwager, B. A1 - Knazowicka, L. A1 - Blahut, A. T1 - Evaluation of different techniques of active thermography for quantification of artificial defects in fiber-reinforced composites using thermal and phase contrast data analysis N2 - For assuring the safety and reliability of components and constructions in energy applications made of fiber-reinforced polymers (e.g., blades of wind turbines and tidal power plants, engine chassis, flexible oil and gas pipelines) innovative non-destructive testing methods are required. Within the European Project VITCEA complementary methods (shearography, microwave, ultrasonics and thermography) have been further developed and validated. Together with partners from the industry, test specimens have been constructed and selected on-site containing different artificial and natural defect artefacts. As base materials, carbon and glass fibers in different orientations and layering embedded in different matrix materials (epoxy, polyamide) have been considered. In this contribution, the validation of flash and lock-in thermography to these testing problems is presented. Data analysis is based on thermal contrasts and phase evaluation techniques. Experimental data are compared to analytical and numerical models. Among others, the influence of two different types of artificial defects (flat bottom holes and delaminations) with varying diameters and depths and of two different materials (CFRP and GFRP) with unidirectional and quasi-isotropic fiber alignment is discussed. KW - Active thermography KW - CFRP KW - GFRP KW - Delaminations KW - Flash excitation KW - Lock-in excitation PY - 2018 DO - https://doi.org/10.1007/s10765-018-2378-z SN - 0195-928X SN - 1572-9567 VL - 39 IS - 5 SP - Article 61, 1 EP - 37 PB - Springer AN - OPUS4-44687 LA - eng AD - Bundesanstalt fuer Materialforschung und -pruefung (BAM), Berlin, Germany ER - TY - JOUR A1 - Maierhofer, Christiane A1 - Krankenhagen, Rainer A1 - Röllig, Mathias T1 - Application of thermographic testing for the characterization of impact damage during and after impact load N2 - Low-velocity impact damages were monitored in-situ using an infrared camera before, during and after Impact load. Thermal images were recorded as a function of time at the front side (impact) as well as at the rear side of the plates using a high frame rate. In CFRP and GFRP specimens with different thicknesses and made of various types of fibers and matrix materials, different kind of damages were observed. The sizes of the heated areas being related to the damages and the amount of energy dissipated into heat was determined quantitatively as a function of impact energy and are a measure of the resistance of the different materials against impact load. KW - Laminates KW - Impact behaviour KW - NDT KW - Thermal analysis PY - 2019 DO - https://doi.org/10.1016/j.compositesb.2019.106899 SN - 1359-8368 SN - 1879-1069 VL - 173 SP - 106899, 1 EP - 17 PB - Elsevier AN - OPUS4-48881 LA - eng AD - Bundesanstalt fuer Materialforschung und -pruefung (BAM), Berlin, Germany ER - TY - JOUR A1 - Lecompagnon, Julien A1 - Hirsch, Philipp Daniel A1 - Rupprecht, C. A1 - Ziegler, Mathias T1 - Nondestructive thermographic detection of internal defects using pixel-pattern based laser excitation and photothermal super resolution reconstruction N2 - In this work, we present a novel approach to photothermal super resolution based thermographic resolution of internal defects using two-dimensional pixel pattern-based active photothermal laser heating in conjunction with subsequent numerical reconstruction to achieve a high-resolution reconstruction of internal defect structures. With the proposed adoption of pixelated patterns generated using laser coupled high-power DLP projector technology the complexity for achieving true two-dimensional super resolution can be dramatically reduced taking a crucial step forward towards widespread practical viability. Furthermore, based on the latest developments in high-power DLP projectors, we present their first application for structured pulsed thermographic inspection of macroscopic metal samples. In addition, a forward solution to the underlying inverse problem is proposed along with an appropriate heuristic to find the regularization parameters necessary for the numerical inversion in a laboratory setting. This allows the generation of synthetic measurement data, opening the door for the application of machine learning based methods for future improvements towards full automation of the method. Finally, the proposed method is experimentally validated and shown to outperform several established conventional thermographic testing techniques while conservatively improving the required measurement times by a factor of 8 compared to currently available photothermal super resolution techniques. KW - Thermography KW - Super resolution KW - NDT KW - Inspection KW - Internal defects KW - DMD KW - DLP PY - 2023 UR - https://nbn-resolving.org/urn:nbn:de:kobv:b43-570551 DO - https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-023-30494-2 SN - 2045-2322 VL - 13 SP - 1 EP - 13 PB - Nature Research AN - OPUS4-57055 LA - eng AD - Bundesanstalt fuer Materialforschung und -pruefung (BAM), Berlin, Germany ER - TY - JOUR A1 - Lecompagnon, Julien A1 - Hirsch, Philipp Daniel A1 - Rupprecht, C. A1 - Ziegler, Mathias T1 - Influence of the number of measurements on detecting internal defects using photothermal super resolution reconstruction with random pixel patterns N2 - In this work, the limits of using spatially structured heating combined with subsequent photothermal super resolution reconstruction for the thermographic detection and resolution of internal defects are investigated. The approach is based on the application of modern high-power laser projector technology, which is used to repeatedly project varying spatially structured 2D pixel patterns to photothermally heat the object under test. After processing the generated thermographic data using nonlinear convex optimisation in conjunction with exploiting the joint-sparse nature of the defect signals within the individual measurements, a high-resolution 2D-sparse defect/inhomogeneity map is obtained. The main focus of the investigation is set on the influence of the number of individual measurements on the achievable reconstruction quality. Using numerical simulations based on an analytical representation of the forward solution to the underlying inverse problem, the convergence rate over performed measurements of the achievable reconstruction quality is determined. Finally, all findings are experimentally validated by reconstructing a set of internal defects in an additively manufactured sample. In this work, it is shown that for a variety of different defect separation distances, the projection of 50 different pixel patterns allows for a good trade-off between experimental complexity and reconstruction quality. KW - Super resolution KW - Digital micromirror device KW - Digital light processing KW - Internal defects PY - 2023 DO - https://doi.org/10.1080/17686733.2023.2223392 SN - 2116-7176 SP - 1 EP - 11 PB - Taylor & Francis AN - OPUS4-57778 LA - eng AD - Bundesanstalt fuer Materialforschung und -pruefung (BAM), Berlin, Germany ER - TY - JOUR A1 - Lecompagnon, Julien A1 - Ahmadi, Samim A1 - Hirsch, Philipp Daniel A1 - Rupprecht, C. A1 - Ziegler, Mathias T1 - Thermographic detection of internal defects using 2D photothermal super resolution reconstruction with sequential laser heating N2 - Thermographic photothermal super resolution reconstruction enables the resolution of internal defects/inhomogeneities below the classical limit, which is governed by the diffusion properties of thermal wave propagation. Based on a combination of the application of special sampling strategies and a subsequent numerical optimization step in post-processing, thermographic super resolution has already proven to be superior to standard thermographic methods in the detection of one-dimensional defect/inhomogeneity structures. In our work, we report an extension of the capabilities of the method for efficient detection and resolution of defect cross sections with fully two-dimensional structured laser-based heating. The reconstruction is carried out using one of two different algorithms that are proposed within this work. Both algorithms utilize the combination of several coherent measurements using convex optimization and exploit the sparse nature of defects/inhomogeneities as is typical for most nondestructive testing scenarios. Finally, the performance of each algorithm is rated on reconstruction quality and algorithmic complexity. The presented experimental approach is based on repeated spatially structured heating by a high power laser. As a result, a two-dimensional sparse defect/inhomogeneity map can be obtained. In addition, the obtained results are compared with those of conventional thermographic inspection methods that make use of homogeneous illumination. Due to the sparse nature of the reconstructed defect/inhomogeneity map, this comparison is performed qualitatively. KW - Thermography KW - Super resolution KW - NDT KW - Inspection KW - Internal defects PY - 2022 UR - https://nbn-resolving.org/urn:nbn:de:kobv:b43-548351 DO - https://doi.org/10.1063/5.0088102 SN - 1089-7550 VL - 131 IS - 18 SP - 1 EP - 12 PB - AIP Publishing AN - OPUS4-54835 LA - eng AD - Bundesanstalt fuer Materialforschung und -pruefung (BAM), Berlin, Germany ER - TY - JOUR A1 - Lai, W. W.L. A1 - Chang, R.K.W. A1 - Völker, Christoph A1 - Cheung, B. W.Y. T1 - GPR wave dispersion for material characterization N2 - This paper studies the dispersion of GPR wave’s phase velocity at different wideband frequencies in plywood and concrete with varying moisture content. This study makes use of two GPR antennas with 2 GHz centre frequency operating in wide angle reflection and refraction (WARR) mode and with computation of spectral analysis of the surface wave (SASW). Computation of phase velocities is based on the Acquisition of the cross-power spectrum and phase unwrap of two distorted ground waves at positions Closer to and farther away from the transmitting antenna. The velocities of the ground waves are found to experience greater dispersion in low frequency regimes within the effective frequency bandwidths determined and thresholded by time–frequency analysis (TFA) and coherence plotting of the ground waves. This study validates not only the methodology, but also identifies the optimal distance between the first (Rx1) and second (Rx2) receivers as k/2, which is based on a fixed transmitter (Tx) minus the first Receiver (Rx1) distance. It serves as an indication of changeable separation distance when other lower frequency GPR is used because the distances of Tx-Rx1 and Rx1-Rx2 are wavelength dependent and thus also frequency dependent. Effects of moisture contents and chloride contamination in concrete were also characterized according to the dispersion plots . that wave traelling in lower frequencies in GPR wave is much decelerated than that in higher frequencies. This research also contributes to the building of the ‘‘GPRWARR machine” suggested in Annan and Jackson (2017) [1], within which the effects of wave Dispersion on phase velocity can be inversely modelled to characterize variations in the material properties of infrastructure as a means of detecting surface damage. KW - Ground penetrating radar KW - Wide angle reflection and refraction PY - 2021 DO - https://doi.org/10.1016/j.conbuildmat.2021.122597 SN - 0950-0618 VL - 282 SP - 122597 PB - Elsevier Ltd. AN - OPUS4-52197 LA - eng AD - Bundesanstalt fuer Materialforschung und -pruefung (BAM), Berlin, Germany ER - TY - JOUR A1 - Kästner, L. A1 - Ahmadi, Samim A1 - Jonietz, Florian A1 - Jung, P. A1 - Caire, G. A1 - Ziegler, Mathias A1 - Lambrecht, J. T1 - Classification of Spot-Welded Joints in Laser Thermography Data Using Convolutional Neural Networks N2 - Spot welding is a crucial process step in various industries. However, classification of spot welding quality is still a tedious process due to the complexity and sensitivity of the test material, which drain conventional approaches to its limits. In this article, we propose an approach for quality inspection of spot weldings using images from laser thermography data. We propose data preparation approaches based on the underlying physics of spot-welded joints, heated with pulsed laser thermography by analyzing the intensity over time and derive dedicated data filters to generate training datasets. Subsequently, we utilize convolutional neural networks to classify weld quality and compare the performance of different models against each other. We achieve competitive results in terms of classifying the different welding quality classes compared to traditional approaches, reaching an accuracy of more than 95 percent. Finally, we explore the effect of different augmentation methods. KW - Active thermal imaging KW - Laser thermography KW - Spot-welded joints KW - Convolutional neural network KW - Classification KW - Data processing PY - 2021 UR - https://nbn-resolving.org/urn:nbn:de:kobv:b43-524216 DO - https://doi.org/10.1109/ACCESS.2021.3063672 VL - 9 SP - 48303 EP - 48312 AN - OPUS4-52421 LA - eng AD - Bundesanstalt fuer Materialforschung und -pruefung (BAM), Berlin, Germany ER - TY - JOUR A1 - Kulla, Hannes A1 - Haferkamp, Sebastian A1 - Akhmetova, Irina A1 - Röllig, Mathias A1 - Maierhofer, Christiane A1 - Rademann, Klaus A1 - Emmerling, Franziska T1 - In situ investigations of mechanochemical one-pot syntheses N2 - We present an in situ triple coupling of synchrotron X-ray diffraction with Raman spectroscopy, and thermography to study milling reactions in real time. This combination of methods allows a correlation of the structural evolution with temperature information. The temperature information is crucial for understanding both the thermodynamics and reaction kinetics. The reaction mechanisms of three prototypical mechanochemical syntheses, a cocrystal formation, a C@C bond formation (Knoevenagel condensation), and the formation of a manganese-phosphonate, were elucidated. Trends in the temperature development during milling are identified. The heat of reaction and latent heat of crystallization of the product contribute to the overall temperature increase. A decrease in temperature occurs via release of, for example, water as a byproduct. Solid and liquid intermediates are detected. The influence of the mechanical impact could be separated from temperature effects caused by the reaction. KW - In situ studies KW - Mechanochemistry KW - Raman spectroscopy KW - Thermography KW - X-ray diffraction PY - 2018 DO - https://doi.org/10.1002/anie.201800147 SN - 1433-7851 SN - 1521-3773 VL - 57 IS - 20 SP - 5930 EP - 5933 PB - Wiley-VCH CY - Weinheim AN - OPUS4-44946 LA - eng AD - Bundesanstalt fuer Materialforschung und -pruefung (BAM), Berlin, Germany ER - TY - JOUR A1 - Kruschwitz, Sabine A1 - Zhang, Z. A1 - Weller, A. A1 - Nordsiek, S. T1 - Effect of evaporative drying on complex conductivity spectra of sandstones N2 - Dehydration is a common process occurring in natural environments, rocks, and building materials. Suitable methods for monitoring the changing moisture content should be identified. We have investigated the impact of dehydration of sandstones on complex conductivity spectra. Spectral induced polarization measurements were performed on five sandstone samples during evaporative drying. The complex conductivity spectra indicate considerable changes with decreasing saturation. The relationship between conductivity and saturation can be described by a power law known as the second empirical Archie equation. Separate saturation exponents have been determined for the real and imaginary parts of conductivity. The imaginary part of conductivity indicates higher saturation exponents for the investigated sandstones compared to the real part. Obviously, the saturation exponents depend on the method used for changing water saturation. Evaporative drying, which is used in our experiments, causes an increase of pore-water salinity and results in lower saturation exponents for the real part of conductivity but higher exponents for the imaginary part in comparison with the classical imbibition/Drainage technique. We evaluate a theoretical approach that considers the influence of pore water salinity on the saturation exponents of the real and imaginary parts of conductivity. The complex conductivity spectra are processed by a Debye decomposition procedure. The resulting integrating parameters such as direct current resistivity, total chargeability, normalized chargeability, and mean relaxation time indicate a power law dependence on saturation. Our experiments indicate that the imaginary part of conductivity and normalized chargeability have a high sensitivity related to the drying process of rocks and might be suitable indicators to Monitor the changes of moisture content in sandstones. KW - Saturation KW - Spectral induced polarization KW - Sandstones KW - Evaporative drying PY - 2019 DO - https://doi.org/10.1190/GEO2018-0054.1 SN - 0016-8033 VL - 84 IS - 1 SP - MR61 EP - MR72 PB - SEG - Society of Exploration Geophysicists CY - Tulsa, Okla. AN - OPUS4-47499 LA - eng AD - Bundesanstalt fuer Materialforschung und -pruefung (BAM), Berlin, Germany ER - TY - JOUR A1 - Kruschwitz, Sabine A1 - Oesch, T. A1 - Mielentz, Frank A1 - Meinel, Dietmar A1 - Spyridis, P. T1 - Non-Destructive Multi-Method Assessment of Steel Fiber Orientation in Concrete N2 - Integration of fiber reinforcement in high-performance cementitious materials has become widely applied in many fields of construction. One of the most investigated advantages of steel Fiber reinforced concrete (SFRC) is the deceleration of crack growth and hence its improved sustainability. Additional benefits are associated with its structural properties, as fibers can significantly increase the ductility and the tensile strength of concrete. In some applications it is even possible to entirely replace the conventional reinforcement, leading to significant logistical and environmental benefits. Fiber reinforcement can, however, have critical disadvantages and even hinder the Performance of concrete, since it can induce an anisotropic material behavior of the mixture if the fibers are not appropriately oriented. For a safe use of SFRC in the future, reliable non-destructive testing (NDT) methods need to be identified to assess the fibers’ orientation in hardened concrete. In this study, ultrasonic material testing, electrical impedance testing, and X-ray computed tomography have been investigated for this purpose using specially produced samples with biased or random Fiber orientations. We demonstrate the capabilities of each of these NDT techniques for fiber orientation measurements and draw conclusions based on these results about the most promising areas for future research and development. KW - Spectral induced polarization KW - Steel fiber reiniforced concrete KW - Fiber orientation KW - Non-destructive testing KW - Micro-computed tomography KW - Ultrasound PY - 2022 UR - https://nbn-resolving.org/urn:nbn:de:kobv:b43-543520 DO - https://doi.org/10.3390/app12020697 VL - 12 IS - 2 SP - 1 EP - 14 PB - MDPI CY - Basel Switzerland AN - OPUS4-54352 LA - eng AD - Bundesanstalt fuer Materialforschung und -pruefung (BAM), Berlin, Germany ER - TY - JOUR A1 - Kruschwitz, Sabine A1 - Munsch, Sarah A1 - Telong, Melissa A1 - Schmidt, Wolfram A1 - Bintz, Thilo A1 - Fladt, Matthias A1 - Stelzner, Ludwig T1 - The NMR core analyzing TOMograph: A multi-functional tool for non-destructive testing of building materials N2 - NMR is becoming increasingly popular for the investigation of building materials as it is a non-invasive technology that does not require any sample preparation nor causes damage to the material. Depending on the specific application it can offer insights into properties like porosity and spatial saturation degree as well as pore structure. Moreover it enables the determination of moisture transport properties and the (re-)distribution of internal moisture into different reservoirs or chemical phases upon damage and curing. However, as yet most investigations were carried out using devices originally either designed for geophysical applications or the analysis of rather homogeneous small scale (< 10 mL) samples. This paper describes the capabilities of an NMR tomograph, which has been specifically optimized for the investigation of larger, heterogeneous building material samples (diameters of up to 72 mm, length of up to 700 mm) with a high flexibility due to interchangeable coils allowing for a high SNR and short echo times (50 - 80 m s). KW - Fire spalling KW - Moisture transport KW - Concrete KW - Cement hydration KW - Sensitivity KW - Supplementary cementitous materials KW - Frost salt attack PY - 2023 UR - https://nbn-resolving.org/urn:nbn:de:kobv:b43-573755 DO - https://doi.org/10.1016/j.mrl.2023.03.004 SN - 2097-0048 VL - 3 IS - 3 SP - 207 EP - 219 PB - Elsevier B.V. AN - OPUS4-57375 LA - eng AD - Bundesanstalt fuer Materialforschung und -pruefung (BAM), Berlin, Germany ER - TY - JOUR A1 - Kruschwitz, Sabine A1 - Halisch, M. A1 - Dlugosch, R. A1 - Prinz, Carsten T1 - Toward a better understanding of low-frequency electrical relaxation - An enhanced pore space characterization N2 - Relaxation phenomena observed in the electrical low-frequency range (approximately 1 mHz-10 kHz) of natural porous media like sandstones is often assumed to be directly related to the dominant (modal) pore throat sizes measured, for instance, with mercury intrusion porosimetry. Attempts to establish a universally valid relationship between pore size and peak Spectral Induced Polarization (SIP) relaxation time have failed, considering sandstones from very different origins and featuring great variations in textural and chemical compositions as well as in geometrical pore space properties. In addition working with characteristic relaxation times determined in Cole-Cole or Debye decomposition fits to build the relationship have not been successful. In particular, samples with narrow pore throats are often characterized by long SIP relaxation times corresponding to long “characteristic length scales” in these media, assuming that the diffusion coefficients along the electrical double layer were constant. Based on these observations, three different types of SIP relaxation can be distinguished. We present a new way of assessing complex pore spaces of very different sandstones in a multi-methodical approach to combine the benefits of mercury intrusion porosimetry, micro-computed tomography, and nuclear magnetic resonance. In this way, we achieve much deeper insight into the pore space due to the different resolutions and sensitivities of the applied methods to both pore constrictions (throats) and wide pores (pore bodies). We experimentally quantify pore aspect ratios and volume distributions within the two pore regions. We clearly observe systematic differences between three SIP relaxation types identified previously and can attribute the SIP peak relaxation times to measured characteristic length scales within our materials. We highlight selected results for a total of nine sandstones. It seems that SIP relaxation behavior depends on the size difference of the narrow pore throats to the wide pore bodies, which increases from SIP Type 1 to Type 3. KW - µ-CT KW - Spectral induced polarization KW - Nuclear magnetic resonance KW - Pore space PY - 2020 UR - https://nbn-resolving.org/urn:nbn:de:kobv:b43-509763 DO - https://doi.org/10.1190/GEO2019-0074.1 SN - 0016-8033 VL - 85 IS - 4 SP - MR257 EP - MR270 PB - Society of Exploration Geophysicists AN - OPUS4-50976 LA - eng AD - Bundesanstalt fuer Materialforschung und -pruefung (BAM), Berlin, Germany ER - TY - JOUR A1 - Krautz, M. A1 - Beyer, M. A1 - Jäschke, C. A1 - Schinke, L. A1 - Waske, Anja A1 - Seifert, J. T1 - A Magnetocaloric Booster Unit for Energy-Efficient Air-Conditioning N2 - A concept for the application of a magnetocaloric device in energy-efficient air conditioners is introduced. In order to evaluate this concept, a test stand has been developed equipped with a magnetic field source providing about a 1.5-T flux density change into which different Regenerator geometries can be implemented and evaluated. A processing route for the production of profiled magnetocaloric LaFeSiMn-based composite plates by tape casting is presented. The processed plates show a maximum isothermal entropy change of about 3.8 J kg−1 K−1 at a magnetic field change of 1.5 T at 285 K. The hydraulic and thermal performance of regenerator geometries that can be realized by profiled plates is assessed by calculations. KW - Magnetocaloric effect KW - Regenerator KW - Air-conditioning KW - Solid state cooling KW - Tape casting PY - 2019 UR - https://nbn-resolving.org/urn:nbn:de:kobv:b43-480926 DO - https://doi.org/10.3390/cryst9020076 VL - 9 IS - 2 SP - 76 EP - 91 PB - MDPI AN - OPUS4-48092 LA - eng AD - Bundesanstalt fuer Materialforschung und -pruefung (BAM), Berlin, Germany ER - TY - JOUR A1 - Krautz, M. A1 - Beyer, L. A1 - Funk, Alexander A1 - Waske, Anja A1 - Weise, B. A1 - Freudenberger, J. A1 - Gottschall, T. T1 - Predicting the dominating factors during heat transfer in magnetocaloric composite wires N2 - Magnetocaloric composite wires have been studied by pulsed-field measurements up to μ0ΔH = 10 T with a typical rise time of 13 ms in order to evaluate the evolution of the adiabatic temperature change of the core, ΔTad, and to determine the effective temperature change at the surrounding steel jacket, ΔTeff, during the field pulse. An inverse thermal hysteresis is observed for ΔTad due to the delayed thermal transfer. By numerical simulations of application-relevant sinusoidal magnetic field profiles, it can be stated that for field-frequencies of up to two field cycles per second heat can be efficiently transferred from the core to the outside of the jacket. In addition, intense numerical simulations of the temperature change of the core and jacket were performed by varying different parameters, such as frequency, heat capacity, thermal conductivity and interface resistance in order to shed light on their impact on ΔTeff at the outside of the jacket in comparison to ΔTad provided by the core. KW - Composite KW - Heat transfer KW - Numerical simulation KW - Pulsed magnetic field PY - 2020 UR - https://nbn-resolving.org/urn:nbn:de:kobv:b43-513791 DO - https://doi.org/10.1016/j.matdes.2020.108832 VL - 193 SP - 108832 PB - Elsevier Ltd. AN - OPUS4-51379 LA - eng AD - Bundesanstalt fuer Materialforschung und -pruefung (BAM), Berlin, Germany ER - TY - JOUR A1 - Krankenhagen, Rainer A1 - Zirker, Stefan A1 - Joniertz, Florian T1 - Determination of thermal parameters of concrete by active thermographic measurements N2 - The knowledge of the thermal parameters of a particular concrete is essential for thermal design of a building, but also could help to identify and assess the state of a concrete structure. Active thermography has the potential to be applied onsite and to provide a fast investigation of thermal properties. In this work, three different concrete samples were investigated by active thermography in reflection and in transmission setup. It was found that this method yields the same results without direct contact as the Transient Plane Source (TPS) method as an established inspection tool. KW - Concrete KW - Effusivity KW - Thermal diffusivity KW - Photothermal KW - Thermography KW - Hot disc method KW - Parker method KW - Onsite inspection PY - 2022 UR - https://nbn-resolving.org/urn:nbn:de:kobv:b43-543781 DO - https://doi.org/10.1007/s10921-022-00861-6 SN - 0195-9298 SN - 1573-4862 VL - 41 IS - 1 SP - 1 EP - 20 PB - Springer AN - OPUS4-54378 LA - eng AD - Bundesanstalt fuer Materialforschung und -pruefung (BAM), Berlin, Germany ER - TY - JOUR A1 - Krankenhagen, Rainer A1 - Altenburg, Simon A1 - Eisenkrein, Helena T1 - Photothermische Schichtdickenmessung an Betonbeschichtungen - unter Laborbedingungen und auf der Baustelle N2 - Bei der Realisierung von Oberflächen-Schutz-System (OSS) auf Betonflächen ist die tatsächlich erreichte Dicke der Beschichtung ein wesentlicher Parameter, der über die Funktionalität und Langzeitstabilität der aufgetragenen Schicht entscheidet. Die Firma IBOS und die BAM haben in den letzten Jahren gemeinsam einen funktionstüchtigen Prototyp eines Messgeräts zur zerstörungsfreien Schichtdickenmessung für Bodenbeschichtungen entwickelt. Hierin wird die Abkühlkurve eines vorher erwärmten Bereichs berührungslos mit einer IR-Kamera erfasst und mit einem Modell verglichen, was die Bestimmung der Schichtdicke ermöglicht. Im Rahmen dieses Beitrags wird die Umsetzung der Methode unter Laborbedingungen und in der Praxis auf der Baustelle erläutert und diskutiert. T2 - DGZfP-Jahrestagung CY - Leipzig, Germany DA - 07.05.2018 KW - Betonbeschichtung KW - Oberflächenschutzsystem KW - Schichtdickenmessung KW - Zerstörungsfreie Prüfung KW - Photothermisch PY - 2018 UR - https://nbn-resolving.org/urn:nbn:de:kobv:b43-449433 UR - https://www.ndt.net/?id=23060 SN - 1435-4934 VL - 23 IS - 9 SP - 1 EP - 8 PB - NDT.net CY - Kirchwald AN - OPUS4-44943 LA - deu AD - Bundesanstalt fuer Materialforschung und -pruefung (BAM), Berlin, Germany ER - TY - JOUR A1 - Krankenhagen, Rainer A1 - Altenburg, Simon T1 - Transient behaviour of the energy release after the discharge of flash lamps – A consideration of the afterglow N2 - The knowledge about energy release and transient behaviour of flash lamps, used as short-term energy source in flash thermography investigations, is essential for a quantitative analysis of the results as well as for simulations regarding such experiments. Usually, only a rectangular pulse shape of a typical duration of a few milliseconds is regarded when flash lamps pulses are described. This note considers the afterglow period of a flash lamp explicitly and shows that negligence of this afterglow effect leads to a systematic underestimation of the pulse length and the related total energy release. In the reported case, the intensity transient recorded by a Silicon photo diode was transformed into a temperature transient, allowing the study of the real energy release. It turns out that approximately only 50% of the entire pulse energy were released during the usually regarded period of 2.8 ms, while the other half was released within a period of 20 ms with an exponential decay. KW - Flash thermography KW - Flash lamp KW - Afterglow KW - Discharge arc KW - Pulse energy PY - 2021 DO - https://doi.org/10.1016/j.infrared.2021.103951 SN - 1350-4495 VL - 119 IS - 103951 SP - 1 EP - 4 PB - Elsevier B.V. AN - OPUS4-53642 LA - eng AD - Bundesanstalt fuer Materialforschung und -pruefung (BAM), Berlin, Germany ER - TY - JOUR A1 - Krankenhagen, Rainer T1 - Obituary of Christiane Maierhofer N2 - Obituary for Christiane Maierhofer, the head of the department "Thermographic Methods" at BAM (2015-2022). KW - Obituary KW - In Memoriam PY - 2022 DO - https://doi.org/10.1080/17686733.2022.2105019 SN - 1768-6733 SN - 2116-7176 VL - 19 IS - 4 SP - 221 EP - 222 PB - Taylor & Francis CY - London AN - OPUS4-55603 LA - eng AD - Bundesanstalt fuer Materialforschung und -pruefung (BAM), Berlin, Germany ER - TY - JOUR A1 - Krankenhagen, Rainer T1 - Influence of Moisture in Concrete on the Photothermal Response—A New Approach for a Measurement Method? N2 - Recently, the photothermal determination of the thermophysical properties of concrete under lab conditions was reported. Their values are mainly needed to look at the energy consumption of buildings. Additionally, changes in their values in relation to the initial state might also be a good indicator for material quality or for moisture. The present contribution explains the photothermal method in a more general way to indicate the potential for on-site application. Secondly, a special application case is regarded: the detection of moisture in concrete. Two concrete samples were soaked with water, followed by a drying period, to obtain different levels of water penetration. The water contents were determined by weighing, and the photothermal response was measured. The results show a large influence on the measured temperature transients, which is larger than expected from the original simple model. They clearly provide two points: the photothermal method is suited to detect moisture in concrete, but the magnitude of the actual measurement effect is not yet understood. KW - Thermal effusivity KW - Thermal conductivity KW - Moisture KW - Reflectivity PY - 2023 UR - https://nbn-resolving.org/urn:nbn:de:kobv:b43-570439 DO - https://doi.org/10.3390/app13052768 VL - 13 IS - 5 SP - 1 EP - 18 PB - MDPI CY - Basel, Switzerland AN - OPUS4-57043 LA - eng AD - Bundesanstalt fuer Materialforschung und -pruefung (BAM), Berlin, Germany ER - TY - JOUR A1 - Kling e Silva, L. A1 - Almeida, G. A1 - Kadoke, Daniel A1 - Daum, Werner A1 - Ribeiro Pereira, G. T1 - Automation of pipe defect detection and characterization by structured light N2 - High quality tubular products are essential to the oil and gas industry. Quality control during their production focuses on the non-destructive detection of surface defects. The structured light technique is a candidate for the challenge to detect, monitor and evaluate such defects in real-time. In the present study the automatic processing of structured light measurements is performed and validated. The algorithm for the automatic Analysis of inspection data has an advantage over current data evaluation methods based on individual assessments of operators. KW - Non-destructive testing KW - Data processing KW - Defect evaluation KW - Materials evaluation KW - Structured light scanning (SLS) PY - 2021 DO - https://doi.org/10.1515/mt-2020-0008 SN - 0033-8230 VL - 63 IS - 1 SP - 55 EP - 61 PB - Walter de Gruyter GmbH CY - Berlin/ Boston AN - OPUS4-52124 LA - eng AD - Bundesanstalt fuer Materialforschung und -pruefung (BAM), Berlin, Germany ER - TY - JOUR A1 - Klewe, Tim A1 - Völker, Tobias A1 - Landmann, Mirko A1 - Kruschwitz, Sabine T1 - LIBS‐ConSort: Development of a sensor‐based sorting method for construction and demolition waste N2 - AbstractA joint project of partners from industry and research institutions approaches the challenge of construction and demolition waste (CDW) sorting by investigating and testing the combination of laser‐induced breakdown spectroscopy (LIBS) with near‐infrared (NIR) spectroscopy and visual imaging. Joint processing of information (data fusion) is expected to significantly improve the sorting quality of various materials like concrete, main masonry building materials, organic components, etc., and may enable the detection and separation of impurities such as SO3‐cotaining building materials (gypsum, aerated concrete, etc.)Focusing on Berlin as an example, the entire value chain will be analyzed to minimize economic / technological barriers and obstacles at the cluster level and to sustainably increase recovery and recycling rates.The objective of this paper is to present current progress and results of the test stand development combining LIBS with NIR spectroscopy and visual imaging. In the future, this laboratory prototype will serve as a fully automated measurement setup to allow real‐time classification of CDW on a conveyor belt. T2 - 21st Ibausil - International Conference on Building Materials CY - Weimar, Germany DA - 13.09.2023 KW - NDT KW - Material cassification KW - Recycling KW - LIBS KW - Data fusion KW - Construction and demolition waste KW - Circular economy PY - 2023 UR - https://nbn-resolving.org/urn:nbn:de:kobv:b43-590734 DO - https://doi.org/10.1002/cepa.2866 SN - 2509-7075 VL - 6 IS - 6 SP - 973 EP - 976 PB - Ernst & Sohn GmbH AN - OPUS4-59073 LA - eng AD - Bundesanstalt fuer Materialforschung und -pruefung (BAM), Berlin, Germany ER - TY - JOUR A1 - Klewe, Tim A1 - Strangfeld, Christoph A1 - Ritzer, Tobias A1 - Kruschwitz, Sabine T1 - Combining Signal Features of Ground-Penetrating Radar to Classify Moisture Damage in Layered Building Floors N2 - To date, the destructive extraction and analysis of drilling cores is the main possibility to obtain depth information about damaging water ingress in building floors. The time- and costintensive procedure constitutes an additional burden for building insurances that already list piped water damage as their largest item. With its high sensitivity for water, a ground-penetrating radar (GPR) could provide important support to approach this problem in a non-destructive way. In this research, we study the influence of moisture damage on GPR signals at different floor constructions. For this purpose, a modular specimen with interchangeable layers is developed to vary the screed and insulation material, as well as the respective layer thickness. The obtained data set is then used to investigate suitable signal features to classify three scenarios: dry, damaged insulation, and damaged screed. It was found that analyzing statistical distributions of A-scan features inside one B-scan allows for accurate classification on unknown floor constructions. Combining the features with multivariate data analysis and machine learning was the key to achieve satisfying results. The developed method provides a basis for upcoming validations on real damage cases. KW - Radar KW - Material Moisture KW - Non-destructive testing KW - Signal Features KW - Civil Engineering KW - Machine Learning PY - 2021 UR - https://nbn-resolving.org/urn:nbn:de:kobv:b43-533606 DO - https://doi.org/10.3390/app11198820 VL - 11 IS - 19 SP - 8820 PB - MDPI AN - OPUS4-53360 LA - eng AD - Bundesanstalt fuer Materialforschung und -pruefung (BAM), Berlin, Germany ER - TY - JOUR A1 - Klewe, Tim A1 - Strangfeld, Christoph A1 - Kruschwitz, Sabine T1 - Review of moisture measurements in civil engineering with ground penetrating radar – Applied methods and signal features N2 - When applying Ground Penetrating Radar (GPR) to assess the moisture content of building materials, different medium properties, dimensions, interfaces and other unknown influences may require specific strategies to achieve useful results. Hence, we present an overview of the various approaches to carry out moisture measurements with GPR in civil engineering (CE). We especially focus on the applied Signal features such as time, amplitude and frequency features and discuss their limitations. Since the majority of publications rely on one single feature when applying moisture measurements, we also hope to encourage the consideration of approaches that combine different signal features for further developments. KW - Ground Penetrating Radar KW - Moisture KW - Civil engineering KW - Signal features PY - 2021 UR - https://nbn-resolving.org/urn:nbn:de:kobv:b43-520684 DO - https://doi.org/10.1016/j.conbuildmat.2021.122250 VL - 278 SP - 122250 PB - Elsevier Ltd. AN - OPUS4-52068 LA - eng AD - Bundesanstalt fuer Materialforschung und -pruefung (BAM), Berlin, Germany ER - TY - JOUR A1 - Kern, Simon A1 - Liehr, Sascha A1 - Wander, Lukas A1 - Bornemann-Pfeiffer, Martin A1 - Müller, S. A1 - Maiwald, Michael A1 - Kowarik, Stefan T1 - Artificial neural networks for quantitative online NMR spectroscopy N2 - Industry 4.0 is all about interconnectivity, sensor-enhanced process control, and data-driven systems. Process analytical technology (PAT) such as online nuclear magnetic resonance (NMR) spectroscopy is gaining in importance, as it increasingly contributes to automation and digitalization in production. In many cases up to now, however, a classical evaluation of process data and their transformation into knowledge is not possible or not economical due to the insufficiently large datasets available. When developing an automated method applicable in process control, sometimes only the basic data of a limited number of batch tests from typical product and process development campaigns are available. However, these datasets are not large enough for training machine-supported procedures. In this work, to overcome this limitation, a new procedure was developed, which allows physically motivated multiplication of the available reference data in order to obtain a sufficiently large dataset for training machine learning algorithms. The underlying example chemical synthesis was measured and analyzed with both application-relevant low-field NMR and high-field NMR spectroscopy as reference method. Artificial neural networks (ANNs) have the potential to infer valuable process information already from relatively limited input data. However, in order to predict the concentration at complex conditions (many reactants and wide concentration ranges), larger ANNs and, therefore, a larger Training dataset are required. We demonstrate that a moderately complex problem with four reactants can be addressed using ANNs in combination with the presented PAT method (low-field NMR) and with the proposed approach to generate meaningful training data. KW - Online NMR spectroscopy KW - Real-time process monitoring KW - Artificial neural networks KW - Automation KW - Process industry PY - 2020 UR - https://nbn-resolving.org/urn:nbn:de:kobv:b43-507508 DO - https://doi.org/10.1007/s00216-020-02687-5 SN - 1618-2642 VL - 412 IS - 18 SP - 4447 EP - 4459 PB - Springer CY - Berlin AN - OPUS4-50750 LA - eng AD - Bundesanstalt fuer Materialforschung und -pruefung (BAM), Berlin, Germany ER - TY - JOUR A1 - Jaenisch, Gerd-Rüdiger A1 - Ewert, Uwe A1 - Waske, Anja A1 - Funk, Alexander T1 - Radiographic Visibility Limit of Pores in Metal Powder for Additive Manufacturing N2 - The quality of additively manufactured (AM) parts is determined by the applied process parameters used and the properties of the feedstock powder. The influence of inner gas pores in feedstock particles on the final AM product is a phenomenon which is difficult to investigate since very few non-destructive measurement techniques are accurate enough to resolve the micropores. 3D X-ray computed tomography (XCT) is increasingly applied during the process chain of AM parts as a non-destructive monitoring and quality control tool and it is able to detect most of the pores. However, XCT is time-consuming and limited to small amounts of feedstock powder, typically a few milligrams. The aim of the presented approach is to investigate digital radiography of AM feedstock particles as a simple and fast quality check with high throughput. 2D digital radiographs were simulated in order to predict the visibility of pores inside metallic particles for different pore and particle diameters. An experimental validation was performed. It was demonstrated numerically and experimentally that typical gas pores above a certain size (here: 3 to 4.4 µm for the selected X-ray setup), which could be found in metallic microparticles, were reliably detected by digital radiography. KW - Additive manufacturing KW - Feedstock powder KW - Porosity KW - Digital radiography KW - Numerical simulation PY - 2020 UR - https://nbn-resolving.org/urn:nbn:de:kobv:b43-517880 DO - https://doi.org/10.3390/met10121634 VL - 10 IS - 12 SP - 1634 PB - MDPI AN - OPUS4-51788 LA - eng AD - Bundesanstalt fuer Materialforschung und -pruefung (BAM), Berlin, Germany ER - TY - JOUR A1 - Jablonka, Kevin Maik A1 - Ai, Qianxiang A1 - Al-Feghali, Alexander A1 - Badhwar, Shruti A1 - Bocarsly, Joshua D. A1 - Bran, Andres M. A1 - Bringuier, Stefan A1 - Brinson, L. Catherine A1 - Choudhary, Kamal A1 - Circi, Defne A1 - Cox, Sam A1 - de Jong, Wibe A. A1 - Evans, Matthew L. A1 - Gastellu, Nicolas A1 - Genzling, Jerome A1 - Gil, María Victoria A1 - Gupta, Ankur K. A1 - Hong, Zhi A1 - Imran, Alishba A1 - Kruschwitz, Sabine A1 - Labarre, Anne A1 - Lála, Jakub A1 - Liu, Tao A1 - Ma, Steven A1 - Majumdar, Sauradeep A1 - Merz, Garrett W. A1 - Moitessier, Nicolas A1 - Moubarak, Elias A1 - Mouriño, Beatriz A1 - Pelkie, Brenden A1 - Pieler, Michael A1 - Ramos, Mayk Caldas A1 - Ranković, Bojana A1 - Rodriques, Samuel G. A1 - Sanders, Jacob N. A1 - Schwaller, Philippe A1 - Schwarting, Marcus A1 - Shi, Jiale A1 - Smit, Berend A1 - Smith, Ben E. A1 - Van Herck, Joren A1 - Völker, Christoph A1 - Ward, Logan A1 - Warren, Sean A1 - Weiser, Benjamin A1 - Zhang, Sylvester A1 - Zhang, Xiaoqi A1 - Zia, Ghezal Ahmad A1 - Scourtas, Aristana A1 - Schmidt, K. J. A1 - Foster, Ian A1 - White, Andrew D. A1 - Blaiszik, Ben T1 - 14 examples of how LLMs can transform materials science and chemistry: a reflection on a large language model hackathon N2 - Large-language models (LLMs) such as GPT-4 caught the interest of many scientists. Recent studies suggested that these models could be useful in chemistry and materials science. To explore these possibilities, we organized a hackathon. This article chronicles the projects built as part of this hackathon. Participants employed LLMs for various applications, including predicting properties of molecules and materials, designing novel interfaces for tools, extracting knowledge from unstructured data, and developing new educational applications. The diverse topics and the fact that working prototypes could be generated in less than two days highlight that LLMs will profoundly impact the future of our fields. The rich collection of ideas and projects also indicates that the applications of LLMs are not limited to materials science and chemistry but offer potential benefits to a wide range of scientific disciplines. KW - Large Language model KW - Hackathon KW - Concrete KW - Prediction KW - Inverse Design KW - Orchestration PY - 2023 UR - https://nbn-resolving.org/urn:nbn:de:kobv:b43-589961 DO - https://doi.org/10.1039/d3dd00113j VL - 2 IS - 5 SP - 1233 EP - 1250 PB - Royal Society of Chemistry (RSC) AN - OPUS4-58996 LA - eng AD - Bundesanstalt fuer Materialforschung und -pruefung (BAM), Berlin, Germany ER - TY - JOUR A1 - Hilgenberg, Kai A1 - Daum, Werner A1 - Maierhofer, Christiane A1 - Altenburg, Simon A1 - Bruno, Giovanni A1 - Heckel, Thomas A1 - Skrotzki, Birgit A1 - Zerbst, Uwe A1 - Kranzmann, Axel A1 - Bettge, Dirk A1 - Sommer, Konstantin A1 - Seeger, Stefan A1 - Nitsche, Michael A1 - Günster, Jens A1 - Evans, Alexander T1 - Additive manufacturing at the BAM: We focus on Safety N2 - In Germany, the Federal Institute for Materials Research and Testing (BAM) is addressing challenges in the implementation of additive manufacturing on the industrial landscape for safety-critical applications. KW - Process development KW - Additive Manufacturing KW - In-situ Process Monitoring KW - Non-destructive Materials KW - Characterisation KW - Safety KW - Fatigue KW - Environment KW - Standardisation PY - 2019 UR - https://static.asminternational.org/amp/201910/22/ SN - 0882-7958 VL - 177 IS - 7 SP - 22 EP - 26 PB - ASM International CY - Materials Park, OH, USA AN - OPUS4-49780 LA - eng AD - Bundesanstalt fuer Materialforschung und -pruefung (BAM), Berlin, Germany ER - TY - JOUR A1 - Herrmann, K. A1 - Pech May, Nelson Wilbur A1 - Retsch, M. T1 - Photoacoustic thermal characterization of low thermal diffusivity thin films N2 - The photoacoustic measurement technique is a powerful yet underrepresented method to characterize the thermal transport properties of thin films. For the case of isotropic low thermal diffusivity samples, such as glasses or polymers, we demonstrate a general approach to extract the thermal conductivity with a high degree of significance. We discuss in particular the influence of thermal effusivity, thermal diffusivity, and sample layer thickness on the significance and accuracy of this measurement technique. These fundamental thermal properties guide sample and substrate selection to allow for a feasible thermal transport characterization. Furthermore, our data evaluation allows us to directly extract the thermal conductivity from this transient technique, without separate determination of the volumetric heat capacity, when appropriate boundary conditions are fulfilled. Using silica, poly(methyl methacrylate) (PMMA) thin films, and various substrates (quartz, steel, and silicon), we verify the quantitative correctness of our analytical approach. KW - Thermal conductivity KW - Photoacoustic characterization KW - Thin film characterization PY - 2021 UR - https://nbn-resolving.org/urn:nbn:de:kobv:b43-528743 DO - https://doi.org/10.1016/j.pacs.2021.100246 SN - 2213-5979 VL - 22 SP - 100246 PB - Elsevier AN - OPUS4-52874 LA - eng AD - Bundesanstalt fuer Materialforschung und -pruefung (BAM), Berlin, Germany ER - TY - JOUR A1 - Hauffen, J. C. A1 - Kästner, L. A1 - Ahmadi, Samim A1 - Jung, P. A1 - Caire, G. A1 - Ziegler, Mathias T1 - Learned block iterative shrinkage thresholding algorithm for photothermal super resolution imaging N2 - Block-sparse regularization is already well known in active thermal imaging and is used for multiple-measurement-based inverse problems. The main bottleneck of this method is the choice of regularization parameters which differs for each experiment. We show the benefits of using a learned block iterative shrinkage thresholding algorithm (LBISTA) that is able to learn the choice of regularization parameters, without the need to manually select them. In addition, LBISTA enables the determination of a suitable weight matrix to solve the underlying inverse problem. Therefore, in this paper we present LBISTA and compare it with state-of-the-art block iterative shrinkage thresholding using synthetically generated and experimental test data from active thermography for defect reconstruction. Our results show that the use of the learned block-sparse optimization approach provides smaller normalized mean square errors for a small fixed number of iterations. Thus, this allows us to improve the convergence speed and only needs a few iterations to generate accurate defect reconstruction in photothermal super-resolution imaging. KW - Thermography KW - Laser KW - Machine learning KW - Optimization KW - Non-destructive testing KW - NDT KW - Neural network KW - Defect reconstruction KW - Block-sparsity KW - Active thermal imaging KW - Regularization KW - Laser thermography PY - 2022 UR - https://nbn-resolving.org/urn:nbn:de:kobv:b43-554598 DO - https://doi.org/10.3390/s22155533 SN - 1424-8220 VL - 22 IS - 15 SP - 1 EP - 15 PB - MDPI CY - Basel AN - OPUS4-55459 LA - eng AD - Bundesanstalt fuer Materialforschung und -pruefung (BAM), Berlin, Germany ER - TY - JOUR A1 - Haller, T. A1 - Völker, Christoph A1 - Hartmann, T. T1 - Machine learning based multi-sensor fusion for the nondestructive testing of corrosion in concrete N2 - Half-cell potential mapping (HP) is the most popular non-destructive testing method (NDT) for locating corrosion damage in concrete. It is generally accepted that HP is susceptible to environmental factors caused by salt-related deterioration, such as different moisture and chloride gradients. Additional NDT methods are able to identify distinctive areas but are not yet used to estimate more accurate test results. We present a Supervised Machine Learning (SML) based approach to data fusion of seven different signal features to obtain higher quality information. SMLs are methods that explore (or learn) relationships between different (sensor) data from predefined data labels. To obtain a representative, labelled data set we conducted a comprehensive experiment simulating the deterioration cycle of a chloride exposed device in the laboratory. Our data set consists of 18 measurement campaigns, each containing HP, Ground Penetrating- Radar, Microwave Moisture and Wenner resistivity data. We compare the performance of different ML approaches. Many outperform the best single method, HP. We describe the intrinsic challenges posed by a data-driven approach in NDT and show how future work can help overcome them. T2 - SMAR2019 - 5th International Conference on Smart Monitoring, Assessment and Rehabilitation of Civil Structures CY - Potsdam, Germany DA - 27.08.2019 KW - Machine Learning KW - NDT KW - Half-Cell Potential Mapping KW - Corrosion KW - Reinforced Concrete KW - Data Fusion PY - 2020 UR - https://nbn-resolving.org/urn:nbn:de:kobv:b43-498563 UR - http://www.ndt.net/?id=24890 VL - 25 IS - 1 SP - 24890-1 EP - 24890-8 PB - NDT.net CY - Kirchwald AN - OPUS4-49856 LA - eng AD - Bundesanstalt fuer Materialforschung und -pruefung (BAM), Berlin, Germany ER - TY - JOUR A1 - Glushko, O. A1 - Funk, A. A1 - Maier-Kiener, A. A1 - Kraker, P. A1 - Krautz, M. A1 - Eckert, J. A1 - Waske, Anja T1 - Mechanical properties of the magnetocaloric intermetallic LaFe11.2Si1.8 alloy at different length scales N2 - In this work the global and local mechanical properties of the magnetocaloric intermetallic LaFe11.2Si1.8 alloy are investigated by a combination of different testing and characterization techniques in order to shed light on the partly contradictory data in recent literature. Macroscale compression tests were performed to illuminate the global fracture behavior and evaluate it statistically. LaFe11.2Si1.8 demonstrates a brittle behavior with fracture strains below 0.6% and widely distributed fracture stresses of 180–620 MPa leading to a Weibull modulus of m = 2 to 6. The local mechanical properties, such as hardness and Young's modulus, of the main and secondary phases are examined by nanoindentation and Vickers microhardness tests. An intrinsic strength of the main magnetocaloric phase of at least 2 GPa is estimated. The significantly lower values obtained by compression tests are attributed to the detrimental effect of pores, microcracks, and secondary phases. Microscopic examination of indentation-induced cracks reveals that ductile α-Fe precipitates act as crack arrestors whereas pre-existing cracks at La-rich precipitates provide numerous ‘weak links’ for the initiation of catastrophic fracture. The presented systematic study extends the understanding of the mechanical reliability of La(Fe, Si)13 alloys by revealing the correlations between the mechanical behavior of macroscopic multi-phase samples and the local mechanical properties of the single phases KW - Nanoindentation KW - Compression test KW - Brittle fracture KW - Mechanical properties KW - Magnetocaloric effect PY - 2019 DO - https://doi.org/10.1016/j.actamat.2018.11.038 SN - 1359-6454 SN - 1873-2453 VL - 165 SP - 40 EP - 50 PB - Elsevier Ltd. AN - OPUS4-47306 LA - eng AD - Bundesanstalt fuer Materialforschung und -pruefung (BAM), Berlin, Germany ER - TY - JOUR A1 - Fritzsche, Sven A1 - Jaenisch, Gerd-Rüdiger A1 - Pavasaryte, Lina A1 - Funk, Alexander T1 - XCT and DLW: Synergies of Two Techniques at Sub-Micrometer Resolution N2 - Direct Laser Writing (DLW) and X-ray computed tomography (XCT) both offer unique possibilities in their respective fields. DLW produces full three-dimensional (3D) polymer structures on the microscale with resolutions below 100 nm. The fabricated structures can be analysed by XCT or X-ray microscopy (XRM), which incorporates additional X-ray lenses, in three dimensions down to a minimal basic spatial resolution of about 500 nm or 50 nm, respectively. In this work, two different DLW structures are analysed via XCT. Internal defects are detected and analysed for the purpose of quality control. Defects and structures with sizes down to 1.5 µm are successfully analysed. A 3D reconstruction and internal, hidden features of the fabricated structures are shown and discussed. In a first-of-its-kind study, we demonstrate the detectability of a single-voxel line inside a fabricated structure that would not be detectable with SEM or light microscopy. Furthermore, the direct fabrication on a PET substrate is shown to overcome the high X-ray absorbance of commonly used glass substrates. Attenuation spectra of SZ2080 and glass substrates are compared to a fabrication route direct on a 170 µm PET foil. The practical aspects of XCT measurements for DLW structures on different substrates will be discussed. KW - Non-destructive testing KW - Two-photon polymerization KW - X-ray microscopy KW - XCT KW - 2PP KW - Direct laser writing PY - 2022 UR - https://nbn-resolving.org/urn:nbn:de:kobv:b43-560525 DO - https://doi.org/10.3390/app122010488 VL - 12 IS - 20 SP - 1 EP - 15 PB - MDPI CY - Basel AN - OPUS4-56052 LA - eng AD - Bundesanstalt fuer Materialforschung und -pruefung (BAM), Berlin, Germany ER - TY - JOUR A1 - Fricke, F. A1 - Brandalero, M. A1 - Liehr, Sascha A1 - Kern, Simon A1 - Meyer, Klas A1 - Kowarik, Stefan A1 - Hierzegger, R. A1 - Westerdick, S. A1 - Maiwald, Michael A1 - Hübner, M. T1 - Artificial Intelligence for Mass Spectrometry and Nuclear Magnetic Resonance Spectroscopy Using a Novel Data Augmentation Method N2 - Mass Spectrometry (MS) and Nuclear Magnetic Resonance Spectroscopy (NMR) are valuable analytical and quality control methods for most industrial chemical processes as they provide information on the concentrations of individual compounds and by-products. These processes are traditionally carried out manually and by a specialist, which takes a substantial amount of time and prevents their utilization for real-time closed-loop process control. This paper presents recent advances from two projects that use Artificial Neural Networks (ANNs) to address the challenges of automation and performance-efficient realizations of MS and NMR. In the first part, a complete toolchain has been realized to develop simulated spectra and train ANNs to identify compounds in MS. In the second part, a limited number of experimental NMR spectra have been augmented by simulated spectra, to train an ANN with better prediction performance and speed than state-of-the-art analysis. These results suggest that, in the context of the digital transformation of the process industry, we are now on the threshold of a strongly simplified use of MS and MRS and the accompanying data evaluation by machine-supported procedures, and can utilize both methods much wider for reaction and process monitoring or quality control. KW - Industry 4.0 KW - Cyber-Physical Systems KW - Artificial Neural Networks KW - Mass Spectrometry KW - Nuclear Magnetic Resonance Spectroscopy KW - Modular Production PY - 2021 UR - https://nbn-resolving.org/urn:nbn:de:kobv:b43-539412 UR - https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/stamp/stamp.jsp?tp=&arnumber=9638378 DO - https://doi.org/10.1109/TETC.2021.3131371 SN - 2168-6750 VL - 10 IS - 1 SP - 87 EP - 98 PB - IEEE AN - OPUS4-53941 LA - eng AD - Bundesanstalt fuer Materialforschung und -pruefung (BAM), Berlin, Germany ER - TY - JOUR A1 - Forero-Sandoval, I. A1 - Cervantes-Alvarez, F. A1 - Ramirez-Rincon, J. A1 - Macias, J. A1 - Pech May, Nelson Wilbur A1 - Ordonez-Miranda, J. A1 - Alvarado-Gil, J. T1 - Percolation Threshold of the Thermal, Electrical and Optical Properties of Carbonyl-Iron Microcomposites N2 - Composites made up of microparticles embedded in a polymeric matrix have attracted increasing attention due to the possibility of tailoring their physical properties by adding the adequate quantity of fillers. As the concentration of these fillers increases, their connectivity changes drastically at a given threshold and therefore the electrical, thermal and optical properties of these composites are expected to exhibit a percolation effect. In this work, the thermal and electrical conductivities along with the emissivity of Composites composed of carbonyl-iron microparticles randomly distributed in a polyester resin matrix are measured, for volume fractions ranging from 0 to 0.55. It is shown that both the thermal and electrical conductivities increase with the particles’ concentration, such that their percolation threshold appears at volume fractions of 0.46 and 0.38, respectively. The emissivity, on the other hand, decreases as the fillers’ concentration increases, such that it exhibits a substantial decay at a volume fraction of 0.41. The percolation threshold of the emissivity is thus higher than that of the thermal conductivity, but lower than the electrical conductivity one. This dispersion on the percolation concentration is justified by the different physical mechanisms required to activate the electrical, thermal, and optical responses of the considered composites. The obtained results thus show that the percolation phenomenon can efficiently be used to enhance or reduce the physical properties of particulate composites. KW - Thermal conductivity KW - Emissivity KW - Thermal percolation threshold PY - 2021 DO - https://doi.org/10.1007/s10443-021-09869-z VL - 28 IS - 2 SP - 447 EP - 463 PB - Springer AN - OPUS4-52355 LA - eng AD - Bundesanstalt fuer Materialforschung und -pruefung (BAM), Berlin, Germany ER - TY - JOUR A1 - Ewert, Uwe A1 - Zscherpel, Uwe A1 - Vogel, Justus A1 - Zhang, F. A1 - Long, N.X. A1 - Nguyen, T.P. T1 - Visibility of Image Quality Indicators (IQI) by Human Observers in Digital Radiography in Dependence on Measured MTFs and Noise Power Spectra N2 - Digital radiographic images were analysed to predict the visibility of image quality indicators (IQI), based on normalized noise power spectra (NNPP) and modulation transfer function (MTF) measurements. The fixed pattern noise of some digital detectors result in different noise spectra, which influence the visibility of different IQIs, depending on the hole diameter. Studies, based on measurement of basic spatial resolution and contrast to noise ratio were performed together with presampled MTF measurements and the NNPS in dependence on the spatial frequency. Plate hole IQIs, step hole IQIs, and equivalent penetrameter sensitivity (EPS) IQIs based on ASTM E 746 were measured to verify the influence of the different parameters. Modelling of digital images was used to verify the applied numeric tools. A study has been performed for imaging plates and digital detector arrays to analyse differences. Formulas for the prediction of the visibility functions for hole type IQIs are derived. In consequence the standards for characterization and classification of computed radiography (ASTM E 2446) and radiography with DDAs (ASTM E 2597) need to be revised. T2 - 12th ECNDT 2018 CY - Gothenburg, Sweden DA - 11.06.2018 KW - Image evaluation KW - Computed radiography (CR) KW - Digital Detector Array (DDA) KW - Detail detection PY - 2018 UR - https://nbn-resolving.org/urn:nbn:de:kobv:b43-473486 UR - www.ndt.net/?id=22967 SN - 1435-4934 VL - 23 IS - 8 SP - 1 EP - 7 PB - NDT.net CY - Kirchwald AN - OPUS4-47348 LA - eng AD - Bundesanstalt fuer Materialforschung und -pruefung (BAM), Berlin, Germany ER - TY - JOUR A1 - Eckel, S. A1 - Zscherpel, Uwe A1 - Huthwaite, P. A1 - Paul, N. A1 - Schumm, A. T1 - Radiographic film system classification and noise characterisation by a camera-based digitisation procedure N2 - Extracting statistical characteristics from radiographic films is vital for film system classification and contrast sensitivity evaluation and serves as a basis for film noise simulation. A new method for digitising radiographic films in order to extract these characteristics is presented. The method consists of a camera-based setup and image processing procedure to digitise films. Correct optical density values and granularity can be extracted from the digitised images, which are equal to results obtained by standardised measurement procedures. Specific statistical characteristics of film noise are theoretically derived and subsequently verified by the obtained data, including characteristics such as Gaussianity and spatial spectral characteristics of the optical density fluctuations. It is shown that the presented method correctly measures the granularity of film noise and can therefore replace time-consuming microdensitometer measurements traditionally required for film system classifications. Additionally, the inherent unsharpness of film systems was investigated and compared with literature data. This comparison serves as another validation approach of the presented method. KW - Radiography KW - Image processing KW - Film noise KW - Film system classification KW - Digitisation PY - 2020 DO - https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ndteint.2020.102241 SN - 0963-8695 VL - 111 IS - 4 SP - 102241 PB - Elsevier Ltd. CY - Amsterdam AN - OPUS4-50517 LA - eng AD - Bundesanstalt fuer Materialforschung und -pruefung (BAM), Berlin, Germany ER - TY - JOUR A1 - Eckel, S. A1 - Huthwaite, P. A1 - Zscherpel, Uwe A1 - Schumm, A. A1 - Paul, N. T1 - Realistic film noise generation based on experimental noise spectra N2 - Generating 2D noise with local, space-varying spectral characteristics is vital where random noise fields with spatially heterogeneous statistical properties are observed and need to be simulated. A realistic, non-stationary noise generator relying on experimental data is presented. That generator is desired in areas such as photography and radiography. For example, before performing actual X-ray imaging in practice, output images are simulated to assess and improve setups. For that purpose, realistic film noise modelling is crucial because noise downgrades the detectability of visual signals. The presented film noise synthesiser improves the realism and value of radiographic simulations significantly, allowing more realistic assessments of radiographic test setups. The method respects space-varying spectral characteristics and probability distributions, locally simulating noise with realistic granularity and contrast. The benefits of this approach are to respect the correlation between noise and image as well as internal correlation, the fast generation of any number of unique noise samples, the exploitation of real experimental data, and its statistical non-stationarity. The combination of these benefits is not available in existing work. Validation of the new technique was undertaken in the field of industrial radiography. While applied to that field here, the technique is general and can also be utilised in any other field where the generation of 2D noise with local, space-varying statistical properties is necessary. KW - Nondestructive testing KW - Image quality KW - Noise simulation KW - Radiography PY - 2020 DO - https://doi.org/10.1109/TIP.2019.2955284 SN - 1057-7149 VL - 29 SP - 2987 EP - 2998 PB - IEEE Xplore CY - Washington, D.C. AN - OPUS4-50518 LA - eng AD - Bundesanstalt fuer Materialforschung und -pruefung (BAM), Berlin, Germany ER - TY - JOUR A1 - Dzekan, D. A1 - Waske, Anja A1 - Nielsch, K. A1 - Fähler, S. T1 - Efficient and affordable thermomagnetic materials for harvesting low grade waste heat N2 - Industrial processes release substantial quantities of waste heat, which can be harvested to generate electricity. At present, the conversion of low grade waste heat to electricity relies solely on thermoelectric materials, but such materials are expensive and have low thermodynamic efficiencies. Although thermomagnetic materials may offer a promising alternative, their performance remains to be evaluated, thereby hindering their real-world application. Here, the efficiency and cost effectiveness of thermomagnetic materials are evaluated for the usage in motors, oscillators, and generators for converting waste heat to electricity. The analysis reveals that up to temperature differences of several 10 K, the best thermomagnetic materials have the potential to compete with thermoelectric materials. Importantly, it is found that the price per watt of some thermomagnetic materials is much lower compared to that of present-day thermoelectrics, which can become competitive with conventional power plants. This materials library enables the selection of the best available thermomagnetic materials for harvesting waste heat and gives guidelines for their future development. KW - Waste heat conversion KW - Magnetic materials KW - Thermomagnetic generator PY - 2021 UR - https://nbn-resolving.org/urn:nbn:de:kobv:b43-541493 DO - https://doi.org/10.1063/5.0033970 VL - 9 SP - 1 EP - 9 PB - AIP Publishing CY - Melville, USA AN - OPUS4-54149 LA - eng AD - Bundesanstalt fuer Materialforschung und -pruefung (BAM), Berlin, Germany ER - TY - JOUR A1 - Dymkin, G. Y. A1 - Konshina, V. N. A1 - Jaenisch, Gerd-Rüdiger T1 - Оперативная характеристика обнаружения как метод оценки достоверности неразрушающего контроля T1 - Requirements for Accreditation Appraisal of NDT Laboratories in Nuclear Power Industry N2 - The operational characteristics of detection have been successfully applied for many years in assessing the reliability of non-destructive testing. The main problems for their use, as in the application of any of the methods for assessing the reliability, are the lack of information about the actual defect situation and the limited number of defects in the samples of the objects of control. An additional problem of constructing an operational characteristic of detection is the lack of information about the size of defects and the lack of a universal size for various types of defects. The article summarizes the experience of constructing operational characteristics based on the results of ultrasonic testing. N2 - Оперативные характеристики обнаружения в течение многих лет успешно применяют-ся при оценке достоверности неразрушающего контроля. Основными проблемами для их использования, как и при применении любого из методов оценки достоверности, яв-ляются отсутствие информации о действительной дефектной ситуации и ограниченное количество дефектов в образцах объектов контроля. Дополнительной проблемой постро-ения оперативной характеристики обнаружения является отсутствие информации о раз-мерах дефектов и отсутствие универсального размера для различных типов дефектов. В статье обобщён опыт построения оперативных характеристик по результатам ультра-звукового контроля. KW - Non-destructive testing KW - Reliability KW - Probability of detection KW - Operational characteristics KW - Comparative operational characteristics PY - 2021 DO - https://doi.org/https://doi.org/10.12737/1609-3178-2021-23-26 VL - 24 IS - 2 SP - 23 EP - 26 AN - OPUS4-53121 LA - rus AD - Bundesanstalt fuer Materialforschung und -pruefung (BAM), Berlin, Germany ER - TY - JOUR A1 - Dayani, Shahabeddin A1 - Markötter, Henning A1 - Schmidt, Anita A1 - Widjaja, Martinus Putra A1 - Bruno, Giovanni T1 - Multi-level X-ray computed tomography (XCT) investigations of commercial lithium-ion batteries from cell to particle level N2 - Adopting X-ray computed tomography (XCT) for ex-situ characterization of battery materials has gained interest in the past decade. The main goal of this paper is to demonstrate the effectiveness of several X-ray computer tomography techniques to study commercial batteries. General guidelines are provided to select the most suitable imaging equipment and parameters for investigations of lithium-ion batteries, spanning the length scales from cell to electrode, down to particle level. Relevantly, such parameters would also be suitable for operando experiments. Safety mechanisms and manufacturing inconsistencies at cell level as well as defects and inhomogeneity in cathode and anode is illustrated and quantified. Furthermore, relation of beam energy and sample-detector-distance on contrast retrieved from attenuation and phase shift is inspected using Synchrotron XCT. KW - Non-destructive testing KW - X-ray computed tomography KW - Synchrotron X-ray computed tomography KW - Lithium-ion battery PY - 2023 DO - https://doi.org/10.1016/j.est.2023.107453 SN - 2352-152X VL - 66 SP - 107453 PB - Elsevier Ltd. AN - OPUS4-57512 LA - eng AD - Bundesanstalt fuer Materialforschung und -pruefung (BAM), Berlin, Germany ER - TY - JOUR A1 - Das, A. A1 - Ott, C. A1 - Pechimuthu, Dinesh A1 - Moosavi, Robabeh A1 - Stoica, M. A1 - Derlet, P. M. A1 - Maaß, Robert T1 - Shear-band cavitation determines the shape of the stress-strain curve of metallic glasses N2 - Metallic glasses are known to have a remarkably robust yield strength, admitting Weibull moduli as high as for crystalline engineering alloys. However, their postyielding behavior is strongly varying, with large scatter in both flow stress levels and strains at failure. Using x-ray tomography, we reveal how a strain-dependent internal evolution of shear-band cavities underlies this unpredictable postyielding response.We demonstrate how macroscopic strain softening coincides with the first detection of internal shear-band cavitation. Cavity growth during plastic flow is found to follow a power law, which yields a fractal dimension and a roughness exponent in excellent agreement with self-similar surface properties obtained after fracture. These findings demonstrate how internal microcracking coexists with shear-band plasticity along the plastic part of a stress-strain curve, rationalizing the large variability of plastic flow behavior seen for metallic glasses. KW - Shear-band cavitation KW - Metallic glasses PY - 2023 DO - https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevMaterials.7.023602 SN - 2475-9953 VL - 7 IS - 2 SP - 1 EP - 11 PB - American Physical Society AN - OPUS4-57042 LA - eng AD - Bundesanstalt fuer Materialforschung und -pruefung (BAM), Berlin, Germany ER - TY - JOUR A1 - D'Accardi, E. A1 - Krankenhagen, Rainer A1 - Ulbricht, Alexander A1 - Pelkner, Matthias A1 - Pohl, Rainer A1 - Palumbo, D. A1 - Galietti, U. T1 - Capability to detect and localize typical defects of laser powder bed fusion (L‑PBF) process: an experimental investigation with different non‑destructive techniques N2 - Additive manufacturing (AM) technologies, generally called 3D printing, are widely used because their use provides a high added value in manufacturing complex-shaped components and objects. Defects may occur within the components at different time of manufacturing, and in this regard, non-destructive techniques (NDT) represent a key tool for the quality control of AM components in many industrial fields, such as aerospace, oil and gas, and power industries. In this work, the capability of active thermography and eddy current techniques to detect real imposed defects that are representative of the laser powder bed fusion process has been investigated. A 3D complex shape of defects was revealed by a μCT investigation used as reference results for the other NDT methods. The study was focused on two different types of defects: porosities generated in keyhole mode as well as in lack of fusion mode. Different thermographic and eddy current measurements were carried out on AM samples, providing the capability to detect volumetric irregularly shaped defects using non-destructive methods. KW - Additive Manufacturing KW - Defect detection KW - Thermography KW - Eddy-current testing KW - Micro-computed tomography PY - 2022 UR - https://nbn-resolving.org/urn:nbn:de:kobv:b43-546680 DO - https://doi.org/10.1007/s40964-022-00297-4 SN - 2363-9512 VL - 7 IS - 6 SP - 1239 EP - 1256 PB - Springer AN - OPUS4-54668 LA - eng AD - Bundesanstalt fuer Materialforschung und -pruefung (BAM), Berlin, Germany ER - TY - JOUR A1 - Costabel, S. A1 - Hiller, Thomas A1 - Dlugosch, R. A1 - Kruschwitz, Sabine A1 - Müller Petke, M. T1 - Evaluation of single-sided nuclear magnetic resonance technology for usage in geosciences N2 - Because of its mobility and ability to investigate exposed surfaces, single-sided (SiS) nuclear magnetic resonance (NMR) technology enables new application fields in geosciences. To test and assess its corresponding potential, we compare longitudinal (T1) and transverse (T2) data measured by SiS NMR with those of conventional geoscientific laboratory NMR. We use reference sandstone samples covering a broad range of pore sizes. Our study demonstrates that the lower signal-to-noise ratio of SiS NMR data generally tends to slightly overestimated widths of relaxation time distributions and consequently pore size distributions. While SiS and conventional NMR produce very similar T1 relaxation data, unbiased SiS NMR results for T2 measurements can only be expected for fine material, i.e. clayey or silty sediments and soils with main relaxation times below 0.05s. This limit is given by the diffusion relaxation rate due to the gradient in the primary magnetic field associated with the SiS NMR. Above that limit, i.e. for coarse material, the relaxation data is strongly attenuated. If considering the diffusion relaxation time of 0.2 s in the numerical data inversion process, the information content >0.2s is blurred over a range larger than that of conventional NMR. However, our results show that principle range and magnitudes of the relaxation time distributions are reconstructed to some extent. Regarding these findings, SiS NMR can be helpful to solve geoscientific issues, e.g. to assess the hydro-mechanical properties of the walls of underground facilities or to provide local soil moisture data sets for calibrating indirect remote techniques on the regional scale. The greatest opportunity provided by the SiS NMR technology is the acquisition of profile relaxation data for rocks with significant bedding structures at the µm scale. With this unique feature, SiS NMR can support the understanding and modeling of hydraulic and diffusional anisotropy behavior of sedimentary rocks. KW - Single-sided NMR KW - Geosciences KW - Nuclear magnetic resonance PY - 2022 UR - https://nbn-resolving.org/urn:nbn:de:kobv:b43-561676 DO - https://doi.org/10.1088/1361-6501/ac9800 SN - 0957-0233 VL - 34 IS - 1 SP - 1 EP - 13 PB - IOP Publishing AN - OPUS4-56167 LA - eng AD - Bundesanstalt fuer Materialforschung und -pruefung (BAM), Berlin, Germany ER - TY - JOUR A1 - Burgholzer, P. A1 - Berer, T. A1 - Ziegler, Mathias A1 - Thiel, Erik A1 - Ahmadi, Samim A1 - Gruber, J. A1 - Mayr, G. A1 - Hendorfer, G. T1 - Blind structured illumination as excitation for super-resolution photothermal radiometry N2 - Photothermal radiometry with an infrared camera allows the contactless temperature measurement of multiple surface pixels simultaneously. A short light pulse heats the sample. The heat propagates through the sample by diffusion and the corresponding temperature evolution is measured at the sample’s surface by an infrared camera. The main drawback in radiometric imaging is the loss of the spatial resolution with increasing depth due to heat diffusion, which results in blurred images for deeper lying structures. We circumvent this information loss due to the diffusion process by using blind structured illumination, combined with a non-linear joint sparsity reconstruction algorithm. The structured illumination is realized by parallel laser lines from a vertical-cavity surface-emitting laser (VCSEL) array controlled by a random binary pattern generator. By using 150 different patterns of structured illumination and our iterative joint sparsity algorithm, it was possible to resolve 1 mm thick lines at a distance down to 0.5 mm, which results in a resolution enhancement of approximately a factor of four compared to the resolution of 5.9 mm for homogenous illuminated thermographic reconstruction. KW - Super-resolution imaging KW - Thermography KW - Blind structured illumination KW - VCSEL array PY - 2019 DO - https://doi.org/10.1080/17686733.2019.1655247 SN - 1768-6733 VL - 17 IS - 4 SP - 268 EP - 278 PB - Taylor & Francis Group CY - Milton, UK AN - OPUS4-49122 LA - eng AD - Bundesanstalt fuer Materialforschung und -pruefung (BAM), Berlin, Germany ER - TY - JOUR A1 - Bertovic, Marija A1 - Feistkorn, S. A1 - Kanzler, D. A1 - Valeske, B. A1 - Vrana, J. T1 - ZfP aus der Sicht der ZfP-Community: Umfrageergebnisse, Herausforderungen und Perspektiven N2 - Im vorliegenden Artikel werden die Ergebnisse des Fragebogens der DGZfP zur Thematik „ZfP 4.0“ vorgestellt und diskutiert. Die Befragung zielte darauf ab, das allgemeine Verständnis der ZfP-Community zur Begrifflichkeit „ZfP 4.0“ herauszuarbeiten und daraus Bedarfe und Handlungsempfehlungen für die identifizierten Herausforderungen abzuleiten. Außerdem zeigt sich aus Sicht der Autor*innen, dass relevante Terminologien zu dem Themenkomplex Digitalisierung einer weiteren Klärung bedürfen, was im Bericht aufgegriffen wird. Im Ausblick zu den angelaufenen Arbeiten im nationalen Fachausschuss ZfP 4.0 und in den sich etablierenden internationalen Fachkreisen werden daraus abgeleitete Perspektiven für die Zukunftsgestaltung vorgestellt. KW - Zerstörungsfreie Prüfung KW - ZfP 4.0 KW - Zuverlässigkeit KW - Human Factors KW - Mensch-Maschine-Interaktion KW - Automatisierung KW - Schnittstellen KW - Fachausschuss KW - Digitalisierung PY - 2021 UR - www.dgzfp.de/DesktopModules/Bring2mind/DMX/API/Entries/Download?Command=Core_Download&EntryId=30879&language=de-DE&PortalId=24&TabId=1515 SN - 1616-069X IS - 174 SP - 43 EP - 49 PB - DGZfP e.V., ÖGfZP und SGZP AN - OPUS4-53550 LA - deu AD - Bundesanstalt fuer Materialforschung und -pruefung (BAM), Berlin, Germany ER - TY - JOUR A1 - Bertovic, Marija T1 - Assessing and Treating Risks in Mechanised NDT: A Human Factors Study N2 - Reliability of NDT is affected by human factors, which have thus far received the least amount of attention in the reliability assessments. With increased use of automation, in terms of mechanised testing (automation-assisted inspection and the corresponding evaluation of data), higher reliability standards are believed to have been achieved. However, human inspectors, and thus human factors, still play an important role throughout this process and the risks involved in this application are unknown. The aim of this study was to explore for the first time the risks associated with mechanised NDT and find ways of mitigating their effects on the inspection performance. Hence, the objectives were to identify and Analyse potential risks in mechanised NDT and devise measures against them. To address those objectives, a risk assessment in form of a Failure Modes and Effects Analysis (FMEA) was conducted. This analysis revealed potential for failure during both the acquisition and evaluation of NDT data that could be assigned to human, technology, and organisation. Since the existing preventive measures were judged to be insufficient to defend the system from identified failures, new preventive measures were suggested. KW - NDT KW - Human factors KW - Risk assessment KW - FMEA KW - Reliability KW - Human error PY - 2018 UR - https://nbn-resolving.org/urn:nbn:de:kobv:b43-463325 SN - 1616-069X IS - 161 SP - 52 EP - 62 PB - Deutsche Gesellschaft für Zerstörungsfreie Prüfung (DGZfP) CY - Berlin AN - OPUS4-46332 LA - eng AD - Bundesanstalt fuer Materialforschung und -pruefung (BAM), Berlin, Germany ER - TY - JOUR A1 - Bernegger, Raphael A1 - Maierhofer, Christiane A1 - Altenburg, Simon T1 - Quantification of delaminations in semitransparent solids using pulsed thermography and mathematical 1D models N2 - Material defects in fiber reinforced polymers such as delaminations can rapidly degrade the material properties or can lead to the failure of a component. Pulse thermography (PT) has proven to be a valuable tool to identify and quantify such defects in opaque materials. However, quantification of delaminations within semitransparent materials is extremely challenging. We present an approach to quantify delaminations within materials being semitransparent within the wavelength ranges of the optical excitation sources as well as of the infrared (IR) camera. PT experimental data of a glass fiber reinforced polymer with a real delamination within the material were reconstructed by one dimensional (1D) mathematical models. These models describe the heat diffusion within the material and consider semitransparency to the excitation source as well to the IR camera, thermal losses at the samples surfaces and a thermal contact resistance between the two layers describing the delamination. By fitting the models to the PT data, we were able to determine the depth of the delamination very accurately. Additionally, we analyzed synthetic PT data from a 2D simulation with our 1D-models to show how the thermal contact resistance is influenced by lateral heat flow within the material. KW - Pulsed thermography KW - Quantification KW - Numerical simulation KW - Analytical model KW - Semitransparent KW - GFRP KW - Delamination PY - 2020 UR - https://nbn-resolving.org/urn:nbn:de:kobv:b43-505766 DO - https://doi.org/10.1007/s10765-020-02642-7 VL - 41 IS - 5 SP - Article number: 67 PB - Springer AN - OPUS4-50576 LA - eng AD - Bundesanstalt fuer Materialforschung und -pruefung (BAM), Berlin, Germany ER - TY - JOUR A1 - Bernegger, Raphael A1 - Altenburg, Simon A1 - Roellig, Mathias A1 - Maierhofer, Christiane T1 - Applicability of a 1D analytical model for pulse thermography of laterally heterogeneous semitransparent materials N2 - Pulse thermography (PT) has proven to be a valuable non-destructive testing method to identify and quantify defects in fiber-reinforced polymers. To perform a quantitative defect characterization, the heat diffusion within the material as well as the material parameters must be known. The heterogeneous material structure of glass fiber-reinforced polymers (GFRP) as well as the semitransparency of the material for optical excitation sources of PT is still challenging. For homogeneous semitransparent materials, 1D analytical models describing the temperature distribution are available. Here, we present an analytical approach to model PT for laterally inhomogeneous semitransparent materials.We show the validity of the model by considering different configurations of the optical heating source, the IR camera, and the differently coated GFRP sample. The model considers the lateral inhomogeneity of the semitransparency by an additional absorption coefficient. It includes additional effects such as thermal losses at the samples surfaces, multilayer systems with thermal contact resistance, and a finite duration of the heating pulse. By using a sufficient complexity of the analytical model, similar values of the material parameters were found for all six investigated configurations by numerical fitting. KW - Absorption coefficient KW - Analytical model KW - GFRP KW - Heterogeneous KW - Pulse thermography KW - Semitransparent PY - 2018 DO - https://doi.org/10.1007/s10765-018-2362-7 SN - 0195-928X SN - 1572-9567 VL - 39 IS - 3 SP - Article 39, ICPPP 19, 1 EP - 17 PB - Springer International Publishing AG AN - OPUS4-44003 LA - eng AD - Bundesanstalt fuer Materialforschung und -pruefung (BAM), Berlin, Germany ER - TY - JOUR A1 - Bernegger, Raphael A1 - Altenburg, Simon A1 - Maierhofer, Christiane T1 - Iterative numerical 2D-modelling for quantification of material defects by pulsed thermography N2 - This paper presents a method to quantify the geometry of defects such as flat bottom holes (FBH) and notches in opaque materials by a pulse thermography (PT) experiment and a numerical model. The aim was to precisely describe PT experiments in reflection configuration with a simple and fast numerical model in order to use this model and a fit algorithm to quantify defects within the material. The algorithm minimizes the difference between the time sequence of a line shaped region of interest (ROI) on the surface (above the defect) from the PT experiment and the numerical data. Therefore, the experimental data can be reconstructed with the numerical model. In this way, the defect depth of a notch or FBH and its width or diameter was determined simultaneously. A laser was used for heating which was widened to a top hat spatial profile to ensure homogeneous illumination (rectangular impulse profile in time). The numerical simulation considers heating conditions and takes thermal losses due to convection and radiation into account. We quantified the geometry of FBH and notches in steel and polyvinyl chloride plasticized (PVC-U) materials with an accuracy of < 5 %. KW - Pulsed thermography KW - Numerical modelling KW - Data reconstruction KW - Opaque materials KW - 2D model KW - Flat bottom holes KW - Notches PY - 2019 DO - https://doi.org/10.1063/1.5099719 SN - 0094-243X SP - 020015-1 EP - 11 PB - AIP AN - OPUS4-47974 LA - eng AD - Bundesanstalt fuer Materialforschung und -pruefung (BAM), Berlin, Germany ER - TY - JOUR A1 - Becker, Tina A1 - Breese, Philipp P A1 - Metz, Christian A1 - Altenburg, Simon T1 - In-situ monitoring for PBF-LB/M processes: Does multispectral optical tomography add value in recognizing process deviations? N2 - Laser powder bed fusion of metallic components (PBF-LB/M) is gaining acceptance in industry. However, the high costs and lengthy qualification processes required for printed components create the need for more effective in-situ monitoring and testing methods. This article proposes multispectral Optical Tomography (OT) as a new approach for monitoring the PBF-LB/M process. Compared to other methods, OT is a low-cost process monitoring method that uses long-time exposure imaging to observe the build process. However, it lacks time resolution compared to expensive thermographic sensor systems. Monochromatic OT (1C-OT) is already commercially available and observes the building process layer-wise using a single wavelength window in the NIR range. Multispectral OT (nC-OT) utilizes a similar setup but can measure multiple wavelength ranges per location simultaneously. By comparing the classical 1C-OT and nC-OT approaches, this article examines the advantages of nC-OT (two channel OT and RGB-OT) in reducing the false positive rate for process deviations and approximating maximum temperatures for a better comparison between different build processes and materials. This could ultimately reduce costs and time for part qualification. The main goal of this contribution is to assess the advantages of nC-OT compared to 1C-OT for in-situ process monitoring of PBF-LB/M. T2 - Nolamp 2023 CY - Turku, Finland DA - 22.08.2023 KW - Thermography KW - Process Monitoring KW - Additive manufacturing KW - BPF-LB/M KW - In-situ PY - 2023 UR - https://nbn-resolving.org/urn:nbn:de:kobv:b43-592498 DO - https://doi.org/10.1088/1757-899X/1296/1/012008 VL - 1296 SP - 1 EP - 11 PB - IOP Publishing CY - Bristol, UK AN - OPUS4-59249 LA - eng AD - Bundesanstalt fuer Materialforschung und -pruefung (BAM), Berlin, Germany ER - TY - JOUR A1 - Becker, Tina A1 - Altenburg, Simon A1 - Scheuschner, Nils A1 - Breese, Philipp Peter A1 - Metz, C. A1 - Hilgenberg, Kai A1 - Maierhofer, Christiane T1 - In-situ monitoring of the Laser Powder Bed Fusion build process via bi- chromatic optical tomography N2 - As metal additive manufacturing (AM) is entering industrial serial production of safety relevant components, the need for reliable process qualification is growing continuously. Especially in strictly regulated industries, such as aviation, the use of AM is strongly dependent on ensuring consistent quality of components. Because of its numerous influencing factors, up to now, the metal AM process is not fully controllable. Today, expensive part qualification processes for each single component are common in industry. This contribution focusses on bi-chromatic optical tomography as a new approach for AM in-situ quality control. In contrast to classical optical tomography, the emitted process radiation is monitored simultaneously with two temperature calibrated cameras at two separate wavelength bands. This approach allows one to estimate the local maximum temperatures during the manufacturing process, thus increases the comparability of monitoring data of different processes. A new process information level at low investment cost is reachable, compared to, e.g., infrared thermography. T2 - LANE 2022 CY - Fürth, Germany DA - 04.08.2022 KW - Optical tomography KW - Additive Manufacturing KW - L-PBF KW - In-process monitoring PY - 2022 UR - https://nbn-resolving.org/urn:nbn:de:kobv:b43-560270 DO - https://doi.org/10.1016/j.procir.2022.08.035 SN - 2212-8271 VL - 111 SP - 340 EP - 344 PB - Elsevier B.V. CY - Amsterdam AN - OPUS4-56027 LA - eng AD - Bundesanstalt fuer Materialforschung und -pruefung (BAM), Berlin, Germany ER - TY - JOUR A1 - Bayerlein, Bernd A1 - Hanke, T. A1 - Muth, Thilo A1 - Riedel, Jens A1 - Schilling, Markus A1 - Schweizer, C. A1 - Skrotzki, Birgit A1 - Todor, A. A1 - Moreno Torres, Benjami A1 - Unger, Jörg F. A1 - Völker, Christoph A1 - Olbricht, Jürgen T1 - A Perspective on Digital Knowledge Representation in Materials Science and Engineering N2 - The amount of data generated worldwide is constantly increasing. These data come from a wide variety of sources and systems, are processed differently, have a multitude of formats, and are stored in an untraceable and unstructured manner, predominantly in natural language in data silos. This problem can be equally applied to the heterogeneous research data from materials science and engineering. In this domain, ways and solutions are increasingly being generated to smartly link material data together with their contextual information in a uniform and well-structured manner on platforms, thus making them discoverable, retrievable, and reusable for research and industry. Ontologies play a key role in this context. They enable the sustainable representation of expert knowledge and the semantically structured filling of databases with computer-processable data triples. In this perspective article, we present the project initiative Materials-open-Laboratory (Mat-o-Lab) that aims to provide a collaborative environment for domain experts to digitize their research results and processes and make them fit for data-driven materials research and development. The overarching challenge is to generate connection points to further link data from other domains to harness the promised potential of big materials data and harvest new knowledge. KW - Data infrastructures KW - Digital representations KW - Digital workflows KW - Knowledge graphs KW - Materials informatics KW - Ontologies KW - Vocabulary providers PY - 2022 UR - https://nbn-resolving.org/urn:nbn:de:kobv:b43-546729 DO - https://doi.org/10.1002/adem.202101176 SN - 1438-1656 SP - 1 EP - 14 PB - Wiley-VCH GmbH CY - Weinheim AN - OPUS4-54672 LA - eng AD - Bundesanstalt fuer Materialforschung und -pruefung (BAM), Berlin, Germany ER - TY - JOUR A1 - Altenburg, Simon A1 - Straße, Anne A1 - Gumenyuk, Andrey A1 - Maierhofer, Christiane T1 - In-situ monitoring of a laser metal deposition (LMD) process: comparison of MWIR, SWIR and high-speed NIR thermography N2 - Additive manufacturing offers a range of novel applications. However, the manufacturing process is complex and the production of almost defect-free parts with high reliability and durability is still a challenge. Thermography is a valuable tool for process surveillance, especially in metal additive manufacturing processes. The high process temperatures allow one to use cameras usually operating in the visible spectral range. Here, we compare the results of measurements during the manufacturing process of a commercial laser metal deposition setup using a mid wavelength infrared camera with those from a short wavelength infrared camera and those from a visual spectrum high-speed camera with band pass filter in the near infrared range. KW - Additive Manufacturing KW - Process monitoring KW - Thermography KW - LMD KW - Metal KW - MWIR KW - SWIR KW - NIR PY - 2020 UR - https://nbn-resolving.org/urn:nbn:de:kobv:b43-516318 DO - https://doi.org/10.1080/17686733.2020.1829889 VL - 19 IS - 2 SP - 97 EP - 114 PB - Taylor & Francis Group CY - London, UK AN - OPUS4-51631 LA - eng AD - Bundesanstalt fuer Materialforschung und -pruefung (BAM), Berlin, Germany ER - TY - JOUR A1 - Altenburg, Simon A1 - Chien, M. A1 - Bavendiek, F. A1 - Krankenhagen, Rainer T1 - Schichtdickenbestimmung von Oberflächenschutzsystemen für Beton mit Impulsthermografie T1 - Thickness determination of surface Protection systems for concrete by means of impulse thermography N2 - Im Bauwesen werden Polymerbeschichtungen auf Beton häufig eingesetzt um zum einen, ein bestimmtes Aussehen zu schaffen und zum anderen, das Bauteil vor Alterung, Verschleiß und Schädigung zu schützen. Für praktisch alle Ziele ist die Wirkung von der eigens dafür definierten Schichtdicke der Polymerbeschichtung abhängig. Daher wird die Dicke der Beschichtung nach erfolgtem Schichtauftrag überprüft. Für den in diesem Zusammenhang anspruchsvollen mineralischen Untergrund Beton stehen bislang allerdings nur zerstörende Prüfverfahren zur Verfügung. Aus diesem Grund wurden im Rahmen des Projektes IRKUTSK ein auf aktiver Thermografie basierendes Verfahren sowie ein Gerät für den vor-Ort-Einsatz entwickelt, mit dessen Hilfe eine zerstörungsfreie Schichtdickenbestimmung möglich ist. Hier wird ein kurzer Einblick in das zur Schichtdickenbestimmung entwickelte Thermografieverfahren gegeben. Die Besonderheiten bei der quantitativen Auswertung, die durch die Teiltransparenz der Polymerbeschichtungen auftreten, werden erläutert. Die Funktion des Verfahrens für einlagige Systeme wird anhand von Labormessungen mit verschiedenen optischen Quellen zur thermischen Anregung illustriert. KW - Beton KW - Oberflächenschutzsystem KW - Schichtdickenbestimmung KW - Thermografie PY - 2018 DO - https://doi.org/10.3139/120.111210 SN - 0025-5300 VL - 60 IS - 7-8 SP - 759 EP - 764 PB - Hanser Verlag CY - München, Deutschland AN - OPUS4-45566 LA - deu AD - Bundesanstalt fuer Materialforschung und -pruefung (BAM), Berlin, Germany ER - TY - JOUR A1 - Altenburg, Simon A1 - Bernegger, Raphael A1 - Krankenhagen, Rainer T1 - Absorption coefficient dispersion in flash thermography of semitransparent solids N2 - Pulse and flash thermography are experimental techniques which are widely used in the field of non-destructive testing for materials characterization and defect detection. We recently showed that it is possible to determine quantitatively the thickness of semitransparent polymeric solids by fitting of results of an analytical model to experimental flash thermography data, for both transmission and reflection configuration. However, depending on the chosen experimental configuration, different effective optical absorption coefficients had to be used in the model to properly fit the respective experimental data, although the material was always the same. Here, we show that this effect can be explained by the wavelength dependency of the absorption coefficient of the sample material if a polychromatic light source, such as a flash lamp, is used. We present an extension of the analytical model to describe the decay of the heating irradiance by two instead of only one effective absorption coefficient, greatly extending its applicability. We show that using this extended model, the experimental results from both measurement configurations and for different sample thicknesses can be fitted by a single set of parameters. Additionally, the deviations between experimental and modeled surface temperatures are reduced compared to a single optimized effective absorption coefficient. T2 - 19th International Conference on Photoacoustic and Photothermal Phenomena CY - Bilbao, Spain KW - Absorptance KW - Dispersion KW - Flash thermography KW - Infrared thermography KW - NDT KW - Semitransparency PY - 2018 DO - https://doi.org/10.1007/s10765-018-2474-0 SN - 0195-928X SN - 1572-9567 VL - 40 IS - 1 SP - 13, 1 EP - 13 PB - Springer Nature AN - OPUS4-47105 LA - eng AD - Bundesanstalt fuer Materialforschung und -pruefung (BAM), Berlin, Germany ER - TY - JOUR A1 - Ahmadi, Samim A1 - Thummerer, G. A1 - Breitwieser, S. A1 - Mayr, G. A1 - Lecompagnon, Julien A1 - Burgholzer, P. A1 - Jung, P. A1 - Caire, G. A1 - Ziegler, Mathias T1 - Multi-dimensional reconstruction of internal defects in additively manufactured steel using photothermal super resolution combined with virtual wave based image processing N2 - We combine three different approaches to greatly enhance the defect reconstruction ability of active thermographic testing. As experimental approach, laser-based structured illumination is performed in a step-wise manner. As an intermediate signal processing step, the virtual wave concept is used in order to effectively convert the notoriously difficult to solve diffusion-based inverse problem into a somewhat milder wavebased inverse problem. As a final step, a compressed-sensing based optimization procedure is applied which efficiently solves the inverse problem by making advantage of the joint sparsity of multiple blind measurements. To evaluate our proposed processing technique, we investigate an additively manufactured stainless steel sample with eight internal defects. The concerted super resolution approach is compared to conventional thermographic reconstruction techniques and shows an at least four times better spatial resolution. KW - Active thermography KW - Additive manufacturing KW - Stainless steel KW - ADMM KW - Block regularization KW - Internal defects KW - Joint sparsity KW - Laser excitation KW - Multi-dimensional reconstruction KW - Photothermal super resolution KW - Virtual waves PY - 2021 UR - https://nbn-resolving.org/urn:nbn:de:kobv:b43-525330 DO - https://doi.org/10.1109/tii.2021.3054411 SN - 1551-3203 SN - 1941-0050 VL - 17 IS - 11 SP - 7368 EP - 7378 PB - IEEE CY - New York, NY AN - OPUS4-52533 LA - eng AD - Bundesanstalt fuer Materialforschung und -pruefung (BAM), Berlin, Germany ER - TY - JOUR A1 - Ahmadi, Samim A1 - Lecompagnon, Julien A1 - Hirsch, Philipp Daniel A1 - Burgholzer, P. A1 - Jung, P. A1 - Caire, G. A1 - Ziegler, Mathias T1 - Laser excited super resolution thermal imaging for nondestructive inspection of internal defects N2 - A photothermal super resolution technique is proposed for an improved inspection of internal defects. To evaluate the potential of the laser-based thermographic technique, an additively manufactured stainless steel specimen with closely spaced internal cavities is used. Four different experimental configurations in transmission, reflection, stepwise and continuous scanning are investigated. The applied image post-processing method is based on compressed sensing and makes use of the block sparsity from multiple measurement events. This concerted approach of experimental measurement strategy and numerical optimization enables the resolution of internal defects and outperforms conventional thermographic inspection techniques. KW - Super Resolution KW - Laser Thermography KW - Non Destructive Testing KW - Comressed Sensing KW - Inverse Problem KW - Thermography PY - 2020 UR - https://nbn-resolving.org/urn:nbn:de:kobv:b43-519016 DO - https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-020-77979-y VL - 10 IS - 1 SP - 22357 PB - Springer Nature AN - OPUS4-51901 LA - eng AD - Bundesanstalt fuer Materialforschung und -pruefung (BAM), Berlin, Germany ER - TY - JOUR A1 - Ahmadi, Samim A1 - Kästner, L. A1 - Hauffen, Jan Christian A1 - Jung, P. A1 - Ziegler, Mathias T1 - Photothermal-SR-Net: A customized deep unfolding neural network for photothermal super resolution imaging N2 - This article presents deep unfolding neural networks to handle inverse problems in photothermal radiometry enabling super-resolution (SR) imaging. The photothermal SR approach is a well-known technique to overcome the spatial resolution limitation in photothermal imaging by extracting high-frequency spatial components based on the deconvolution with the thermal point spread function (PSF). However, stable deconvolution can only be achieved by using the sparse structure of defect patterns, which often requires tedious, handcrafted tuning of hyperparameters and results in computationally intensive algorithms. On this account, this article proposes Photothermal-SR-Net, which performs deconvolution by deep unfolding considering the underlying physics. Since defects appear sparsely in materials, our approach includes trained block-sparsity thresholding in each convolutional layer. This enables to super-resolve 2-D thermal images for nondestructive testing (NDT) with a substantially improved convergence rate compared to classic approaches. The performance of the proposed approach is evaluated on various deep unfolding and thresholding approaches. Furthermore, we explored how to increase the reconstruction quality and the computational performance. Thereby, it was found that the computing time for creating high-resolution images could be significantly reduced without decreasing the reconstruction quality by using pixel binning as a preprocessing step. KW - Deep unfolding KW - Defect reconstruction KW - Elastic net KW - Inverse problems KW - Iterative shrinkage thresholding KW - Neural network KW - Nondestructive testing (NDT) KW - Photothermal imaging KW - Super resolution (SR) KW - Thermography PY - 2022 DO - https://doi.org/10.1109/tim.2022.3154803 SN - 1557-9662 VL - 71 SP - 1 EP - 9 PB - IEEE AN - OPUS4-54678 LA - eng AD - Bundesanstalt fuer Materialforschung und -pruefung (BAM), Berlin, Germany ER - TY - JOUR A1 - Ahmadi, Samim A1 - Burgholzer, P. A1 - Mayr, G. A1 - Jung, P. A1 - Caire, G. A1 - Ziegler, Mathias T1 - Photothermal super resolution imaging: A comparison of different thermographic reconstruction techniques N2 - This paper presents different super resolution reconstruction techniques to overcome the spatial resolution limits in thermography. Pseudo-random blind structured illumination from a onedimensional laser array is used as heat source for super resolution thermography. Pulsed thermography measurements using an infrared camera with a high frame rate sampling lead to a huge amount of data. To handle this large data set, thermographic reconstruction techniques are an essential step of the overall reconstruction process. Four different thermographic reconstruction techniques are analyzed based on the Fourier transform amplitude, principal component analysis, virtual wave reconstruction and the maximum thermogram. The application of those methods results in a sparse basis representation of the measured data and serves as input for a compressed sensing based algorithm called iterative joint sparsity (IJOSP). Since the thermographic reconstruction techniques have a high influence on the result of the IJOSP algorithm, this paper Highlights their Advantages and disadvantages. KW - Super resolution KW - Compressed sensing KW - Laser thermography KW - Virtual wave KW - Defect reconstruction PY - 2020 DO - https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ndteint.2020.102228 VL - 111 SP - 2228 PB - Elsevier Ltd. CY - Netherlands AN - OPUS4-50419 LA - eng AD - Bundesanstalt fuer Materialforschung und -pruefung (BAM), Berlin, Germany ER - TY - JOUR A1 - Ahmadi, Samim A1 - Burgholzer, P. A1 - Jung, P. A1 - Caire, G. A1 - Ziegler, Mathias T1 - Super resolution laser line scanning thermography N2 - In this paper we propose super resolution measurement and post-processing strategies that can be applied in thermography using laser line scanning. The implementation of these techniques facilitates the separation of two closely spaced defects and avoids the expected deterioration of spatial resolution due to heat diffusion. The experimental studies were performed using a high-power laser as heat source in combination with pulsed thermography measurements (step scanning) or with continuous heating measurements (continuous scanning). Our work shows that laser line step scanning as well as continuous scanning both can be used within our developed super resolution (SR) techniques. Our SR techniques make use of a compressed sensing based algorithm in post- processing, the so-called iterative joint sparsity (IJOSP) approach. The IJOSP method benefits from both - the sparse nature of defects in space as well as from the similarity of each measurement. In addition, we show further methods to improve the reconstruction quality e.g. by simple manipulations in thermal image processing such as by considering the effect of the scanning motion or by using different optimization algorithms within the IJOSP approach. These super resolution image processing methods are discussed so that the advantages and disadvantages of each method can be extracted. Our contribution thus provides new approaches for the implementation of super resolution techniques in laser line scanning thermography and informs about which experimental and post-processing parameters should be chosen to better separate two closely spaced defects. KW - Super resolution KW - Laser thermography KW - Compressed sensing KW - Laser scanning KW - Joint sparsity PY - 2020 UR - https://nbn-resolving.org/urn:nbn:de:kobv:b43-509796 DO - https://doi.org/10.1016/j.optlaseng.2020.106279 SN - 0143-8166 VL - 134 SP - 106279 PB - Elsevier Ltd. AN - OPUS4-50979 LA - eng AD - Bundesanstalt fuer Materialforschung und -pruefung (BAM), Berlin, Germany ER -