TY - CONF A1 - Kraus, David A1 - Trappe, Volker T1 - Cyclic fatigue behavior of glass fiber reinforced epoxy resin at ambient and elevated temperatures N2 - The fatigue behavior of ±45° glass fiber reinforced epoxy resin under cyclic mechanical and constant thermal loading is investigated in this study. Tests at three different temperature levels in the range 296 K to 343 K have been performed in order to create S-N curves for each temperature level. The specimen damage is measured in-situ using optical grayscale analysis. The characteristic damage state (CDS) is evaluated for each specimen. It is shown that the point of CDS is suitable as a failure criterion to compare the resulting S-N curves. With micromechanical formulations, the temperature-dependent matrix effort is calculated for each stress-temperature level. In terms of matrix effort, the longest fatigue life is reached at high temperatures, while, in terms of stress, the lowest fatigue life is reached at the highest temperatures. T2 - ECCM18 - 18th European conference on composite materials CY - Athens, Greece DA - 24.06.2018 KW - Composite KW - Fatigue KW - Thermomechanics KW - Residual stresses KW - Temperature PY - 2018 SP - 1 EP - 7 PB - European society for composite materials AN - OPUS4-45338 LA - eng AD - Bundesanstalt fuer Materialforschung und -pruefung (BAM), Berlin, Germany ER - TY - CONF A1 - Kraus, David T1 - Cyclic fatigue behavior of glass fiber reinforced epoxy resin at ambient and elevated temperatures N2 - The fatigue behavior of ±45° glass fiber reinforced epoxy resin under cyclic mechanical and constant thermal loading is investigated in this study. Tests at three different temperature levels in the range 296 K to 343 K have been performed in order to create S-N curves for each temperature level. The specimen damage is measured in-situ using optical grayscale analysis. The characteristic damage state (CDS) is evaluated for each specimen. It is shown that the point of CDS is suitable as a failure criterion to compare the resulting S-N curves. With micromechanical formulations, the temperature-dependent matrix effort is calculated for each stress-temperature level. In terms of matrix effort, the longest fatigue life is reached at high temperatures, while, in terms of stress, the lowest fatigue life is reached at the highest temperatures. T2 - ECCM18 - 18th European conference on composite materials CY - Athens, Greece DA - 24.06.2018 KW - Composite KW - Fatigue KW - Thermomechanics KW - Residual stresses KW - Temperature PY - 2018 AN - OPUS4-45346 LA - eng AD - Bundesanstalt fuer Materialforschung und -pruefung (BAM), Berlin, Germany ER - TY - CONF A1 - Kraus, David T1 - Impact of thermal loads on the damage onset of fiber reinforced plastics N2 - In this study, quasi-static material tests on unidirectional and multi-angle glass fiber reinforced epoxy laminates at ambient temperatures from -213 K to 353 K (-60 °C to +80 °C) are performed. In addition, neat resin is investigated under tension and compression loads at different temperatures. The coefficient of thermal expansion is determined for neat resin and unidirectional reinforced specimens. The dependence of the resin’s thermomechanical properties on the ambient temperature is shown. The point of damage onset at which first cracks appear within the matrix under quasi-static loading is investigated by means of optical grey scale analysis. The correlation between damage onset and effective matrix stress at different ambient temperatures is identified. An approach for the calculation of thermomechanical loads and the prediction of the damage onset by means of inverse calculations is presented. The impact of the strain blocking effect of the matrix is considered as well as residual thermal stresses due to curing and resin shrinkage. T2 - International Conference of Composite Materials 21, ICCM21 CY - Xi'an, China DA - 20.08.2017 KW - Fatigue KW - Composite KW - Thermomechanics KW - Fiber reinforced plastics PY - 2017 AN - OPUS4-42074 LA - eng AD - Bundesanstalt fuer Materialforschung und -pruefung (BAM), Berlin, Germany ER - TY - JOUR A1 - Unger, Jörg F. A1 - Kindrachuk, Vitaliy T1 - A Fourier transformation-based temporal integration scheme for viscoplastic solids subjected to fatigue deterioration N2 - Using continuum damage mechanics (CDM) for lifetime prediction requires numerical integration of evolving damage until the onset of failure. The primary challenge for the simulation of structural fatigue failure is caused by the enormous computational costs due to cycle-by-cycle temporal integration throughout the whole loading history, which is in the order of 103–107 cycles. As a consequence, most approaches circumvent this problem and use empirical methods such as Wöhler curves. They are well suited for approximating the lifetime, but they are not capable to capture a realistic degradation of the material including redistribution of stresses. The main objective of the paper is to provide a technique for finite element (FE) simulations of structures under fatigue loading while reducing computational costs. A Fourier transformation-based temporal integration (FTTI) scheme is proposed, which adapts the conventional FE method for modeling the viscoplastic deterioration in a structure subjected to cyclic loading. The response fields are represented by a Fourier series which assumes a temporal scale separation: a microchronological (short time) scale arises from the oscillatory loading and a macrochronological (long time) scale is due to the slow material relaxation resulting from yielding and damage evolution. The original dynamic boundary value problem (BVP) is approximated by the stationary BVP on the microchronological scale. Alternation of the displacement field on the macrochronological scale is correlated with evolution of the history variables by means of a high order adaptive cycle jump method. Performance and significant acceleration of the FE simulations is demonstrated at different loading scenarios for a constitutive damage model where the progressive damage accumulation is driven by viscoplastic yielding. KW - Fatigue KW - Accelerated time integration KW - Continuum damage mechanics KW - Fourier series PY - 2017 DO - https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ijfatigue.2017.03.015 SN - 0142-1123 SN - 1879-3452 VL - 100 IS - 1 SP - 215 EP - 228 PB - Elsevier Ltd. AN - OPUS4-39616 LA - eng AD - Bundesanstalt fuer Materialforschung und -pruefung (BAM), Berlin, Germany ER - TY - CONF A1 - Kindrachuk, Vitaliy T1 - A Multi-scale temporal integration scheme for viscoplatic solids subjected to fatigue deterioration N2 - Using a continuum mechanics framework for lifetime prediction requires numerical integration of evolving damage until the onset of failure. The primary challenge for the simulation of structural fatigue failure is caused by the enormous computational costs due to cycle by cycle temporal integration throughout the whole loading history, which is in the order of 10^3 - 10^7 cycles. As a consequence, most approaches circumvent this problem and use an empirical method such as Wöhler curves. They are well suited for approximation of the lifetime, but they are not capable to capture a realistic degradation of the material with a redistribution of the stresses. The main objective of the paper is to provide a technique for the long time response of a finite element (FE) model while reducing computational costs. A multi-scale temporal integration scheme is proposed, which adapts the conventional FE method for realistic modeling of deterioration in a structure subjected to cyclic loading. For a particular case of two-scale temporal homogenization, the displacement field is assumed to satisfy scale separation: a short time scale arises from the oscillatory loading and a long time scale is due to the slow response relating to yielding and damage evolution. The original boundary value Problem (BVP) is approximated by the time-Independent BVPs on the short time scale. Alternation of the displacement field on the long time scale is correlated with the damage evolution by means of the adaptive cycle jump method. The significant acceleration of FE simulations is demonstrated for a constitutive damage model where the progressive damage accumulation under fatigue loading is driven by viscoplastic deformation. T2 - ECCOMAS 2016 CY - Crete, Greece DA - June 5th KW - Fatigue PY - 2016 AN - OPUS4-38654 LA - eng AD - Bundesanstalt fuer Materialforschung und -pruefung (BAM), Berlin, Germany ER - TY - THES A1 - Thiele, Marc T1 - Experimentelle Untersuchung und Analyse der Schädigungsevolution in Beton unter hochzyklischen Ermüdungsbeanspruchungen N2 - Im Mittelpunkt der vorliegenden Arbeit steht das Ermüdungsverhalten von Beton unter hochzyklischen Druckschwellbeanspruchungen. Der aktuelle Wissensstand bezüglich des Ermüdungsverhaltens ist nach wie vor sehr lückenhaft. Ganz besonders trifft das auf den eigentlichen Ermüdungsprozess zu, der dem abschließenden Ermüdungsversagen vorausgeht. Dem Defizit im Wissen um das Ermüdungsverhalten steht allerdings eine zunehmende Bedeutung der Thematik in der Baupraxis gegenüber. Daher wurde im Rahmen dieser Arbeit eine systematische Untersuchung des Ermüdungsprozesses vorgenommen. Damit wird ein Beitrag geleistet, um einen tieferen Einblick und ein besseres Verständnis für den Schädigungsprozess und die damit verbundenen Vorgänge innerhalb des Betons zu gewinnen. Die experimentellen Untersuchungen bestehen im Wesentlichen aus einstufigen Dauerschwingversuchen im Druckschwellbereich an zylindrischen Probekörpern aus Normalbeton. Verwendet wurden zwei verschiedene Ermüdungslastniveaus, die Bruchlastzyklen zwischen 10⁶ und 10⁷ sowie zwischen 10³ und 10⁴ erzeugten. Die Untersuchung des Ermüdungsvorgangs erfolgte durch den Einsatz verschiedener ZfP- und ZP-Methoden, wie der Dehnungsmessung, der Messung flächiger Oberflächenverformungen, der Ultraschallmessung, der Schallemissionsmessung, der Lichtmikroskopie und des Rasterelektonenmikroskops. Zur Bewertung einiger Einflussgrößen im Zusammenhang mit dem Ermüdungsverhalten fanden zudem ergänzende Versuche zum Kriecheinfluss sowie zum Einfluss der Probengröße statt. Es konnte festgestellt werden, dass es sich bei dem Ermüdungsvorgang um eine von Beginn an einsetzende Schädigungsevolution innerhalb des Betons handelt. Diese beeinflusst die verschiedenen Materialeigenschaften des Betons in vielfältiger und sehr unterschiedlicher Weise. Die wesentlichste Feststellung in diesem Zusammenhang ist, dass die ermüdungsbedingte Materialschädigung zu einer Veränderung der gesamten Spannungs-Dehnungs-Beziehung führt, die sich ebenfalls in einem fortlaufenden Evolutionsprozess äußert. Aus den Untersuchungen konnten als entscheidende Ursache für die beobachteten Veränderungen im makroskopischen Materialverhalten Veränderungen in der Mikrorissstruktur nicht festgestellt werden. Vielmehr weisen die Ergebnisse der Untersuchungen darauf hin, dass die ermüdungsbedingten Veränderungen speziell in den Phasen I und II vorrangig das Resultat von viskosen Prozessen innerhalb des Zementsteins sind. Darüber hinaus geht aus den Versuchen hervor, dass auch das Kriechen zu relativ ähnlichen, aber weniger stark ausgeprägten Veränderungen im Material führt. Ein Einfluss der Probengröße auf das resultierende Verhalten konnte sowohl im statischen als auch im zyklischen Fall beobachtet werden. Aus den gewonnenen experimentellen Erkenntnissen wird eine Beschreibung der Vorgänge abgeleitet, die während des Ermüdungsprozesses im Materialgefüge ablaufen und zu den beobachteten makroskopischen Veränderungen führen. In diesem Zusammenhang hat sich herausgestellt, dass eine Erfassung der ermüdungsbedingten Schädigung anhand einer skalaren Größe über die Steifigkeit der tatsächlichen Veränderung der Spannungs-Dehnungs-Beziehung nicht gerecht wird. Eine Betrachtung im Hinblick auf einen zuverlässigen Schädigungsindikator im Zusammenhang mit den gemessenen Größen liefert zudem einen Überblick über die Eignung verschiedener Größen zur Erfassung des Ermüdungsschädigungsgrades im Beton. Abschließend wird ein Ansatz vorgestellt, der die beobachteten Entwicklungen entscheidender Größen im Ermüdungsvorgang abzubilden vermag. N2 - The main objective of this thesis is the fatigue behavior of concrete under high-cycle compressive loadings. Current knowledge about fatigue behavior of concrete is still incomplete. This concerns especially the process of fatigue which is preceding the fatigue failure. The leak of knowledge about fatigue behavior is opposed to the steady growing importance of this topic within the practice in civil engineering. Therefore, within this thesis a systematic and comprehensive investigation of the process of fatigue itself was done. This contributes to the better understanding of the progression of damage and the corresponding processes within the material. The experimental investigation consisted mainly of experiments with constant amplitude loadings in compression with cylindrical specimen made of normal strength concrete. Two differed load levels were used which resulted in numbers of cycles to failure of 10⁶ and 10⁷ as well as 10³ and 10⁴. The experiments were done in combination with different types of nondestructive and destructive testing methods like strain measuring, deformation of surface, ultrasonic signals, acoustic emissions, optical microscopy and also scattering electron microscopy. To access some parameters of influence in relation to the fatigue behavior additional creep tests and also several tests with different scales of specimen were done. The fatigue process of concrete is determined as an evolution of damage that starts from the beginning of the loading process. This evolution has manifold and different influences on the different material properties of concrete. In this relation a major finding was that fatigue related damage leads to a transformation of the complete stress-strain-relationship. This relationship is also subjected to an evolution process. Due to the authors observations it could not be determined that the investigated changes in macroscopic material behavior are caused by a development of micro cracks within the material structure. The results of the investigation indicated that rather the fatigue related changes in material behavior are mainly a result of viscous processes in cement stone especially in phase I and II of the fatigue process. Furthermore, it was observed that creep in concrete leads to similar but lesser changes in material behavior of concrete. Beside this, tests with different scales of specimens have shown an appreciable effect of size on the resulting material behavior under static and cyclic loadings respectively. From these experimental findings a detailed description was derived about the processes which take place within the material structure during the fatigue loading and also leads to the observed macroscopic changes in material behavior. In this context, the tests have shown that relating to stiffness reduction a scalar value could not capture the damage effect on the stress-strain-relationship caused by fatigue. A following consideration gives an overview about applicability of the different measured parameters for the detection of the degree of fatigue damage with regard to a reliable damage indicator. Finally an approach is presented which is able to describe the investigated developments of significant values within the observed fatigue process. T3 - BAM Dissertationsreihe - 140 KW - Ermüdung KW - Beton KW - Hochzyklisch KW - Schädigungsevolution KW - Fatigue KW - Concrete KW - High-cycle KW - Damage evolution PY - 2016 UR - https://nbn-resolving.org/urn:nbn:de:kobv:b43-354487 VL - 140 SP - 1 EP - 286 PB - Bundesanstalt für Materialforschung und -prüfung (BAM) CY - Berlin AN - OPUS4-35448 LA - deu AD - Bundesanstalt fuer Materialforschung und -pruefung (BAM), Berlin, Germany ER - TY - CONF A1 - Madia, Mauro T1 - Probabilistic structural integrity assessment of welded joints N2 - The fatigue assessment of welded joints requires several input data, which can be subdivided into three categories: geometry, material and loading. The number of input data depends essentially on the complexity of the models employed and on the level of accuracy of the analysis. It is common practice to use safety factors in design to account for the scatter of the input parameters. Nevertheless, overly-conservative factors lead often to unrealistic estimations of fatigue life. This work presents a fracture mechanics-based model for the structural integrity assessment of welded joints under constant amplitude fatigue loading, in which the local geometry at the weld toe and the fatigue crack growth properties are considered statistically distributed. The approach is validated against a large number of experimental data. T2 - ICF15 - International Conference on Fracture CY - Atlanta, GA, USA DA - 12.06.2023 KW - Fatigue KW - Fracture Mechanics KW - Weldments KW - Short crack KW - Probabilistic Assessment PY - 2023 AN - OPUS4-57726 LA - eng AD - Bundesanstalt fuer Materialforschung und -pruefung (BAM), Berlin, Germany ER - TY - JOUR A1 - Scacco, F. A1 - Zerbst, Uwe A1 - Meneghetti, G. A1 - Madia, Mauro T1 - Comparison between PSM and IBESS approaches for the fatigue life estimation of weldments N2 - In the framework of the fatigue assessment of welded components, several methods are available in design standards such as the nominal stress, hot-spot stress, notch stress and linear elastic fracture mechanics approaches. The present paper aims at comparing two advanced local approaches for the fatigue strength assessment of different welded joints made of steel. The first one is IBESS which is based on short crack fracture mechanics. The second one is the PSM which instead involves the strain energy density approach. Both methods will be briefly presented, and the fatigue life prediction results discussed. The results obtained for the joint geometries considered in this work show advantages and drawbacks of the approaches, which are thoroughly analysed as well. KW - Fatigue KW - Welded joints KW - FAT class KW - IBESS KW - Peak stress method (PSM) KW - Finite element (FE) PY - 2022 UR - https://nbn-resolving.org/urn:nbn:de:kobv:b43-545139 DO - https://doi.org/10.1007/s40194-022-01284-7 SP - 1 EP - 23 PB - Springer AN - OPUS4-54513 LA - eng AD - Bundesanstalt fuer Materialforschung und -pruefung (BAM), Berlin, Germany ER - TY - THES A1 - Nielow, Dustin T1 - Einfluss fertigungsbedingter Imperfektionen auf die Schwingfestigkeit von FKV-Schalenstrukturen in Sandwichbauweise N2 - Rotorblätter von Windenergieanlagen (WEA) weisen häufig nach wenigen Jahren, lange vor dem Erreichen der prognostizierten Lebensdauer von 20 bis 30 Jahren Risse in der Blattschale auf. Die Folge sind aufwendige Reparaturen am installierten und schwer zugänglichen Rotorblatt und der kostenintensive Nutzungsausfall durch den Stillstand der WEA. Als mögliche Initiatoren für die Schäden in der Blattschale der Rotorblätter gelten fertigungsbedingte Imperfektionen. Für die Untersuchung des Einflusses dieser Imperfektionen auf das Ermüdungsverhalten der Rotorblätter wurde an der BAM (Bundesanstalt für Mate-rialforschung und -prüfung) ein Prüfstand für statische und zyklische Versuche von Schalensegmenten im intermediate scale entwickelt und betrieben. Die untersuchten Schalensegmente in Sandwichbauweise sind der Rotorblattschale von WEA im Hinblick auf die Strukturmechanik, die eingesetzten Halbzeuge, den Laminataufbau und dem eingesetzten Fertigungsverfahren ähnlich. Als Imperfektionen wurden verschiedenen Variationen von Lagenstößen in die Hautlagen und Schaumstöße mit Breitenvariation in den Stützkern reproduzierbar eingebracht. Die Überwachung des Schädigungszustandes während der Schwingversuche unter realistischen Lastszenarien erfolgt über eine kombinierte in situ Schädigungsüberwachung mittels passiver Thermografie und Felddehnungsmessung. Mit den durchgeführten Schwingversuchen und der begleitenden Überwachung des Schädigungszustandes ließen sich die Schadensinitiation und die signifikante Herabsetzung der Lebensdauer durch die eingebrachten Imperfektionen zweifelsfrei nachweisen und entsprechende Konstruktionshinweise für die betriebssichere Auslegung von Sandwichstrukturen ableiten. N2 - Wind turbines often exhibit cracks in the blade shells after only a few years in service, significantly before their expected 20 to 30 year design lifespan. This leads to complicated repairs on difficult to reach rotor blades, and can cause a cost-intensive standstill of the turbine. A possible source of these defects in the rotor blade shells are the imperfections which occur during production. In order to investigate the effect of these imperfections on the fatigue behavior of rotor blades, a test rig was developed at the BAM (Bundesanstalt für Materialforschung und -prüfung) upon which intermediate scale static and cyclic-fatigue testing could be performed. The complementary sandwich shell specimens developed and investigated with the test rig are representative of the outer shell of wind turbine rotor blades in terms of materials and manufacturing processes, as well as structural mechanics. The specimens were built with reproducible imperfections, including laminate overlaps in the face sheets and gaps of varying size in the foam core. The damage condition was monitored during cyclic-fatigue testing under realistic load cases using a combination of in-situ passive thermography and strain field measurement. The cyclic testing and parallel non-destructive structural health monitoring of the shell specimens showed the imperfections to significantly influence the damage initiation and decrease the component service life. The results can be used accordingly as recommendations for operationally more reliable design of sandwich structures. T3 - BAM Dissertationsreihe - 170 KW - Erneuerbare Energien KW - Windenergie KW - Verbundwerkstoffe KW - Betriebsfestigkeit KW - Komponentenprüfung KW - Renewable ernergy KW - Wind energy KW - Intermediate scale KW - Composites KW - Fatigue PY - 2022 UR - https://nbn-resolving.org/urn:nbn:de:kobv:b43-546701 SN - 1613-4249 VL - 170 SP - 1 EP - 178 PB - Bundesanstalt für Materialforschung und -prüfung (BAM) CY - Berlin AN - OPUS4-54670 LA - deu AD - Bundesanstalt fuer Materialforschung und -pruefung (BAM), Berlin, Germany ER - TY - THES A1 - Kraus, David T1 - Ermüdungsverhalten von Glasfaser-Kunststoff-Verbunden unter thermomechanischer Beanspruchung N2 - Die Werkstoffgruppe der Faser-Kunststoff-Verbunde (FKV) hat sich aufgrund ihrer hervorragenden Leichtbaueigenschaften unter anderem im Sportgerätebau, in der Luft- und Raumfahrt und in der Windenergieindustrie etabliert. Die so hergestellten Strukturen sind in der Regel nicht nur mechanischen Belastungen, sondern auch thermischen Lasten in einem breiten Temperaturspektrum ausgesetzt. Dennoch ist die Auswirkung des Temperatureinflusses bei einer Kombination von thermischer und mechanischer Last auf die Lebensdauer von Strukturen aus FKV bisher nur wenig untersucht. Im Rahmen dieser Arbeit wird der Einfluss von Temperaturen zwischen 213 K und 343 K auf einen Glasfaser-Epoxidharz-Verbund experimentell untersucht. Das Material wird in diesem Temperaturbereich eingehend charakterisiert: Es werden sowohl die thermomechanischen Eigenschaften von Faser- und Matrixwerkstoff als auch die des Verbundes ermittelt. In einem weiteren Schritt wird dann der Einfluss der Temperatur auf die Schädigungsentwicklung im quasi-statischen Lastfall sowie unter schwingender Ermüdungsbeanspruchung bei verschiedenen FKV-Mehrschichtverbunden analysiert. Basierend auf den experimentellen Daten wird ein Zusammenhang zwischen der Schädigung und der Anstrengung der Matrix innerhalb der Einzelschicht demonstriert. Die Matrixanstrengung wird mithilfe eines mikromechanischen Modells unter Berücksichtigung der thermomechanischen Eigenspannungen analytisch berechnet. Bei Querzugbeanspruchung kann gezeigt werden, dass eine Vorhersage der Schädigung in Abhängigkeit der Volumenänderungsenergie innerhalb der Matrix getroffen werden kann. Mithilfe des Konzepts der Matrixanstrengung ist eine Vorhersage der Lebensdauer des Werkstoffs unter schwingender Ermüdungsbeanspruchung in Abhängigkeit der Einsatztemperatur möglich. N2 - Due to their superior lightweight properties, fiber reinforced polymer (FRP) materials are well established in various fields, such as sports equipment, aerospace or wind energy structures. These structures are not only subjected to mechanical loads, but also to a broad spectrum of thermal environments. However, the impact of temperature on the fatigue life of thermomechanically loaded FRP structures is barely investigated to-date. In the scope of this work, the influence of temperatures in a range of 213 K to 343 K on a glass fiber reinforced epoxy polymer is experimentally examined. An extensive thermo-mechanical characterization of the static properties of the material is performed. The neat resin and Fiber material are investigated, as well as the composite. In addition, the impact of thermal loads on the damage evolution under quasi-static as well as cyclic fatigue loading is investigated for different multi-angle laminates. Based on the experimental data, a correlation is shown between damage and matrix effort of the unidirectional layer. The matrix effort is calculated according to a micromechanical model considering thermal residual stresses. Particularly under transverse loading, the damage Evolution can be predicted as a function of the dilatational strain energy of the matrix. Using the concept of the matrix effort presented in this work, a prediction of the fatigue life of the investigated material at different ambient temperature conditions can be performed. T3 - BAM Dissertationsreihe - 169 KW - Ermüdung KW - Faser-Kunststoff-Verbund KW - GFK KW - Schädigung KW - Thermomechanik KW - Fatigue KW - Composite KW - Glas fibre reinforced polymer KW - Damage KW - Thermomechanics PY - 2021 UR - https://nbn-resolving.org/urn:nbn:de:kobv:b43-530253 SN - 1613-4249 VL - 169 SP - 1 EP - 164 PB - Bundesanstalt für Materialforschung und -prüfung (BAM) CY - Berlin AN - OPUS4-53025 LA - deu AD - Bundesanstalt fuer Materialforschung und -pruefung (BAM), Berlin, Germany ER - TY - CONF A1 - Ratkovac, Mirjana A1 - Gerards-Wünsche, Paul A1 - Thiele, Marc A1 - Brackrock, Daniel A1 - Stamm, Michael T1 - Detection and monitoring of the fatigue crack growth on welds – Application-oriented use of NDT methods N2 - Early detection of fatigue cracks and accurate measurements of the crack growth play an important role in the maintenance and repair strategies of steel structures exposed to cyclic loads during their service life. Observation of welded connections is especially of high relevance due to their higher susceptibility to fatigue damage. The aim of this contribution was to monitor fatigue crack growth in thick welded specimens during fatigue tests as holistically as possible, by implementing multiple NDT methods simultaneously in order to record the crack initiation and propagation until the final fracture. In addition to well-known methods such as strain gauges, thermography, and ultrasound, the crack luminescence method developed at the Bundesanstalt für Materialforschung und -prüfung (BAM), which makes cracks on the surface particularly visible, was also used. For data acquisition, a first data fusion concept was developed and applied in order to synchronize the data of the different methods and to evaluate them to a large extent automatically. The resulting database can ultimately also be used to access, view, and analyze the experimental data for various NDT methods. During the conducted fatigue tests, the simultaneous measurements of the same cracking process enabled a comprehensive comparison of the methods, highlighting their individual strengths and limitations. More importantly, they showed how a synergetic combination of different NDT methods can be beneficial for implementation in large-scale fatigue testing but also in monitoring and inspection programs of in-service structures - such as the support structures of offshore wind turbines. T2 - Fatigue Design 2023 (FatDes 2023) CY - Senlis, France DA - 29.11.2023 KW - Fatigue KW - Welded KW - NDT KW - Crack growth PY - 2024 UR - https://nbn-resolving.org/urn:nbn:de:kobv:b43-600238 DO - https://doi.org/10.1016/j.prostr.2024.03.062 VL - 57 SP - 560 EP - 568 PB - Elsevier B.V. AN - OPUS4-60023 LA - eng AD - Bundesanstalt fuer Materialforschung und -pruefung (BAM), Berlin, Germany ER - TY - CONF A1 - Krütt, Enno T1 - Degradation of pavement concrete under cyclic loading and the effect on moisture transport N2 - In Germany the damages on concrete motorways have increased during the past 15 years. This led often to a reduction of service life from 30 to 10 years. In spite of comprehensive research the reasons for these damages have not been clarified yet. But it is known that in this context the ASR plays a decisive role. Against this background ASR performance tests have been developed. However, these tests do not take into account the effects of mechanical loading due to cyclic traffic and climatic impact. Therefore in Germany the ASR research group 1498 was founded. The research group consists of three experimentally- and two multi-scale modelling oriented subprojects, which are working closely together. Selected findings of BAM’s experimental subproject SP4 are content of this contribution. The aim was to investigate the impact of a cyclic mechanical pre-damage on moisture transport. The pre-damaging was carried out on large-format beams using a cyclic four point bending test with a total number of 5 million load cycles. Thereby the damage process was monitored by using different NDT-techniques. After the mechanical pre-damaging, smallsized specimens were taken from loaded as well as unloaded areas of the large format beams. Absorption tests were carried out on these specimens using water and NaCl solution. Thereby moisture distribution was measured with Nuclear Magnetic Resonance (NMR) and Time Domain Reflectometry (TDR). Additionally, moisture suction was quantified integrally by means of gravimetric measurements. The analysis of the first test data shows that the mechanical loading influences the moisture transport. T2 - PhD-Symposium: Alkali-Silica Reaction in concrete structures - cyclic loading, fluid transport and modelling CY - Bochum, Germany DA - 05.10.2016 KW - Building Materials KW - AKR KW - Fatigue PY - 2016 AN - OPUS4-40166 LA - eng AD - Bundesanstalt fuer Materialforschung und -pruefung (BAM), Berlin, Germany ER - TY - CONF A1 - Trappe, Volker T1 - Infinite life of CFRP evaluated non-destructively with X-ray-refraction topography in-situ mechanical loading N2 - Carbon Fibre Reinforced Plastics (CFRP) are more and more used in modern civil aircrafts. These days the whole fuselage is made of this material (B787; A350). Due to strict certification standards the normal in-service loading gives a low stress level compared to the static and even the fatigue strength of the material. Hence CFRP are assumed to have an infinite life. To evaluate this assumption, fatigue tests on CFRP-specimens were performed up to 108 load cycles and the first inter-fibre failure was evaluated non-destructively by accompanying X-ray-refraction topography. A tensile testing machine was integrated in a small angle X-ray scattering (SAXS) setup. X-ray refraction topography was performed while the CFRP-samples were tensile loaded. This non-destructive technique enables the detection of micro-cracking and inter-fibre failure especially for CFRP. For Glass Fibre Reinforced Plastic (GFRP) X-ray refraction and in-situ loading has already been successfully used. The increase of inner surfaces due to inter fibre failure was measured as a function of the stress state. Fatigue tests were performed at and below the limit of inter-fibre failure strength. State of the art is to assume the failure of the samples under cyclic loading as the fatigue life. Accompanying non-destructive X-ray refraction measurements reflects the damage state and enables to trace its evolution even if the total failure of the specimens does not occur. This investigation technique is of high interest to give the engineer a design value of infinite life which is practically often reached due to knock down factors of certification standards. Finally the infinite life was found for cyclic fatigue loaded CFRP-samples even under high inter fibre transverse and shear loading investigated up to 108 load cycles. T2 - 19th World Conference on Non-Destructive Testing CY - Munich, Germany DA - 13.06.2016 KW - CFRP KW - NDT KW - Fatigue KW - Damage evolution PY - 2016 AN - OPUS4-37567 LA - eng AD - Bundesanstalt fuer Materialforschung und -pruefung (BAM), Berlin, Germany ER - TY - JOUR A1 - Pfennig, Anja A1 - Kranzmann, Axel T1 - Potential of martensitic stainless steel X5CrNiCuNb 16-4 as pipe steel in corrosive CCS environment N2 - Pipe steels suitable for carbon capture and storage technology (CCS) require resistance against the corrosive environment of a potential CCS-site (heat, pressure, salinity of the aquifer, CO2-partial pressure). X5CrNiCuNb16-4 has been proven to be sufficient resistant in corrosive environments, but shows rather unusual corrosion behaviour in CCS environment. Therefore differently heat treated coupons of 1.4542 were kept at T=60 °C and ambient pressure as well as p=100 bar for 700 h - 8000 h in an a) water saturated supercritical CO2 and b) CO2-saturated synthetic aquifer environment similar to on-shore CCS-sites in the Northern German Basin. Additionally fatigue tests were performed via push-pull tests with a series of 30 specimens was tested at stress amplitudes between 150 MPa and 500 MPa (sinusoidal dynamic test loads, R=-1; resonant frequency ~ 30 Hz). Best corrosion resistance in the liquid phase is achieved via normalizing prior to exposure and hardening+tempering at 670 °C leads to lowest corrosion rates in the supercritical phase. With no regard to atmosphere discontinuously ellipsoidal surface corrosion regions appear after exposure of 4000 h and more. The endurance limit of X5CrNiCuNb16-4 measured in air is reduced by more than 50% when exposed to CCS environment (maximum number of cycles (10 x 106) at a stress amplitude of 150 MPa) The scatter range TN = 1:34 is disproportionately large contributing to an overall unusual corrosion behaviour. KW - Corrosion KW - CCS KW - Carbon storage KW - Aquifer KW - Heat treatment KW - Fatigue KW - Endurance limit PY - 2017 DO - https://doi.org/10.18178/ijesd.2017.8.7.998 SN - 2010-0264 VL - 8 IS - 7 SP - 466 EP - 473 AN - OPUS4-41863 LA - eng AD - Bundesanstalt fuer Materialforschung und -pruefung (BAM), Berlin, Germany ER - TY - JOUR A1 - Lüders, C. A1 - Kalinka, Gerhard A1 - Li, Wei A1 - Sinapius, M. A1 - Wille, T. T1 - Experimental and numerical multiscale approach to thermally cycled FRP N2 - Due to the different thermal expansion of the constituent materials, cyclic thermal loading of FRP induces alternating stresses in the material at two scales: at the micro scale (level of fibre–matrix-interaction) and at the macro scale (level of the multidirectional laminate). Especially the micro scale effect is not comprehensively investigated yet. Additionally, computational investigations mostly neglect this effect due to the homogenous modelling of the composite material. As this effect is assumed to significantly contribute to the fatigue of FRP at thermal loads, the present paper suggests an experimental and numerical multiscale approach including Experiments at the different involved material scales to separately observe the effects acting at these scales. The approach also includes numerical modelling for each scale to complement the knowledge gained from the Experiments and to create a basis for the consideration of the micro effect even in macroscopic fatigue models treating homogeneous modelled composites. The main focus of the contribution is to bring the overall Approach up for discussion, rather than to present the multiscale modelling details. KW - Fatigue KW - Thermal cycling KW - Fibre reinforced plastic KW - Cryogenic KW - Carbon Fibre KW - Epoxy Resin PY - 2020 DO - https://doi.org/10.1016/j.compstruct.2020.112303 SN - 0263-8223 VL - 244 SP - 112303 PB - Elsevier Ltd. CY - Niederlande AN - OPUS4-50844 LA - eng AD - Bundesanstalt fuer Materialforschung und -pruefung (BAM), Berlin, Germany ER - TY - CONF A1 - Werner, Tiago T1 - Structural integrity of cold spray repaired aerospace components N2 - Components in aircrafts are usually replaced when critical defects are present. An alternative approach is repairing using gas dynamic cold spraying: metal particles are shot at a surface at supersonic speeds to selectively rebuild damaged material. Compared to other material-deposition techniques, its advantage is the small thermal impact on the component, preserving its mechanical properties. Component-repair can save considerable amounts of energy and resources. However, its industrial application at large scale needs reproducible, good repair-material properties to guarantee a safe component life. The aim of this project is the development of safe, automatized repair-procedures considering the mechanical fatigue properties of the repair. T2 - ICEAF VII Conference 2023 CY - Spetses, Greece DA - 21.06.2023 KW - Cold Spray KW - Repair KW - Fatigue KW - Fatigue Crack Growth KW - Slow Strain Rate Testing PY - 2023 AN - OPUS4-57784 LA - eng AD - Bundesanstalt fuer Materialforschung und -pruefung (BAM), Berlin, Germany ER - TY - CONF A1 - Krütt, Enno A1 - Weise, Frank A1 - Meng, Birgit ED - Ye, G. ED - Yuan, Y. ED - Romero Rodriguez, C. ED - Zhang, H. ED - Savija, B. T1 - Fatigue induced degradation in pavement concrete and its effect on the alkali-silica reaction N2 - In recent years the German motorway network has seen an increase in the occurrence of damage to concrete road surfaces that can be attributed to the alkali-silica reaction (ASR). In view of the often drastically reduced service life of road surfaces due to ASR, research activity in this field has notably increased. Alongside preventative measures in concrete technology i.e. the usage of low-alkali cements, the main research focus up to now has been on the development of performance-oriented testing procedures for ASR prevention. The effects of mechanicallyinduced damage resulting from cyclic traffic and climatic loading have previously not been taken into consideration. The assessment of the myriad degradation and transport processes necessary for an understanding of these effects requires close interaction between experiments and corresponding multi-scale models. This contribution is focused on the experiments utilizing innovative testing techniques. The research is founded on a series of fatigue tests performed on large-scale beams with simultaneous tracking of the degradation process using non-destructive evaluation methods. Subsequently, smaller test specimens were extracted from the predamaged beams for further experiments. These experiments included investigation of the influence of fatigue-induced cracks on moisture and alkali transport. Subsequent storage of the small-scale test specimens, with and without cyclic pre-damage, in an ASR-conducive environment then provided initial findings on the influence of fatigue-induced degradation on the ASR. The results show that the degradation process can be well observed with the test Setup developed for the fatigue experiments. Further, a small but noticeable increase of mass Transport due to fatigue-induced degradation was measured, which correspondingly indicated an increased ASR damage potential. T2 - 4th International Conference on Service Life Design for Infrastructures (SLD4) CY - Delft, The Netherlands DA - 27.08.2018 KW - Fatigue KW - Pavement KW - ASR KW - Concrete PY - 2018 SN - 978-2-35158-213-8 SP - 112 EP - 121 PB - RILEM Publication S.A.R.L. CY - Paris, France AN - OPUS4-46197 LA - eng AD - Bundesanstalt fuer Materialforschung und -pruefung (BAM), Berlin, Germany ER - TY - CONF A1 - Kindrachuk, Vitaliy T1 - A novel computational method for efficient evaluation of structural fatigue N2 - The methods of computational damage mechanics are well-established for the description of degradation of materials under monotone loading. An extension to structural damage induced by cyclic loading is however significantly limited. This is due to enormous computational costs required to resolve each load cycle by conventional temporal incremental integration schemes while a typical fatigue loading history comprises between thousands and millions of cycles. Despite the permanent increase of computational resources and algorithmic performance, a successful approach is rather based on the development of novel multiscale in time integration schemes. A Fourier transformation-based temporal integration (FTTI) is represented, which takes advantage of temporal scale separation incorporated into the cycle jump method. The response fields are approximated by a Fourier series whose coefficients undergo the evolution on a long-time scale. This is correlated with the evolution of the history variables, including damage, by means of the adaptive cycle jump method of various orders. The necessary extrapolation rates are obtained from the underlying solution of a short-time scale problem, which results from the oscillatory boundary condition and fulfills the global equilibrium of the Fourier coefficients. In this way, a remarkable speedup is achieved because the number of cycles to be fully integrated dramatically decreases. The key idea behind the FTTI method is that the global in space equilibrium problem is linear since it is decoupled from the evolution equations. The latter are solved in the quadrature points under response fields prescribed throughout the whole load cycle. Consequently, integration of a single load cycle is much more efficient than the conventional single scale integration where the global equilibrium iteration and the local iteration of the evolution equations are coupled. This results in an additional speedup of the FTTI method. The performance of the FTTI technique is demonstrated for two different constitutive behaviors: a viscoplastic model with a damage variable governed by the local equivalent viscoplastic strain; a quasi-brittle response where the damage variable is driven by a non-local equivalent strain. The latter is implicitly introduced as proposed by Peerlings. Both, the explicit and implicit extrapolation schemes are validated. The FTTI solutions agree very well with the reference cycle-by -cycle solutions, while significantly reducing the computational costs. The adaptive determination of the jump length can properly recognize the particular responses throughout the fatigue loading history (stationary fatigue, acceleration of fatigue damage when approaching failure) as well as stress redistribution phenomena. T2 - International Fatigue International Fatigue International Fatigue International Fatigue International Fatigue International Fatigue Congress Congress Congress 2018 CY - Poitiers, France DA - 27.05.2018 KW - Fatigue KW - Accelerated integration scheme PY - 2018 AN - OPUS4-46975 LA - eng AD - Bundesanstalt fuer Materialforschung und -pruefung (BAM), Berlin, Germany ER - TY - CONF A1 - Frei, Vivian A1 - Pirskawetz, Stephan A1 - Thiele, Marc A1 - Rogge, Andreas T1 - Experimental investigation of size effect on fatigue behavior of high strength concrete - concept and preliminary results N2 - The worldwide spread of windfarms brings new challenges, especially for concrete structures as a part of towers, connecting joints and foundations of wind turbines. High-cyclic loadings in such structures lead to a high relevance of the subject of fatigue. A proper assessment of the fatigue strength of concrete demands therefore a basis of reliable experimental data and the development of standardized testing methods. This article presents first results of an ongoing research program of BAM (Bundesanstalt für Materialforschung und -prüfung) which is a part of a joint project (WinConFat) funded by the German Federal Ministry for Economic Affairs and Energy. The subproject investigates the effects of size and slenderness of the specimens on the fatigue behaviour of high strength concrete at different stress levels. Not only the fatigue strength, but also the fatigue process itself is monitored by means of several measurement methods. Strain measurements are used to calculate the load dependent elastic modulus in the fatigue hysteresis as indicators for fatigue development. Furthermore, the application of non-destructive methods like acoustic emission analysis and ultrasonic measurement in laboratory tests gives a deeper insight into damage processes under cyclic loading. The results shall be used to improve design rules for concrete members under fatigue load and to develop or improve non-destructive techniques for in-service structural health monitoring. T2 - 5th International fib Congress: Better - Smarter - Stronger CY - Melbourne, Australia DA - 08.10.2018 KW - Acoustic emission testing KW - Compressive cyclic loading KW - Fatigue KW - High-strength concrete KW - Non-destructive testing KW - Size effect KW - Slenderness effect KW - Ultrasonic testing PY - 2018 SN - 978-1-877040-14-6 SP - 1 EP - 11 AN - OPUS4-46408 LA - eng AD - Bundesanstalt fuer Materialforschung und -pruefung (BAM), Berlin, Germany ER - TY - CONF A1 - Frei, Vivian T1 - Experimental investigation of size effect on fatigue behavior of high strength concrete - concept and preliminary results N2 - The worldwide spread of windfarms brings new challenges, especially for concrete structures as a part of towers, connecting joints and foundations of wind turbines. High-cyclic loadings in such structures lead to a high relevance of the subject of fatigue. A proper assessment of the fatigue strength of concrete demands therefore a basis of reliable experimental data and the development of standardized testing methods. This article presents first results of an ongoing research program of BAM (Bundesanstalt für Materialforschung und -prüfung) which is a part of a joint project (WinConFat) funded by the German Federal Ministry for Economic Affairs and Energy. The subproject investigates the effects of size and slenderness of the specimens on the fatigue behaviour of high strength concrete at different stress levels. Not only the fatigue strength, but also the fatigue process itself is monitored by means of several measurement methods. Strain measurements are used to calculate the load dependent elastic modulus in the fatigue hysteresis as indicators for fatigue development. Furthermore, the application of non-destructive methods like acoustic emission analysis and ultrasonic measurement in laboratory tests gives a deeper insight into damage processes under cyclic loading. The results shall be used to improve design rules for concrete members under fatigue load and to develop or improve non-destructive techniques for in-service structural health monitoring. T2 - 5th International fib Congress: Better - Smarter - Stronger CY - Melbourne, Australia DA - 08.10.2018 KW - Acoustic emission testing KW - Compressive cyclic loading KW - Fatigue KW - High-strength concrete KW - Non-destructive testing KW - Size effect KW - Slenderness effect KW - Ultrasonic testing PY - 2018 AN - OPUS4-46366 LA - eng AD - Bundesanstalt fuer Materialforschung und -pruefung (BAM), Berlin, Germany ER -