TY - CONF A1 - Frei, J. A1 - Rethmeier, Michael T1 - Overview and new developments in research on resistance spot welding of advanced high strength steels T2 - The 5th International Conference on Steels in Cars and Trucks N2 - The safe joining of new, freshly developed steel types keeps challenging the industry–and is assumed to go on in doing so. In the body-in-white production, these materials are mainly joined using resistance spot welding. During the past ten years, various investigations on resistance spot welding of advanced high strength steels have been carried out at Fraunhofer IPK and the Federal Institute for Materials Research and Testing (BAM). This paper aims to give an overview about both the top former and recent studies and results. The investigated topics are the influences of manufacturing conditions as initial gaps and restraints on spot welds, their impact on the fatigue strength of a joint and the cracking-wise safe weldability of AHSS. Caused by non-ideal manufacturing conditions, cracks in spot welds (e.g. caused by liquid metal embrittlement) are still regarded as a potential risk in industrial practice. Therefore, a method to evaluate the safe weldability regarding the cracking susceptibility was developed for AHSS. The method is easy to perform, even without expensive laboratory equipment. It allows the end user to establish a material ranking regarding the cracking susceptibility of the handled steels. Recently, coupled thermo-mechanical finite element modelling has been used to describe critical stress-strain conditions responsible for the occurrence of liquid metal embrittlement, and to improve the understanding of the process. T2 - The 5th International Conference on Steels in Cars and Trucks CY - Amsterdam-Schiphol, The Netherlands DA - 19.06.2017 KW - Advanced high strength steels KW - Resistance spot welding KW - Cracking susceptibility KW - Liquid metal embrittlement KW - Material ranking KW - Fatigue strength KW - Gaps KW - Finite element method PY - 2017 SP - 1 EP - 8 AN - OPUS4-43189 LA - eng AD - Bundesanstalt fuer Materialforschung und -pruefung (BAM), Berlin, Germany ER - TY - CONF A1 - Miccoli, Lorenzo A1 - Silva, R. A. A1 - Garofano, A. A1 - Oliveira, D. V. ED - Papadrakakis, M. ED - Fragiadakis, M. T1 - In-Plane behaviour of earthen materials: A numerical comparison between adobe masonry, rammed earth and cob T2 - Proceedings of the 6th International Conference on Computational Methods in Structural Dynamics and Earthquake Engineering COMPDYN 2017 N2 - The paper presents a comparison between different numerical modelling approaches aiming to simulate the in-plain behaviour of three types of earthen materials, namely adobe masonry, rammed earth and cob. For this purpose, uniaxial and diagonal compression tests were carried out, which allowed determining important mechanical parameters, such as compressive strength, Young’s modulus, Poisson’s ratio, shear strength and shear modulus. Furthermore, the tests allowed assessing the level of non-linear behaviour of the respective stress–strain relationships as well as the failure modes. The experimental results were then used for the calibration of numerical models (based on the finite element method) for simulating the non-linear behaviour of the earth materials under in-plane shear loading. Both macro- and micro-modelling approaches were considered for this purpose. The procedures adopted for model calibration established the reliability of various modelling strategies for the different loading conditions. The simplified Approach based on macromodelling shows a satisfactory accuracy and low computational costs. The results reproducing the uniaxial compression are in good correspondence with the post-elastic behaviour observed in the experimental campaign. The micro-modelling approach adopted to reproduce the shear behaviour, even with higher computational cost, represents a suitable tool to predict the adobe masonry and rammed earth collapse mechanisms. T2 - 6th International Conference on Computational Methods in Structural Dynamics and Earthquake Engineering (COMPDYN 2017) CY - Rhodes, Greece DA - 15.06.2017 KW - Earthen materials KW - Compression behaviour KW - Shear behaviour KW - Digital image corelation KW - Finite element method PY - 2017 SN - 978-618-82844-1-8 VL - 1 SP - 2478 EP - 2504 AN - OPUS4-42579 LA - eng AD - Bundesanstalt fuer Materialforschung und -pruefung (BAM), Berlin, Germany ER - TY - JOUR A1 - Wu, Cheng-Chieh A1 - Weisbrich, S. A1 - Neitzel, F. ED - Emri, Igor T1 - Approximate model for geometrical complex structures JF - Materials Today: Proceedings N2 - Many engineering structures are nowadays made of composite materials or metal foam. These modern engineering materials contain very complex inner geometry. To simulate the deformational behaviour of these structures often requires a high number of discretisation elements. This in turn yields a very large system of linear equations that are extremely time and memory consuming or practically impossible to solve. It is therefore desirable to find an approach to overcome this obstacle. In this paper a numerical method is proposed to find an approximate substitute model for geometrical complex structures. T2 - 33rd Danubia Adria Symposium on Advances in Experimental Mechanics CY - Portorož, Slovenia DA - 20.09.2016 KW - Adjustment calculation KW - Finite element method KW - Substitute model KW - Complex structures PY - 2017 UR - http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S2214785317308593 DO - https://doi.org/10.1016/j.matpr.2017.06.084 SN - 2214-7853 VL - 4 IS - 5, Part 1 SP - 5995 EP - 6000 PB - Elsevier CY - Amsterdam, Netherlands AN - OPUS4-42794 LA - eng AD - Bundesanstalt fuer Materialforschung und -pruefung (BAM), Berlin, Germany ER - TY - CONF A1 - Miccoli, Lorenzo A1 - Silva, R. A. A1 - Garofano, A. A1 - Oliveira, D. V. T1 - In-plane behaviour of earthen materials: a numerical comparison between adobe masonry, rammed earth and cob N2 - The paper presents a comparison between different numerical modelling approaches aiming to simulate the in-plain behaviour of three types of earthen materials, namely adobe masonry, rammed earth and cob. For this purpose, uniaxial and diagonal compression tests were carried out, which allowed determining important mechanical parameters, such as compressive strength, Young’s modulus, Poisson’s ratio, shear strength and shear modulus. Furthermore, the tests allowed assessing the level of non-linear behaviour of the respective stress strain relationships as well as the failure modes. The experimental results were then used for the calibration of numerical models (based on the finite element method) for simulating the non-linear behaviour of the earth materials under in-plane shear loading. Both macro- and micro-modelling approaches were considered for this purpose. The procedures adopted for model calibration established the reliability of various modelling strategies for the different loading conditions. The simplified Approach based on macromodelling shows a satisfactory accuracy and low computational costs. The results reproducing the uniaxial compression are in good correspondence with the post-elastic behaviour observed in the experimental campaign. The micro-modelling approach adopted to reproduce the shear behaviour, even with higher computational cost, represents a suitable tool to predict the adobe masonry and rammed earth collapse mechanisms. T2 - COMPDYN 2017 - 6th ECCOMAS Thematic Conference on Computational Methods in Structural Dynamics and Earthquake Engineering CY - Rhodes Island, Greece DA - 15.06.2017 KW - Earthen materials KW - Compression behaviour KW - Shear behaviour KW - Digital image correlation KW - Finite element method PY - 2017 AN - OPUS4-41002 LA - eng AD - Bundesanstalt fuer Materialforschung und -pruefung (BAM), Berlin, Germany ER -