Typical transport packages used in Germany are equipped with wooden impact limiting devices. In this paper we give an overview of the latest status regarding the development of a finite element material model for the crush of spruce wood. Although the crush of wood – mainly in longitudinal direction – is a phenomenon governed by macroscopic fracture and failure of wood fibres we smear fracture and failure mechanisms over the continuous voume. In first step we altered an existing LS-DYNA material model for foams, which considers an ellipse shaped yield surface written in terms of the first two stress invariants. The evolution of the yield surface in the existing model depends on the volumetric strain only. For the use with spruce wood, we modified the existing material model to consider the deviatoric strain for the evolution of the yield surface as well. This is in accordance with the results of crush tests with spruce wood specimens, where the crushing deformation was rather deviatoric for uniaxial stress states and rather volumetric for multiaxial stress states We rate the basic idea of this approach to be reasonable, though other problems exist regarding the shape of the yield surface and the assumption of isotropic material properties. Therefore we developed a new transversal isotropic material model with two main directions, which considers different yield curves according to the multiaxiality of the stress state via a multi-surface yield criterion and a non-associated flow rule. The results show the ability to reproduce the basic strength characteristics of spruce wood. Nevertheless, problems with regularization etc. show that additional investigations are necessary.
Typical transport packages used in Germany are equipped with wooden impact limiting devices. In this paper we give an overview of the latest status regarding the development of a finite element material model for the crush of spruce wood. Although the crush of wood – mainly in longitudinal direction – is a phenomenon governed by macroscopic fracture and failure of wood fibres we smear fracture and failure mechanisms over the continuous voume. In first step we altered an existing LS-DYNA material model for foams, which considers an ellipse shaped yield surface written in terms of the first two stress invariants. The evolution of the yield surface in the existing model depends on the volumetric strain only. For the use with spruce wood, we modified the existing material model to consider the deviatoric strain for the evolution of the yield surface as well. This is in accordance with the results of crush tests with spruce wood specimens, where the crushing deformation was rather deviatoric for uniaxial stress states and rather volumetric for multiaxial stress states We rate the basic idea of this approach to be reasonable, though other problems exist regarding the shape of the yield surface and the assumption of isotropic material properties. Therefore we developed a new transversal isotropic material model with two main directions, which considers different yield curves according to the multiaxiality of the stress state via a multi-surface yield criterion and a non-associated flow rule. The results show the ability to reproduce the basic strength characteristics of spruce wood. Nevertheless, problems with regularization etc. show that additional investigations are necessary.
The numerical Simulation of transport and storage casks for radioactive waste in accidental scenarios requires adequate material models and input parameters for all relevant structural cask elements, the Impact foundation as well as possibly further components involved in the incident. They form the basis for reliable analysis of different loading situations allowing substituting, at least in parts, experimental investigations that are needed in safety Reports submitted for nuclear licensing procedures.
Hereby, the efficiency of the energy absorbing components, such as cask Impact limiters or equivalent structures placed onto or into the foundation of storage buildings, determine to a large extend
the performance and thus the design of the casks. The limiters, which are usually made of wood, polyurethane foam (PUF) or damping concrete, are subjected to Major plastic deformations, whose Distribution and magnitude strongly depend on loading speed, course and temperature.
Consequently, it is necessary to establish a systematic data basis and implement this information in advanced numerical material formulations in Order to enable finite element simulations to account for all relevant factors.
Zur numerischen Simulation von Transport- und Lagerbehältern für radioaktive Stoffe unter mechanischen Unfallbedingungen sind geeignete
Materialmodelle und zugehörige Parametersätze für alle relevanten Behälterbauteile und den Aufpralluntergrund sowie gegebenenfalls für weitere am Störfall beteiligte Komponenten erforderlich.
Sie bilden eine wesentliche Grundlage um für unterschiedliche Belastungsvarianten und Temperaturen zuverlässige Berechnungsergebnisse zu ermitteln, die umfangreiche experimentelle Erprobungen zumindest in Teilen ersetzen und damit einen zentralen Bestandteil von sicherheitstechnischen Nachweisen in gefahrgut- und atomrechtlichen Zulassungs- und Genehmigungsverfahren bilden können. Für die Auslegung der Behälter von besonderer Bedeutung ist die Effizienz der eingesetzten energieabsorbierenden Elemente, wie beispielsweise Stoßdämpfer am Behälterdeckel oder -boden bzw. äquivalente Strukturen auf oder im Fundament von Zwischen- und Endlagern.
Diese Bauteile, die häufig aus Holz, Polyurethan (PU) - Schaum oder Dämpferbeton hergestellt werden, erfahren beim Auf- oder Anprall erhebliche plastische Deformationen, deren Verteilung und Größenordnung u.a. von der Belastungsgeschwindigkeit, dem Belastungsverlauf und der Temperatur bestimmt werden. Die Berücksichtigung dieser Faktoren in dynamischen Finite Elemente (FE) Berechnungen, die den heutigen Stand der Simulationstechnik repräsentieren, setzt eine systematische Datenbasis für den stoßdämpfenden Werkstoff voraus und die Implementierung dieser Informationen in numerischen Materialformulierungen.
An der BAM wird seit Ende 2008 im Rahmen des vom BMBF geförderten Forschungsvorhabens ENREA (Entwicklung rechnerischer Analysemethoden für stoßdämpfende Strukturen beim Anprall oder Absturz von Abfallgebinden) die experimentelle Bestimmung derartiger Daten sowie die Anpassung und teilweise Neuentwicklung geeigneter Materialmodelle betrieben.
Impact limiting components of packages for the transport of radioactivematerials are often designed as wood filled steel constructions. Wood absorbs major part of the impact energy in order to minimise the impact load acting upon the containment. Dynamic impact experiments with wood filled impact limiters showed different crushing mechanisms for axially loaded wood depending on their lateral constraint. Tests on spruce wood samples (Picea abies) were performed in order to clarify the influence of strain rate from static to 30 s-1 on a) compression strength, b) stress at a global strain level of 50%, and c) energy absorption capacity at 50% deformation, including statistical evaluation of the results. Results were as follows: strain rate increase led to significantly higher compression strength, stress and strain energy at a strain level of 50%. Lateral strain restriction had no effect on compression strength; it had a significant effect on stress and strain energy at strain level of 50%. Therefore, the definition of a general yield curve for wood under large deformations is not possible, the yield curve has to be chosen taking into account lateral constraints.