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The advent of the Industrial Revolution was accompanied by several accidents of dramatic dimensions. The analysis of these events was the fundament for the continuous improvement in the reliability of technical systems. In the year 1871 the Prussian state created a technical institution dedicated for this task – the origin of BAM. Failure analysis and prevention is until today a central objective of our institute; due to its complex nature an interdisciplinary task. In our talk we will present an overview of the activities of BAM in the area of failure analysis; especial attention will be given to the corrosion aspects in the analysis of these cases.

In diesem Beitrag werden am Beispiel von Gasturbinen Verfahren zur Charakterisierung des werkstoff-mechanischen Verhaltens sowie der Gefügeentwicklung von Bauteilen für Anwendungen bei hohen Temperaturen aufgezeigt. Gasturbinen sind technisch gesehen sehr interessante Systeme, die in der Energietechnik und in der Luftfahrt von hoher wirtschaftlicher Relevanz sind. Seit Jahrzehnten gelten Gasturbinen als klassische Innovationstreiber, für ihre Entwicklung wurden bereits maßgebliche Erneuerungen im Bereich der Aerodynamik und der Werkstofftechnik hervorgebracht.

The scientific landscape is undergoing rapid transformations with the advent of the digital age which revolutionizes research methodologies. In materials science and engineering, an adoption of modern data management techniques is desirable to maximize the efficiency and accessibility of research efforts. Traditional practices in testing laboratories are usually inadequate for efficient data acquisition and utilization as they lead to local storage and difficulty in publication and correlation with other results. Electronic laboratory notebooks (ELNs) are promising prospects in this respect. Semantic concepts and ontologies enhance interoperability by standardizing experimental data representation. An in‐laboratory pipeline seamlessly integrating an ELN with transformation scripts to convert experimental into interoperable data in a machine‐actionable format is created in this study as a proof of concept. Tensile test results and the corresponding tensile test ontology are used exemplary. Linking ELN data to semantic concepts enriches the stored information while improving interpretability and reusability. Involving undergraduate students builds a bridge between theory and practice during their training and promotes their digital skills. This study underscores the potential of ELNs and knowledge representations as beneficial means toward improved data management practices that enhance collaborative research and education while ensuring compatibility with evolving standards and technologies.

The advent of the Industrial Revolution was accompanied by several accidents of dramatic dimensions. The analysis of these events was the fundament for the continuous improvement in the reliability of technical systems. In the year 1871 the Prussian state created a technical institution dedicated for this task – the origin of BAM. Failure analysis and prevention is until today a central objective of our institute; due to its complex nature an interdisciplinary task. In our talk we will present an overview of the activities of BAM in the area of failure analysis and prevention; especial attention will be given to the VDI Guide 3822.

Adolf Martens (1850–1914) was a pioneer of materials engineering. After his studies in Berlin he joined a railway company being responsible for the technical equipment. His interest for the basic mechanisms of mechanical strength and fracture of metallic materials led him to the development of the basic concepts for metallography; his papers published between 1878 and 1889 laid the fundament of this technique. In 1880 Martens changed to the Royal Industrial Academy in Berlin and by 1884 he was designated as director of the Materials Testing Laboratory at the Technical University Berlin. Under his guidance this institution acquired an excellent reputation in all relevant areas of the German industry, forming the nucleus of the Bundesanstalt für Materialforschung und -prüfung (BAM) – the Federal Institute for Materials Research and Testing. Martens developed equipment in many different areas as mechanical testing of metallic materials and of paper, characterization of the wear behavior of materials and viscosity of lubricants. His overwhelming contribution to materials engineering was recognized as early as 1895 by Floris Osmond, who denominated martensite a metallographical constituent resulting from quenching of steels. In 2000 ISO designated the value obtained from the instrumented indentation method as Martens Hardness – HM.