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In verlegten Eisenbahnschienen entstehen durch Rollkontaktermüdung rissartige Oberflächenschädigungen. Der geschädigte Bereich wird im Rahmen der Schieneninstandhaltung regelmäßig abgetragen, um zu verhindern, dass durch unkontrolliertes Risswachstum schwerwiegende Schienenschäden entstehen. Hierzu werden u. A. Schienenschleifzüge eingesetzt.
Früher wurde das Schleifergebnis einer Sichtprüfung unterzogen. Es kommt jedoch vor, dass Risse in der Oberfläche beim Schleifen zugeschmiert oder durch Schleifriefen maskiert werden, so dass diese nicht mehr sichtbar obwohl noch vorhanden sind.
An der BAM wurde ein Wirbelstromprüfsystem entwickelt, das sowohl zur Planung als auch der Qualitätskontrolle der Schieneninstandhaltung genutzt wird. Dieses System ist in der Lage, Schädigungen zu detektieren und deren Schädigungstiefe zu bestimmen, selbst dann, wenn optisch keine Schädigung zu erkennen ist.
Seit 2013 ist die Qualitätskontrolle mit Wirbelstromprüfsystemen bei der Schienenbearbeitung fest im Regelwerk der DB verankert.
Basierend auf aktuellen Regelwerken (SEP1927 und ASTM E588) stehen Möglichkeiten zur nichtinvasiven Beurteilung des zu untersuchenden Werkstoffes, in verschiedenen Qualitätsstufen bis zu einer Vergleichsfehlergröße von bis zu 300 Mikrometer zur Verfügung. Allerdings ist der realistische Nachweis und die Beurteilung von künstlichen sowie von natürlichen Fehlern kleiner 500 Mikrometer nur unter optimalen Voraussetzungen (bspw. Wahl des Prüfkopfes, Geometrie des Prüfobjektes, orts- bzw. zeitliche Auflösung der Messdatenaufnahme) und unter Einsatz von geeigneten Signalverarbeitungsalgorithmen möglich. Im Rahmen von Ringversuchen wurden daher verschiedene Methoden zur Aufbereitung der zu erfassenden Messdaten entwickelt und an verschiedenen Bauteilgeometrieen und Werkstoffen getestet. Dabei stellten sich der spektrale Tiefenausgleich (SDAC) und die nichtlineare Bewertung einzelner Frequenzkomponenten des Nutzsignals als sehr vielversprechend heraus und die Nachweisbarkeit kleiner Fehler - im Bereich von 100 - 500 μm - konnte erfolgreich gesteigert werden.
Regelwerke zur zerstörungsfreien Bestimmung des Reinheitsgrades wie das SEP 1927 und die ASTM E588 erreichen ihre Vergleichbarkeit unter Anwendung von - vergleichsweise einfachen - Referenzfehlern. Hinsichtlich Realisierbarkeit wird somit der Kompromiss zwischen Herstellung des Referenzfehlers und der erreichbaren Nachweisgrenze gefunden.
Zur Weiterentwicklung über die Grenzen der SEP1927 hinaus, wurde der Versuch unternommen Fehler kleiner 500 μm herzustellen - welche aufgrund der geringen geometrischen Ausdehnung fertigungsbedingt schwierig zu realisieren sind. Bei den vergleichenden Untersuchungen kristallisierten sich zwei Fertigungsverfahren, Funkenerosion (EDM: electrical discharge maching) und die Fertigung der Bohrungen unter Verwendung eines Hochleistungslasers, als vielversprechend heraus. Zunächst wurden die Fehler mit beiden Verfahren in unterschiedlichen Größen (100, 250 und 100 μm) und Tiefen (1, 1,5 und 2 mm) unter Anwendung von computertomographischen Verfahren der Röntgenprüfung, die Geometrie der eingebrachten Fehlstellen und anschließend durch hochauflösende Tauchtechnikmessungen das Reflektionsverhalten charakterisiert.
Structural Health Monitoring (SHM) is an important part of buildings surveillance and maintenance to detect material failure as early as possible and to contribute in protection of structures and their users.
The implementation of Radio Frequency Identification (RFID) sensor systems without cable connection and battery into building components offers innovative possibilities to enable long-term in-situ SHM of addressed structures, bridges. The objectives of the presented study are complete embedding of RFID sensors systems in concrete, full passive communication with the systems, at best for the whole life span of structures. One challenge for this task is the highly alkaline environment in concrete, which requires non-degrading and robust encapsulation. Further Requirements are passive communication and energy supply, appropriate antenna design, placement and fixation in concrete, and the selection and implementation of sensors and connections. The concept is to develop and optimize a simple and robust system, which meets the requirements, as well as comprehensive validation in concrete specimen and real world applications. Two different systems were developed (HF and UHF RFID, respectively).
First tasks were the implementation of analog sensors using the superposition principle for the signal adaption. Investigation of suitable materials for robust encapsulation and sensor protection against basic environments.
Four materials were investigated in pH 13 solution for 14 days
- 3D-Printer-Polymer was completely resolved
- PVC has no noticeable decrease in weight
- (VitaPro) glass filter for the sensor protector, has weight loss 2.7 %
- The epoxy resin has increased by 1.8 % due to moisture expansion
Different concrete samples were prepared for the validation of the systems.
RFID sensors were embedded in different integration depths. Investigate the energy- and data transfer through concrete, also with varying moisture content. Additionally, signal strength data was used to optimize and validate the antenna characteristics in concrete. Next steps are to guarantee a sufficient energy supply for UHF RFID systems embedded in different concrete mixtures and further embedding the HF and UHF RFID systems in real bridges and buildings to validate the long term monitoring.
NSO-Heterocyclen (NSO-H) finden sich zusammen mit polycyklischen aromatischen Kohlenwasserstoffen (PAK) überwiegend an Teer- und Teeröl kontaminierten Standorten
im Boden und Grundwasser.
NSO-H sind ähnlich toxisch wie PAK, aber polarer und damit hydrophiler. Da NSO-H an kontaminierten Standorten lediglich einen geringen Anteil des Schadstoffinventars
ausmachen, wurde ihnen in der Vergangenheit wenig Aufmerksamkeit zuteil und sie werden im Gegensatz zu PAK nicht routinemäßig erfasst.
Aufgrund ihrer teilweise ausgeprägten Persistenz und der vergleichsweisen guten Wasserlöslichkeit bilden sie trotz der eher geringen Anfangskonzentrationen große
Schadstofffahnen mit geringen Konzentrationen aus. Mikrobielle Abbauprozesse bewirken dabei im Verlauf der Fahne Veränderungen der Anteile der Einzelsubstanzen
zueinander. In der Nähe des Schadensherdes dominieren meist PAK, im Abstrom sinkt deren Konzentration allerdings schneller, so dass hier die NSO-H die dominierende Schadstoffgruppe darstellen. Auf Grund des unterschiedlichen Abbauverhaltens kann die NSO-HBelastung
über den PAK Summenparameter nicht zuverlässig bestimmt werden.
Currently research in chemical manufacturing moves towards flexible plug-and-play approaches focusing on modular plants, capable of producing small scales on-demand with short down-times between individual campaigns. This approach allows for efficient use of hardware, a faster optimization of the process conditions, and thus, an accelerated introduction of new products to the market. Driven mostly by the search for chemical syntheses under biocompatible conditions, so-called “click” chemistry rapidly became a growing field of research. The resulting simple one-pot reactions are so far only scarcely accompanied by an adequate optimization via comparably straightforward and robust analysis techniques. Here we report on a fast and reliable calibration-free online high field NMR monitoring approach for technical mixtures. It combines a versatile fluidic system, continuous-flow measurement with a time interval of 20 s per spectrum, and a robust, automated algorithm to interpret the obtained data. All spectra were acquired using a 500 MHz NMR spectrometer (Varian) with a dual band flow probe having a 1/16 inch polymer tubing working as a flow cell. Single scan 1H spectra were recorded with an acquisition time of 5 s, relaxation delay of 15 s. As a proof-of-concept, the thiol-ene coupling between N-boc cysteine methyl ester and allyl alcohol was conducted in non-deuterated solvents while its time-resolved behaviour was characterised with step tracer experiments
Through the application of spectral modeling the signal area for each reactant can be deconvoluted in the online spectra and thus converted to the respective concentrations or molar ratios. The signals which were suitable for direct integration were used herein for comparison purposes of both methods.
Parameters of TiO2 coatings can greatly influence their final performance in largescale applications such as photocatalytic measurements, orthopedic and/or dental prostheses, cell cultures, and dye-sensitized solar cells. From different film deposition procedures, self-assembly of TiO2 NPs in multiple layers was selected for systematic characterization. EDX, AES and ToF-SIMS analysis have been carried out in order to evaluate the functionalization of several types of TiO2 NPs differing in size, shape and surface area.
The synthesis of TiO2 nanoplatelets with fluorine-containing reactants is carried out using titanium (IV) butoxide as precursor and concentrated HF as shape controller, the final product requires a working up in order to eliminate or at least to reduce the amount of residual fluorides, which is realized here by well-defined thermal treatment of the samples. Bulk and surface sensitive methods namely scanning electron microscopy with energydispersive X-ray spectroscopy (SEM-EDX), Auger electron spectroscopy (AES) and time-of-flight secondary ion mass spectrometry (ToF-SIMS) have been applied to trace the presence of any fluorides in dependence on different information depths and measurement sensitivities of these methods.
Although there are many experimental techniques for measuring particle sizes and size distributions, electron microscopy (EM) is still considered as the gold standard in this field, especially when it comes to particle sizes in the nanorange (1 nm – 100 nm). Furthermore, high-resolution X-ray spectroscopy (EDS) can be applied to individual nanoparticles. To be able to extract accurate information from the EM micrographs and EDS elemental maps that are representative for the material under investigation, one needs to assure the representativity of the particles as sampled on the substrate and their homogeneous spatial distribution, to avoid operator bias when selecting the imaged area. Furthermore, agglomeration should be avoided as far as possible. Several sample preparation techniques exist since a long time, the most common way being suspending the particles in a liquid and depositing them on the grid. However, this procedure includes the drying of larger solvent amounts on the substrate itself, which can affect the spatial distribution of the deposited particles. One possibility to overcome this problem is the use of an electrospray system, where the suspension of particles is sprayed onto the substrate in charged droplets that are so small that they either dry off on the substrate immediately without affecting the position of particles, or even already during their flight time to the substrate. No dedicated commercial instruments are available for the preparation of TEM grids yet, only electrostatic deposition of aerosols on TEM grids has been reported so far. To test the prototype and assess its performance, several materials have been sprayed onto TEM grids and the resulting particle distributions were compared to more traditional sample preparation strategies like the “drop on grid” method. Operation parameters such as the sample flow-rate, capillary – substrate distance, electric field strength and sampling period length have been optimised. It was found that the particles deposited by electrospray generally show a much more homogeneous spatial distribution on the substrate and a substantial increase of the number of single particles, which are much better suited to an automatic image evaluation procedure than the agglomerated particles observed otherwise. The applicability of the technique to a broad range of materials is demonstrated by various examples, but also the influence of the substrate, the choice of the particular TEM grid, on the obtained spatial particle distribution is assessed.
The motivation of this work is to produce thin films perovskite solar cells with constant high light conversion efficiency over time. Loss of efficiency may be caused by structural and/or chemical alterations of the complex layered system. As these changes might take place either in the bulk and/or on the surface of the stratified material, analytical tools addressing both key issues are selected and combined. SEM/EDS combined with XPS were chosen as appropriate methodical approach to characterise perovskite laboratory cells in depth and complementary on top, before and after light exposure. The layered perovskite system investigated here is based on glass covered with fluorine doped tin oxide (FTO), followed by three porous thin films of TiO2, ZrO2 and a thick monolithic carbon. The TiO2 film is subdivided into a dense layer covered by a porous one constituted of nanoparticles with a truncated bipyramidal shape. This layered system serves as the matrix for the perovskite. After infiltration of perovskite solution and annealing, EDS
spectral maps on cross-sections of the specimen have been measured. The distribution of relevant
elements – Si, Sn, Ti, Zr and C – correlates conclusively with layers visible in the acquired SEM images. Lead and iodine are distributed throughout the porous layers C, ZrO2 and TiO2. Specimens were exposed to ambient daylight for 7 weeks. In a SEM micrograph taken of the cross-section of a sample after illumination, the glass substrate and all layers FTO, TiO2, ZrO2 as well as C are clearly identified. EDS data have been acquired under the same measurement conditions as before the illumination. It was found that several weeks of ambient daylight did not change significantly the qualitative elemental composition of lead and iodine throughout the solar cell system. It was confirmed with EDS that nanoparticles identified in high-resolution SEM micrographs contain mainly Pb and I, indicating these to be the perovskite
crystals. However, a time-dependent compositional and chemical altering was observed with XPS for the near-surface region of the outermost ~10 nm after 2 months of illumination.