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The application range of CPV (composite pressure vessels)
is multifaceted. But also the failure forms and the spectrum of measurement methods is manifold. On various, at BAM observed effects, it is shown why the micromechanical analysis of the composites is of such great interest for the prediction of aging effects of CPVs.
Wasserstoff kann in Überlagerung mit Beanspruchungen zu einem unerwarteten Werkstoffversagen in höherfesten Stählen führen (wasserstoffunterstützte Schädigung von Metallen, starke Abnahme des Verformungsvermögens). In der Schweißtechnik besteht die Gefahr der wasserstoffunterstützten Kaltrissbildung. Die Aufnahme von Wasserstoff während des Schweißens lässt sich gänzlich nicht verhindern. Höherfeste Feinkornbaustähle um 700 MPa werden zunehmend mit unterschiedlichen Legierungskonzepten und Herstellungsrouten produziert. Diese Unterschiede erzeugen ein differentes Gefüge und Aussscheidungscharakteristik bei nominell ähnlichen Festigkeiten. Wichtige Vertreter sind der S690QL und der S700MC. Die Ergebnisse zeigen zum einen eine deutliche Abnahme der mechanisch-technologischen Gütewerte, zum anderen eine differente Degradation durch Wasserstoff. Signifikant ist die Abnahme der wahren Bruchdehnung bei bereits geringen Wasserstoffkonzentrationen unterhalb 4 ppm. Weiterhin wurde das Wasserstoffbindungsverhalten (Trapping) im Grundwerkstoff und im schweißsimulierten Gefüge untersucht. Die Ergebnisse zeigen Unterschiede hinsichtlich der Bindungsenergie und des Fallencharakters. Die Resultate belegen, dass eine Reduzierung des eingebrachten Wasserstoffs unabdingbar ist für einen sicheren Betrieb geschweißter Komponenten aus höherfestem Feinkornbaustahl.
At BAM, which is a federal institute for materials research and testing in Germany, it is one of our tasks to evaluate the safety of casks designed for transport and/or storage of radioactive material. This includes assessment of elastomeric seals applied in the containers. Besides examining the low-temperature behaviour and irradiation effects of elastomeric seals, it is our goal to evaluate the service lifetime of the seals with regard to the requirements for long-term safety (40 years and more) of the containers. Therefore, we started an accelerated ageing programme with selected rubbers often used in seals (HNBR, EPDM and FKM) which are aged at four different temperatures (75 °C, 100 °C, 125 °C and 150 °C) up to 1.5 years. In order to assess sealability, O-rings are aged in compression by 25 % (corresponding to the compression during service) between plates as well as in flanges that allow leakage rate measurements. For comparison, uncompressed O-rings are aged as well. Further methods characterising seal performance are compression stress relaxation (CSR) reflecting the loss of sealing force of a compressed seal over time, and compression set (CS) which represents the recovery behaviour of a seal after release from compression. In order to understand the underlying ageing mechanisms in each material, the change in material properties is examined using thermal and mechanical analysis. The experimental results indicate that while material properties, CSR and CS show considerable degradation effects, the leakage rate stays constant or even decreases until shrinkage and the loss of resilience of the aged seal leads to the formation of a leakage path. This indicates that static leakage rate, which is the most relevant criterion for seal performance, has only limited sensitivity for the degradation of the seal material.
Industrial quality control (QC) nowadays requires the visualization of surface modifications from the macro-scopic to the microscopic or even nanoscopic scale. This is a prerequisite to the evaluation of functionality and reliability, the detection of defects and their separation of artefacts. The diversity of applications ranges from low-E glazings and solar panels, micro- and optoelectronics, micro- and smart devices to sensor-on-chip and lab-on-chip systems [1]. Optical microcopy (light, confocal laser scanning, white light interference) as established QC-tool is operated at normal incidence, i.e. p- and s-polarization are undistinguishable. Either light-intensity in terms of grey scale and colour or intensity-correlated effects of phase shifts are used. In case of ellipsometry, operated at oblique incidence, p- and s-polarization matter, and amplitude ratios and phase shifts upon reflection are measured. Hence, information content must be much higher.
The visualization of surface modifications may be very challenging for coating/substrate systems of either al-most identical optical constants, e.g. transparent films on substrates of the same material, or minor film thick-ness, substance quantity and affected area, e.g. ultra-thin or island films. Ellipsometry gives access to the con-trast of intensity (I), amplitude ratio (Ψ), and phase shift (Δ) with nanometer-scaled vertical and micrometer-scaled lateral sensitivity, one is able to identify tiny changes within an unmodified surface. As both mapping ellipsometry (ME) and imaging ellipsometry (IE) are operated in the optical far-field, surface inspection is also possible on the macroscopic scale. Near the Brewster-angle of the bare, undamaged, clean, and fresh substrate, the contrast to add-on and sub-off features is superior.
Fig. 1 shows three examples of ellipsometric imaging, i.e. a thin SnO:Ni film on SiO2/Si (Fig. 1a), a dried stain of an anti-body solution on cyclo-olefin-polymer (COP) shown in Fig. 1b, and a polyimide film residue on SiO2/Si (Fig. 1c). For all of these examples, ellipsometry provides much better contrast between substrate and surface modification than optical microscopy, sometimes primarily caused by the oblique incidence (Figs. 1a and 1c), in other cases related to the phase sensitivity of ellipsometry (Fig. 1b). Other examples are laser surface modifications and the corrosion of glass. In these cases, optical microscopy and IE yield to similar results, how-ever only ellipsometry gives access to modelling.
Further investigated coating/substrate systems are 100Cr6 steel, native oxide on silicon, borosilicate glass, and the polymer polycarbonate with deposited films of graphene and ta-C:H, printed and dried pattern of liquids such as water, cleaning agents, and dissolved silicone. Besides imaging ellipsometry, referenced spectral ellipsometry (RSE) has been applied, combining the advantages of both optical microscopy (fast measurement) and ellipsometry (high sensitivity to tiny modifications).
At BAM, which is a federal institute for materials research and testing in Germany, it is our responsibility to evaluate the safety of casks designed for transport and/or storage of radio-active material. This includes assessment of the elastomeric seals applied in the containers. Besides examining the low-temperature behaviour of elastomeric seals, it is our goal to evaluate the service lifetime of the seals with regard to the requirements for long-term safety (40 years and more) of the containers. Therefore, we started an ageing programme with selected rubbers (HNBR, EPDM and FKM) which are oven-aged at four different temperatures (75 °C, 100 °C, 125 °C and 150 °C) up to 1.5 years. In order to assess sealability, O-rings are aged in compression by 25 % (corresponding to the compression during service) between plates as well as in flanges that allow leakage rate measurements. For comparison, uncompressed O-rings are aged as well. Further methods characterising seal performance are compression stress relaxation (CSR) reflecting the loss of sealing force of a compressed seal over time, and compression set (CS) which represents the recovery behaviour of a seal after release from compression. Many other properties, e.g. hardness or glass transition temperature, are influenced in opposite directions by crosslinking and chain scission reactions during ageing. By contrast, CSR and CS are influenced additively by each reaction type, as crosslinking leads to the formation of network chains that are in equilibrium with the compressed geometry, and broken chains lose their recovery potential and their contribution to the sealing force. The experimental results indicate that while CSR and CS show considerable degradation effects, the leakage rate stays constant or even decreases until shrinkage and the loss of resilience of the aged sample leads to the formation of a leak path.
Hydrogen can cause unexpected material failure under consideration of stresses (external/internal) during manufacturing, processing or service of the materials. This failure is mostly based on a certain degradation of the mechanical properties. Thus, the correlation of hydrogen trapping vs. a respective microstructure is necessary for high strength steels. Thus, the scope of this work is the improvement of existing hydrogen trap models by verification of activation energies for hydrogen traps as well as the influence of the determination method. In this scope, the thermal desorption method is appropriate to distinguish between different hydrogen traps. Nevertheless, the specimen temperature has to be accounted very carefully in case of calculating the necessary trap energy.