@inproceedings{NonnMarx, author = {Nonn, Aida and Marx, P.}, title = {Validated Multiphysics Modeling For Advanced Pipeline Integrity Management}, series = {ADIPEC, November 4-7, 2024, Abu Dhabi, UAE}, booktitle = {ADIPEC, November 4-7, 2024, Abu Dhabi, UAE}, organization = {Society of Petroleum Engineers}, doi = {10.2118/222279-MS}, abstract = {The aim of this paper is to present practical steps for utilizing a validated multiphysics approach for fracture control in CO2 pipelines within the framework of Carbon Capture Transport and Storage (CCTS). Ensuring the arrest of running ductile fracture (RDF) is a crucial safety requirement for the transportation of dense-phase CO2. However, current standards rely on outdated and restrictive methods, imposing severe limitations on pipeline material and structural design. As a result, projects that fall outside these standards face the need for extremely costly tests, often leading to delays or cancellations of CCTS initiatives. This study introduces an advanced, validated, fully-coupled fluid-structure interaction (FSI) model designed to accurately predict fracture propagation in CO2 pipelines. A key advantage of this approach is its use of robust and reproducible calibration and validation procedures combined with high-quality material characterization data. The full coupling of structural, fluid, and backfill models is essential for obtaining precise results, not only in determining arrest occurrence but also in analyzing properties such as fracture velocity history, 3D pressure distributions behind the propagating crack, wall thinning, and crack tip opening angle. The FSI model has demonstrated its value as a cost-effective tool for safety assessments, enabling the development of fracture control plans that specify minimum required material properties and fluid compositions for optimized pipeline design, both onshore and offshore. Additionally, performing virtual studies with the parameterized FSI model enables the generation of synthetic data for training and validating a machine learning surrogate model. This surrogate model can be integrated into industrial practices, facilitating the application of multiphysics modeling without the need for extensive expertise.}, language = {en} } @article{QiaoGradNonn, author = {Qiao, Yu and Grad, Marius and Nonn, Aida}, title = {Toward an Efficient and Robust Process-Structure Prediction Framework for Filigree L-PBF 316L Stainless Steel Structures}, series = {Metals}, volume = {15}, journal = {Metals}, number = {7}, publisher = {MDPI}, issn = {2075-4701}, doi = {10.3390/met15070812}, pages = {22}, abstract = {Additive manufacturing (AM), particularly laser powder bed fusion (L-PBF), provides unmatched design flexibility for creating intricate steel structures with minimal post-processing. However, adopting L-PBF for high-performance applications is difficult due to the challenge of predicting microstructure evolution. This is because the process is sensitive to many parameters and has a complex thermal history. Thin-walled geometries present an added challenge because their dimensions often approach the scale of individual grains. Thus, microstructure becomes a critical factor in the overall integrity of the component. This study focuses on applying cellular automata (CA) modeling to establish robust and efficient process-structure relationships in L-PBF of 316L stainless steel. The CA framework simulates solidification-driven grain evolution and texture development across various processing conditions. Model predictions are evaluated against experimental electron backscatter diffraction (EBSD) data, with additional quantitative comparisons based on texture and morphology metrics. The results demonstrate that CA simulations calibrated with relevant process parameters can effectively reproduce key microstructural features, including grain size distributions, aspect ratios, and texture components, observed in thin-walled L-PBF structures. This work highlights the strengths and limitations of CA-based modeling and supports its role in reliably designing and optimizing complex L-PBF components.}, language = {en} } @phdthesis{Wiesent, author = {Wiesent, Lisa}, title = {Numerical analysis of laser powder bed fused stents made of 316L stainless steel considering process-related geometric irregularities}, address = {Regensburg}, doi = {10.5283/epub.53139}, url = {http://nbn-resolving.de/urn:nbn:de:bvb:355-epub-531392}, pages = {XIV, 115, CXV-CXXXI}, abstract = {Re-narrowing of a coronary vessel after stent implantation, known as in-stent restenosis (ISR), is a predominant problem in the treatment of atherosclerosis. ISR is caused, e.g., by vessel wall injury during stent implantation, malpositioning, over- or undersizing of the stent, and associated adverse alteration of natural blood flow. Advances in metal additive manufacturing, particularly in laser powder bed fusion (L-PBF), are enabling the generation of micro-scale L-PBF lattice structures and thus potentially coronary stents. By enabling new or even patient-specific stent designs, L-PBF stents could improve the conformity of the implanted stent and the vessel wall, thus potentially reducing ISR rates in the future. Research in the field of L-PBF stents is still in its early stages. Previous studies have mainly focused on the analysis of stent design requirements and basic functionality of L-BF stents. Studies regarding the determination of the specific mechanical behavior of L-PBF stents but also regarding their numerical analysis are currently not available. Due to their similar topology, L-PBF stents resemble L-PBF lattice structures with a low structural density. Therefore, it is reasonable to transfer the findings in the field of L-PBF lattice structures to L-PBF stents. L-PBF lattice structures exhibit process-related geometric irregularities that (negatively) affect their morphology and their mechanical behavior. Therefore, for an accurate (numerical) evaluation of L-PBF lattice structures and thus of L-PBF stents, their mechanical behavior must be determined first, and the influence of the process-related geometric irregularities must be analyzed or considered within the numerical models. Furthermore, the mechanical and morphological behavior of filigree L-PBF stents can be altered by post-processing steps (surface, heat treatment). However, studies on L-PBF lattice structures are mainly limited to as-built structures. Therefore, the aim of this doctoral thesis is to determine the effects of L-PBF process-related geometric irregularities and different post-processing conditions on the mechanical behavior of L-PBF 316L stents, as well as to develop a numerical methodology for their numerical evaluation. In a first step, a finite element analysis (FEA) for the prediction of stent deformation during crimping and expansion was developed and validated using extensive experimental data from conventionally manufactured stents. These models accurately predicted the expansion behavior of two different stent designs with different expansion behavior, as well as different positioning of the stent on the balloon catheter. In the second step, the mechanical behavior of L-PBF 316L was determined using uniaxial tensile tests on standard flat tensile specimens with variable specimen thickness and orientation angle. For each specimen configuration, as-built and heat treated specimens were considered. In the as-built condition, besides the anisotropic mechanical properties of L-PBF 316L already known from the literature, a significant increase in strength with increasing specimen thickness was observed, which stagnated at a specimen thickness of t > 1.5 mm, thus reaching a saturation value. Heat treatment resulted in homogenization but no recrystallization of the microstructure. Thus, the melt pool boundaries and substructures were dissolved, and residual stresses were reduced, whereas the elongated and oriented grains and thus the anisotropic microstructure were preserved. Accordingly, the specimen thickness- and direction-dependent mechanical properties of L-PBF 316L were still observed after heat treatment. Thus, for a reliable structural mechanical evaluation of L-PBF parts, their mechanical properties must be determined using test specimens that are comparable in size, orientation angle, and post-treatment condition to the later L-PBF part. In a final step, the mechanical behavior of L-PBF stents was determined and the expansion behavior of L-PBF stents under different post-processing conditions was evaluated by FEAs. The generation of L-PBF miniature tensile specimens of comparable cross section to stent struts and their experimental evaluation is challenging and highly error-prone. Therefore, a combined experimental-numerical approach was developed for the inverse determination of the mechanical behavior of L-PBF 316L stents based on experimental testing and FEA of uniaxial compression of L-PBF stents. The stent models were reconstructed from computed tomography (CT) scans of real L-PBF stents. In this way, process-related geometric irregularities were depicted enabling an accurate prediction of the stent structure-property relationship. Thus, the macroscopic mechanical behavior of L-PBF 316L stents could be determined for the first time and subsequently described numerically by a material model. Morphological analysis of the L-PBF stents further revealed significant discrepancies between the actual L-PBF stents and its computed aided design (CAD) model due to process-related geometric irregularities (surface roughness, strut waviness, enlarged and inhomogeneous strut diameters, internal defects). Numerical expansion analysis of the L-PBF stent models showed that L-PBF stents can exhibit comparable expansion behavior to conventional stents only after surface and heat treatment. However, subsequent analysis of deformation and stress states showed that L-PBF stents, both in the as-built condition and after surface and heat treatment, may exhibit critical local stress/strain concentrations, especially in the areas of pronounced geometric irregularities. Improvements in the L-PBF process, post-processing steps, and stent design are therefore essential to minimize process-related geometric irregularities and thus their strength-reducing effects, ultimately ensuring the structural safety of L-PBF stents. One possible improvement approach is to manufacture the stents on special ยต-L-PBF systems that have explicitly been optimized to produce filigree structures. In this way, a higher geometric accuracy and low surface roughness could already be achieved in the as-built condition of L-PBF stents, and the subsequent required surface treatment could be reduced to a minimum. Furthermore, the fatigue strength, the damage behavior, the interaction of the stent with the blood vessel as well as the biocompatibility of L-PBF 316L stents should be investigated. To effectively use numerical models for the development of L-PBF stents, the potential of synthetic L-PBF stent models should also be investigated. The synthetic stent models represent a statistics-based modification of the original stent CAD model (e.g., local variations of strut cross section along strut length). In this way, the effects of L-PBF process-related geometric irregularities could be represented statistically and thus without explicit reconstruction from CT scans. The development of L-PBF stents is a very complex interdisciplinary task in the fields of manufacturing technology, material science, design development and numerical simulation. To establish L-PBF as a reliable alternative to conventional stent fabrication, further research in this area is essential. By providing a method to determine the mechanical properties of L-PBF stents as well as their numerical analysis, this doctoral thesis could contribute to the further development of L-PBF 316L stents, as well as define necessary research aspects for further work.}, language = {en} }