Division 5.3

Service Loading Fatigue and Structural Integrity

Fatigue and fracture mechanics tests on specimens as well as on components in a wide range of conditions
Assessment of the influence of materials selection, design, manufacturing, service and loading conditions on the service loading fatigue reliability of components and systems as well as damage evaluation
Analysis and development of constitutive law, damage models and failure concepts as well as their implementation into finite element codes
Simulation of the behaviour of specimens and components including damage behaviour under inelastic loading

20 MN universal testing machine

Equipment and methods of investigation

Servo-hydraulic and servo-mechanical testing machines as well as single test cylinders with load capacities between 10 kN and 20 MN
Rotating bending facilities with momentum up to 120 Nm
Electrodynamic shakers for 100 N up to 26 kN maximum force
Instrumented Charpy testing machines from 50 J up to 750 J
Finite element codes ADINA and ABAQUS on RISC workstations

Service

2011-01-05

Division 5.3

Dr.-Ing.
Dietmar Klingbeil
Unter den Eichen 87
12205 Berlin
phone:
+49 30 8104-1530
email:
Dietmar.Klingbeil@bam.de

Secretariat
Unter den Eichen 87
12205 Berlin
phone:
+49 30 8104-1539
fax:
+49 30 8104-1537

Fracture Mechanics and Structural Integrity

Service Loading Fatigue

Failure Analysis

Component Safety in Energy Technology