Fatigue Life Predictions for a European Pavement Test Section Subjected to Individual and Platoon Truck Configurations

2022 ◽  
pp. 036119812110654
Author(s):  
Paulina Leiva-Padilla ◽  
Juliette Blanc ◽  
Aitor Salgado ◽  
Ferhat Hammoum ◽  
Pierre Hornych
Keyword(s):  
Traffic Congestion ◽  
Fatigue Behavior ◽  
Time Of Day ◽  
Automotive Sector ◽  
Road Maintenance ◽  
Traffic Distribution ◽  
Operational Costs ◽  
Scale Test ◽  
Life Predictions ◽  
Real Scale

Truck platooning for the transportation of loads is a strategy recently proposed by the automotive sector to cope with traffic congestion, fuel consumption, and operational costs. This new way of configuring trucks changes the typical pressures pavements structures experience. For this reason, the research efforts of the pavement sector should be aligned with the automotive sector to propose road-friendly platoon configurations. This is one of the objectives of the European project ENSEMBLE. ENSEMBLE, as indicated by its acronym, works on ENabling SafE Multi-Brand pLatooning for Europe. In this context, the present study presents a real scale test done in the Applus IDIADA facilities to evaluate the fatigue behavior of a pavement structure subjected to individual and platoon truck configurations. The effects of parameters such as traffic distribution through the year and by time of day, percentage of platoons, truck loads, number of trucks in platoon configuration, lateral wandering, and inter-truck distances were evaluated. The study’s findings revealed that the reduced rest times between trucks in the platoon configuration reduce the recovery time of the asphalt layers, increasing the fatigue damage to the pavement at high temperature conditions. This underlines the need for further research to allow the proper implementation of truck platoons. For example, research is needed to define strategies to make truck platoon configurations more pavement-friendly and analyze the costs associated with the changes in the required road maintenance/rehabilitation treatments, among others.

Fatigue behavior and life predictions of thermally oxidized Ti6Al4V alloy according to oxidation parameters

2021 ◽  
pp. 105737
Author(s):  
Gustavo Dória Lima ◽  
Brenno Lima Nascimento ◽  
Isau de Souza Alves Júnior ◽  
Matheus Porto Trindade ◽  
Sandro Griza
Keyword(s):  
Fatigue Behavior ◽  
Ti6al4v Alloy ◽  
Life Predictions ◽  
Oxidation Parameters

Prediction of Vehicular Traffic Flow using Levenberg-Marquardt Artificial Neural Network Model: Italy Road Transportation System

2022 ◽  
Vol 24 (2) ◽  
pp. E74-E86
Author(s):  
Isaac Oyeyemi Olayode ◽  
Alessandro Severino ◽  
Tiziana Campisi ◽  
Lagouge Kwanda Tartibu
Keyword(s):  
Neural Network ◽  
Artificial Neural Network ◽  
Traffic Flow ◽  
Traffic Control ◽  
Traffic Congestion ◽  
Autonomous Vehicles ◽  
Time Of Day ◽  
Vehicle Speed ◽  
Road Transportation ◽  
Artificial Neural

In the last decades, the Italian road transport system has been characterized by severe and consistent traffic congestion and in particular Rome is one of the Italian cities most affected by this problem. In this study, a LevenbergMarquardt (LM) artificial neural network heuristic model was used to predict the traffic flow of non-autonomous vehicles. Traffic datasets were collected using both inductive loop detectors and video cameras as acquisition systems and selecting some parameters including vehicle speed, time of day, traffic volume and number of vehicles. The model showed a training, test and regression value (R2) of 0.99892, 0.99615 and 0.99714 respectively. The results of this research add to the growing body of literature on traffic flow modelling and help urban planners and traffic managers in terms of the traffic control and the provision of convenient travel routes for pedestrians and motorists.

Fatigue Behaviour of Dented Pipes Under Internal Pressure: A Numerical-Experimental Approach

2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
Mario A. Polanco-Loria ◽  
Håvar Ilstad
Keyword(s):  
Fatigue Life ◽  
Internal Pressure ◽  
Fatigue Behavior ◽  
Crack Depth ◽  
Fatigue Behaviour ◽  
Experimental Methodology ◽  
Experimental Program ◽  
Metal Loss ◽  
Life Predictions ◽  
Dent Depth

This work presents a numerical-experimental methodology to study the fatigue behavior of dented pipes under internal pressure. A full-scale experimental program on dented pipes containing gouges were achieved. Two types of defects were studied: metal loss (plain dent) and sharp notch. Both defects acting independently reduce the fatigue life performance but their combination is highly detrimental and must be avoided. We did not find a severity threshold (e.g. dent depth or crack depth) where these defects could coexist. In addition, based on numerical analyses we proposed a new expression for stress concentration factor (SCF) in line with transversal indentation. This information was successfully integrated into a simple fatigue model where the fatigue life predictions were practically inside the window of experimental results.

Predicting the Fatigue Life of Long Dents in Petroleum Pipelines

2002 ◽  
Author(s):  
Adam J. Rinehart ◽  
Peter B. Keating
Keyword(s):  
Fatigue Life ◽  
Fatigue Behavior ◽  
Contact Region ◽  
Laboratory Data ◽  
Prediction Method ◽  
Fatigue Cracking ◽  
Local Stress ◽  
Fatigue Damage Accumulation ◽  
Bending Stresses ◽  
Life Predictions

A full scale experimental study has demonstrated that long, unrestrained pipeline dents typically experience fatigue cracking in the dent contact region and have significantly shorter fatigue lives compared to other dent types studied. Furthermore, these dents often fully reround under normal pipeline operating pressures, making them difficult to reliably detect and assess using existing depth-based approaches. Several conditions unique to the dent contact region accelerate fatigue damage accumulation and are considered in a case-specific long dent fatigue life prediction method. First, the contact region develops significant bending stresses that contribute to a higher rate of fatigue crack growth. Second, history dependent, thru-thickness residual bending stresses that may have a significant influence on fatigue behavior are present in the contact region as a result of plastic deformation associated with dent formation and subsequent rebounding. A method for predicting the fatigue life of long dents that accounts for these factors is presented here and is used to analyze specific cases for which laboratory data is available. Nonlinear finite element modelling of the dent life cycle, including the indentation and rebounding phases, is used to determine local stress range behaviors and residual stress distributions. The application of appropriate fracture mechanics based models of fatigue is discussed and demonstrated. Fatigue life predictions are made on a case by case basis for situations studied in the laboratory so that the validity and accuracy of the approach presented here may be studied.

scholarly journals Calibration of a rockfall simulator with a fragmentation model in a real-scale test

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Gerard Matas Casado ◽  
Nieves Lantada ◽  
Jordi Corominas ◽  
Roger Ruiz-Carulla ◽  
Alber Prades ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Fragmentation Model ◽  
Scale Test ◽  
Real Scale

Fatigue behavior of strain‐hardening cement‐based composites—From the single fiber level to real‐scale application

2019 ◽  
Vol 20 (4) ◽  
pp. 1231-1242
Author(s):  
Steffen Mueller ◽  
Majid Ranjbarian ◽  
Viktor Mechtcherine
Keyword(s):  
Strain Hardening ◽  
Fatigue Behavior ◽  
Single Fiber ◽  
Real Scale

scholarly journals Fire Behavior of Electrical Installations in Buildings

Energies ◽  
2020 ◽  
Vol 13 (23) ◽  
pp. 6433
Author(s):  
Jadwiga Fangrat ◽  
Katarzyna Kaczorek-Chrobak ◽  
Bartłomiej K. Papis
Keyword(s):  
Heat Release ◽  
Fire Safety ◽  
Fire Behavior ◽  
Construction Materials ◽  
Safety Evaluation ◽  
Electrical Circuit ◽  
Scale Test ◽  
Fire Properties ◽  
Real Scale ◽  
Electrical Installation

Electrical installations are a significant component of fire load inside a building, although they are often neglected in the overall fire safety analysis and are not subjected to any kind of fire safety evaluation of a building. A typical electrical installation unconnected to the mains was experimentally studied using a single burning item (SBI) test apparatus, fixed to two types of popular non-combustible or combustible (wooden-based) backgrounds simulating a typical building internal wall or ceiling. The semi-real scale test showed that poly(vinyl chloride) (PVC) cable, commonly used in installations in buildings in Europe and used in SBI tests, showed high fire properties related to heat release, smoke production and flame spread to other interior elements. The results of the electrical circuit connected to the main measurements carried out showed a significant impact of the heating effect towards the uncovered surface socket, causing the possibility of easy ignition inside the installation. In conclusion, it was found that even a relatively simple and short section of electrical installation resulted in a significant increase in the heat release rate and smoke generation parameters, obtained during the SBI tests, and as a consequence a reduction of one or two reaction to fire euroclasses of construction materials for internal walls.

New Features for Damage Detection and Their Temperature Stability

2015 ◽  
pp. 12-47
Author(s):  
Fahit Gharibnezhad ◽  
Luis Eduardo Mujica Delgado ◽  
Jose Rodellar
Keyword(s):  
Temperature Change ◽  
High Performance ◽  
Environmental Changes ◽  
Temperature Stability ◽  
Environmental Fluctuation ◽  
Low Energy Consumption ◽  
Scale Test ◽  
Signal Processing Methods ◽  
First Time ◽  
Real Scale

This chapter is devoted to present novel techniques in Structural Health Monitoring (SHM). These techniques are based on different statistical and signal processing methods that are used in other fields but their performance and capability in SHM is presented and tested for the first time in this work. This work is dedicated to the first level of SHM, which might be considered the main and most important level. Piezoceramic (PZT) devices are chosen in this work to capture the signals due to their special characteristics such as high performance, low energy consumption and reasonable price. Suggested techniques are tested on different laboratory and real scale test benchmarks. Moreover, this work considers the effect of environmental changes on performance of the presented techniques. This work shows that although those techniques have a significant result in normal conditions, their performance can be affected by any environmental discrepancy such as temperature change. As such, there is a vital need to consider their effect. In this work, temperature change is chosen, as it is one of the main environmental fluctuation factors.

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