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Le procédé Smart CutTM, utilisé pour le transfert de films minces sur substrat est basé sur la fissuration du silicium. La propagation des fissures est initiée à partir de défauts bidimensionnels induits par implantation d'hydrogène, les « H-platelets ». Des études précédentes ont montré que la fissuration du Si peut également être obtenue à partir de défauts nommés « He-plates » qui ont la particularité d'avoir un diamètre dix fois supérieur. L'objectif de ce travail était d'étudier la formation de ces défauts et leur évolution sous flux d'hydrogène jusqu'à la propagation des fissures. Dans une première partie, la formation des « He-plates » a été étudiée pour différentes orientations de substrats et discutée par rapport à la contrainte compressive bi-axiale induite par l'implantation. Les résultats montrent que les mécanismes qui gouvernent la formation des « He-plates » sont les mêmes que pour les « H-platelets ». Dans une seconde partie, l'évolution des « He-plates » en présence d'H a été étudiée en utilisant une approche expérimentale originale qui couple implantations d'hydrogène et observations par microscopie électronique en transmission. Les expériences montrent que la croissance des « He-plates » est gouvernée par la diffusion de l'hydrogène qui dépend de la température et du taux d'endommagement. Enfin, leur croissance est décrite à l'aide d'un modèle cinétique et, leur coalescence a été analysée en relation avec un modèle élastique. La propagation rectiligne de fissures à partir de ces précurseurs offre des perspectives intéressantes pour une utilisation industrielle. / The Smart CutTM process, used in the transfer of thin films on substrates is based on the cracking of silicon. The crack propagation is initiated from bi-dimensional defects induced by H-implantation, the H-platelets. Previous studies showed that the propagation of cracks in Si can also be triggered from defects named He-plates which have the particular feature of having a diameter ten times larger. The aim of this work was to study the formation of these defects and their evolution until the crack propagation under H supply.In a first part, the formation of He-plates was studied for different substrate orientations and discussed regarding the bi-axial compressive stress induced by implantation. Results show that the mechanisms that govern the He-plate formation are the same than for H-platelet formation. In a second part, the evolution of He-plates under H supply was studied by using an original experimental approach that combines H-implantation and transmission electron microscopy observations. Experiments show that the growth of He-plates is controlled by the diffusion of hydrogen which depends on temperature and damage rate. Finally, the growth is described by a kinetic model and their coalescence was analyzed with regard to an elastic model. The straight propagation of cracks from He-plates offers promising outlook for an industrial use.

Indiana University-Purdue University Indianapolis (IUPUI) / Computational analysis of lithium ion batteries has been improved since Newman and et al. suggested the porous electrode theory. It assumed the electrode as a simple structure of homogeneous spherical particles. Bruggeman relationship which characterizes porous material by a simple equation was adopted in the homogeneous electrode model instead of the electrode morphology. To improve the prediction of a cell performance, the numerical analysis requires the realistic microstructure of the cell. Based on the experimentally determined microstructure of the positive and negative electrodes of a lithium ion battery (LIB) using x-ray micro/nano-CT technology, three dimensional (3D) simulations have been presented in this research. Tortuosity of the microstructures has been calculated by a linear diffusion equation to characterize the 3D morphology. The obtained tortuosity and porosity results pointed out that the Bruggeman relationship is not sufficiently estimate the tortuosity by the porosity of electrodes. We studied the diffusion-induced stress numerically based on realistic morphology of reconstructed particles during the lithium ion intercalation process. Diffusion-induced stresses were simulated at different C rates under galvonostatic conditions and compared with spherical particles. The simulation results showed that the intercalation stresses of particles depend on their geometric characteristics. The highest von Mises stress and tresca stress in a real particle are several times higher than the stresses in a spherical particle with the same volume. With the reconstructed positive electrode structure, local effects in the LIB cathode electrode during galvanostatic discharge process have been studied. The simulation results reported that large current density usually occurs at the joints between cathode active material particles and in the small channels in electrolyte, which will generate high electric joule power. By using the 3D real image of a LIB cathode electrode, numerical simulation results revealed that the spatial distribution of variable fields such as concentration, voltage, reaction rate, overpotential, and etc. in the cathode electrode are complicated and non-uniform, especially at high discharge rates.

Mining engineers are tasked with ensuring that underground mining operations be both safe and efficiently productive. Induced stress in deep mines has a significant role in the stability of the underground mines and hence the safety of the mining workplace because the behavior of the rock mass associated with mining-induced seismicity is poorly-understood. Passive seismic tomography is a tool with which the performance of a rock mass can be monitored in a timely manner. Using the tool of passive seismic tomography, the advance rate of operation and mining designs can be updated considering the induced stress level in the abutting rock. Most of our current understanding of rock mass behavior associated with mining-induced seismicity comes from numerical modeling and a limited set of case studies. Therefore, it is critical to continuously monitor the rock mass performance under induced stress. Underground stress changes directly influence the seismic wave velocity of the rock mass, which can be measured by passive seismic tomography. The precise rock mass seismicity can be modeled based on the data recorded by seismic sensors such as geophones of an in-mine microseismic system. The seismic velocity of rock mass, which refers to the propagated P-wave velocity, varies associated with the occurrence of major seismic events (defined as having a local moment magnitude between 2 to 4). Seismic velocity changes in affected areas can be measured before and after a major seismic event in order to determine the highly stressed zones. This study evaluates the seismic velocity trends associated with five major seismic events with moment magnitude of 1.4 at a deep narrow-vein mine in order to recognize reasonable patterns correlated to induced stress redistribution. This pattern may allow recognizing areas and times which are prone to occurrence of a major seismic event and helpful in taking appropriate actions in order to mitigate the risk such as evacuation of the area in abrupt cases and changing the aggressive mine plans in gradual cases. In other words, the high stress zones can be distinguished at their early stage and correspondingly optimizing the mining practices to prevent progression of high stress zones which can be ended to a rock failure. For this purpose a block cave mine was synthetically modeled and numerically analyzed in order to evaluate the capability of the passive seismic tomography in determining the induced stress changes through seismic velocity measurement in block cave mines. Next the same method is used for a narrow vein mine as a case study to determine the velocity patterns corresponding to each major seismic event. / Doctor of Philosophy / Mining activities unbalance the stress distribution underground, which is called mining induced stress. The stability of the underground mines is jeopardized due to accumulation of induced stress thus it is critical for the safety of the miners to prevent excessive induced stress accumulation. Hence it is important to continuously monitor the rock mass performance under the induced stress which can form cracks or slide along the existing discontinuities in rock mass. Cracking or sliding releases energy as the source of the seismic wave propagation in underground rocks, known as a seismic event. The velocity of seismic wave propagation can be recorded and monitored by installing seismic sensors such as geophones underground. The seismic events are similar to earthquakes but on a much smaller scale. The strength of seismic events is measured on a scale of moment magnitude. The strongest earthquakes in the world are around magnitude 9, most destructive earthquakes are magnitude 7 or higher, and earthquakes below magnitude 5 generally do not cause significant damage. The moment magnitude of mining induced seismic events is typically less than 3. In order to monitor mining induced stress variations, the propagated seismic wave velocity in rock mass is measured by a series of mathematical computations on recorded seismic waves called passive seismic tomography, which is similar to the medical CT-scan machine. Seismic wave velocity is like the velocity of the vibrating particles of rock due to the released energy from a seismic event. This study proposes to investigate trends of seismic velocity variations before and after each seismic event. The areas which are highly stressed have higher seismic velocities compared to the average seismic velocity of the entire area. Therefore, early recognition of highly stressed zones, based on the seismic velocity amount prior the occurrence of major seismic events, will be helpful to apply optimization of mining practices to prevent progression of high stress zones which can be ended to rock failures. For this purpose, time-dependent seismic velocity of a synthetic mine was compared to its stress numerically. Then, the seismic data of a narrow vein mine is evaluated to determine the seismic velocity trends prior to the occurrence of at least five major seismic events as the case study.

For the most recent and correct article, please click here: http://ascelibrary.org/doi/abs/10.1061/9780784412787.086 This study examines the use of performance-based approaches in liquefaction hazard analysis. Two new methods of performance-based liquefaction initiation analysis are proposed which use the works of Juang et al. (2012) and Boulanger and Idriss (2012). Further advances are made by incorporating the performance-based magnitude scaling factors as proposed by Cetin et al. (2012). Using these new equations a comparative study is made between the three methods. Further comparisons are made between the performance-based approaches and the more widely used deterministic approaches. The comparisons reveal that on average for the 11 sites used in this study, the performance-based approaches tend to be slightly less conservative than deterministic approaches overall, with large differences possible for some locations in the country. They also reveal that the newer performance-based approaches are generally less conservative than the approach proposed by Kramer and Mayfield (2007). Some cases where this relationship does not hold true and the new relationships are more conservative are outlined.

Um die Leistung und Lebensdauer von energietechnischen Komponenten weiter zu steigern, sind höhere Leistungen, Leistungsdichten sowie Prozesswirkungsgrade zentrale Bestandteile künftiger Entwicklungen. Mit steigernden Leistungsdichten erhöhen sich auch stetig die Belastungen der einzelnen Komponenten. Zusammen mit neuen Werkstoffen und technologischem Fortschritt, wie beispielsweise verbesserten Kühltechnologien oder strömungstechnischen Optimierungen ermöglicht auch eine verbesserte Kenntnis der Belastungsbedingungen und des Schädigungsverhaltens höhere Leistungen und Leistungsdichten. Aktuelle Gasturbinen und oft auch Kraftwerkskomponenten unterliegen zusätzlich zu den mechanischen und zeitlich variablen thermischen Beanspruchungen auch großen örtlichen thermischen Gradienten, die die Lebensdauer der Komponenten stark beeinflussen. Diese thermischen Gradienten induzieren zum einen zusätzliche Beanspruchungen und die örtlich variablen Temperaturfelder führen zum anderen zu stark variierenden Werkstofffestigkeiten. In dieser Arbeit wird ein Prüfstand zur realistischen Prüfung eines typischen Gasturbinenschaufelmaterials Mar-M247 entwickelt und mit diesem eine systematische experimentelle Untersuchung des Einflusses thermischer Gradienten auf die niederzyklische Ermüdungsfestigkeit unter erhöhten Temperaturen durchgeführt. Im weiteren Teil der Arbeit wird ein visko-elasto-plastisches Materialmodell weiterentwickelt, um die lokal unsymmetrische Beanspruchung der Proben unter zyklischer Last realistisch abbilden zu können. Mit Hilfe von Experimenten aus der Literatur werden dabei zunächst die Grenzen und Möglichkeiten des Modells diskutiert, um es dann auf den konkreten Werkstoff anzupassen. Der wesentliche Vorteil des entwickelten Modells liegt in der verbesserten Beschreibung des zyklischen Kriechens und zyklischen Relaxierens (Ratcheting) insbesondere unter einachsiger Beanspruchung und in der nachträglichen Anpassungsmöglichkeit des spezifischen Ratchetingterms nach der Anpassung aller anderen Materialparameter. Die Analyse der experimentell ermittelten Lebensdauern erfolgt sowohl mit ingenieurmäßigen Methoden basierend auf der spannungsabhängigen Lebensdauerbeschreibung nach Basquinund Wöhler als auch mittels eines lokalen bruchmechanischen Ansatzes, der es ermöglicht,sowohl die Rissinitiierung als auch den Rissfortschritt unter variabler Temperatur und kombinierter Kriech- und Ermüdungsbeanspruchung zu beschreiben. Das Material- und Lebensdauermodell werden zusammen im letzten Teil der Arbeit eingesetzt, um das Verformungs- und Lebensdauerverhalten der untersuchten Proben zu berechnenund es kann gezeigt werden, dass sich die Versuche mit sehr guter Qualität wiedergeben lassen.:Versicherung i Abstract iii Kurzfassung v List of abbreviations and symbols xi 1 Introduction 1 2 Objective 5 3 State of the art 7 3.1 Thermal and mechanical loading of gas turbine components . . . . . . . . . . 7 3.2 Material characterisation of nickel-based superalloys . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9 3.3 Deformation modelling based on constitutive material laws . . . . . . . . . . 13 3.3.1 Ramberg-Osgood material law . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 13 3.3.2 Strain and stress tensor . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 14 3.3.3 Thermodynamic principles . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 14 3.4 Elasto-visco-plastic material models . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 15 3.4.1 Isotropic hardening . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 17 3.4.2 Kinematic hardening . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 17 3.4.3 Kinematic hardening for improved simulation of ratcheting . . . . . . 18 3.4.4 Viscosity . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 21 3.5 Failure at elevated temperatures . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 22 3.5.1 Fundamental fatigue life models . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 24 3.5.2 Creep . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 27 3.5.3 Crack growth models for fatigue loading . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 28 3.5.4 Creep crack growth based on C(t) and C ∗ . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 33 3.5.5 Temperature dependency and normalization methods . . . . . . . . . 35 3.5.6 Lifetime under temperature variation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 37 3.5.7 Influence of mean stresses on lifetime . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 38 3.5.8 Influence of oxidation on failure at elevated temperatures . . . . . . . 42 3.5.9 Constitutive damage and crack growth models . . . . . . . . . . . . . 45 3.6 Experimental methods for the generation of large homogeneously distributed heat flux densities . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 51 3.6.1 Resistance heating . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 51 3.6.2 Inductive heating . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 52 3.6.3 Convective heating . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 53 3.6.4 Laser based heating . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 54 3.6.5 Radiation heating . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 54 3.7 Conclusion on the state of the art . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 56 4 Development of a test system for cyclic fatigue tests under homogeneous surface temperature conditions 59 4.1 Boundary conditions for the development . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 59 4.2 Concept for a test system with a new highly focusing heating . . . . . . . . . 60 4.2.1 Simulation of heat fluxes of different furnace geometries by ray-tracing 60 4.3 Definition of reflection and transmission coefficient . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 64 4.3.1 Simulation of the radiation behaviour for the furnace concepts . . . . 66 4.4 Analytical calculation of heat transfer inside the hollow specimen . . . . . . . 71 4.5 Finite element calculation of temperature distribution in the specimen wall . 73 4.6 Design and evaluation of the specimen internal cooling system . . . . . . . . . 75 4.6.1 Installation of heating and development of the load train . . . . . . . 81 5 Experimental investigation 85 5.1 Measurement of surface temperatures and thermal gradients . . . . . . . . . . 87 5.1.1 Measurement of surface temperature . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 87 5.1.2 Axial surface temperature distribution . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 90 5.1.3 Measurement of thermal gradients across specimen wall . . . . . . . . 92 5.2 Results of isothermal ratcheting tests . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 96 5.3 Deformation behaviour of cyclic tests with superimposed thermal gradients . 98 5.3.1 Variation of mean strain and mean stress . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 98 5.4 Termination criteria for the tests . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 100 5.4.1 Measurement of modulus of elasticity . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 101 5.5 Low cycle fatigue life of Mar-M247 with and without superimposed thermal gradient . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 104 5.6 Results of hollow cylindrical specimen testing with thermal gradients . . . . . 108 6 Microstructural investigation 113 7 Deformation modeling with improved ratcheting simulation based on small scale strain theory 123 7.1 Modeling of ratcheting behaviour of Mar-M247 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 123 7.1.1 Improvement of uniaxial ratcheting description for the Armstrong- Frederick-model . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 124 7.1.2 Evaluation of the proposed model for multiaxiality . . . . . . . . . . . 129 7.2 Application of the deformation model on Mar-M247 . . . . . . . . . . . . . 132 8 Lifetime calculation of the nickel-base-superalloy Mar-M247 based on engineering and crack growth methods 139 8.1 Modification of the Krämer crack growth model . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 139 8.2 Choice of basic variable for the fatigue crack growth and crack initiation . . . 140 8.3 Oxidation based crack growth model . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 142 8.4 Creep crack growth . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 148 8.5 Creep . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 149 8.6 Fatigue life . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 152 8.6.1 Extension of the Paris crack growth model based on intrinsic defect size152 8.6.2 Crack length independent formulation of J-integral . . . . . . . . . . . 154 8.7 Combined model for comprehensive description of the crack-initiation and -growth . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 156 8.7.1 Comparison to crack growth experiments . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 161 8.7.2 Comparison to fatigue experiments . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 164 9 Application of material and crack growth model to the experiments with superimposed thermal gradient 167 9.1 Geometry function for the hollow specimen investigated . . . . . . . . . . . . 167 9.2 Application of the crack growth model on non-isothermal tests . . . . . . . . 170 9.2.1 Calculation of the stress strain field of hollow cylindrical specimen subjected to thermally induced stress gradients with the elasto-visco- plastic model . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 172 9.2.2 Calculated crack growth behaviour under locally non-isothermal con- ditions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 176 10 Conclusion and outlook 181 Bibliography 185

The need for modern transportation systems together with the high demand for sustainable pavements under applied loads have led to a great deal of research on concrete pavements worldwide. Development of finite element techniques enabled researchers to analyse the concrete pavement under a combination of axle group loadings and environmental effects. Consequently, mechanistic approaches for designing of concrete pavements were developed based on results of finite element analyses. However, unpredictable failure modes of concrete pavements associated with expensive maintenance and rehabilitation costs have led to the use of empiricalmechanistic approach in concrete pavement design. Despite progressive knowledge of concrete pavement behaviour under applied loads, concrete pavements still suffer from deterioration due to crack initiation and propagation, indicating the need for further research. Cracks can be related to fatigue of the concrete and/or erosion of materials in sub-layers. Although longitudinal, midedge and corner cracks are the most common damage modes in concrete pavements, Austroads method for concrete pavement design was developed based on traditional mid-edge bottom-up transverse cracking introduced by Packard and Tayabji (1985). Research presented in this thesis aims to address the most common fatigue related distresses in concrete pavements. It uses comprehensive finite element models and analyses to determine the structural behaviour of concrete pavements under vehicular loads and environmental effects. Results of this research are supported by laboratory tests and an experimental field test. Results of this research indicate that the induced tensile stresses within the concrete pavement are significantly affected by vehicle speed, differential temperature gradient and loss of moisture content. Subsequently, the interaction between the above mentioned factors and concrete damage modes are discussed. Typical dynamic amplifications of different axle groups are presented. A new fatigue test setup is also developed to take into consideration effects of pavement curvature on fatigue life of the concrete. Ultimately, results of the research presented in this thesis are employed to develop a new guide for designing concrete pavements with zero maintenance of fatigue damage.