SAFELIFE

General information

ICON project
Started: 01/07/2018, Duration: 36 months
Status: Ended
Program: Projects InterCluster
Project contact: Jeroen Van Wittenberghe (Arcelor Mittal-OCAS)

Lifetime prediction and management of fatigue loaded welded steel structures on structural health monitoring

The goal of this ICON project is to develop new and robust structural health monitoring procedures and numerical tools based on load and condition monitoring that enable the more accurate lifetime prediction of fleets of quasi identical welded steel structures, such as railway bridges, crane-way girders and jacket offshore platforms. The lifetime assessment is essential towards decision support for quantification of lifetime extension and optimization of predictive maintenance by the industrial partners. This will in the end lead to a substantial reduction of operation and maintenance costs for players in different sectors.

Within the project assets of three industrial partners are analysed: crane-way girders at ArcelorMittal, railway bridges of Infrabel and offshore wind platforms from C-Power. Further partners are 24SEA, Sentea, Ghent University and VUB. This is an intercluster project under the joint umbrella of SIM and IBN Offshore Energy.

Welded steel structures

Objectives of the SafeLife project are:

  • Gain improved knowledge on the behaviour of the industrial assets through advanced load and condition monitoring.
  • Reduce maintenance costs & increase production yield.
  • Lifetime extension of the assets.

This project is part of:

Projects intercluster

Projects Intercluster

Projects set up betweem members of different Flemish clusters (Spearhead clusters and/or IBNs).

General information

Theme: Intercluster
Started: 01/07/2017
Program manager: Guido Verhoeven (SIM)