ICON Safelife

ICON Safelife

Project coordinator

Arcelor Mittal / OCAS

Start: 01/04/2018

End: 01/04/2021

Duration: 4 years

Partners: 

• Academic:
  • UGent / Laboratorium Soete
  • VUB-AVRG
• Industrial:
  • C-Power
  • Arcelor Mittal
  • Infrabel
  • OCAS
  • 24SEA
  • Sensafos

Budget: € 2.013.196

Type of funding:Intercluster ICON ( SIM & IBN Offshore Energy)

Financing body: VLAIO – www.vlaio.be

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

 

 

Project description

The Intercluster project SafeLife joins the expertise of SIM-Flanders with the Offshore community in the IBN Offshore energy. The project SafeLife targets Lifetime prediction and management of fatigue loaded welded steel structures based 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.