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Computational service life and reliability assessment of WAAM components

Motivation:

  • Reliability of WAAM components for safety-relevant applications

Objective:

  • Calculate component service life and probability of failure

  • Consideration of

    • wavy surfaces

    • inhomogeneous and anisotropic properties

    • defects

Solution approach:

  • Application of the "cuboid model" submodel technique

  • Lifetime calculation for each cuboid

  • Minimum service life of all cuboids results in component service life