Motivation and scope

Abstract

In this chapter, the motivation and the scope of this work are explained. Sustainable and emission-free long-distance transportation requires the industrialization of fuel cell electric vehicles. The currently most mature technology with regard to the storage of hydrogen is the gaseous compressed storage in type IV composite pressure vessels. In order to reduce component costs by optimizing the material usage, a thorough understanding of the vessel’s mechanical response under internal pressure loading is required. Due to this reason, an in situ characterization methodology is established in this work, which is further complemented by an FE modeling approach to investigate and unveil certain design-relevant aspects such as the CPV’s stacking sequence or the locations of circumferential ply drops. Finally at the end of this chapter, the overall structure of this thesis and the content of the individual chapters are presented and explained.