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Offshore wind turbines enter unknown territory, especially where the foundations are concerned. This is because offshore wind power can only make use of the experience from the common offshore constructions used by the oil and gas industry to a limited extent. The offshore wind industry has tried to reduce foundation dimensions, especially the pile lengths, as much as possible compared with those of the oil and gas industry. This is because with the large number of wind turbines involved it can provide considerable economic advantages. On the other hand, the stability of the foundations is additionally at risk because due to the much larger number of cyclic loads they are subjected to it is very difficult to predict how they will behave. Since offshore wind farms are manufactured in series, every systematic fault in the foundation acts as a series fault for a large number of turbines. This calls for monitoring – and the right dimensions of pile foundation, the most common type of foundations used for wind turbines
Gravity has significant effects on alloy solidification, primarily due to thermosolutal convection and solid phase buoyancy. Since 2004, the European Space Agency has been supporting investigation of these effects by promoting in situ X-ray monitoring of the solidification of aluminium alloys on microgravity platforms, on earth, and in periodically varying g conditions. The first microgravity experiment-investigating foaming of liquid metals - was performed on board a sounding rocket, in 2008. In 2012 the first ever X-ray-monitored solidification of a fully dense metallic alloy in space was achieved: the focus was columnar solidification of an Al-Cu alloy. This was followed in 2015 by a similar experiment, investigating equiaxed solidification. Ground reference experiments were completed in all cases. In addition, experiments have been performed on board parabolic flights-where the effects of varying gravity have been studied. We review here the technical and scientific progress to date, and outline future perspectives.
Seit 2009 entsteht die historisch-kritische Hybridediton von Goethes „Faust“. Im Januar 2013 ist im Rahmen dieses editorischen Unternehmens die Röntgenfluoreszenzanalyse (RFA) zum Einsatz gekommen, um auf der Grundlage der Zusammensetzung der verwendeten Eisengallustinten entstehungsgeschichtliche Erkenntnisse über das handschriftliche Material zu gewinnen. Im Mittelpunkt stand neben der zeitlichen Einordnung von Handschriften vor allem die Identifikation von unterscheidbaren Bearbeitungsschichten innerhalb der jeweiligen Handschrift. Besonderes Interesse kommt dabei denjenigen Handschriften zu, von denen sicher ist oder angenommen wird, dass Goethe sie über längere Zeit hinweg oder sogar in sehr großen Abständen bearbeitet hat.
Die von der traditionellen Philologie in Anschlag gebrachten äußeren und inneren Gründe und die darauf gestützten Hypothesen haben nicht ausgedient. Hypothesen zur Datierung von Handschriften Goethes lassen sich in der Regel gut anhand bestehender materieller Zusammenhänge (wie der Zuordnung des Papiers in Kombination mit der Bestimmung der Schreiberhand) verifizieren. Dagegen ermöglicht materialwissenschaftliche Charakterisierung der Eisengallustinten alleine zunächst noch keine vergleichbar genauen Datierungen. Eine Kombination der beiden Zugänge und Verfahren kann jedoch dort Erkenntnisse zutage fördern, wo die traditionellen philologischen Mittel ausgeschöpft sind. Dies wird exemplarisch innerhalb der Publikation gezeigt werden.
Various methods have been used for introducing fire retardant additives into polymers. Deposition of thick fire retardant coatings directly onto polymer substrates is an alternative technique. An important advantage of the coating technique is the preservation of the physical and chemical integrity of the polymer material. Moreover, the fire retardancy of the polymer materials can be achieved following their production. Suitable coating materials are inorganics, intumescent, char-forming, oxygendiluting, and cooling or radical quenching layers. The most important problem is to achieve sufficient coating thickness to withstand the direct attack of flame and to protect the polymer bulk from pyrolysis, otherwise blistering of coating, caused by emitted pyrolysis gases, is often observed. To avoid blistering of coating, the adhesion between polyolefin substrate and fire retardant coating has to be extraordinarily high.
In order to achieve such a high level of adhesion, the polymer surface has to be modified with adhesion-promoting functional groups. The deposition of thin plasma polymers as adhesion-promoting layers with NH2, OH or COOH groups has been the most suited method. These functional groups are able to form covalent bonds and other interactions between the fire-resistant coating and the plasma-modified polyolefin substrate. Additionally, the plasma polymer counteracts the strong mechanical stresses in the laminate on exposure to high temperatures by its flexibility.
An ideal sensor system is a combination of a selective receptor, an effective transducer, and a sensitive detector. To utilize molecularly imprinted polymers (MIPs) as responsive recognition phases in sensors, the employment of fluorescent molecules or nanoparticles (NPs) that show prominent changes in their spectroscopic properties after binding of the target molecule in the MIP’s cavity is particularly attractive. Such fluorescent MIPs (fMIPs) act through target-induced quenching, enhancement, or spectral shifts of the fluorescence. This contribution introduces different strategies of incorporation of fluorescent dyes, probes, and NPs into fMIPs. In addition, various sensing mechanisms are reviewed, and depending on the application of the sensor, the different deployable formats, their advantages, drawbacks, and impact will be presented and discussed.
The investigation of physical properties and chemical composition generates data important for answering art-historical questions. Due to technological developments, technical diagnostics in art and culture are in ever-greater demand in such fields of transdisciplinary research. Based on one example, a collar drawing from the Berlin Diez albums, the present paper aims to give some insights into the multi-instrumental approach in the material analysis of cultural artefacts. The same methods were also applied to other drawings from the Diez Albums.
High-speed photography was applied to investigate the explosive behavior of bubble-containing systems of the type organic solvent---gaseous oxidizing agent. Knowledge about the explosive behavior of such systems is of great importance, for example, for the safe operation of chemical reactors in oxidation processes in the liquid phase. Examples of the complex dynamical reaction of bubbles are elucidated where bubble-containing liquids were subjected to the impact of shockwaves. The different stages of the shock-induced explosive behavior of oxygen and oxygen plus inert gas bubbles were studied experimentally and theoretically mainly in liquid cyclohexane. Other solvents, such as cumene and 2-ethylhexanal, have been found to show that shock-induced bubble explosions can occur even if the gas phase of the bubble is not in the explosive range before impact. Tue influence of different parameters on the bubble Explosion process, such as the composition of the bubbles and the initial pressure, was investigated.
Limiting conditions for bubble explosions were determined. In addition to the behavior of individual bubbles, the interaction of exploding bubbles with one another was observed, which provides information on the Propagation mechanism of self-sustaining bubble-detonation waves. The results are important for the safety assessment of the explosion risks in corresponding two-phase systems.
Sol-Gel wood preservation
(2017)
The sol–gel-based modification of wood introduces chemical substances into wood in order to improve its characteristics and impart new properties. It stabilizes dimensions of wood (timber) components, increases its strength and resistance to water, and reduces cracking. Many sol–gel-based impregnations aim to protect against wood rot and fire. In most cases, the treatments are performed with alkoxysilanes, polysiloxanes, colloidal silica, or organically modified silica. In addition further substances such as titania, copper, and boron compounds have been applied on different types of wood. The precursor solutions were introduced by immersion, painting, or spray coating of wood followed by a drying and heat treatment process. The structure of the impregnated wood was investigated by SEM, EDX, TEM, FT-IR, NMR, and XRD. Frequently, test procedures according to standards were applied in order to assess the improvement in properties. Investigations demonstrate that silica and titania impregnations change properties first of all with increasing the amount of absorbed inorganic material (WPG), which is determined by the concentration of precursors, amount and size of particles in the sol, and the impregnation method. Sol–gel impregnation can be considered as an environmentally friendly approach of wood preservation. Various improvements in wood properties can be achieved such as reduced water uptake and volume swelling, improved weather stability, resistance against biodegradation, and fire retardancy.
Due to their simple and reliable application, elastomers are used for many tasks. Many fields of application like transport, aviation and process technology, entail low temperatures where proper functionality of the employed seals has to be ensured. Therefore, understanding the low temperature behavior of elastomeric seals is important for safe seal operation to restrict the temperature application range.
For all areas of application, the question of seal lifetime is also important for replacement or maintenance intervals. The lifetime is especially important in applications that allow no seal replacement. Since the seal can determine the lifetime of storage in such cases, reliable lifetime estimation is necessary for these applications, and requires an extensive knowledge of the specific aging behavior.
This paper describes the experimental calibration of an existing Wiegmann–Polonceau roof truss based on modal parameters. Dynamic tests allowed the determination of the natural frequencies and mode shapes of the global truss and of individual truss members. The global and local modal configurations as well as coupled vibration of truss members are discussed. In addition, as truss members are axially loaded, the effect of stress stiffening on the modal parameters is considered. Moreover, several finite element models with different modelling assumptions for the details of the connections and member geometrical characteristics such as gusset plates and turnbuckles were developed. A suitable numerical model was chosen to represent the truss structural behavior. This paper focuses on the local measurement and analysis strategies applied to single truss members. The possibility of using a local analysis method, namely methods that consider individual members as part of a structure, is demonstrated to assess the behavior of the global truss structure. The comparison of the results after calibration reveals a very good correlation between the experimentally identified and numerically estimated modal parameters of the historic truss.