Temperaturverlauf in einer Flachstauchprobe bei der Durchführung von Stauchfolgen zur Simulation des Warmbreitbandwalzens

Örtlicher und zeitlicher Temperaturverlauf in einer Flachstauchprobe während der Warmumformung. Entwicklung eines Rechenmodells und Verwendung des Differenzenverfahrens. Messung der Abkühlgeschwindigkeit ohne und mit Umformung. Vergleich von Messung und Rechnung für einzelne Umformungen und für Stichpläne.     

Water mollusc communities and bioindication of lower salzach floodplain waters

The lower Salzach River lost its natural river dynamics as a result of channelization, which caused its bed to deepen, its groundwater table to be lowered, and its floodplains to gradually dry out. These changes of the floodplain have lead to a loss of natural biotopes with their biocoenoses. By using water mollusc communities as bioindicators these losses are detectable at a landscape level. A numerical analysis of a water mollusc survey in 1989 defined six water mollusc communities identifying six water-body types: three flowing (streams, ditches, and rivers) and three standing (young former meanders, large deep groundwater-influenced backwaters and small shallow groundwater-influenced backwaters) within the lower Salzach valley. These communities and water-body types are interpreted using results from water mollusc communities of other floodplain systems and by comparison with earlier water mollusc surveys in the lower Salzach valley. Then predictions are made on the future fate of the investigated floodplain water. Finally the investigated water bodies are evaluated for nature conservation in the face of plans to impound the lower Salzach River.     

Outcome Additivity and Outcome Maximality Influence Cue Competition in Human Causal Learning.

Recent research suggests that outcome additivity pretraining modulates blocking in human causal learning. However, the existing evidence confounds outcome additivity and outcome maximality. Here the authors present evidence for the influence of presenting information about outcome maximality (Experiment 1) and outcome additivity (Experiment 2) on subsequent forward blocking. The results of Experiment 3 confirm that, with outcome maximality controlled, outcome additivity affects backward blocking but not release from overshadowing. Finally, the results of Experiment 4 demonstrate that information about outcome additivity has a similar effect on forward blocking if presented after the blocking training instead of before. The results are compatible with the idea that blocking results from inferential processes at the time of testing and not from a failure to acquire associative strength during training. (PsycINFO Database Record (c) 2010 APA, all rights reserved)     

Properties of a single chain embedded into a polymer matrix of varied thermodynamic quality and density

The properties (squared dimensions, anisotropy, numbers of intra- and intermolecular contacts) of a single five-way cubic lattice chain embedded into an environment (matrix) of chains of the same length n = 50 were evaluated as a function of matrix volume fraction (matrix density) v and intermolecular interaction between the matrix polymer and the minority chain segments, characterized by a parameter ?. No convincing evidence was found for the occurrence of a coil-globule transition in the range of matrix densities (v ≤ 0.7) and repulsive interactions between matrix and minority chain (? ≤ 0.2) investigated. For moderate attractive interaction (? ≈ ?0.17) a compensation of the chaincompressing action of the matrix and the chain-expanding interaction with the matrix was observed resulting in a zero-dependence of the size and shape of the minority chain on matrix density. It further turned out that there are fixed relations among the various size and shape data irrespective of the specific combination of matrix density and thermodynamic interaction by which a particular polymer dimension is produced. These interrelations are fairly the same as those evaluated for isolated chains the size of which is varied by an intramolecular energy parameter ?_i.     

Results from the multi-species benchmark problem (BM3) using one-dimensional models.

The IWA's Biofilm Modeling Task Group created a multi-species benchmark problem in which heterotrophic bacteria, nitrifying bacteria, and inert biomass coexist in a biofilm. Members of the Task Group submitted solutions from nine different one-dimensional models. The most important distinctions among the models were (1) whether the model required a full numerical solution or was solved with a spreadsheet, and (2) the way the biomass types were distributed in the biofilm. The models that protected the slow-growing species by having them accumulate away from the outer surface always had the largest surface coverage by nitrifiers and inerts, but the heterotroph coverage declined to compensate. Coverage by heterotrophs and removal of substrate COD were most strongly affected by dilution from nitrifiers and inerts near the outer surface. Models that did not allow the nitrifiers and inerts to dilute the heterotrophs significantly in the outer layer predicted more removal of COD than did the other models. The choice of the model to use depends on the user's needs and the relative importance of including protection of slow-growing species and/or dilution of fast-growing species.     

Elastic moduli of nanocrystallites in carbon fibers measured by in-situ X-ray microbeam diffraction

The in-plane Young’s modulus and the shear modulus of carbon nanocrystallites were investigated during in-situ tension tests of single carbon fibers by X-ray diffraction using the shift of the 10 band in the meridional direction and the change in the azimuthal width of the 002 reflection. The limiting value for the Young’s modulus was found to be 1140 GPa, which is higher than the value for graphite obtained from macroscopic specimens, but coincides with recent measurements on nanotubes. Furthermore, the shear modulus was evaluated using a uniform stress approach and was found to increase with increasing misorientation of the crystallites. It turns out that both the in-plane Young’s modulus and the shear modulus are not constant, but dependent on the orientation parameter.     

Werkstoffanstrengung bei Wälzbeanspruchung – Einfluß von Reibung und Eigenspannungen

Material Stressing under Rolling Contact – Influence of Friction and Residual Stresses Material stressing of parts in rolling contact is in the main made up by the normal load to be transmitted, by surface friction due to slippage of the body in rolling contact and by residual stresses. The effects of varying slippage rates are described as well as the additional influence of residual stresses on magnitude, position and direction of load. By the aid of mere mechanical reflections the formation of flat and steep White Bands can be interpreted which are observed in long-lived ball bearings subjected to high stresses. The report shows that residual stresses and friction must not be neglected when describing the material stressing by rolling contact. This especially applies to residual stresses originating from rolling contact.     

Fließspannung im Bereich der (γ → α)-Umwandlung von kohlenstoffarmen Stählen

Auswertung von Fließkurven aus den Warmflachstauchversuchen und quantitativer Gefügeanalyse. Anomalie auf der Fließspannung-Temperatur-Kurve im (γ → α)-Bereich bei Umformung während der anisothermischen Umwandlung. Bilanz der Einflußfaktoren.     

Field dependent amplitude calibration of adaptive optics supported solar speckle imaging

Adaptive optics supported solar speckle imaging requires the calibration of the source's Fourier amplitudes with the transfer function of atmosphere and optics. We present analytical models for the relevant transfer functions of an adaptive optics systems. The models include the effect of an arbitrary correction as well as anisoplanatism. The proposed models have been compared with observational data using measurements of alpha-Orionis and of the solar surface delivering both a direct and indirect method (using the spectral ratio technique) for validation. We find that measurements and model agree to a satisfactory degree.