Wiederaufbau des Neuen Museums in Berlin – Tragwerksplanung pro Baudenkmalpflege

Reconstruction of the “Neues Museum” in Berlin – structural design pro preservation of historic buildings. “While no work can be understood without knowledge of its technology, no technology can be understood without knowledge of the work, either” [1]. The reconstruction of the “Neues Museum” in Berlin is a great challenge for all participants in Adorno's terms. Historical structures, especially arched components, usually have amazing bearing capacities. It is rarely possible to verify these only by calculation. Two examples will show how calculation and experiment complement each other in analyzing the load capacity. Thus historical structure components can be admitted to modern utilisation.     

Verbunddecken aus Stahlfaserbeton und Holz

Composite Floors made of Steel Fibre Reinforced Concrete and Timber For many years the timber‐concrete composite construction is known and approved particularly with regard to the revaluation and strengthening of timber beam ceilings. The benefits are an obvious increase of the load bearing capacity, a reduction of the deflection, a better vibration behaviour of the ceiling and an improvement of building physical properties like sound insulation and fire resistance. The reinforcement of the concrete slab is necessary, but leads to a large slab thickness in connection with the necessity of a sufficient concrete cover and to disadvantages during the execution of construction work. Therefore it is reasonable to replace the conventional reinforcement by steel fibres. This paper reports on two building projects and their associated experimental pre‐tests, in which steel fibre reinforced concrete was applied for the strengthening of timber beam ceilings.     

Innovative Betone für Holz‐Beton‐Verbundkonstruktionen

Innovative concretes for timber‐concrete composite constructions. Timber‐concrete composite constructions are currently applied mainly for new buildings or when strengthening existing timber beam slabs. The load bearing capacity of timber‐concrete composite slabs is essentially affected by the material properties of the concrete slab and timber beam itself as well as the efficiency of bond between both parts. As nowadays a wide spectrum of different innovative concretes is available their applicability for timber‐concrete composite constructions has to be verified. In the following the focus is set for self‐consolidating concrete, steel fibre reinforced concrete, structural lightweight concrete, high‐strength and ultra high‐strength concrete. The advantages but also disadvantages of these concretes will be explained considering structural, economic and processing aspects and building physics.     

Acetylation of faba bean legumin: conformational changes and aggregation

The effect of progressive acetylation upon the conformation of the 11S globulin legumin from faba bean has been studied using chemical analysis, UV, fluorescence and CD spectroscopy, viscometry and analytical ultracentrifugation. The modification did not induce complete dissociation of the oligomeric protein. Only 30% of the protein was found to be a dissociated 3S subunit after excessive acetylation, whereas 70% was a dimeric legumin aggregate with a molecular mass of about 700 kDa. The aggregation of the highly modified legumin in high‐ionic‐strength buffer solution leads to soluble higher legumin oligomers. The acetylation resulted in a moderate molecular expansion of legumin due to a changed tertiary structure, whereas the far‐UV circular dichroism spectra did not provide definitive evidence of a decrease in domain‐stabilizing β‐sheet conformations in their secondary structure. © 2000 Society of Chemical Industry     

Production,Purification, and Characterization of Thermoanaerobacterium thermosaccharolyticum Glucoamylase

Glucoamylase from Thermoanaerobacterium thermosaccharolyticum ATCC 7956 (DSM 571) was produced in extracellular form. It was purified to homogeneity by two separate methods, one with two chromatographic steps and the other with three. This glucoamylase is closely related to glucoamylases from Clostridium sp. G0005 and T. thermosaccharolyticum DSM 572. Activities and K_M values with maltose substrate are less than one‐tenth and about fourfold, respectively, those of Aspergillus niger glucoamylase. T. thermosaccharolyticum glucoamylase is about twenty times as thermostable as A. niger glucoamylase and its optimal pH is somewhat higher at 4.9; however, it is produced in much lower activities. Sorbitol strongly stabilizes A. niger glucoamylase.     

Das Scaling‐Down‐Problem bei der Zweistoff‐Gaszerstäubung von Metallschmelzen

The production capacities of plants for metal pulverisation are frequently rated according to the minimum throughput of melt flowing from the distributor crucible to pulverisation. Especially in the case of high‐melting point metals and their alloys deficiencies occur in the thermal balance of the crucible in the exit section as a result of gas expansion at the pulverisation gas jets, which act as heat sinks. Minimum throughputs and associated limiting values of the convective heat transfer of the melt are stipulated in order to prevent "freezing" (solidification of the melt) in the crucible. The pertinent situation is illustrated for copper and steel melts and technical possibilities for compensating for heat deficiencies by inductive heating of the distributor exit are presented. In addition, the demand for minimum throughputs can be abandoned, and there result possibilities of scaling‐down and energy conservation as well as improvement of powder discharge.     

Hochselektive Stofftrennungen mit Carriermembranen — Stand der Entwicklung und Erwartungen

Membrane processes are able to separate liquid mixtures as well as mixtures of gases or vapours according to the sizes, solubilities, rates of diffusion or charges of the components. A separation is also possible using membranes in which the transport is coupled to a specific chemical reaction between the permeand and the membrane (facilitated or carrier mediated transport). This paper discusses aspects related to carrier‐mediated separation processes such as the transport mechanisms, the choice of appropriate carriers, the incorporation of carriers in the polymeric membrane material, the coating of porous support membranes with thin selective layers of the carrier‐polymer and, finally, the choice of appropriate parameters for the separation process. The separation of gas mixtures by carrier‐membranes appears very promising from a technical point of view. Experimental membrane samples often show excellent separation factors, but they have not met the permeability requirements for an economic use so far.     

Investigation of flow and material induced hemolysis with a Couette type high shear system

Damage of red blood cells (hemolysis) in miniaturized pump systems for heart support is induced by contact with artificial surfaces and high mechanical shear forces. In vitro experiments with porcine blood under well defined material and flow conditions with a new Couette model showed hemolysis not starting until shear stresses of 400 Pa and exposure times of 400 ms. Hemolysis in general was much lower than predicted in earlier investigations. Heparinized blood revealed a more sensitive behaviour as compared to citrated blood (CPDA‐1).     

Polarized FTIR photoacoustic spectroscopy on blends of thermoplastic poly(ether‐urethanes) with modified polypropylenes

Polarized Fourier transform infrared (FTIR) transmission and attenuated total reflection (ATR) spectroscopy are well‐known powerful tools to determine the orientation function of polymer materials. Both methods demand a special sample preparation. In our present studies, we used polarized FTIR photoacoustic spectroscopy (PAS) to determine the orientation function of real products from polymer processing without special preparation. We compare the results with those obtained with polarized FTIR transmission spectroscopy. It is demonstrated that polarized FTIR–PAS is useful to describe differences in the orientational behavior of hard and soft segments of thermoplastic poly(ether‐urethane) in different elongated blends with common polypropylene and polypropylene grafted with maleic anhydride. © 2000 John Wiley & Sons, Inc. J Appl Polym Sci 75: 1194–1204, 2000     

Evidence of ionic components in vulcanization mixtures by means of electric current measurements: Investigations with natural rubber/sulfur/zinc bis(dimethyldithiocarbamate) and comparison mixtures

Continuous low‐level current (CLLC) measurements for detecting ionic species in the course of vulcanization reactions were applied to investigate the vulcanization of a mixture of natural rubber (NR), sulfur (S), and zinc bis(dimethyldithiocarbamate) (ZnDMTC). A dc voltage was applied to the reaction mixture in a special vulcanization mold and the current (e.g., in the range of 10⁻⁹ A) was measured. Temperature‐dependent current maxima were found after reaction times t_max. The simplest explanation is that transitory ionic species occur during vulcanization. An activation energy (E_a ) = 116.4 kJ/mol, similar to that obtained in previous chemical investigations, was determined from the decrease of t_max with increasing temperature. The maxima corresponded to reaction times where a strong increase of polymer crosslinking was observed, as measured using vulcametry. For comparison, dc measurements were carried out with the corresponding mixture without elemental sulfur (NR/ZnDMTC) and mixtures containing zinc stearate (ZnST) instead of zinc bis(dimethyldithiocarbamate) (NR/S/ZnST and NR/ZnST). © 2000 John Wiley & Sons, Inc. J Appl Polym Sci 78: 2206–2212, 2000