TY  - CHAP
A1  - ElBashir, Rasha
A1  - Digel, Ilya
T1  - Effect of nitric oxide gas on hydrogels : [abstract]
N2  - The results support our theory that the NO gas has an influence in increasing the translational diffusion of hydrogels and it accelerates the melting process of the gels.
KW  - Stickstoffmonoxid
KW  - Hydrogel
KW  - nitric oxide gas
KW  - hydrogel
Y1  - 2009
ER  - 
TY  - CHAP
A1  - Bassam, Rasha
A1  - Digel, Ilya
A1  - Artmann, Gerhard
T1  - Effect of nitric oxide on protein thermal stability : [abstract]
N2  - As a deduction from these results, we can conclude that proteins mainly in vitro, denaturate totally at a temperature between 57°C -62°C, and they also affected by NO and different ions types. In which mainly, NO cause earlier protein denaturation, which means that, NO has a destabilizing effect on proteins, and also different ions will alter the protein denaturation in which, some ions will cause earlier protein denaturation while others not.
KW  - Stickstoffmonoxid
KW  - Proteine
KW  - Hämoglobin
KW  - nitric oxide gas
KW  - protein
KW  - hemoglobin
Y1  - 2009
ER  - 
TY  - CHAP
A1  - Digel, Ilya
A1  - Dachwald, Bernd
A1  - Artmann, Gerhard
A1  - Linder, Peter
A1  - Funke, O.
T1  - A concept of a probe for particle analysis and life detection in icy environments
N2  - A melting probe equipped with autofluorescence-based detection system combined with a light scattering unit, and, optionally, with a microarray chip would be ideally suited to probe icy environments like Europa’s ice layer as well as the polar ice layers of Earth and Mars for recent and extinct live.
KW  - Sonde
KW  - Eisschicht
KW  - Autofluoreszenzverfahren
KW  - Lichtstreuungsbasierte Instrumente
KW  - autofluorescence-based detection system
KW  - light scattering analysis
Y1  - 2009
ER  - 
TY  - CHAP
A1  - Uibel, Thomas
A1  - Blaß, Hans Joachim
ED  - Cecotti, A.
T1  - Determining Suitable Spacings and Distances for Self-tapping Screws by Experimental and Numerical Studies
T2  - Proceedings of the 11th World Conference on Timber Engineering, WCTE 2010 : World Conference on Timber Engineering; [June 20 - 24, 2010, Riva del Garda, Trento, Italy] . Vol. III, Riva del Garda, Italy 2010
Y1  - 2010
N1  - Extended abstract. Full paper: DVD, Session 55, ID 108, 9 Seiten
SP  - 669
EP  - 670
ER  - 
TY  - CHAP
A1  - Uibel, Thomas
A1  - Blaß, Hans Joachim
T1  - A new method to determine suitable spacings and distances for self-tapping screws
T2  - Meeting ... / International Council for Research and Innovation in Building and Construction, Working Commission W18 - Timber Structures
N2  - The determination of spacing, edge and end distance requirements for self-tapping screws requires numerous and comprehensive insertion tests. Yet the results of such tests cannot be transferred to other types of screws or even to screws of different diameter because of differences in shape or geometry. To reduce the effort of insertion tests a new method was developed which allows the estimation of required spacings, distances and timber thickness.
Y1  - 2010
SN  - 1864-1784
N1  - Paper 43-21-2
VL  - 43
PB  - Lehrstuhl für Ingenieurholzbau und Baukonstruktionen
CY  - Karlsruhe
ER  - 
TY  - CHAP
A1  - Artmann, Gerhard
A1  - Stadler, Andreas M.
A1  - Embs, Jan P.
A1  - Zaccai, Giuseppe
A1  - Büldt, Georg
A1  - Digel, Ilya
A1  - Temiz Artmann, Aysegül
T1  - The crucial role of water in a phase transition of hemoglobin at body temperature : [abstract]
N2  - The observation of a temperature transition of hemoglobin occurring at a critical temperature close to body temperature
KW  - Hämoglobin
KW  - Erythrozyt
KW  - Körpertemperatur
Y1  - 2010
ER  - 
TY  - CHAP
A1  - Digel, Ilya
A1  - Leimena, W.
A1  - Dachwald, Bernd
A1  - Linder, Peter
A1  - Porst, Dariusz
A1  - Kayser, Peter
A1  - Funke, O.
A1  - Temiz Artmann, Aysegül
A1  - Artmann, Gerhard
T1  - In-situ biological decontamination of an ice melting probe : [abstract]
N2  - The objective of our study was to investigate the efficacy of different in-situ decontamination protocols in the conditions of thermo-mechanical ice-melting.
KW  - Sonde
KW  - Dekontamination
KW  - Wasserstoffperoxid
KW  - Natriumhypochlorit
Y1  - 2010
ER  - 
TY  - JOUR
A1  - Zhubanova, Azhar A.
A1  - Aknazarov, S. K.
A1  - Mansurov, Zulkhair
A1  - Digel, Ilya
A1  - Kozhalakova, A. A.
A1  - Akimbekov, Nuraly S.
A1  - O'Heras, Carlos
A1  - Tazhibayeva, S.
A1  - Artmann, Gerhard
A1  - Temiz Artmann, Aysegül
T1  - Adsorption of bacterial Lipopolysaccharides and blood plasma proteins on modified carbonized materials
N2  - Bacterial lipopolysaccharides (endotoxins) show strong biological effects at very low concentrations in human beings and many animals when entering the blood stream. These include affecting structure and function of organs and cells, changing metabolic functions, raising body temperature, triggering the coagulation cascade, modifying hemodynamics and causing septic shock. Because of this toxicity, the removal of even minute amounts is essential for safe parenteral administration of drugs and also for septic shock patients' care. The absence of a general method for endotoxin removal from liquid interfaces urgently requires finding new methods and materials to overcome this gap. Nanostructured carbonized plant parts is a promising material that showed good adsorption properties due to its vast pore network and high surface area. The aim of this study was comparative measurement of endotoxin- and blood proteins-related adsorption rate and adsorption capacity for different carboneous materials produced at different temperatures and under different surface modifications. As a main surface modificator, positively cbarged polymer, polyethileneimine (PEl) was used. Activated carbon materials showed good adsorption properties for LPS and some proteins used in the experiments. During the batch experiments, several techniques (dust removal, autoclaving) were used and optimized for improving the material's adsorption behavior. Also, with the results obtained it was possible to differentiate the materials according to their adsorption capacity and kinetic characteristics. Modification of the surface apparently has not affected hemoglobin binding to the adsorbent's surface. Obtained adsorption isotherms can be used as a powerful tool for designing of future column-based setups for blood purification from LPS, which is especially important for septic shock treatment.
KW  - Kohlenstofffaser
KW  - Lipopolysaccharide
KW  - nanostrukturierte carbonisierte Pflanzenteile
KW  - lipopolysaccharides
KW  - nanostructured carbonized plant parts
Y1  - 2010
ER  - 
TY  - CHAP
A1  - Kurulgan Demirci, Eylem
A1  - Linder, Peter
A1  - Demirci, Taylan
A1  - Gierkowski, Jessica R.
A1  - Digel, Ilya
A1  - Gossmann, Matthias
A1  - Temiz Artmann, Aysegül
T1  - rhAPC reduces the endothelial cell permeability via a decrease of cellular mechanical contractile tensions : [abstract]
N2  - In this study, the CellDrum technology quanitfying cellular mechanical tension on a pico-scale was used to investigate the effect of LPS (lipopolysaccharide) on HAoEC (Human Aortic Endothelial Cell) tension.
KW  - Endothelzelle
KW  - Sepsis
KW  - kontraktile Spannung
KW  - rhAPC
KW  - contractile tension
KW  - rhAPC
KW  - celldrum technology
Y1  - 2010
ER  - 
TY  - JOUR
A1  - Preiß, C.
A1  - Linder, Peter
A1  - Wendt, K.
A1  - Krystek, M.
A1  - Digel, Ilya
A1  - Gossmann, Matthias
A1  - Temiz Artmann, Aysegül
A1  - Porst, Dariusz
A1  - Kayser, Peter
A1  - Bassam, Rasha
A1  - Artmann, Gerhard
T1  - Engineering technology for plant physiology and plant stress research
N2  - Plant physiology and plant stress: Plant physiology will be much more important for human mankind because of yield and cultivation limits of crops determined by their resistance to stress. To assess and counteract various stress factors it is necessary to conduct plant research to gain information and results on plant physiology.
KW  - Pflanzenphysiologie
KW  - Pflanzenstress
KW  - Pflanzenscanner
KW  - plant stress
KW  - plant scanner
Y1  - 2011
ER  - 
TY  - CHAP
A1  - Tran, Thanh Ngoc
A1  - Novacek, V.
A1  - Tolba, R.
A1  - Klinge, U.
A1  - Turquier, F.
A1  - Staat, Manfred
T1  - Experimental and Computational approach to study colorectal anastomosis. ISB2011, Proceedings of the XXIII Congress of the International Society of Biomechanics, Brussels, Belgium, July 3-7, 2011
N2  - Summary: This paper presents a methodology to study and understand the mechanics of stapled anastomotic behaviors by combining empirical experimentation and finite element analysis. Performance of stapled anastomosis is studied in terms of leakage and numerical results which are compared to in vitro experiments performed on fresh porcine tissue. Results suggest that leaks occur between the tissue and staple legs penetrating through the tissue.
KW  - Anastomose
KW  - Finite-Elemente-Methode
KW  - Biomechanik
KW  - Anastomosis
KW  - Finite element method
KW  - Biomechanics
Y1  - 2011
ER  - 
TY  - JOUR
A1  - Bassam, Rasha
A1  - Artmann, Gerhard
A1  - Hescheler, Jürgen
A1  - Graef, T.
A1  - Temiz Artmann, Aysegül
A1  - Porst, Dariusz
A1  - Linder, Peter
A1  - Kayser, Peter
A1  - Arinkin, Vladimir
A1  - Gossmann, Matthias
A1  - Digel, Ilya
T1  - Alterations in human hemoglobin structure related to red blood cell storage
N2  - The importance of the availability of stored blood or blood cells, respectively, for urgent transfusion cannot be overestimated. Nowadays, blood storage becomes even more important since blood products are used for epidemiological studies, bio-technical research or banked for transfusion purposes. Thus blood samples must not only be processed, stored, and shipped to preserve their efficacy and safety, but also all parameters of storage must be recorded and reported for Quality Assurance. Therefore, blood banks and clinical research facilities are seeking more accurate, automated means for blood storage and blood processing.
KW  - Hämoglobin
KW  - Hämoglobinstruktur
KW  - Blutzellenlagerung
KW  - Hemoglobin structure
KW  - Red blood cell storage
Y1  - 2011
ER  - 
TY  - CHAP
A1  - Dachwald, Bernd
A1  - Xu, Changsheng
A1  - Feldmann, Marco
A1  - Plescher, Engelbert
A1  - Digel, Ilya
A1  - Artmann, Gerhard
T1  - Development and testing of a subsurface probe for detection of life in deep ice : [abstract]
N2  - We present the novel concept of a combined drilling and melting probe for subsurface ice research. This probe, named “IceMole”, is currently developed, built, and tested at the FH Aachen University of Applied Sciences’ Astronautical Laboratory. Here, we describe its first prototype design and report the results of its field tests on the Swiss Morteratsch glacier. Although the IceMole design is currently adapted to terrestrial glaciers and ice shields, it may later be modified for the subsurface in-situ investigation of extraterrestrial ice, e.g., on Mars, Europa, and Enceladus. If life exists on those bodies, it may be present in the ice (as life can also be found in the deep ice of Earth).
KW  - Eisschicht
KW  - Sonde
KW  - subsurface probe
KW  - subsurface ice research
Y1  - 2011
ER  - 
TY  - CHAP
A1  - Artmann, Gerhard
A1  - Digel, Ilya
A1  - Linder, Peter
A1  - Temiz Artmann, Aysegül
T1  - Biophysical and Engineering Contributions to Plant Research
N2  - Tests with palm tree leaves have just started yet and scan data are in the process to be analyzed. The final goal of future project for palm tree gender and species recognition will be to develop optical scanning technology to be applied to date palm tree leaves for in–situ screening purposes. Depending on the software used and the particular requirements of the users the technology potentially shall be able to identify palm tree diseases, palm tree gender, and species of young date palm trees by scanning leaves.
KW  - Pflanzenphysiologie
KW  - Dattel
KW  - Pflanzenscanner
KW  - plant scanner
KW  - date palm tree
Y1  - 2011
ER  - 
TY  - JOUR
A1  - Seifarth, Volker
A1  - Schehl, D.
A1  - Linder, Peter
A1  - Gossmann, Matthias
A1  - Digel, Ilya
A1  - Artmann, Gerhard
A1  - Porst, Dariusz
A1  - Preiß, C.
A1  - Kayser, Peter
A1  - Pack, O.
A1  - Temiz Artmann, Aysegül
T1  - Ureplace: development of a bioreactor for in vitro culturing of cell seeded tubular vessels on collagen scaffolds
N2  - The demand of replacements for inoperable organs exceeds the amount of available organ transplants. Therefore, tissue engineering developed as a multidisciplinary field of research for autologous in-vitro organs. Such three dimensional tissue constructs request the application of a bioreactor. The UREPLACE bioreactor is used to grow cells on tubular collagen scaffolds OPTIMAIX Sponge 1 with a maximal length of 7 cm, in order to culture in vitro an adequate ureter replacement. With a rotating unit, (urothelial) cells can be placed homogeneously on the inner scaffold surface. Furthermore, a stimulation is combined with this bioreactor resulting in an orientation of muscle cells. These culturing methods request a precise control of several parameters and actuators. A combination of a LabBox and the suitable software LabVision is used to set and conduct parameters like rotation angles, velocities, pressures and other important cell culture values. The bioreactor was tested waterproof successfully. Furthermore, the temperature controlling was adjusted to 37 °C and the CO2 - concentration regulated to 5 %. Additionally, the pH step responses of several substances showed a perfect functioning of the designed flow chamber. All used software was tested and remained stable for several days.
KW  - Tissue Engineering
KW  - Bioreaktor
KW  - Organkultur
KW  - Harnleiter
Y1  - 2011
ER  - 
TY  - CHAP
A1  - Schöning, Michael Josef
A1  - Abdelghani, Adnane
T1  - Nanoscale Science and Technology (NS&T’12) : Proceedings Book Humboldt Kolleg <2012, Tunisia>  ; Tunisia, 17-19 March, 2012 / ed. by Michael J. Schöning ; Adnane Abdelghani
N2  - Proceedings of the 2nd Humboldt Kolleg, Hammamet, Tunisia Organizer: Alexander von Humboldt Stiftung, Germany. pdf 184 p. Welcome Address Dear Participants, Welcome to the 2nd Humboldt Kolleg in “Nanoscale Science and Technology” (NS&T’12) in Tunisia, sponsored by the "Alexander von Humboldt" foundation. The NS&T’12 multidisciplinary scientific program includes seven "hot" topics dealing with "Nanoscale Science and Technology" covering basic and application-oriented research as well as industrial (market) aspects: - Molecular Biophyics, Spectroscopy Techniques, Imaging Microscopy - Nanomaterials Synthesis for Medicine and Bio-chemical Sensors - Nanostructures, Semiconductors, Photonics and Nanodevices - New Technologies in Market Industry - Environment, Electro-chemistry, Bio-polymers and Fuel Cells - Nanomaterials, Photovoltaic, Modelling, Quantum Physics - Microelectronics, Sensors Networks and Embedded Systems We are deeply indebted to all members of the Scientific Committee and General Chairs for joint Sessions and to all speakers and chairmen, who have dedicated invaluable time and efforts for the realization of this event. On behalf of the Organizing Committee, we are cordially inviting you to join the conference and hope that your stay will be fruitful, rewarding and enjoyable. Prof. Dr. Michael J. Schöning, Prof. Dr. Adnane Abdelghani
KW  - Biosensor
KW  - Nanotechnologie
KW  - Nanomaterial
KW  - Nano Materials
KW  - Bio-Sensors
Y1  - 2012
U6  - http://nbn-resolving.de/urn/resolver.pl?urn:nbn:de:hbz:a96-opus-3544
ER  - 
TY  - CHAP
A1  - Dachwald, Bernd
A1  - Mikucki, Jill A.
A1  - Tulaczyk, Slawek
A1  - Digel, Ilya
A1  - Feldmann, Marco
A1  - Espe, Clemens
A1  - Plescher, Engelbert
A1  - Xu, Changsheng
T1  - IceMole - a maneuverable probe for clean in-situ analysis and sampling of subsurface ice and subglacial aquatic ecosystems : extended abstract / SCAR Open Science Conference 2012, Session 29: Advancing Clean Technologies for Exploration of Glacial Aquatic Ecosystems
N2  - The ”IceMole“ is a novel maneuverable subsurface ice probe for clean in-situ analysis and sampling of subsurface ice and subglacial water/brine. It is developed and build at FH Aachen University of Applied Sciences’ Astronautical Laboratory. A first prototype was successfully tested on the Swiss Morteratsch glacier in 2010. Clean sampling is achieved with a hollow ice screw (as it is used in mountaineering) at the tip of the probe. Maneuverability is achieved with a differentially heated melting head. Funded by the German Space Agency (DLR), a consortium led by FH Aachen currently develops a much more advanced IceMole probe, which includes a sophisticated system for obstacle avoidance, target detection, and navigation in the ice. We intend to use this probe for taking clean samples of subglacial brine at the Blood Falls (McMurdo Dry Valleys, East Antarctica) for chemical and microbiological analysis. In our conference contribution, we 1) describe the IceMole design, 2) report the results of the field tests of the first prototype on the Morteratsch glacier, 3) discuss the probe’s potential for the clean in-situ analysis and sampling of subsurface ice and subglacial liquids, and 4) outline the way ahead in the development of this technology.
KW  - Eisschicht
KW  - Sonde
KW  - subsurface ice
KW  - subglacial aquatic ecosystems
Y1  - 2012
ER  - 
TY  - CHAP
A1  - Butenweg, Christoph
A1  - Rosin, Julia
A1  - Kubalski, Thomas
T1  - Seismic response of conventional and base-isolated liquid storage tanks
T2  - International Conference on Earthquake Engineering : 29.-31.05.2013, Skopje, Mazedonien
Y1  - 2013
SP  - 1
EP  - 8
ER  - 
TY  - JOUR
A1  - Akimbekov, Nuraly S.
A1  - Mansurov, Zulkhair
A1  - Jandosov, J.
A1  - Digel, Ilya
A1  - Gossmann, Matthias
A1  - Artmann, Gerhard
A1  - Temiz Artmann, Aysegül
A1  - Zhubanova, Azhar A.
T1  - Wound healing activity of carbonized rice husk
N2  - The carbonized rice husk (CRH) was evaluated for its wound healing activity in rats using excision models. In this study, the influences of CRH on wound healing in rat skin in vivo and cellular behavior of human dermal fibroblasts in vitro were investigated. The obtained results showed that the CRH treatment promoted wound epithelization in rats and exhibited moderate inhibition of cell proliferation in vitro. CRH with lanolin oil treated wounds were found to epithelize faster as compared to controls.
KW  - Wundheilung
KW  - Epithel
KW  - Fibroblast
KW  - carbonized rice husk
KW  - wound healing
KW  - epithelization
KW  - human dermal fibroblasts
Y1  - 2013
PB  - Trans Tech Publications, Switzerland
CY  - Bäch
ER  - 
TY  - CHAP
A1  - Butenweg, Christoph
A1  - Kleemann, Anne
A1  - Altay, Okyay
A1  - Renault, Philippe
T1  - Simulation of impact-loads on reinforced concrete structural elements
T2  - 22nd International Conference on Structural Mechanics in Reactor Technology 2013 : (SMiRT 22) ; San Francisco, California, USA, 18 - 23 August 2013
Y1  - 2013
SP  - 1
EP  - 10
ER  - 
TY  - CHAP
A1  - Duong, Minh Tuan
A1  - Staat, Manfred
ED  - Onate, E.
T1  - A face-based smoothed finite element method for hyperelastic models and tissue growth
T2  - 11th World Congress on Computational Mechanics (WCCM XI) ; 5th European Conference on Computational Mechanics (ECCM V) ; 6th European Conference on Computational Fluid Dynamics (ECFD VI) ; July 20-25, 2014, Barcelona
Y1  - 2014
SP  - 1
EP  - 12
ER  - 
TY  - CHAP
A1  - Tran, Ngoc Trinh
A1  - Staat, Manfred
A1  - Stavroulakis, G. E.
ED  - Onate, E.
T1  - A multicriteria method for truss optimization
T2  - 11th World Congress on Computational Mechanics (WCCM XI) ; 5th European Conference on Computational Mechanics (ECCM V) ; 6th European Conference on Computational Fluid Dynamics (ECFD VI) ; July 20-25, 2014, Barcelona
Y1  - 2014
SP  - 1
EP  - 12
ER  - 
TY  - CHAP
A1  - Frotscher, Ralf
A1  - Koch, Jan-Peter
A1  - Raatschen, Hans-Jürgen
A1  - Staat, Manfred
ED  - Onate, E.
T1  - Evaluation of a computational model for drug action on cardiac tissue
T2  - 11th World Congress on Computational Mechanics (WCCM XI) ; 5th European Conference on Computational Mechanics (ECCM V) ; 6th European Conference on Computational Fluid Dynamics (ECFD VI) ; July 20 - 25, 2014, Barcelona
Y1  - 2014
SP  - 1
EP  - 12
ER  - 
TY  - CHAP
A1  - Bhattarai, Aroj
A1  - Frotscher, Ralf
A1  - Sora, M.-C.
A1  - Staat, Manfred
ED  - Onate, E.
T1  - A 3D finite element model of the female pelvic floor for the reconstruction of urinary incontinence
T2  - 11th World Congress on Computational Mechanics (WCCM XI) ; 5th European Conference on Computational Mechanics (ECCM V) ; 6th European Conference on Computational Fluid Dynamics (ECFD VI) ; July 20-25, 2014, Barcelona
Y1  - 2014
SP  - 1
EP  - 12
ER  - 
TY  - CHAP
A1  - Jung, Alexander
A1  - Staat, Manfred
A1  - Müller, Wolfram
ED  - Onate, E.
T1  - Optimization of the flight style in ski jumping
T2  - 11th World Congress on Computational Mechanics (WCCM XI) ; 5th European Conference on Computational Mechanics (ECCM V) ; 6th European Conference on Computational Fluid Dynamics (ECFD VI) ; July 20 - 25, 2014, Barcelona
Y1  - 2014
N1  - Das Paper wurde nach der Konferenz überarbeitet.
SP  - 799
EP  - 810
ER  - 
TY  - CHAP
A1  - Tran, Thanh Ngoc
A1  - Staat, Manfred
ED  - Onate, E.
T1  - Uncertain multimode failure and limit analysis of shells
T2  - 11th World Congress on Computational Mechanics (WCCM XI) ; 5th European Conference on Computational Mechanics (ECCM V) ; 6th European Conference on Computational Fluid Dynamics (ECFD VI) ; July 20-25, 2014, Barcelona
Y1  - 2014
SP  - 1
EP  - 12
ER  - 
TY  - CHAP
A1  - Bung, Daniel Bernhard
T1  - Observations on non-aerated flow and air entrainment on moderately sloped stepped spillways
T2  - 7th Chinese-German Joint Symposium on Hydraulic and Ocean Engineering : 8. - 12. Sept. 2014, Hannover
Y1  - 2014
N1  - Kennwortgeschützter Zugang. Passwort bei Prof. Bung, Fachbereich Bauingenieurwesen
SP  - 1
EP  - 8
ER  - 
TY  - CHAP
A1  - Bonney, Gregor
A1  - Höfken, Hans-Wilhelm
A1  - Paffen, Benedikt
A1  - Schuba, Marko
T1  - ICS/SCADA Security - Analysis of a Beckhoff CX5020 PLC
T2  - 1st International Conference on Information Systems Security and Privacy : ICISSP 2015
Y1  - 2015
SP  - 1
EP  - 6
ER  - 
TY  - CHAP
A1  - Gregorio, Fabrizio de
A1  - Fatigati, Giovanni
A1  - Kallweit, Stephan
T1  - Tiltrotor airframe flow field characterization by SPIV
T2  - 11th International Symposium on Partivle Image Velocimetry - PIV15 , Santa Barbara, California, Sept 14-16, 2015
Y1  - 2015
ER  - 
TY  - CHAP
A1  - Nakagawa, Masaki
A1  - Michaux, Frank
A1  - Kallweit, Stephan
A1  - Maeda, Kazuhiro
T1  - Unsteady flow measurements in the wake behind a wind-tunnel car model by using high-speed planar PIV
T2  - 11TH International Symposium on Particle Image Velocimetry – PIV15 Santa Barbara, California, September 14-16, 2015
N2  - This study investigates unsteady characteristics of the wake behind a 28%-scale car model in a wind tunnel using highspeed planar particle image velocimetry (PIV). The car model is based on a hatchback passenger car that is known to have relatively high fluctuations in its aerodynamic loads. This study primarily focuses on the lateral motion of the flow on the horizontal plane to determine the effect of the flow motion on the straight-line stability and the initial steering response of the actual car on a track. This paper first compares the flow fields in the wake behind the above mentioned model obtained using conventional and high-speed planar PIV, with sampling frequencies of 8 Hz and 1 kHz, respectively. Large asymmetrically coherent flow structures, which fluctuate at frequencies below 2 Hz, are observed in the results of highspeed PIV measurements, whereas conventional PIV is unable to capture these features of the flow owing to aliasing. This flow pattern with a laterally swaying motion is represented by opposite signs of cross-correlation coefficients of streamwise velocity fluctuations for the two sides of the car model. Effects of two aerodynamic devices that are known to reduce the
fluctuation levels of the aerodynamic loads are then extensively investigated. The correlation analyses reveal that these devices indeed reduce the fluctuation levels of the flow and the correlation values around the rear combination-lamp, but it is found that the effects of these devices are different around the c-pillar.
Y1  - 2015
ER  - 
TY  - CHAP
A1  - Kronhardt, Valentina
A1  - Alexopoulos, Spiros
A1  - Reißel, Martin
A1  - Latzke, Markus
A1  - Rendon, C.
A1  - Sattler, Johannes Christoph
A1  - Herrmann, Ulf
T1  - Simulation of operational management for the Solar Thermal Test and Demonstration Power Plant Jülich using optimized control strategies of the storage system
T2  - Energy procedia
Y1  - 2015
SN  - 1876-6102
SP  - 1
EP  - 6
ER  - 
TY  - CHAP
A1  - Frotscher, Ralf
A1  - Duong, Minh Tuan
A1  - Staat, Manfred
T1  - Simulating beating cardiomyocytes with electromechanical coupling
T2  - II. International Conference on Biomedical Technology : 28-30 October 2015 Hannover, Germany / T. Lenarz, P. Wriggers (Eds.)
Y1  - 2015
SP  - 1
EP  - 2
ER  - 
TY  - CHAP
A1  - Stopforth, Riaan
A1  - Ferrein, Alexander
A1  - Steinbauer, Gerald
T1  - Europe and South African collaboration on the Mechatronics and Robotics systems as part of the SA Robotics Center
T2  - ICRA 2015 Developing Countries Forum
N2  - Mechatronics consist of the integration of mechanical
engineering, electronic integration and computer science/
engineering. These broad fields are essential for robotic
systems, yet it makes it difficult for the researchers to specialize
and be experts in all these fields. Collaboration between
researchers allow for the integration of experience and specialization,
to allow optimized systems. Collaboration between the
European countries and South Africa is critical, as each country
has different resources available, which the other countries
might not have. Applications with the need for approval of
any restrictions, can also be obtained easier in some countries
compared to others, thus preventing the delays of research.
Some problems that have been experienced are discussed, with
the Robotics Center of South Africa as a possible solution.
Y1  - 2015
ER  - 
TY  - CHAP
A1  - Bagheri, Mohsen
A1  - Schleupen, Josef
A1  - Dahmann, Peter
A1  - Kallweit, Stephan
T1  - A multi-functional device applying for the safe maintenance at high-altitude on wind turbines
T2  - 20th International Conference on Composite Materials : Copenhagen, 19 - 24th July 2015
Y1  - 2015
SP  - 1
EP  - 6
ER  - 
TY  - CHAP
A1  - Ferrein, Alexander
A1  - Kallweit, Stephan
A1  - Scholl, Ingrid
A1  - Reichert, Walter
T1  - Learning to Program Mobile Robots in the ROS Summer School Series
T2  - Proceedings 6th International Conference on Robotics in Education (RiE 15)
N2  - The main objective of our ROS Summer School series is to introduce MA level students to program mobile robots with the Robot Operating System (ROS). ROS is a robot middleware that is used my many research institutions world-wide. Therefore, many state-of-the-art algorithms of mobile robotics are available in ROS and can be deployed very easily. As a basic robot platform we deploy a 1/10 RC cart that is wquipped with an Arduino micro-controller to control the servo motors, and an embedded PC that runs ROS. In two weeks, participants get to learn the basics of mobile robotics hands-on. We describe our teaching concepts and our curriculum and report on the learning success of our students.
Y1  - 2015
ER  - 
TY  - CHAP
A1  - Booysen, Tracy
A1  - Mathew, Thomas
A1  - Knox, Greig
A1  - Fong, W. K.
A1  - Stüttgen, Marcel
A1  - Ferrein, Alexander
A1  - Steinbauer, Gerald
T1  - The Scarab Project
T2  - ICRA 2015 Developing Countries Forum
N2  - Urban Search and Rescue (USAR) is an active research
field in the robotics community. Despite recent advances
for many open research questions, these kind of systems are
not widely used in real rescue missions. One reason is that such
systems are complex and not (yet) very reliable; another is that
one has to be an robotic expert to run such a system. Moreover,
available rescue robots are very expensive and the benefits of
using them are still limited.
In this paper, we present the Scarab robot, an alternative
design for a USAR robot. The robot is light weight, humanpackable
and its primary purpose is that of extending the
rescuer’s capability to sense the disaster site. The idea is that a
responder throws the robot to a certain spot. The robot survives
the impact with the ground and relays sensor data such as
camera images or thermal images to the responder’s hand-held
control unit from which the robot can be remotely controlled.
Y1  - 2015
ER  - 
TY  - CHAP
A1  - Niemueller, Tim
A1  - Ferrein, Alexander
A1  - Reuter, Sebastian
A1  - Jeschke, Sabina
A1  - Lakemeyer, Gerhard
T1  - The RoboCup Logistics League as a Holistic Multi-Robot Smart Factory Benchmark
T2  - Proceedings of the IROS 2015 Open forum on evaluation of results, replication of experiments and benchmarking in robotics research
N2  - With autonomous mobile robots receiving increased
attention in industrial contexts, the need for benchmarks
becomes more and more an urgent matter. The RoboCup
Logistics League (RCLL) is one specific industry-inspired scenario
focusing on production logistics within a Smart Factory.
In this paper, we describe how the RCLL allows to assess the
performance of a group of robots within the scenario as a
whole, focusing specifically on the coordination and cooperation
strategies and the methods and components to achieve them.
We report on recent efforts to analyze performance of teams in
2014 to understand the implications of the current grading
scheme, and derived criteria and metrics for performance
assessment based on Key Performance Indicators (KPI) adapted
from classic factory evaluation. We reflect on differences and
compatibility towards RoCKIn, a recent major benchmarking
European project.
Y1  - 2015
ER  - 
TY  - CHAP
A1  - Frotscher, Ralf
A1  - Staat, Manfred
ED  - Nithiarasu, Perumal
T1  - Homogenization of a cardiac tissue construct
T2  - CMBE15 : 4th International Conference on Computational & Mathematical Biomedical Engineering ; 29th June - 1st July 2015 ; École Normale Supérieure de Cachan ; Cachan (Paris), France
Y1  - 2015
SN  - 2227-9385
N1  - Konferenzband unter:
http://www.compbiomed.net/getfile.php?type=12/site_documents&id=Proceedings_2227-9385_compressed.pdf
SP  - 645
EP  - 648
PB  - CMBE
CY  - [s.l.]
ER  - 
TY  - CHAP
A1  - Göttsche, Joachim
A1  - Korn, Michael
A1  - Amato, Alexandre
T1  - The Passivhaus concept for the Arabian Peninsula – An energetic-economical evaluation considering the thermal comfort
T2  - QScience Proceedings: Vol 2015
N2  - The Passivhaus building standard is a concept developed for the realization of energy-efficient and economical buildings with a simultaneous high utilization comfort under European climate conditions. Major elements of the Passivhaus concept are a high thermal insulation of the external walls, the use of heat and/or solar shading glazing as well as an airtight building envelope in combination with energy-efficient technical building installations and heating or cooling generators, such as an efficient energy-recovery in the building air-conditioning. The objective of this research project is the inquiry to determine the parameters or constraints under which the Passivhaus concept can be implemented under the arid climate conditions in the Arabian Peninsula to achieve an energy-efficient and economical building with high utilization comfort. In cooperation between the Qatar Green Building Council (QGBC), Barwa Real Estate (BRE) and Kahramaa the first Passivhaus was constructed in Qatar and on the Arabian Peninsula in 2013. The Solar-Institut Jülich of Aachen University of Applied Science supports the Qatar Green Building Council with a dynamic building and equipment simulation of the Passivhaus and the neighbouring reference building. This includes simulation studies with different component configurations for the building envelope and different control strategies for heating or cooling systems as well as the air conditioning of buildings to find an energetic-economical optimum. Part of these analyses is the evaluation of the energy efficiency of the used energy recovery system in the Passivhaus air-conditioning and identification of possible energy-saving effects by the use of a bypass function integrated in the heat exchanger. In this way it is expected that on an annual basis the complete electricity demand of the building can be covered by the roof-integrated PV generator.
Y1  - 2015
U6  - https://doi.org/10.5339/qproc.2015.qgbc.38
N1  - 10.5339/qproc.2015.qgbc.38 = abstract -
Qatar Green Building Conference 2015 - The Vision, 38.
ER  - 
TY  - CHAP
A1  - Bühler, P.
A1  - Leandro, J.
A1  - Bung, Daniel Bernhard
A1  - Lopes, P.
A1  - Carvalho, R.
T1  - Measuring void fraction of a stepped spillway with non-intrusive methods using different image resolutions
T2  - 2nd International Workshop on Hydraulic Structures : Data Validation : Coimbra, Portugal, 8-9 May 2015
Y1  - 2015
SP  - 1
EP  - 8
ER  - 
TY  - CHAP
A1  - Ferrein, Alexander
T1  - Robots: challenges, chances and risks for solving 21st century problems
T2  - President’s Invitation Lecture / South African Institute of Electrical Engineers : May 21 & 22, 2015, University of Johannesburg
Y1  - 2015
SP  - 1
EP  - 45
ER  - 
TY  - CHAP
A1  - Dalguer, Luis A.
A1  - Renault, Philippe
A1  - Churilov, Sergey
A1  - Butenweg, Christoph
T1  - Evaluation of fragility curves for a three-storey-reinforced-concrete mock-up of SMART 2013 project
T2  - Transactions, SMiRT-23 : 23rd Conference on Structural Mechanics in Reactor Technology : Manchester, United Kingdom - August 10-14, 2015
Y1  - 2016
SP  - 1
EP  - 9
ER  - 
TY  - CHAP
A1  - Duong, Minh Tuan
A1  - Jung, Alexander
A1  - Frotscher, Ralf
A1  - Staat, Manfred
ED  - Papadrakakis, M.
T1  - A 3D electromechanical FEM-based model for cardiac tissue
T2  - ECCOMAS Congress 2016, VII European Congress on Computational Methods in Applied Sciences and Engineering. Crete Island, Greece, 5–10 June 2016
Y1  - 2016
N1  - revised after the conference
P11367
ER  - 
TY  - CHAP
A1  - Fredebeul-Krein, Markus
T1  - Towards trade facilitation via regulatory convergence: An analysis of the TTIP chapter on Electronic Communications
T2  - Regional ITS Conference of the International Telecommunications Society. Cambridge, United Kingdom, 7-9 September 2016
N2  - To give the exchange of goods and services between the European Union (EU) and the United States (U.S.) new momentum the two parties are currently negotiating the transatlantic free trade agreement Transatlantic Trade and Investment Partnership (TTIP). The aim is to create the largest free trade area in the world. The agreement, once entered into force, will oblige EU countries and the U.S. to further liberalize their markets.
The negotiations on TTIP include a chapter on Electronic Communications/ Telecommunications. The challenge therein will be securing commitments for market access to Electronic Communications services. At the same time, these commitments must reflect the legitimate need for consumer protection issues. The need to reduce Electronic Communications-related non-tariff barriers to trade between the Parties is due to the fact that these markets are heavily regulated. Without transnational rules as to regulations national governments can abuse these regulations to deter the market entry by new (foreign) suppliers. Thus the free trade agreement TTIP affects in many respects regulatory provisions on and access to Electronic Communications markets. The objective of this paper is therefore to examine to what extend the regulatory principles for Electronic Communications markets envisaged under TTIP will result in trade facilitation and regulatory convergence between the EU and the U.S.
As to this question the result of the analysis is that the chapter on Electronic Communications will be an important step towards facilitating trade in Electronic Communications services. At the same time some regulatory convergence will take place, but this convergence will not lead to a (full) harmonization of regulations. Rather the norm, also after TTIP negotiations will have been concluded successfully, will be mutual recognition of different regulatory regimes. Different regulations being the optimal policy response in different market settings will continue to exist. Moreover, it is very unlikely that such regulatory principles for the Electronic Communications sector are a vehicle for a race to the bottom in levels of consumer protection.
KW  - regulation
KW  - liberalisation
KW  - electronic communications markets
KW  - TTIP
Y1  - 2016
ER  - 
TY  - CHAP
A1  - Staat, Manfred
A1  - Duong, Minh Tuan
T1  - Smoothed Finite Element Methods for Nonlinear Solid Mechanics Problems: 2D and 3D Case Studies
T2  - Proceedings of the National Science and Technology Conference on Mechanical - Transportation Engineering (NSCMET 2016), 13th October 2016, Hanoi, Vietnam, Vol.2
N2  - The Smoothed Finite Element Method (SFEM) is presented as an edge-based and a facebased techniques for 2D and 3D boundary value problems, respectively. SFEMs avoid shortcomings of the standard Finite Element Method (FEM) with lower order elements such as overly stiff behavior, poor stress solution, and locking effects. Based on the idea of averaging spatially the standard strain field of the FEM over so-called smoothing domains SFEM calculates the stiffness matrix for the same number of degrees of freedom (DOFs) as those of the FEM. However, the SFEMs significantly improve accuracy and convergence even for distorted meshes and/or nearly incompressible materials.
Numerical results of the SFEMs for a cardiac tissue membrane (thin plate inflation) and an artery (tension of 3D tube) show clearly their advantageous properties in improving accuracy particularly for the distorted meshes and avoiding shear locking effects.
Y1  - 2016
SP  - 440
EP  - 445
ER  - 
TY  - CHAP
A1  - Schreiber, Marc
A1  - Kraft, Bodo
A1  - Zündorf, Albert
T1  - Metrics Driven Research Collaboration: Focusing on Common Project Goals Continuously
T2  - 39th International Conference on Software Engineering, May 20-28, 2017 - Buenos Aires, Argentina
N2  - Research collaborations provide opportunities for both practitioners and researchers: practitioners need solutions for difficult business challenges and researchers are looking for hard problems to solve and publish. Nevertheless, research collaborations carry the risk that practitioners focus on quick solutions too much and that researchers tackle theoretical problems, resulting in products which do not fulfill the project requirements.
In this paper we introduce an approach extending the ideas of agile and lean software development. It helps practitioners and researchers keep track of their common research collaboration goal: a scientifically enriched software product which fulfills the needs of the practitioner’s business model.
This approach gives first-class status to application-oriented metrics that measure progress and success of a research collaboration continuously. Those metrics are derived from the collaboration requirements and help to focus on a commonly defined goal.
An appropriate tool set evaluates and visualizes those metrics with minimal effort, and all participants will be pushed to focus on their tasks with appropriate effort. Thus project status, challenges and progress are transparent to all research collaboration members at any time.
Y1  - 2017
N1  - Software Engineering in Practice (SEIP).
ICSE2017
Vorabversion der Autoren
ER  - 
TY  - RPRT
A1  - Drescher, Hans Paul
T1  - The irreversible thermodynamic’s theorem of minimum entropy production applied to the laminar and the turbulent Couette flow
N2  - Analyzing thermodynamic non-equilibrium processes, like the laminar and turbulent fluid flow, the dissipation is a key parameter with a characteristic minimum condition. That is applied to characterize laminar and turbulent behaviour of the Couette flow, including its transition in both directions. The Couette flow is chosen as the only flow form with constant shear stress over the flow profile, being laminar, turbulent or both. The local dissipation defines quantitative and stable criteria for the transition and the existence of turbulence. There are basic results: The Navier Stokes equations cannot describe the experimental flow profiles of the turbulent Couette flow. But they are used to quantify the dissipation of turbulent fluctuation. The dissipation minimum requires turbulent structures reaching maximum macroscopic dimensions, describing turbulence as a “non-local” phenomenon. At the transition the Couette flow profiles and the shear stress change by a factor ≅ 5 due to a change of the “apparent” turbulent viscosity by a calculated factor ≅ 27. The resulting difference of the laminar and the turbulent profiles results in two different Reynolds numbers and different loci of transition, which are identified by calculation.
KW  - Turbulence
KW  - Transition
KW  - Minimum dissipation
Y1  - 2018
ER  - 
TY  - CHAP
A1  - Baader, Fabian
A1  - Reiswich, M.
A1  - Bartsch, M.
A1  - Keller, D.
A1  - Tiede, E.
A1  - Keck, G.
A1  - Demircian, A.
A1  - Friedrich, M.
A1  - Dachwald, Bernd
A1  - Schüller, K.
A1  - Lehmann, R.
A1  - Chojetzki, R.
A1  - Durand, C.
A1  - Rapp, L.
A1  - Kowalski, Julia
A1  - Förstner, R.
T1  - VIPER - Student research on extraterrestrical ice penetration technology
T2  - Proceedings of the 2nd Symposium on Space Educational Activities
N2  - Recent analysis of scientific data from Cassini and earth-based observations gave evidence for a global ocean under a surrounding solid ice shell on Saturn's moon Enceladus. Images of Enceladus' South Pole showed several fissures in the ice shell with plumes constantly exhausting frozen water particles, building up the E-Ring, one of the outer rings of Saturn. In this southern region of Enceladus, the ice shell is considered to be as thin as 2 km, about an order of magnitude thinner than on the rest of the moon. Under the ice shell, there is a global ocean consisting of liquid water. Scientists are discussing different approaches the possibilities of taking samples of water, i.e. by melting through the ice using a melting probe. FH Aachen UAS developed a prototype of maneuverable melting probe which can navigate through the ice that has already been tested successfully in a terrestrial environment. This means no atmosphere and or ambient pressure, low ice temperatures of around 100 to 150K (near the South Pole) and a very low gravity of 0,114 m/s^2 or 1100 μg. Two of these influencing measures are about to be investigated at FH Aachen UAS in 2017, low ice temperature and low ambient pressure below the triple point of water. Low gravity cannot be easily simulated inside a large experiment chamber, though. Numerical simulations of the melting process at RWTH Aachen however are showing a gravity dependence of melting behavior. Considering this aspect, VIPER provides a link between large-scale experimental simulations at FH Aachen UAS and numerical simulations at RWTH Aachen. To analyze the melting process, about 90 seconds of experiment time in reduced gravity and low ambient pressure is provided by the REXUS rocket. In this time frame, the melting speed and contact force between ice and probes are measured, as well as heating power and a two-dimensional array of ice temperatures. Additionally, visual and infrared cameras are used to observe the melting process.
Y1  - 2018
SP  - 1
EP  - 6
ER  - 
TY  - CHAP
A1  - Jung, Alexander
A1  - Frotscher, Ralf
A1  - Staat, Manfred
T1  - Electromechanical model of hiPSC-derived ventricular cardiomyocytes cocultured with fibroblasts
T2  - 6th European Conference on Computational Mechanics (ECCM 6), 7th European Conference on Computational Fluid Dynamics (ECFD 7), 11-15 June 2018, Glasgow, UK
N2  - The CellDrum provides an experimental setup to study the mechanical effects of fibroblasts co-cultured with hiPSC-derived ventricular cardiomyocytes. Multi-scale computational models based on the Finite Element Method are developed. Coupled electrical cardiomyocyte-fibroblast models (cell level) are embedded into reaction-diffusion equations (tissue level) which compute the propagation of the action potential in the cardiac tissue. Electromechanical coupling is realised by an excitation-contraction model (cell level) and the active stress arising during contraction is added to the passive stress in the force balance, which determines the tissue displacement (tissue level). Tissue parameters in the model can be identified experimentally to the specific sample.
Y1  - 2018
ER  - 
TY  - JOUR
A1  - Özsoylu, Dua
A1  - Kizildag, Sefa
A1  - Schöning, Michael Josef
A1  - Wagner, Torsten
T1  - Effect of plasma treatment on the sensor properties of a light‐addressable potentiometric sensor (LAPS)
JF  - physica status solidi a : applications and materials sciences
N2  - A light-addressable potentiometric sensor (LAPS) is a field-effect-based (bio-) chemical sensor, in which a desired sensing area on the sensor surface can be defined by illumination. Light addressability can be used to visualize the concentration and spatial distribution of the target molecules, e.g., H+ ions. This unique feature has great potential for the label-free imaging of the metabolic activity of living organisms. The cultivation of those organisms needs specially tailored surface properties of the sensor. O2 plasma treatment is an attractive and promising tool for rapid surface engineering. However, the potential impacts of the technique are carefully investigated for the sensors that suffer from plasma-induced damage. Herein, a LAPS with a Ta2O5 pH-sensitive surface is successfully patterned by plasma treatment, and its effects are investigated by contact angle and scanning LAPS measurements. The plasma duration of 30 s (30 W) is found to be the threshold value, where excessive wettability begins. Furthermore, this treatment approach causes moderate plasma-induced damage, which can be reduced by thermal annealing (10 min at 300 °C). These findings provide a useful guideline to support future studies, where the LAPS surface is desired to be more hydrophilic by O2 plasma treatment.
Y1  - 2019
U6  - https://doi.org/10.1002/pssa.201900259
SN  - 1862-6319
N1  - Corresponding author: Torsten Wagner
VL  - 216
IS  - 20
PB  - Wiley
CY  - Weinheim
ER  -