TY - CHAP A1 - Carzana, Livio A1 - Dachwald, Bernd A1 - Noomen, Ron T1 - Model and trajectory optimization for an ideal laser-enhanced solar sail T2 - 68th International Astronautical Congress N2 - A laser-enhanced solar sail is a solar sail that is not solely propelled by solar radiation but additionally by a laser beam that illuminates the sail. This way, the propulsive acceleration of the sail results from the combined action of the solar and the laser radiation pressure onto the sail. The potential source of the laser beam is a laser satellite that coverts solar power (in the inner solar system) or nuclear power (in the outer solar system) into laser power. Such a laser satellite (or many of them) can orbit anywhere in the solar system and its optimal orbit (or their optimal orbits) for a given mission is a subject for future research. This contribution provides the model for an ideal laser-enhanced solar sail and investigates how a laser can enhance the thrusting capability of such a sail. The term ”ideal” means that the solar sail is assumed to be perfectly reflecting and that the laser beam is assumed to have a constant areal power density over the whole sail area. Since a laser beam has a limited divergence, it can provide radiation pressure at much larger solar distances and increase the radiation pressure force into the desired direction. Therefore, laser-enhanced solar sails may make missions feasible, that would otherwise have prohibitively long flight times, e.g. rendezvous missions in the outer solar system. This contribution will also analyze exemplary mission scenarios and present optimial trajectories without laying too much emphasis on the design and operations of the laser satellites. If the mission studies conclude that laser-enhanced solar sails would have advantages with respect to ”traditional” solar sails, a detailed study of the laser satellites and the whole system architecture would be the second next step Y1 - 2017 N1 - 68th International Astronautical Congress: Unlocking Imagination, Fostering Innovation and Strengthening Security, IAC 2017, 2017-09-25 → 2017-09-29, Adelaide, Australia ER - TY - CHAP A1 - Moshiri-Kahak, Amir A1 - Pfaff, Raphael A1 - Gäbel, Markus A1 - Reich, Alexander T1 - Modellierung der Adhäsionsfläche im Rad-Schiene-Kontakt unter Einsatz von reibwertverbessernden Mitteln T2 - 15. Internationale Schienenfahrzeugtagung Rad Schiene 2017, Dresden, März 2017 Y1 - 2017 N1 - Internationale Schienenfahrzeugtagung <15., 2017, Dresden> ER - TY - JOUR A1 - Horbach, Andreas A1 - Duong, Minh Tuan A1 - Staat, Manfred T1 - Modelling of compressible and orthotropic surgical mesh implants based on optical deformation measurement JF - Journal of the mechanical behavior of biomedical materials Y1 - 2017 U6 - http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.jmbbm.2017.06.012 SN - 1751-6161 VL - 74 SP - 400 EP - 410 PB - Elsevier CY - Amsterdam ER - TY - CHAP A1 - Pfaff, Raphael A1 - Moshiri, Amir A1 - Reich, Alexander A1 - Gäbel, Markus T1 - Modelling of the effect of sanding on the wheel-rail adhesion area T2 - First International Conference on Rail Transportation Y1 - 2017 N1 - 2017 ICRT; International Conference on Rail Transportation <1, 2017, Chengdu, China> SP - 1 EP - 7 ER - TY - JOUR A1 - Werkhausen, Amelie A1 - Albracht, Kirsten A1 - Cronin, Neil J. A1 - Meier, Rahel A1 - Mojsen-Moeller, Jens A1 - Seynnes, Olivier R. T1 - Modulation of muscle-tendon interaction in the human triceps surae during an energy dissipation task JF - Journal of Experimental Biology Y1 - 2017 U6 - http://dx.doi.org/10.1242/jeb.164111 SN - 0022-0949 VL - 220 IS - 22 SP - 4141 EP - 4149 ER - TY - JOUR A1 - Meyer, Jan A1 - Hentschke, Reinhard A1 - Hager, Jonathan A1 - Hojdis, Nils A1 - Karimi-Varzaneh, Hossein Ali T1 - Molecular Simulation of Viscous Dissipation due to Cyclic Deformation of a Silica–Silica Contact in Filled Rubber JF - Macromolecules Y1 - 2017 U6 - http://dx.doi.org/10.1021/acs.macromol.7b00947 SN - 1520-5835 VL - 50 IS - 17 SP - 6679 EP - 6689 ER - TY - CHAP A1 - Rajan, Sreelakshmy A1 - Kubalski, Thomas A1 - Altay, Okyay A1 - Dalguer, Luis A A1 - Butenweg, Christoph T1 - Multi-dimensional fragility analysis of a RC building with components using response surface method T2 - 24th International Conference on Structural Mechanics in Reactor Technology, Busan, Korea, 20-25 August, 2017 N2 - Conventional fragility curves describe the vulnerability of the main structure under external hazards. However, in complex structures such as nuclear power plants, the safety or the risk depends also on the components associated with a system. The classical fault tree analysis gives an overall view of the failure and contains several subsystems to the main event, however, the interactions in the subsystems are not well represented. In order to represent the interaction of the components, a method suggested by Cimellaro et al. (2006) using multidimensional performance limit state functions to obtain the system fragility curves is adopted. This approach gives the possibility of deriving the cumulative fragility taking into account the interaction of the response of different components. In this paper, this approach is used to evaluate seismic risk of a representative electrical building infrastructure, including the component, of a nuclear power plant. A simplified model of the structure, with nonlinear material behavior is employed for the analysis in Abaqus©. The input variables considered are the material parameters, boundary conditions and the seismic input. The variability of the seismic input is obtained from selected ground motion time histories of spectrum compatible synthetic ccelerograms. Unlike the usual Monte Carlo methods used for the probabilistic analysis of the structure, a computationally effective response surface method is used. This method reduces the computational effort of the calculations by reducing the required number of samples. Y1 - 2017 SN - 9781510856776 SP - 3126 EP - 3135 PB - International Assn for Structural Mechanics in Reactor Technology (IASMiRT) CY - Raleigh, USA ER - TY - CHAP A1 - Schmidts, Oliver A1 - Boltes, Maik A1 - Kraft, Bodo A1 - Schreiber, Marc T1 - Multi-pedestrian tracking by moving Bluetooth-LE beacons and stationary receivers T2 - 2017 International Conference on Indoor Positioning and Indoor Navigation (IPIN), 18-21 September 2017, Sapporo, Japan Y1 - 2017 N1 - International Conference on Indoor Positioning and Indoor Navigation <8, 2017, Sapporo, Japan> SP - 1 EP - 4 ER - TY - CHAP A1 - Altherr, Lena A1 - Ederer, Thorsten A1 - Farnetane, Lucas S. A1 - Pöttgen, Philipp A1 - Vergé, Angela A1 - Pelz, Peter F. T1 - Multicriterial design of a hydrostatic transmission system via mixed-integer programming T2 - Operations Research Proceedings 2015 N2 - In times of planned obsolescence the demand for sustainability keeps growing. Ideally, a technical system is highly reliable, without failures and down times due to fast wear of single components. At the same time, maintenance should preferably be limited to pre-defined time intervals. Dispersion of load between multiple components can increase a system’s reliability and thus its availability inbetween maintenance points. However, this also results in higher investment costs and additional efforts due to higher complexity. Given a specific load profile and resulting wear of components, it is often unclear which system structure is the optimal one. Technical Operations Research (TOR) finds an optimal structure balancing availability and effort. We present our approach by designing a hydrostatic transmission system. Y1 - 2017 SN - 978-3-319-42901-4 SN - 978-3-319-42902-1 U6 - http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-42902-1_41 N1 - International Conference of the German, Austrian and Swiss Operations Research Societies (GOR, ÖGOR, SVOR/ASRO), University of Vienna, Austria, September 1-4, 2015 SP - 301 EP - 307 PB - Springer CY - Cham ER - TY - CHAP A1 - Schopp, Christoph A1 - Heuermann, Holger A1 - Marso, Michel T1 - Multiphysical Study of an Atmospheric Microwave Argon Plasma Jet T2 - IEEE Transactions on Plasma Science Y1 - 2017 U6 - http://dx.doi.org/10.1109/TPS.2017.2692735 SN - 1939-9375 VL - 45 IS - 6 SP - 932 EP - 937 PB - IEEE ER -