TY  - CHAP
A1  - Butenweg, Christoph
A1  - Gellert, Christoph
T1  - Displacement based design of masonry structures
T2  - Proceedings of the 14th International Brick and Block Masonry Conference : (Incorporating the 8th Australasian Masonry Conference) : Sydney, Australia, 13.-20. February 2008 / ed. Mark Masia ...
Y1  - 2008
SN  - 978-19-2070-1-92-5
SP  - 1
EP  - 10
PB  - University of Newcastle
CY  - Callaghan
ER  - 
TY  - JOUR
A1  - Baumgartner, Werner
A1  - Fidler, Florian
A1  - Weth, Agnes
A1  - Habbecke, Martin
A1  - Jakob, Peter
A1  - Butenweg, Christoph
A1  - Böhme, Wolfgang
T1  - Investigating the locomotion of the sandfish in desert sand using NMR-Imaging
JF  - PLOS ONE
N2  - The sandfish (Scincus scincus) is a lizard having the remarkable ability to move through desert sand for significant distances. It is well adapted to living in loose sand by virtue of a combination of morphological and behavioural specializations. We investigated the bodyform of the sandfish using 3D-laserscanning and explored its locomotion in loose desert sand using fast nuclear magnetic resonance (NMR) imaging. The sandfish exhibits an in-plane meandering motion with a frequency of about 3 Hz and an amplitude of about half its body length accompanied by swimming-like (or trotting) movements of its limbs. No torsion of the body was observed, a movement required for a digging-behaviour. Simple calculations based on the Janssen model for granular material related to our findings on bodyform and locomotor behaviour render a local decompaction of the sand surrounding the moving sandfish very likely. Thus the sand locally behaves as a viscous fluid and not as a solid material. In this fluidised sand the sandfish is able to “swim” using its limbs.
KW  - magnetic resonance imaging
KW  - body limbs
KW  - swimming
KW  - lizards
KW  - deserts
Y1  - 2008
U6  - http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0003309
SN  - 1932-6203
VL  - 3
IS  - 10
PB  - Plos
CY  - San Francisco, California, US
ER  - 
TY  - JOUR
A1  - Alexopoulos, Spiros
A1  - Breitbach, Gerd
A1  - Hoffschmidt, Bernhard
A1  - Stobbe, P.
T1  - Computational fluid flow of porous resic ceramic filtering modules and optimization of the channel edge form geometry
JF  - Proceedings : April 14 - 18, 2008, Leipzig, Germany / hosted by VDI, Society for Chemical and Process Engineering . Vol 2
Y1  - 2008
N1  - Verein Deutscher Ingenieure ; World Filtration Congress ; (10 : ; 2008.04.14-18 : ; Leipzig) ; WFC ; (10 : ; 2008.04.14-18 : ; Leipzig)
SP  - 300
EP  - 304
PB  - Filtech Exhibitions
CY  - Meerbusch
ER  - 
TY  - JOUR
A1  - Alexopoulos, Spiros
A1  - Breitbach, Gerd
A1  - Hoffschmidt, Bernhard
A1  - Stobbe, P.
T1  - Optimization of the geometry of porous SiC ceramic filtering modules using numerical methods
JF  - Developments in porous, biological and geopolymer ceramics : a collection of papers presented at the 31st International Conference on Advanced Ceramics and Composites, January 21 - 26, 2007, Daytona Beach, Florida ; [papers presented at the Symposium on Porous Ceramics: Novel Developments and Applications] / ed.: Manuel Brito ... Vol. ed.: Jonathan Salem ... The American Ceramics Society
Y1  - 2008
SN  - 9780470196403
N1  - Ceramic engineering and science proceedings ; 28,9
SP  - 95
EP  - 104
PB  - Wiley
CY  - Hoboken, NJ
ER  -