The transformation of the energy system potentially contributes to a number of environmental challenges and is associated with high material use. Therefore, when analyzing future energy systems, it is necessary to quantify environmental impacts and material requirements in order to maintain ...

The investigation of the interaction between shear flows and turbulence in magnetically confined fusion plasmas is motivated by the fact that shear flows can lead to a reduction or even suppression of the turbulent transport to the vessel wall. Thus they can significantly improve&#...

In the context of Industry 4.0, flexible manufacturing systems play an important role. They are designed to provide the possibility to adapt the production process by reacting to changes and enabling customer specific products. The versatility of such manufacturing systems, however, also...

The resistance of concrete structures exposed to extreme loading conditions such as explosion, impact, industrial accidents, tsunami, earthquake or their combination represents one of the major topics in research today. Such loading conditions are characterized with high loading rates often actin...

Beton, insbesondere hochfester Beton, neigt im Brandfall zu explosionsartigen Abplatzungen, die zu einer Reduzierung des tragfähigen Querschnitts und im schlimmsten Fall zu einem Bauteilversagen führen können. Als Ursache für explosionsartige Betonabplatzungen werden gegenwärtig thermohydraulische sowie thermomechanische...

This paper presents the non-uniform change in cell thickness of cylindrical Lithium (Li)-ion cells due to the change of State of Charge (SoC). Using optical measurement methods, with the aid of a laser light band micrometer, the expansion and contraction are determined over a ...

The ability to track the structural condition of existing structures is one of engineers, governments, and estate managers’ main con-cerns. In bridge maintenance programs, for example, visual in-spection predominates nowadays as the primary source of infor-mation. Nonetheless, visual inspections alone...

A high-performance building must fulfill comfort and energy efficiency requirements. Possible solutions include passive strategies, such as improving the building envelope and taking advantage of natural light and ventilation. Natural ventilation (NV), for instance, can provide both thermal comfort an...

In the smart home era living environments are significantly changing. Smart home technologies offer new opportunities for the users to control or monitor their smart home appliances. In the near future, smart home appliances may need to inform their users about everyday home detail...

Ever since patterns have entered the field of software technology, they became a popular way to express solutions for reoccurring problems in a specific context. By the increasing number of published patterns, supposed pattern duplicates emerged, which for instance share the same name&#...

The manual deployment of cloud applications is error-prone, time-consuming, and requires considerable technical knowledge. To tackle these issues and automate the deployment of applications, multiple approaches have been proposed that enable the description of applications in the form of declarative&#...

With the rise of cloud computing, the automated deployment and management of applications has become increasingly important. Manual execution of deployment steps can become error-prone, time-consuming, and costly. Therefore, deployment technologies are necessary to achieve a high level of automation.&...

Die automatische Bereitstellung von Cloud-Anwendungen gewinnt immer mehr an Bedeutung, da diese zunehmend komplexer werden. Deshalb ist es notwendig, die Modellierung und Bereitstellung zu erleichtern, um die Entwicklungszeit solcher Anwendungen zu verringern und sie schnellstmöglich Verfügbar zu machen. D...

Optic flow estimation is a significant area of interest within the field of computer vision. Recently, end-to-end neural network-based approaches have received significant interest in the estimation of optic flow. One of the best methods in this field is RAFT, which outperforms previous...

The generation of an intermediate frame between two consecutive frames in a video is an ongoing challenge in computer vision. This concept is known as motion interpolation, or interframe interpolation, and usually works by following the path of an optical flow. To obtain accurate&#...

In many engineering applications, solid materials undergo processes that cause an irreversible change in their microstructure. Such dissipative phenomena usually have a multifield character which means that, besides the macro-deformation, also other physical fields such as temperature, species concentratio...

This dissertation studies electronic transport in graphene at high and low carrier density. At very high carrier densities, the band structure of graphene features a Van Hove singularity. Magnetotransport measurements suggest that below 110K, a pseudogap opens in graphene, combined with a&#x...