Quasicrystals are being implemented in industry since this new class of materials appears to have some peculiar properties. However, the fracture behavior of quasicrystals is not yet clear, which could be a hindrance to its wide usage. This work adopts the generalized linear elastic framework of fracture theory in quasicrystals and develops numerical tools in a finite element environment to compute the fracture quantities. Crack growth is simulated in diverse specimens undergoing an intrinsic mixed-mode loading and ...

An accurate method to predict annual heat load profiles is fundamental to many studies, e.g., preliminary design or potential studies on renewable heating systems. This study presents a method to predict annual heat load profiles with a daily resolution for industry and commerce, based on an analysis of 800 natural gas load profiles (≥ 1.5 GWh/a). To derive heat load profiles, these natural gas load profiles are normalized and those with a potentially non-linear relationship between heat demand and natural gas ...

Begehbare Bilder: // „Ist die Moderne unsere Antike?“ Der moderne Themenpark ist beliebtes ‚Feindbild’ der Kulturkritik, die häufig verkennt, dass dessen Grundlagen gerade der Kultur entsprangen, die gegen ihn verteidigt werden soll. Die Analyse des modernen Themenparks zeigt, dass dessen wichtigsten Merkmale: Ästhetisierung, Simulation und Sensation schon in den repräsentativen Gärten des Barock angelegt und im Landschaftspark voll ausgebildet wurden. Nicht erst in Disney World wird die Welt zur Landschaft. Die ...

This document provides an overview of modeling concepts for service-based software architectures (SBSAs). The concepts were extracted during a survey of conceptual frameworks for architecture modeling of SBSAs.

The so-called Dixon system is often cited as an example of a two-dimensional (continuous) dynamical system that exhibits chaotic behaviour, if its two parameters take their value in a certain domain. We provide first a rigorous proof that there is no chaos in Dixon's system. Then we perform a complete bifurcation analysis of the system showing that the parameter space can be decomposed into sixteen different regions in each of which the system exhibits qualitatively the same behaviour. In particular, we prove that ...

Der Artikel stellt wahrnehmungs- und interaktionstheoretische Grundlagen einer rekonstruktiven Videoanalyse dar. Entgegen alltagsweltlicher Abbildungstheorien wird aufgezeigt, dass Bilderstellung und Bildgebrauch sozial situierte Praktiken sind, die bei einer Analyse zu berücksichtigen sind. Praktisches Vorgehen und Anwendungen im Bereich der Sozialen Arbeit werden dargelegt.