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    Eine Konstruktionsmethodik des bionischen Leichtbaus

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    Die Natur hat durch die Evolution eine Vielzahl ausgereifter Leichtbauprinzipien hervorgebracht, die als Vorbilder für innovative Konzepte technischer Konstruktionen dienen können. Eine entsprechende Erweiterung des in den Ingenieurwissenschaften etablierten Vorgehens um die Leichtbauprinzipien der Natur führt zu einer Vielzahl an innovativen Leichtbaukonzepten und erweitert damit das Potenzial für hoch effektive Konstruktionen

    CollStruct - Videos of Collapsing Structures in Experimental Hydraulics in the Large Wave Flume (GWK) of the Coastal Research Center (FZK), Hannover, Germany

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    Extreme hydrodynamic events like hurricanes or tsunamis threaten coastal regions in particular. Such hazards must be assessed and appropriately incorporated into building codes to mitigate casualties and damages to coastal structures. Guidelines are often developed through experimental investigations that assume buildings remain rigid during hydrodynamic loading. To challenge this ‘rigid building paradigm’, test specimens were designed to replicate the deformation characteristics of an idealized light-frame timber structure using Froude-Cauchy similarity. Subsequently, a large-scale experimental study was conducted at the Large Wave Flume of the Coastal Research Center in Hannover. The collapse sequences of elasto-plastic specimens were extracted from high-speed photographs and classified into failure mechanisms. Data analyses are to be performed with the intention to not only inform local authorities for future development of guidelines but also serve as calibration and validation data for improving numerical methods

    Collapse processes and associated loading of square light-frame timber structures due to bore-type waves

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    Extreme hydrodynamic events such as hurricanes or tsunamis threaten coastal regions in particular. Such hazards must be assessed and appropriately incorporated into building codes to mitigate casualties and damages to coastal structures. Guidelines are often developed through experimental investigations that assume buildings remain rigid during hydrodynamic loading. To challenge this ‘rigid building paradigm’, test specimens were designed to replicate the deformation characteristics of an idealized light-frame timber structure using Froude-Cauchy similarity. Subsequently, a large-scale experimental study was conducted at the Large Wave Flume of the Coastal Research Center in Hannover. Hydrodynamic loads and load gradients were investigated to describe both the influence of an elasto-plastically modeled test specimen compared to a rigid reference model and the effect of load history on the structural loads. Finally, the collapse sequences of elasto-plastic specimens were extracted from high-speed photographs and classified into three failure mechanisms. In this study, data analyses are presented with the intention to not only inform local authorities for future development of guidelines but also serve as calibration and validation data for improving numerical methods

    Biologically consistent dose accumulation using daily patient imaging

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    Background!#!This work addresses a basic inconsistency in the way dose is accumulated in radiotherapy when predicting the biological effect based on the linear quadratic model (LQM). To overcome this inconsistency, we introduce and evaluate the concept of the total biological dose, bEQD!##!Methods!#!Daily computed tomography imaging of nine patients treated for prostate carcinoma with intensity-modulated radiotherapy was used to compute the delivered deformed dose on the basis of deformable image registration (DIR). We compared conventional dose accumulation (DA) with the newly introduced bEQD!##!Results!#!bEQD!##!Conclusion!#!Using bEQ

    Track finding at Belle II

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    International audienceThis paper describes the track-finding algorithm that is used for event reconstruction in the Belle II experiment operating at the SuperKEKB B-factory in Tsukuba, Japan. The algorithm is designed to balance the requirements of a high efficiency to find charged particles with a good track parameter resolution, a low rate of spurious tracks, and a reasonable demand on CPU resources. The software is implemented in a flexible, modular manner and employs a diverse selection of global and local track-finding algorithms to achieve an optimal performance
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