An increased share of construction with timber is one possible way of achieving more sustainable and energy-efficient life cycles of buildings. The main reason is that wood is a renewable material and buildings require a large amount of resources. Timber buildings taller than two storeys were prohibited in Europe until the 1990s due to fire regulations. In 1994, this prohibition was removed in Sweden.     Some of the early multi-storey timber buildings were associated with more complaints due to impact sound than concrete buildings with the same measured impact sound class rating. Research in later years has shown that the frequency range used for rating has not been sufficiently low in order to include all the sound characteristics that are important for subjective perception of impact sound in light weight timber buildings. The AkuLite project showed that the frequency range has to be extended down to 20 Hz in order to give a good quality of the rating. This low frequency range of interest requires a need for knowledge of the sound field distribution, how to best measure the sound, how to predict the sound transmission levels and how to correlate numerical predictions with measurements.     Here, the goal is to improve the knowledge and methodology concerning measurements and predictions of low frequency impact sound in light weight timber buildings. Impact sound fields are determined by grid measurements in rooms within timber buildings with different designs of their joist floors. The measurements are used to increase the understanding of impact sound and to benchmark different field measurement methods. By estimating transfer functions, from impact forces to vibrations and then sound pressures in receiving rooms, from vibrational test data, improved possibilities to correlate the experimental results to numerical simulations are achieved. A number of excitation devices are compared experimentally to evaluate different characteristics of the test data achieved. Further, comparisons between a timber based hybrid joist floor and a modern concrete floor are made using FE-models to evaluate how stiffness and surface mass parameters affect the impact sound transfer and the radiation.     The measurements of sound fields show that light weight timber floors in small rooms tend to have their highest sound levels in the low frequency region, where the modes are well separated, and that the highest levels even can occur below the frequency of the first room mode of the air. In rooms with excitation from the floor above, the highest levels tend to occur at the floor levels and in the floor corners, if the excitation is made in the middle of the room above. Due to nonlinearities, the excitation levels may affect the transfer function in low frequencies which was shown in an experimental study. Surface mass and bending stiffness of floor systems are shown, by simulations, to be important for the amount of sound radiated.     By applying a transfer function methodology, measuring the excitation forces as well as the responses, improvements of correlation analyses between measurements and simulations can be achieved / ProWood / Silent Timber Build / Urban Tranquility / BioInnovation FBBB

We show full Li/S cells with the use of balanced and high capacity electrodes to address high power electro-mobile applications. The anode is made of an assembly comprising of silicon nanowires as active material densely and conformally grown on a 3D carbon mesh as a light-weight current collector, offering extremely high areal capacity for reversible Li storage of up to 9 mAh/cm(2). The dense growth is guaranteed by a versatile Au precursor developed for homogenous Au layer deposition on 3D substrates. In contrast to metallic Li, the presented system exhibits superior characteristics as an anode in Li/S batteries such as safe operation, long cycle life and easy handling. These anodes are combined with high area density S/C composite cathodes into a Li/S full-cell with an ether- and lithium triflate-based electrolyte for high ionic conductivity. The result is a highly cyclable full-cell with an areal capacity of 2.3 mAh/cm(2), a cyclability surpassing 450 cycles and capacity retention of 80% after 150 cycles (capacity loss <0.4% per cycle). A detailed physical and electrochemical investigation of the SiNW Li/S full-cell including in-operando synchrotron X-ray diffraction measurements reveals that the lower degradation is due to a lower self-reduction of polysulfides after continuous charging/discharging.

The diploma thesis deals with the observation of the values of selected parameters (especially the static modulus of elasticity) of light-weight concrete in compression before and after multiple cyclic loading. The deformation of test specimens during multiple cyclic loading were measured with resistive strain gauges. Test specimens (cylinders with a diameter of 150 mm and height of a 300 mm) were cyclically loaded and up to 4 500 loading cycles were performed. The aim of this thesis is assessment changes in the values of static modulus of elasticity depending on the number of loading cycles.

Die Anforderungen, in vielen Bereichen des Maschinen- und Anlagenbaus immer mehr Leichtbaumaßnahmen zu realisieren, steigen ständig weiter an. Die Umsetzung von Leichtbaukonzepten wird durch den Einsatz neu entwickelter Werkstoffe und Werkstoffsubstitution realisiert. Es steht fest, dass die herkömmlichen Technologien eine weitere Steigerung der Leichtbaupotentiale nicht mehr gewährleisten können. In der vorliegenden Arbeit wurden neue innovative Fertigungstechnologien zur Herstellung von hohlen, MMC und damit massereduzierten Bauteilen entwickelt, die in der Kraftfahrzeugtechnik, Wärmetechnik und Medizin sowie im Maschinenbau Anwendung finden können. Die neuen Gießverfahren beinhalten Fertigungsmethoden auf der Basis des bekannten Niederdruckgießens durch gesteuerte Formfüllung und definierte Abkühlungsbedingungen.

Nature brings lot of possibilities and inspirational ideas in various industries. Many fields of human activity from transportation, energy and electronics derives inspiration from natural structures and systems to be more efficient. The civil engineering and industry of building materials is not an exception. The ongoing joint research project CRC/TRR 280 [1] aimed on looking for a new methodology and approaches in design of light weight and bio inspired structures made of textile reinforced concrete (TRC). Special interest is on shell structures with membrane stresses that brings an extremely favourable span-to-material ratio that in turn means excellent structural performance. The current paper aimed to show the numerical side of the current research project.

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This doctoral thesis concerns flanking transmission in light weight, wooden multi-storey buildings within the low frequency, primarily 20-120 Hz. The overall aim is to investigate how the finite element method can contribute in the design phase to evaluate different junctions regarding flanking transmission. Two field measurements of accelerations in light weight wooden buildings have been evaluated. In these, two sources; a stepping machine, and an electrodynamic shaker, were used. The shaker was shown to give more detailed information. However, since a light weight structure in field exhibit energy losses to surrounding building parts, reliable damping estimates were difficult to obtain. In addition, two laboratory measurements were made. These were evaluated using experimental modal analysis, giving the eigenmodes and the damping of the structures. The damping for these particular structures varies significantly with frequency, especially when an elastomer is used in the floor-wall junction. The overall damping is also higher when elastomers are used in the floor-wall junction in comparison to a screwed junction. By analysing the eigenmodes, using the modal assurance criterion, of the same structure with two types of junctions it was concluded that the modes become significantly different. Thereby the overall behavior differs. Several finite element models representing both the field and laboratory test setups have been made. The junctions between the building blocks in the models have been modeled using tie or springs and dashpots. Visual observation and the modal assurance criterion show that there is more rotational stiffness in the test structures than in the models. The findings in this doctoral thesis add understanding to how modern joints in wooden constructions can be represented by FE modelling. They will contribute in developing FE models that can be used to see the acoustic effects prior to building an entire house. However, further research is still needed. / Denna doktorsavhandling behandlar flanktransmission i flervåningshus med trästomme, inom det lågfrekventa området, främst 20-120 Hz. Det övergripande målet är att undersöka hur finita elementmetoden kan bidra i konstruktionsfasen för att utvärdera olika knutpunkters inverkan på flanktransmissionen. Två fältmätningar av accelerationer i trähus har utvärderats. I dessa har två olika lastkällor använts, i den första en stegljudsapparat och i den andra en elektrodynamisk vibrator (shaker). Det visades att shakern kan ge mer detaljerad information, men eftersom vibrationerna även sprider sig till omgivande byggnadsdelar vid fältmätningarna var det svårt att estimera tillförlitliga dämpningsdata även då shaker användes. Fältmätningarna följdes av två mätningar i laborationsmiljö. Dessa två experiment utvärderades med experimentell modalanalys, vilket ger egenmoder och dämpning hos strukturerna. Dämpningen för dessa trähuskonstruktioner varierar kraftigt med frekvens. Extra stora variationer registreras då en elastomer användes i knutpunkten mellan golv och vägg. Den totala dämpningen är generellt högre när elastomerer används i knutpunkten mellan golv och vägg i jämförelse med då knutpunkten är skruvad. Genom att analysera egenmoder och deras korrelationer (MAC), för samma trästruktur men med olika typer av knutpunkter, drogs slutsatsen att knutpunkten drastiskt förändrar strukturens dynamiska beteende. Flera finita elementmodeller av både fält- och laboratorieuppställningar har gjorts. I dessa har knutpunkterna mellan byggnadsdelar modellerats helt styvt eller med hjälp av fjädrar och dämpare. Visuella observationer av egenmoder och korrelationen dem emellan visar att det finns mer rotationsstyvhet i försöken än i finita elementmodellerna. Resultaten i denna doktorsavhandling har gett förståelse för hur knutpunkter i träkonstruktioner beter sig och kan simuleras med finit elementmodellering. Vidare kan resultaten bidra till utvecklingen av FE-modeller som kan användas för att kunna se de akustiska effekterna redan under konstruktionsstadiet. Dock behövs ytterligare forskning inom området.

Das Anwendungsfeld der Luft- und Raumfahrtindustrie kennzeichnet sich durch eine konstante Nachfrage nach Materialien mit einer hohen spezifischen Festigkeit. Die metastabile Beta-Titanlegierung Ti-5553 ist ein aussichtsreicher Werkstoffkandidat, um der Forderung nach geringer Dichte bei gleichzeitig hoher Festigkeit gerecht zu werden. Bereits jetzt findet er Anwendung in strukturell-belasteten Bereichen. Der Herstellungsprozess für die dafür verwendeten Bauteile ist charakterisiert durch einen oftmals materialintensiven Zerspanungsprozess zur Erzeugung der gewünschten Geometrie und eine mehrstufige und zeitintensive Wärmebehandlung zur Einstellung des gewünschten Gefüges sowie den damit verbundenen Eigenschaften. Durch den Einsatz des selektiven Laserschmelzens (SLM) als Vertreter der additiven Fertigungsverfahren sollen diese zwei Problemstellungen adressiert werden. Einerseits wäre es möglich, durch den schichtweisen Aufbau der Bauteile, komplexe Geometrien endkonturnah zu fertigen und damit den Zerspanungsprozess zu minimieren. Andererseits können durch die im SLM-Prozess auftretenden hohen Erstarrungsraten metastabile Gefügezustände geschaffen werden. Daher besteht großes Interesse daran, die Verknüpfung von Prozessbedingungen und dem entstehenden Gefüge zu untersuchen und zu verstehen. Das Prozessieren und Optimieren der Legierung Ti-5553 auf das Verfahren des selektiven Laserschmelzens stellen den Ausgangspunkt dieser Arbeit dar. Durch die anschließende Variation der Belichtungsstrategie beziehungsweise der Anwendung einer Substratheizung konnten Korngröße sowie Textur respektive Phasenbildung im Gefüge beeinflusst werden. Somit war es möglich das Potenzial des selektiven Laserschmelzens aufzuzeigen, indem durch Prozessparameter Bauteileigenschaften während des Herstellungsprozesses aktiv beeinflusst werden. Die Analyse der hergestellten Proben umfasste eine tief greifende Gefügeanalyse sowie die Untersuchung der mechanischen Eigenschaften.