M.Tech.

In der vorliegenden Arbeit wurde die myokardiale Perfusion gesunder Probanden in Ruhe und unter Adenosin–induziertem, sowie Kälte-induziertem Stress quantitativ mittels First-Pass-Perfusions MR-Bildgebung beim gleichen Probanden untersucht und die Perfusionswerte alters- und geschlechtsabhängig verglichen. Hierbei wurden zwanzig Probanden in altersabhängige Gruppen eingeteilt, wobei der cut-off vierzig Jahre war. Diese Arbeit zeigt, dass der Einsatz des CPT zur Beurteilung der endothelvermittelten Vasodilatation im MRT möglich ist. Im Vergleich zum Einsatz von Adenosin zeigt die Stress-Untersuchung mittels CPT weniger bis keine unerwünschten Nebenwirkungen und die Kontraindikationen sind geringer. Somit ist der Einsatz des CPT zur Beurteilung der myokardialen Stressperfusion als eine nebenwirkungsarme Untersuchungsmodalität anzusehen, die es ermöglicht, die frühesten Veränderungen des Endothels bei beginnender koronarer Arteriosklerose zu detektieren. Als Ergebnis ist festzuhalten, dass in dieser Arbeit alle Probanden eine statistisch signifikante Perfusionserhöhung beim CPT aufweisen. Es zeigt sich kein statistisch signifikanter Alters- oder Geschlechtsunterschied beim CPT. Auf die Verabreichung von Adenosin reagiert die junge Probandengruppe mit einer statistisch signifikant höheren Myokardperfusion. Dies könnte in erster Linie durch den höheren Anteil an Frauen in der jungen Gruppe zu erklären sein. / The response of myocardial blood flow (MBF) to adenosine stress and to sympathetic stimulation (Cold-Pressor-Test = CPT) with cold can be examined with the MRT. This work compares and evaluates a possible age and gender dependency of absolute myocardial perfusion values of stress MRT and MRT-CPT in the same healthy subjects divided into twogroups. First-Pass perfusion-studies were performed in 20 healthy, non-smoking volunteers, 10 with a mean age of 25±2.5yrs. and 10 with a mean age of 50.5±6.5yrs. using a 1.5 T MR-scanner with a multislice SSFP perfusion sequence in prebolus-technique. The MR-CPT was performed using a two minutes ice-water bath of the left hand. Second imaging was performed 15 minutes later to examine the perfusion at rest. In a further examination rest and adenosine stress perfusion was performed. The mean myocardial perfusion (cc/g/min) in the younger group rose from 0.77±0.13 at rest to 1.33±0.45 for CPT and from 0.76±0.16 at rest to 1.92±0.58 for adenosine stress. In the older group the myocardial perfusion rose from 0.81±0.16 at rest to 1.44±0.38 for CPT and from 0.71±0.16 at rest to 1.44±0.62 for adenosine stress. Perfusion values show a significant increase in both tests. A significant age or gender dependence was not found for the CPT.

Hot-rolled sheet piling has long-been believed to have a better flexural performance than cold-formed sheet piling based on a test conducted by Hartman Engineering twenty years ago. However, cold-formed steel can have similar strength to the hot-rolled steel This experimental program studied the flexural behavior of hot-rolled and cold-formed steel sheet pilings. This program quantified the influence of transverse stresses from soil pressures on the longitudinal flexural strength. Four cross-sections with two pairs of equivalent sectional modulus were investigated. Sheet-piling specimens were subjected to simulated soil pressure from an air bladder loaded transversely to their longitudinal axis. The span lengths were varied, while the loading area remains unchanged to examine the effect of different transverse stresses. Lateral bracings were provided at discrete locations to establish a sheet piling wall behavior and allow the development of transverse stresses. Load-pressure, load-deflection, load-strain, and moment-deflection responses were plotted to demonstrate the behavior of each specimen. The moment-deflection curves were then normalized to the corresponding yield stress from tensile coupon tests to make a meaningful comparison. The results indicate that transverse stresses influence the flexural capacity of the sheet pilings. The longer span length has less amount of transverse strains, resulting in a higher moment capacity. The hot-rolled sheet pilings have better flexural performance also because of less transverse strains. / Master of Science / Sheet piling wall is an essential structure used during the excavation process. Sheet piling can be hot-rolled and cold-formed. Hot-rolled sheet piling has long-been believed to have a better bending performance based on a test conducted by Hartman Engineering twenty years ago. However, cold-formed steel can have similar strength to hot-rolled steel. This experimental program studied the bending behavior of hot-rolled and cold-formed steel sheet pilings. This program quantified the influence of lateral loading from soil pressure on the moment capacity of the sheet piling. Four cross-sections with two pairs of equivalent bending properties were investigated. Sheet-piling specimens were set up as beam members and subjected to simulated soil pressure from an air bladder. The span lengths of the specimens were varied, while the loading area remains unchanged to examine the effect of different amounts of load. Lateral bracings were provided at discrete locations to establish a sheet piling wall behavior and allow local deflection of the cross-section. Load-pressure, load-deflection, load-strain, and moment-deflection responses were plotted to demonstrate the behavior of each specimen. The moment-deflection curves were then normalized to the corresponding material property of each specimen to make a meaningful comparison between different specimens. The results indicate that lateral loading of the soil pressure influences the bending capacity of the sheet pilings. The longer span length has less amount of transverse strains, resulting in a higher bending capacity. The hot-rolled sheet pilings have better bending performance also because of less transverse strains.

Ce travail est consacré à l’analyse expérimentale et numérique de l’essai normalisé de disque à rupture utilisé pour la sélection des matériaux métalliques sensibles à l’hydrogène et vise notamment à évaluer la potentielle extension de l’essai à des pressions plus élevées. L’étude a porté sur un acier AISI 4135 constitutif des bouteilles de stockage d’hydrogène gazeux. Des essais de disques réalisés sous He et sous H₂ ont permis d’étudier l’influence de différents paramètres sur les pressions de rupture et de disposer de courbes flèche-pression expérimentales.La réponse de l’essai pour des pressions supérieures au domaine d’usage actuel a été étudiée avec des disques de différentes épaisseurs. La caractérisation par MEB-EBSD de disques rompus ou fissurés a permis d’observer la fissuration à différentes échelles dans la microstructure bainitique. La simulation par éléments finis de l’essai de disque a permis d’analyser l’influence de différents paramètres sur la distribution des champs mécaniques dans le disque et a conduit à une confrontation satisfaisante avec les résultats expérimentaux. Les pressions de rupture sous He ont été obtenues par une simulation d’endommagement ductile, et les pressions de rupture sous H₂ ont été décrites à l’aide d’éléments cohésifs. Les distributions d’hydrogène diffusif et piégé dans le matériau au cours de l’essai de disque ont été obtenues par la prise en compte de la diffusion assistée par la pression hydrostatique et de l’évolution du piégeage avec la déformation plastique.L’extension de la simulation à l’échelle du polycristal ouvre la voie à des critères de fragilisation tenant compte des hétérogénéités microstructurales. / This work focused on the experimental and numerical analysis of the normalized disk pressure test used to select metallic materials hydrogen sensitive and particularly aimed to evaluate the potential extension of the test to higher pressures. The study focused on an AISI 4135 steel, which composed hydrogen gas storage vessels. Disk pressure tests had been leading under helium and hydrogen gas in order to study the influence of some parameters on failure pressures and to obtain experimental deflection-pressure curves. The response of the test for pressures higher than in the usual domain of specifications was studied for different disk thickness. SEM-EBSD characterization of failed or cracked disks allowed examining cracks at different scales in the bainitic microstructure. Finite element simulations of disk pressure test permitted to analyze the influence of different parameters on mechanical field distributions in the disk and led to a satisfying comparison with experimental results. Helium failure pressures were obtained by a ductile damage computation ; and hydrogen failure pressures were described thanks to a cohesive elements model. Distributions of diffusive and trapped hydrogen in the material during a disk pressure test were obtained considering hydrogen diffusion is assisted by the hydrostatic pressure and the evolution of trapping with strain. Extension of the simulation at polycrystalline scale open the way to embrittlement index ; taking into account microstructural heterogeneities.

Goal of this thesis is to verify functions of hydraulic manifolds from new supplier, measure characteristics of pressure loss relative to flow rate and for proportional blocks also characteristics of flow rate relative to control voltage at constant inlet pressure. Verification will be carried out with proportional manifolds and on/off manifolds with different failure functions.

This diploma thesis deals with the technology of noncontact hot plate welding and hot gas welding and with the optimizing of welding parameters of the chosen thermoplastics, especially of POM and PPA. The individual chapters in the theoretical part focus on following topics: technology of noncontact hot plate welding, technology of noncontact hot gas welding, description of the test welding machines and tools, main process parameters and evaluation of the advantages and disadvantages of each technology. In the practical part the welding parameters are optimized by the Design of Experiment systematic, the short-term capability machine and the microtome analysis are evaluated. In the end there are the results of the welding parameters optimization and comparison of noncontact welding technologies.

Diploma thesis is focused on design and strenght calculation of the separator according to ČSN EN 13 445. Introductory part introduce problems with design of separators, in the other parts there is a design and strenght calculation of separator according to ČSN EN 14 445, unfired pressure vessels, part 3 - Design, FEM analysis in ANSYS Workbench and stress categorization of the results.

The diploma thesis focuses on the optimization of technological parameters of plastic injection molding and the study of the influence of technological parameters on the quality of molded test specimens’ type 1A. The quality of molded parts for 3 types of polypropylene (PP) with different melt flow rate (Mosten GB 002, Mosten GB 218, Mosten MA 230) and 1 type of polystyrene (PS) (Krasten PS GP 154) was evaluated in terms of dimensional stability and weight. The contribution of software for modeling the plastic injection molding process was evaluated in this work. SOLIDWORKS Plastics software was used to optimize technological parameters. The construction of the bodies, mold and cooling system was constructed, and test bodies were produced on the basis of parameters obtained from the simulation of the injection molding process. Their quality parameters were compared with a 3D model and for each of the studied materials the optimal technological parameters were selected in terms of quality and the degree of influence of individual injection parameters on the quality of moldings was evaluated. The accordance of the results of the theoretical simulation with the real experiment was proved and a computational module independent of the optimized quality parameters, generally suitable for optimizing the quality parameters of the injected parts, was developed.

Många byggnader är idag fuktskadade. Fuktskador uppstår på så väl nya som gamla byggnader. Idag provtrycker man hus för att få ett värde på dess täthet, men många hus som klarar täthetskraven drabbas ändå av fuktskador. Detta beror på att otätheterna är lokala på en eller flera delar av klimatskalet bortsett från otätheter vid anslutningar.   En studie har gjorts på två väggtyper; en standardvägg och en passivhusvägg. Denna undersökning har begränsats till väggar för småhus. Undersökningen syftar till att ta fram vart gränserna går innan mögeltillväxt påvisas för olika håldiametrar i plastfolien. Jämförelse gjordes för dessa väggkonstruktioner i städerna Kiruna, Stockholm och Lund. Simulering av konstruktionerna i de olika städerna gjordes i programmet WUFI Pro 5,0 med en 5-årsperiod där resultaten sedan analyserats i WUFI-Bio 3,1 RC för riskbedömning av mikrobiell tillväxt. Resultat åskådliggör att konstruktioner med tjockare isolering belägna längre upp i landet lättare kan råka ut för skador orsakade av fukt. / Many buildings today are moisture damaged. Moisture damage occurs to new as well as old buildings. Nowadays we test the dense of the building with measurement of the air flow under pressure, but still many of these building structures that meet the dense requirements are still affected by dampness. This is because the leaking points are situated at one or other parts of the building shell other than at the connections.A study has been made on two wall types: a standard wall and a passive house wall. This investigation has been confined to walls of houses. The study aims to develop each boundaries before mold growth demonstrated for different hole diameters in plastic foil. Comparison was made for these wall structures in the cities Kiruna, Stockholm and Lund.The comparison of the wall structures in the different towns was done with a simulation program WUFI Pro 5.0 for a 5-year period. Results were then analyzed in WUFI Bio 3.1 RC, program for risk assessment of microbial growth.Results illustrate that structures with thicker insulation located further up in the country can more easily encounter damage caused by moisture.