Plasma Polymerization of Precipitated Silica for Tire Application

Pre-treated silica with a plasma-deposited (PD) layer of polymerized precursors was tested concerning its compatibility with Natural Rubber (NR) and its influence on the processing of silica-silane compounds. The modification was performed in a tailor-made plasma reactor. The degree of deposition of the plasma-coated samples was analyzed by...

Gas Phase Modification of Silica Nanoparticles in a Fluidized Bed: Tailored Deposition of Aminopropylsiloxane

Functionalized nanoparticles have various applications, for which grafting of a chemical moiety onto the surface to induce/improve certain properties is needed. When incorporated in polymeric matrices, for instance, the modified nanoparticles can alter the interfacial characteristics leading to improvements ofthe macroscopic properties of the...

Energy states of soil water - A thermodynamic perspective on soil water dynamics and storage-controlled streamflow generation in different landscapes

The present study confirms that a thermodynamic perspective on soil water is well suited to distinguishing the typical interplay of gravity and capillarity controls on soil water dynamics in different landscapes. To this end, we express the driving matric and gravity potentials by their energetic counterparts and characterize soil water by its...

Measurements and Observations in the XXI century (MOXXI): innovation and multi-disciplinarity to sense the hydrological cycle

To promote the advancement of novel observation techniques that may lead to new sources of information to help better understand the hydrological cycle, the International Association of Hydrological Sciences (IAHS) established the Measurements and Observations in the XXI century (MOXXI) Working Group in July 2013. The group comprises a...

Analysing the temporal dynamics of model performance for hydrological models

The temporal dynamics of hydrological model performance gives insights into errors that cannot be obtained from global performance measures assigning a single number to the fit of a simulated time series to an observed reference series. These errors can include errors in data, model parameters, or model structure. Dealing with a set of...

Survivability of Damaged Ro-Ro Passenger Vessels

Experimentell bestimmung von koeffizienten der wirksamen rolldämpfung und ihre anwedung zur abschätzung extremer rollwinkel

Korrektur von probefahrtsmessungen für seegangs- und wind-einfluss

Widerstandserhöhung im seegang - rechenerische bestimmung und modelversuche

Rechnerisches bestimmung der widerstandserhohung eines schiffes in regelmassigen wellen und vergleich mti endsprechenden modelversuchen