Simulating the forming process for sheet metal parts is currently the standard for guaranteeing feasible manufacturing at the time of tool design. In contrast simulating springback and its computer-supported compensation is still under development. The status of the technology for simulating springback will be illustrated and demonstrated using examples. Various strategies related to compensati...

Business to business integration has recently been performed by employing Web service environments. Moreover, such environments are being provided by major players on the technology markets. Those environments are based on open specifications for transaction coordination. When a failure in such an environment occurs, a compensation can be initiated to recover from the failure. However, current ...

Standard (single-level) incomplete factorization preconditioners are known to successfully accelerate Krylov subspace iterations for many linear systems. The classical Modified Incomplete LU (MILU) factorization approach improves the acceleration given by (standard) ILU approaches, by modifying the non-unit diagonal in the factorization to match the action of the system matrix on a given vector...

Molecular brain imaging using positron emission tomography (PET) has evolved into a vigorous academic field and is progressively gaining importance in the clinical arena. Significant progress has been made in the design of high-resolution three-dimensional (3-D) PET units dedicated to brain research and the development of quantitative imaging protocols incorporating accurate image correction te...

this study investigates the application of landscape ecology in planning and design of urban ecological systems. the ecological approach to landscape planning and the concepts of designing and implementing ecological systems have gained increasing attention in the last two decades. however, the ecological systems of urban environment need more research to consider built and natural patches and ...

New materials are used in the automotive industry to reduce weight and to improve crash performance. These materials feature a higher ratio of yield stress to elastic modulus leading to increased springback after tool release. The resulting shape deviations and their efficient reduction is of major interest for the automotive industry nowadays. The usual strategies for springback reduction can ...