SUDPLAN aims at a new and visionary capacity to link existing environmental simulation models, information and sensor infrastructures, SDI’s and climatic scenario databases, providing visualization of long term forecasts of environmental factors for urban subsystems such as building and architecture, traffic and transport, landscape planning and local water runoff. End-users shall be enabled to...

We report acoustic measurements of popping bubbles during the collapsing of aqueous foams. The sound pattern is analyzed using classical methods of statistical physics. It is found that membrane rupture concerns a wide variety of situations: small and large membranes at the air/foam interface. Avalanches of popping bubbles are put into evidence. Time durations in between successive pops seem to...

This article explores the applicability of numerical homogenization techniques for analyzing transport properties in real foam samples mostly open-cell, to understand long-wavelength acoustics of rigid-frame air-saturated porous media, on the basis of microstructural parameters. Experimental characterization of porosity and permeability of real foam samples are used to provide the scaling of a ...

An acoustic method is proposed for measuring the flow resistivity and the thickness of air-saturated porous materials. The conventional methods [14, 16, 17] for the measurement of the flow resistivity (or the viscous permeability) require the prior knowledge of the porosity. The method presented in this work is based on a temporal model of the direct problem in which a simplified expression (in...

A general method for brazing ceramics to metals using a compliant metallic foam as a buffer layer has been developed. Using stainless steel foams, bonds between alumina and 316 stainless steel with shear strengths up to 33 MPa have been achieved. The resultant ductility enhances the resistance of the joint to thermal cycling; AlN-Inconel 600 bonds exhibited good thermal shock resistance. Alumin...

There are abundant bottom water reservoirs in China. Unlike conventional oil reservoirs, have various problems, such as early breakthrough, short water-free recovery period, and rapid cut increase. For example, during flooding, the injected easily breaks into does not effectively displace upper crude oil. The rate is generally low. Based on this phenomenon, an experimental study of nitrogen foa...

the brass tubes with foam cores of alsi7sic3, alsi7sic3fe1 and alsi7sic3fe3 were produced as the crush-boxes with circle and square cross-section. then axial compressive behavior and energy absorption capability of the foam-filled tubes were investigated during the quasi-static progressive plastic buckling. the uniaxial compressive stress–strain curves of the foam-filled brass tubes exhibited t...