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    Chapter and Conference Paper

    Post-earthquake Damage Assessment of Reinforced Concrete Members Using Combined Passive and Active Ultrasonic Stress Wave Monitoring

    In earthquake-prone regions such as the United States’ Pacific Northwest, post-event damage assessment tools are needed to enable safe and speedy recovery missions. Currently, damage assessment is performed ma...

    Thomas Schumacher, A. K. M. Golam Murtuz in European Workshop on Structural Health Mon… (2023)

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    ‘…These Workshops are like Sunday´s Church Visit – but then, it’s Monday Again…’—using Understanding to Bridge Ambitious Talk and Action

    Organisational renewal and change often include the experience of a dichotomy between talk and action, leading to increasing skepticism about organisational change initiatives. Our action research is based on ...

    Thomas Schumacher, Marc Krautzberger in Systemic Practice and Action Research (2022)

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    Development of a new antigen-based microarray platform for screening and detection of human IgG antibodies against SARS-CoV-2

    Strategies to contain the current SARS-CoV-2 pandemic rely, beside vaccinations, also on molecular and serological testing. For any kind of assay development, screening for the optimal antigen is essential. He...

    Sindy Burgold-Voigt, Elke Müller, David Zopf, Stefan Monecke in Scientific Reports (2022)

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    Source Localization

    Quantitative methods in acoustic emission (AE) analysis require localization techniques to estimate the of the AE events as accurately as possible. There are a number of different ways to localize AE sources...

    Jochen H. Kurz, Thomas Schumacher, Lindsay Linzer in Acoustic Emission Testing (2022)

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    Signal-Based AE Analysis

    Signal-based AE techniques use the entire transient waveform resulting from an AE event. As such, more information is available allowing for improved interpretation of fracture processes in a material or struc...

    Thomas Schumacher, Lindsay Linzer, Christian U. Grosse in Acoustic Emission Testing (2022)

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    AE Monitoring of Real Structures: Applications, Strengths, and Limitations

    The acoustic emission (AE) technique has been successfully used for decades to monitor fracture processes during laboratory testing. This final chapter discusses deliberations necessary when the technique is e...

    Thomas Schumacher, Barbara Schechinger, Thomas Vogel in Acoustic Emission Testing (2022)

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    A pipeline for enhanced multimodal 2D imaging of concrete structures

    We present an imaging pipeline to achieve enhanced images of the interior of concrete from ground penetrating radar (GPR) and ultrasonic echo array (UEA) measurements. This work lays the foundation for an adva...

    Sina Mehdinia, Thomas Schumacher, Xubo Song, Eric Wan in Materials and Structures (2021)

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    Evaluation of a novel video- and laser-based displacement sensor prototype for civil infrastructure applications

    Deflection measurements on structures continue to be a challenge with current sensor technologies. Material degradation and changes in the mechanical properties over time (e.g. creep and shrinkage in concrete ...

    Nicholas Brown, Thomas Schumacher in Journal of Civil Structural Health Monitor… (2021)

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    Chapter and Conference Paper

    Damage Detection in Glass Fiber-Reinforced Plastics Using Ultrasonic Full-Waveform Comparison

    Glass fiber-reinforced plastics (GFRPs) are the most commonly used in making chemical tanks and high-pressurized vessels. The squared Pearson correlation coefficient (R 2) was applied to detect the small damages ...

    Qiang Wang, Thomas Schumacher, Ali Hafiz in Advances in Acoustic Emission Technology (2019)

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    Monitoring of Stresses in Concrete Using Ultrasonic Coda Wave Comparison Technique

    Condition or health monitoring of concrete structures has experienced increasing interest over the last decade. While conventional sensors such as strain gauges are accurate and reliable, they only allow for s...

    Ali Hafiz, Thomas Schumacher in Journal of Nondestructive Evaluation (2018)

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    Open Access

    A novel synthetic peptide microarray assay detects Chlamydia species-specific antibodies in animal and human sera

    Serological analysis of Chlamydia (C.) spp. infections is still mainly based on micro-immunofluorescence and ELISA. To overcome the limitations of conventional serology, we have designed a novel microarray carryi...

    Konrad Sachse, Kh. Shamsur Rahman, Christiane Schnee, Elke Müller in Scientific Reports (2018)

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    Strategie und Organisationsdesign in Hochschulen

    Hochschulen als öffentliche Organisationen sind mit rasant zunehmenden Anforderungen und einer steigenden Komplexität konfrontiert. Die damit verbundenen multiplen Rationalitäten und Handlungslogiken (z. B. Wi...

    Thomas Schumacher in Führen in Hochschulen (2017)

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    Analysis of bacterial communities in and on concrete

    Bacteria are known to catalyze degradation of concrete, and have more recently been used to repair micro-cracks in or form protective biofilms on cement mortar. However, the microbial communities in and on con...

    Julia A. Maresca, Paul Moser, Thomas Schumacher in Materials and Structures (2016)

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    A Novel Methodology for Spatial Damage Detection and Imaging Using a Distributed Carbon Nanotube-Based Composite Sensor Combined with Electrical Impedance Tomography

    This paper describes a novel non-destructive evaluation methodology for imaging of damage in composite materials using the electrical impedance tomography (EIT) technique applied to a distributed carbon nanotu...

    Hongbo Dai, Gerard J. Gallo, Thomas Schumacher in Journal of Nondestructive Evaluation (2016)

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    A Comparison Between Time-of-Arrival and Novel Phased Array Approaches to Estimate Acoustic Emission Source Locations in a Steel Plate

    An important step in quantitative acoustic emission (AE) monitoring is the estimation of the temporal and spatial coordinates of the source. In this paper, we describe and compare two AE source location approa...

    Lassaad Mhamdi, Thomas Schumacher in Journal of Nondestructive Evaluation (2015)

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    Eulerian-based virtual visual sensors to detect natural frequencies of structures

    Natural frequency of vibration data are often used to study the behavior of structures. They are also used to calibrate finite element models and some studies have proposed that the presence and location of da...

    Ali Shariati, Thomas Schumacher in Journal of Civil Structural Health Monitor… (2015)

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    Chapter

    Soil and Crop Management for Sustainable Agriculture

    Sustainable management systems have continuously been promoted as an alternative to conventional farming practices for improving soil health and crop yield. However, benefits of these systems largely depend on...

    Sandeep Kumar, Rajesh Chintala, Jai S. Rohila in Sustainable Agriculture Reviews (2015)

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    Book

    Vertikale Integration im Erdgasmarkt

    Eine industrieökonomische Betrachtung

    Thomas Schumacher (2011)

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    Analysebedarf - Vertikale Verbindungen auf dem Erdgasmarkt

    Im vorherigen Abschnitt ist der Erdgasmarkt entlang der Wertschöpfungskette zerlegt und die in ihm stattfindenden Verkäufe beschrieben worden. Diese detaillierte Aufschlüsselung ist notwendig, um bei den zum T...

    Thomas Schumacher in Vertikale Integration im Erdgasmarkt (2011)

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    Konsum

    Die letzte Gruppe von Akteuren in der vertikal geordneten Wertschöpfungskette sind die Konsumenten. Diese Gruppe umfasst alle Endverbraucher von Erdgas mit ihren zum Teil sehr unterschiedlichen Eigenschaften. ...

    Thomas Schumacher in Vertikale Integration im Erdgasmarkt (2011)

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