Abstract: Various techniques are provided to secure a memory polymer component in a flow path. In one embodiment, a method includes providing a memory component in a rest state, performing a deformation operation to transition the component from the rest state to a deformed state, inserting the component into a flow path defined by interior side walls of a structure, and applying a stimulus to transition the component from the deformed state to an intermediate state in which the component abuts the side walls to secure the component in the flow path. Additional devices, systems, and related methods are also provided.

Abstract: Various techniques are provided to secure a memory polymer component in a flow path. In one embodiment, a method includes providing a memory component in a rest state, performing a deformation operation to transition the component from the rest state to a deformed state, inserting the component into a flow path defined by interior side walls of a structure, and applying a stimulus to transition the component from the deformed state to an intermediate state in which the component abuts the side walls to secure the component in the flow path. Additional devices, systems, and related methods are also provided.

Abstract: Various techniques are provided to determine the presence of trace chemicals corresponding to various materials of interest. In one example, a method includes receiving a vapor-phase nitric acid precursor. The vapor-phase nitric acid precursor is subsequently hydrolyzed in the presence of an acid catalyst to form nitric acid. The nitric acid is then received at a chemical reporter of a chemical detector. A response of the chemical reporter to the nitric acid is detected by the chemical reporter to determine whether materials of interest are present. Additional methods and related devices are also provided.

Abstract: Various techniques are provided to determine the presence of trace chemicals corresponding to various materials of interest. In one example, a method includes receiving a vapor-phase nitric acid precursor. The vapor-phase nitric acid precursor is subsequently hydrolyzed in the presence of an acid catalyst to form nitric acid. The nitric acid is then received at a chemical reporter of a chemical detector. A response of the chemical reporter to the nitric acid is detected by the chemical reporter to determine whether materials of interest are present. Additional methods and related devices are also provided.

Abstract: Hydraulic brake system and method for controlling a hydraulic brake system for a land craft, in which a quantity of hydraulic fluid delivered to wheel brakes during pressure build-up phases in antilock braking mode is limited so that substantially no hydraulic fluid thereof can flow to a master cylinder.

Abstract: Hydraulic brake system and method for controlling a hydraulic brake system for a land craft, in which a quantity of hydraulic fluid delivered to wheel brakes during pressure build-up phases in antilock braking mode is limited so that substantially no hydraulic fluid thereof can flow to a master cylinder.

Abstract: Two brake circuits (1, 2) each comprise at least one wheel brake (VL, VR, HL, HR), a fluid control module (38, 42, 44; 40, 46, 48; 24) for fluid pressure control at the at least one wheel brake, and at least one brake line (50, 52; 54, 56) for connecting the fluid control module to the at least one wheel brake, such that only one brake line is connected to each wheel brake. In order to increase the safety of the vehicle brake system during braking with only one intact brake circuit, according to the invention in the vehicle brake system a sensor arrangement (58) for determining failure of a brake circuit is provided, and the fluid control modules in the event of failure of a brake circuit are capable of controlling the fluid pressure at the at least one wheel brake of the intact brake circuit in such a way that the gradient of a developing yawing moment (G) of a vehicle provided with the vehicle brake system does not exceed a predetermined maximum value.

Abstract: Two brake circuits (1, 2) each comprise at least one wheel brake (VL, VR, HL, HR), a fluid control module (38, 42, 44; 40, 46, 48; 24) for fluid pressure control at the at least one wheel brake, and at least one brake line (50, 52; 54, 56) for connecting the fluid control module to the at least one wheel brake, such that only one brake line is connected to each wheel brake. In order to increase the safety of the vehicle brake system during braking with only one intact brake circuit, according to the invention in the vehicle brake system a sensor arrangement (58) for determining failure of a brake circuit is provided, and the fluid control modules in the event of failure of a brake circuit are capable of controlling the fluid pressure at the at least one wheel brake of the intact brake circuit in such a way that the gradient of a developing yawing moment (G) of a vehicle provided with the vehicle brake system does not exceed a predetermined maximum value.