Abstract: The present disclosure relates to an aircraft and to a method using this aircraft to inspect equipment in coking plants for detecting sources of error. The aircraft has at least one inspection device for inspecting surfaces of the equipment that are to be inspected, and an airspace, distanced from one of the surfaces to be inspected, and at least one transmitting and receiving device for data communication with at least other aircraft or at least one external analysis device for detecting the sources of error. The method comprises converting the detected phototechnical and optical data, in particular 2D data, into a 3D thermal point cloud by means of a conversion unit of the analysis device.

Abstract: The present invention provides a non-destructive method of characterizing CMAS infiltration and CMAS assisted damage in thermal barrier coatings (TBCs). Such approach is especially relevant for determining the lifetime of coatings on e.g. turbines or parts of the turbines such as blades or in-liners of the combustion chambers. The turbines can be gas turbines or high-pressure turbines or others and may be stationary or used for example in aviation.

Abstract: A database system for representing data in an external dataset may include a multidimensional database defined by a set of dimensions associated with a respective set of attributes of the data in the external dataset. The multidimensional database may include a set of cells partitioned or otherwise divided into a set of slots. Each slot may be associated with a set of attribute values of the attribute associated with its corresponding dimension. Each cell may store data from the external dataset accessed by aggregating sets of attribute values associated with respective slots of the dimensions of the multidimensional database that define the cell.

Abstract: The present invention provides a non-destructive method of characterizing CMAS infiltration and CMAS assisted damage in thermal barrier coatings (TBCs). Such approach is especially relevant for determining the lifetime of coatings on e.g. turbines or parts of the turbines such as blades or in-liners of the combustion chambers. The turbines can be gas turbines or high-pressure turbines or others and may be stationary or used for example in aviation.

Abstract: A database system for representing data in an external dataset may include a multidimensional database defined by a set of dimensions associated with a respective set of attributes of the data in the external dataset. The multidimensional database may include a set of cells partitioned or otherwise divided into a set of slots. Each slot may be associated with a set of attribute values of the attribute associated with its corresponding dimension. Each cell may store data from the external dataset accessed by aggregating sets of attribute values associated with respective slots of the dimensions of the multidimensional database that define the cell.

Abstract: A solar assembly includes an electrical connection and junction box and a solar cell module. The junction box has an electrically conducting structure including an electrical conductor path. The solar cell module has an electrical conductive strip. A flexible electric conductor is connected with the conductor path and is materially bonded with the conductive strip in an electrically conducting manner such that the conductor path electrically contacts the conductive strip via the electric conductor.

Abstract: An artifact in an application is assigned with a tag. The tag is a string that characterizes the artifact. A list of suggested tags is provided, which includes tags assigned to similar artifacts maintained by the application. The list of suggested tags also includes newly suggested tags based on analysis of the artifact. The tags within the application are maintained and operations such as deletion, renaming, or unification of tags are performed. Unification of tags is performed through determining similarities between at least two tags. The similarity is determined based on existence of a trigram in the at least two tags after normalization of tags and based on edit distance between each two tags from the at least two tags. A tag cloud is provided for navigation between artifacts in the application. Tag cloud is defined based on frequency of use and selectiveness of tags.

Abstract: A system and method for using a clipboard that enables mass operations that identifies a plurality of objects, at least two of the plurality of objects originating from different applications, stores the plurality of objects within a single storage location, executes a function on each of the plurality of objects to produce a plurality of processed objects, the processed objects being accessible from the storage location and respective originating applications, and graphically renders the processed objects.

Abstract: A system, a method and a computer program product for peer-to-peer network for master purchase agreements are provided. A request sent by a user equipment associated with an entity to register with a network configured to enable sharing of a master agreement among a plurality of entities is received by a server. The server generates a notification representative of a master purchase agreement being available at the server for access by the plurality of entities and sends the generated notification to the plurality of entities registered with the network to notify that the master purchase agreement is available on the network. The server receives a message sent by the user equipment associated with the entity. The server then generates a response to the message request to enable the entity to perform viewing of the master purchase agreement or the authorization to make the purchase under the master purchase agreement.

Abstract: A single meta-model can include metadata defining a business scenario landscape that includes business scenarios accessible to members of an organization that are supported by a business software architecture. The metadata can include business process definitions and relationships between business processes. A user interface can present first, second, and/or third visualization layers based on the metadata. The first visualization layer can include first user interface elements forming a business scenario landscape map showing business scenarios and at least one relationship between the business scenarios. The second visualization layer can include second user interface elements displayed in a navigation pane concurrently with a work pane.

Abstract: A solar assembly includes an electrical connection and junction box and a solar cell module. The junction box has an electrically conducting structure including an electrical conductor path. The solar cell module has an electrical conductive strip. A flexible electric conductor is connected with the conductor path and is materially bonded with the conductive strip in an electrically conducting manner such that the conductor path electrically contacts the conductive strip via the electric conductor.

Abstract: A heat-insulating layer system for a metallic structural component, especially for a structural component of a gas turbine such as an aircraft engine, includes an adhesion promoting layer (12), an inner contact layer (14), and an outer cover layer (15) , whereby the adhesion promoting layer (12). is disposed on a surface (11) of the gas turbine structural component (10). The inner contact layer (14) is formed of a zirconium oxide partially stabilized with yttrium or yttrium oxide, and the outer cover layer (15) is formed of a material that consists of at least one component with at least one phase, which stoichiometrically comprises 1 to 80 Mol-% Mx2O3, 0.5 to 80 Mol-% MyO and Al2O3 as a remainder with incidental impurities, wherein Mx is selected from the elements chromium and barium or mixtures thereof, and wherein My is selected from the alkaline earth metals, the transition metals and the rare earths or mixtures thereof.

Abstract: The invention relates to a heat-insulating layer system for metallic structural components, especially for structural components of a gas turbine such as an aircraft engine. The heat-insulating layer system (13) comprises an inner contact layer (14) and an outer cover layer (15), whereby the inner contact layer (14) is applied onto a surface (11) of a gas turbine structural component (10) with intermediate arrangement of an adhesion promoting layer (12). According to the invention, the inner contact layer (14) is formed of a zirconium oxide partially stabilized with yttrium or yttrium oxide, the outer cover layer (15) is formed of lanthanum hexaaluminate.

Abstract: The subject matter of the invention is a thermal-insulating material having an essentially magnetoplumbitic crystal structure, a metal substrate having a adhesive layer and a thermal-insulating layer made of the thermal-insulating material on its surface, and a process for coating metal substrates with the thermal-insulating material.

Abstract: Thermal-insulating material provided on a metal substrate by means of an EB-PVD process includes a metal having a substantially magnetoplumbitic crystal structure and having a chemical composition according to general formula: Ln3+M2+1+xQ44+A111?2xO19. The thermally-insulated metal substrate may advantageously include an adhesive layer provided between the surface of the metal substrate and the thermal-insulating layer. The process for producing the thermal-insulated metal substrate includes applying the thermal-insulating material onto a surface of the metal substrate employing an EB-PVD process.

Abstract: The subject matter of the invention is a thermal-insulating material having an essentially magnetoplumbitic crystal structure, a metal substrate having a adhesive layer and a thermal-insulating layer made of the thermal-insulating material on its surface, and a process for coating metal substrates with the thermal-insulating material.

Abstract: The subject matter of the invention is a thermal-insulating material having an essentially magnetoplumbitic crystal structure, a metal substrate having a adhesive layer and a thermal-insulating layer made of the thermal-insulating material on its surface, and a process for coating metal substrates with the thermal-insulating material.

Abstract: The present invention relates to a process for vapor-depositing zirconium dioxide on ceramic or metallic substrates, and the heat-insulating layers obtainable by such process.

Abstract: The present invention relates to a method for coating monocrystalline or polycrystalline metal substrates with a ceramic heat-insulating layer of zirconia by electron-beam vapor deposition, and to a method for coating turbine blades made of Ni-based superalloys. The method is characterized in that the metal substrate is moved during the vapor deposition in terms of a superposition of two rotational motions around horizontal axes, but in essentially perpendicular directions.

Abstract: The present invention relates to a process for vapor-depositing zirconium dioxide on ceramic or metallic substrates, and the heat-insulating layers obtainable by such process.In particular, the invention relates to a process for vapor-depositing zirconium dioxide, optionally doped with rare-earth metal oxides or mixtures of such oxides, on ceramic or metallic substrates in a range of substrate temperatures of from 600 to 1550.degree. C. while the substrate is continuously rotated at a speed in the range of from 1 to 300 rpm, characterized in that, following the nucleation phase, the rotational speed and the temperature are adjusted to a range defined by the equations: ##EQU1## where T represents the substrate temperature in .degree. K, and .omega. represents the rotational speed of the substrate in rpm, wherein the rotational speed is varied continuously or discontinuously, or alternatively in alternating senses of rotation.