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James D. Miller Oral History
No full textJames D. Miller was interviewed by Rosalie M. Uchanski on October 7th, 2016, for approximately 89 minutes.https://digitalcommons.wustl.edu/oralhistories/1122/thumbnail.jp
Ipamerica auctuncus Razowski & Becker, 2016, sp. n.
No full textIpamerica auctuncus, sp. n. Figs. 2, 14 Diagnosis. Ipamerica auctuncus is the only representative of the genus; it is most similar to Ricula trechalea Razowski & Becker, 2012 from Pará, Brazil, from which it differs by having a distinct incision of the termen beneath the apex of the forewing and in the reduction of the terminal row of spots. Description. Head: Cream brown. Thorax: Cream brown, sprinkled whitish. Wing span 10.5 mm. Forewing (Fig. 14) cream sprinkled and suffused with pale brown; costal strigulae whitish; divisions brown; leaden grey lines from costa and subterminal area; dorsal patch indistinct accompanied by several similar lines chiefly towards wing base; distinct black spots in ocellus. Cilia pale brownish, basal line brown. Hindwing brownish. Cilia paler. Abdomen: Male genitalia (Fig. 2) as described for the genus. Female unknown. Distribution and biology. Known from the states of Goias and Distrito Federal, Brazil. Holotype male: " Brasilia: GO[ias], Ipameri, 10.X. 1988, V.O. Becker, Col; Col. Becker 59710 "; GS 770 WZ. Paratype male: " Brasil: D[istrito] F[ederal], Planaltina, 1000 m, 15 ° 35 'S 47 ° 42 'W, V.O. Becker, Col; Col. Becker 41413 "; GS 523 WZ. Etymology. The specific epithet refers to the size of the uncus; Latin: auctus - enlarged.Published as part of Razowski, Józef & Becker, Vitor O., 2016, Acailandica and Ipamerica: two new Neotropical grapholitine genera (Lepidoptera: Tortricidae), pp. 248-254 in Zootaxa 4066 (3) on page 254, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4066.3.2, http://zenodo.org/record/26377
Syllepte confusalis Becker 2023, sp. n.
No full textSyllepte confusalis Becker, sp. n. urn:lsid:zoobank.org:act: 6999ECDE-880B-4343-A36B-E614C12224BD Figs. 1j, 3 k-l, 5n Material examined: Holotype ♂, BRAZIL: São Paulo (SP), São José do Barreiro, 1640 m, S 22,72°, W 44,61°, x.2021 (VOB 165009); Paratypes: 1 ♂, 3 ♀♀, same data as holotype, g. s. 5737 (VOB); 1 ♂, 1 ♀, Paraná (PR): Curitiba, 920 m, 14.x.1974, 5.vi.1975, g. s. 5738 (Becker 8201, 8448); 1 ♂, Guaratuba, 1600 m, 5.viii.1975, g. s. 5725 (Becker 8233); 1 ♀, Quatro Barras, 800 m, 2.v.1970, ex Bakeridesia rufinervia (VOB 8446); Rio de Janeiro (RJ), 1 ♂, Nova Friburgo, 1100 m, 9.xi.1998 (Becker 117807); 2 ♂♂, Itatiaia, 2000 m, S 22, 37°, W 44, 75°, 24-27.ix.2021, g. s. 5727, 5730 (Becker 164270), 1♂, Teresópolis, Casa do Pesquisador, 22°27’17”S 42°59’50”W, 1134m, 13-16.VI.2021, C.C.D. Corrêa leg., MN-LEP 0002626, DNA-LAPEL 436 (MNRJ), 1♂, Itatiaia, Parque Nacional do Itatiaia, Casa do Pesquisador, Casa do Pesquisador, 22°27’16”S 44°36’29”W, 807m, 07-08.IV.2021, T.Zacca leg., MN-LEP 0002247, DNA-LAPEL 245 (MNRJ), 1♂, Itatiaia, Parque Nacional do Itatiaia, 910m, 23-27.X.2019, A. Soares, G. Marconato, M. A. Costa & N. Tangerini leg., MN-LEP 0001448 (MNRJ), 1♂, Itatiaia, Parque Nacional do Itatiaia, 910m, 07-10.II.2019, A. Soares, G. Marconato, M.A.Costa & N. Tangerini leg., MN-LEP 0001445 (MNRJ); SP, 1 ♂, Campos do Jordão, 1600 m S 22º46’, W 45º31, 27.ii.2001 (Becker 131349); 1 ♂, Campos do Jordão, Parque Estadual Campos do Jordão, Alojamento, 1514m, 22°41’25”S 45°29’13”W, 05-06.X.2021, C. C. D. Corrêa leg., MN-LEP 0003497 (MNRJ); 1 ♂, São Luis do Paraitinga, 900 m, S 23º20’, W 45º06’, 13-20.iii.2001, g. s. 5726 (Becker 132329); 1 ♂, Salesópolis, Estação Biológica de Boracéia, 900 m, S 23°38’, W45°52’, 1-4.iv.2022 (Becker 166180); 2 ♂♂, Minas Gerais (MG), Aiuruoca, 1600 m, S 22,03°, W 44,68°, 24.i.2019, 4-9.x.2021 (Becker 157695, 165325) (VOB). Diagnosis: Large (Fig. 1j). Male FW length 17-19 mm (37-42 mm wingspan), female 16-18 mm (35-40 mm wingspan). Yellowish. Wings ornate with an intricate net of curved and lunulate lines; FW apex acute, a large fuscous patch beyond the median line to termen, from R4 to tornus; HW with a fuscous area at apex, distad of postmedial band, narrowing along termen to M3; an elongate, irregular fuscous band at middle, delimiting a yellowish orbicular. Male genitalia with uncus short, expanded distally forming lateral, broad triangles. Description: Sexes similar. FW 17-19 mm (37-42 mm wingspan) (Fig. 1j). Head and thorax pale yellow. Labial palpi pale yellow, fuscous distally. Patagia with a fuscous line across middle; tegula with row of fuscous scales at base. Legs pale yellow; fore and mid coxae and femora fuscous, tarsi ringed fuscous. FW pale yellow, basal and antemedial bands curved, fuscous; antemedial band followed with three orbicular spots; reniform spot extending to near costa; large, fuscous patch beyond postmedial band, from R4 to tornus. HW with orbicular and reniform spots well defined; postmedial line double, forming lunules on vein interspaces; broad fuscous patch on apex, narrowing along termen towards M3; terminal line fuscous; internal margin white; cilia fuscous from apex to M3, pale yellow to tornus. Abdomen pale yellow, banded fuscous on articulations. Male genitalia (Figs. 3k): Uncus short, broad, with lateral triangular expansions; valva two times longer than wide, margins nearly parallel, costa straight, distal third of ventral margin round to acute apex; fibula a thin, sharp, bent hook. Juxta an elongate shield. Vinculum expanded basally, round. Phallus (Fig. 3l) straight, thin; vesica with an irregular, small plate. Female genitalia (Fig. 5n): Ostium bursae long, narrow; ductus bursae, long, almost as long as abdomen, straight, broadened slightly basad; corpus bursae oblong, signum a small, round, spined plate. Distribution: Endemic to the Atlantic Forest of southeastern Brazil, at high elevations. Etymology: From the Latin confusion -onis =mixture, disorder; in reference to the confusion caused by the earlier workers misidentifications of P. scripturalis. Remarks: A large species, the same size and externally almost identical to S. limata. Easily separated by their distribution: S. limata from North America to Ecuador, at high elevations; S. confusalis restricted to the Atlantic Forest of southeastern Brazil. Also by their male genitalia: inS. limata the uncus (Fig. 3i) is long, with the margins nearly parallel, and slightly concave at apex, whereas in S. confusalis (Fig.3k) the uncus is short, broadly expanded laterally into a triangular projection. This species has been misidentified as S.scripturalis by earlier workers, and under this name curated in all collections. S. scripturalis (Figs. 1 k-l) is a smaller [FW 12 mm; 27 mm wingspan], the same size and externally identical to S. suffusalis (Fig. 1m), if not the same species.As, unfortunately, no male ofS. scripturalis is available to allow comparing their genitalia, the two are retained as distinct. S. limata is treated as P.scripturalis, byAmsel (1956-1957: 129), a misidentification; the male genitalia (Pl. 81, fig. 8) martch those of other specimens from Mexico and Central America.Published as part of Becker, Vitor Osmar, 2023, The identity of Syllepte incomptalis Hübner (Lepidoptera: Crambidae: Spilomelinae) with synonymies, new combinations and new species, pp. 1-12 in Revista Brasileira de Entomologia (e 20220093) (e 20220093) 67 (1) on pages 9-10, DOI: 10.1590/1806-9665-RBENT-2022-0093, http://zenodo.org/record/811145
Diptychophora planaltina Landry & Becker 2021, sp. n.
No full textDiptychophora planaltina sp. n. Figs 6, 7, 15, 19 Material examined Holotype: male; VBC, without catalogue number; Brazil, Federal District, Planaltina, 1100 m; 15.02.1990; V.O. Becker collector; Collection Becker 96721. Paratypes (8 males, 2 females): – 1 male; VBC, without catalogue number; same data as holotype. – 1 female; MHNG-ENTO-85386 (dissected); same data as holotype; DNA voucher Lepidoptera B. Landry n°048. – 2 males; VBC, without catalogue numbers; Brazil, Federal District, Planaltina, 1100 m; 16.10.1990; V.O. Becker collector; Collection Becker 96857. – 1 male; MHNGENTO-85387 (dissected); Brazil, Federal District, Planaltina, 15°35’S, 47°42’W, 1000 m; 10.10.1983; V.O. Becker collector; Collection Becker 41534. – 2 males; VBC, without catalogue numbers; Brazil, Federal District, Planaltina, 15°35’S, 47°42’W, 1000 m; 05.11.1988; V.O. Becker collector; Collection Becker 58960. – 1 male; VBC, without catalogue number; Brazil, Federal District, Planaltina, 15°35’S, 47°42’W, 1000 m; 15.02.1982; V.O. Becker collector; Collection Becker 39741. – 1 male; VBC, without catalogue number; Brazil, Federal District, Planaltina, 15°35’S, 47°42’W, 1000 m; 22.02.1985; V.O. Becker collector; Collection Becker 57204. – 1 female; VBC, without catalogue number; Brazil, Federal District, Planaltina, 15°35’S, 47°42’W, 1000 m; 15.04.1985; V.O. Becker collector; Collection Becker 57399. Diagnosis: The male of this species is distinctive in the wide orange and dark brown basal, submedian, and postmedian jagged fasciae on a satiny white background. Other species of Diptychophorini have orange brown and/or dark brown fasciae on a satiny white background [Diptychophora kuhlweinii Zeller (Fig. 2), D. subazanalis Błeszyński (Fig. 1), Steneromene azanalis (Walker)], but their fasciae are thin and usually straight, especially the submedian fascia. This species is more similar in forewing pattern and colour to some species of the Crambinae genus Microcrambus Błeszyński formerly placed in Tortriculladia Błeszyński (see Léger et al., 2019), except for the obvious notch on the forewing terminal margin that all New World Diptychophorini possess, except Microcausta Hampson. The male genitalia (Fig. 15) are similar to those of D. ardalia (Fig. 16), but differ conspicuously in the more elongate dorsal section of the valva, which has a ratio of length/width of 1.2 whereas that ratio only reaches 1.0 in the more squarish valva of D. ardalia. That ratio is 1.2 also in D. diasticta (Fig. 14), but this species differs from D. planaltina in its longer uncus and gnathos that do not reach the tip of the valva, and the wider uncus in side view, with a ratio of length over width of 3.7 in D. diasticta vs 4.24 in D. planaltina. In D. planaltina the 7.5 ratio of the length of the sclerotized section of the phallus shaft over its width is the longest of the three species as it is only 4.6 for D. diasticta and 6.2 for D. ardalia. In female genitalia this species (Fig. 19) is most similar to D. diasticta (Fig. 18), but its papillae anales are larger, its anterior apophyses are straight instead of sinuous, and the distal half of the corpus bursae is narrower that the proximal half whereas only the distal quarter is narrower in D. diasticta. Etymology: The name refers to the type locality and is treated as a noun in apposition. Description: Male (n=8) (Fig. 6). Head with frons rounded, slightly bulging; vestiture on frons short scaled with brown spot in middle, on vertex and occiput with thinner and longer scales mostly white, with light yellowish to greyish brown laterally on posterior fan of scales projecting medioanteriorly between antennae to medioposteriorly. Antennal scape and pedicel dark brown dorsally and white ventrally; flagellomeres with dark brown to greyish brown and lighter greyish brown scales. Maxillary palpus dark brown at base, white on longer projecting scales of distal half. Labial palpus porrect, reaching slightly beyond maxillary palpus, with scales appressed, white at base and apically, greyish brown laterally at base, light yellowish to light greyish brown elsewhere. Haustellum light yellowish brown. Thorax with patagium laterally white, medially yellowish brown at base and dark brown at apex of scales; tegula white with patch of blackish brown at base and light yellowish brown to brown at apex; between tegulae blackish brown at base, followed by white, medially blackish brown followed by white scales tipped yellowish brown, apically white with brown laterally. Male forewing length: 5.5-6.5 mm (holotype 6.0 mm); wingspan: 11.5-13.0 mm (holotype: 12.0 mm). Female forewing length: 5.5-6.5 mm; wingspan 12.0- 12.5 mm. Female frenulum with 2 or 3 acanthae. Male wings with pattern and colours as illustrated (Fig. 6), with purplish shine in forewing fringe at level of terminal black dots. Female generally with darker wings than male, as shown (Fig. 7), with darker frons, labial palpus, and legs to a lesser extent. Prothoracic leg coxa laterally white, medially greyish brown with white apex; trochanter white; femur dark greyish brown with white ventral edge; tibia greyish brown at base, dirty white near middle, mostly blackish brown on distal half, with white apically; first tarsomere white at base and apex, blackish brown in middle; second tarsomere white; third and fourth tarsomeres blackish brown; distitarsus white. Meso-and metathoracic leg coxa and trochanter white to light yellowish brown; femur white with greyish brown apex; tibia white with greyish brown dorsally and on spurs; first tarsomere greyish brown with white at base and apex; tarsomeres II-V blackish brown on basal half or more, white at apex. Abdomen dorsally light yellowish brown on first three tergites and at apex, light greyish brown in between; ventrally uniformly yellowish brown. Female abdominal segment VII about twice as long as preceding segment, narrower, slightly more thickly sclerotized and thickly scaled along apical margin. Male genitalia (n=2) (Fig. 15). Uncus + subscaphium + gnathos short, not reaching apex of valva. Uncus elongate, narrow in side view, with ratio of length over width of 4.24, unevenly narrowing towards apex, with distal 1/5 narrowing more conspicuously until flat apex; with clear demarcation from tegumen at base; apically upturned slightly. Subscaphium distinctly sclerotized, with wrinkles on distal half and with distal third slightly bent upward. Gnathos with base of distal arm ventrally forming distinctly obtuse angle with proximal arms and subsequent conspicuously pronounced curve; apically curved upward and not reaching tip of subscaphium. Tegumen medium-sized, with lateral arms about as wide as dorsal connection, separated in two. Juxta about twice as long as wide, with more thickly sclerotized base, mediolongitudinal strut, and slightly concave apical edge medially. Valva medium-sized, slightly longer than broad (length/width ratio: 1.2); longer dorsal section more abundantly setose especially along dorsal margin on apical third and with short, flat triangular projection along edge slightly beyond middle; ventral section barely produced, with broadly rounded ventroapical margin. Vinculum very narrow, with tiny rounded median projection. Phallus a long narrow tube, twice as long as valva, with sclerotized shaft about 7.5 times longer than wide, slightly bent, with thickly sclerotized ventral strut only slightly enlarging apically; vesica with at least two elongate sections covered with spinules. Female genitalia (n=1) (Fig. 19). Papillae anales medium sized, abundantly setose and spinulate, subtriangular in lateral aspect, with setose surface about half as long ventrally as dorsally, with apical margin slightly concave medially. Posterior apophysis straight, long, about 2X as long as width of papilla analis, reaching apical margin of segment VII in extension. Tergite VIII of medium length, about as long as width of papilla analis; anterior apophysis of medium length, about 40% shorter than posterior apophysis, with slight bend subbasally. Ostium bursae a spinulate, membranous conical funnel nearly as wide as segment and as long as wide, with lamella postvaginalis also lightly spinulate. Ductus bursae with short basal section devoid of sclerotization or scobination, followed by sharp bend and longer scobinated section reaching median connection of ductus seminalis on right side, with distal half about twice as wide, slightly enlarging and scobinated. Corpus bursae narrow, elongate, with longer and narrower distal half, reaching abdominal segment III, lightly scobinated at base and even more lightly toward distal end, with pair of small circular signa laterally at base, with right signum closer to base than left signum. Biology: Unknown. The type locality is in the Cerrado Biome, the savanna biome of Central Brazil. Distribution: Presently known only from Planaltina, a locality situated within the Federal District of Brazil. Remarks: The holotype’s left prothoracic leg is broken beyond the trochanter; otherwise it is in perfect condition (Fig. 6).Published as part of Landry, Bernard & Becker, Vitor O., 2021, A taxonomic review of the genus Diptychophora Zeller (Lepidoptera, Pyralidae sensu lato, Crambinae) in Brazil, with descriptions of three new species, pp. 73-84 in Revue suisse de Zoologie 128 (1) on pages 75-78, DOI: 10.35929/RSZ.0036, http://zenodo.org/record/477099
[The] Prisoner’s Lament
No full text80.7568.1010 – “[The] Prisoner’s Lament”: W. D. Clarkson: D. Becker M. D.: Blackmar & Bros: 1863: Vocal
The Syntactic Domain of Content
No full textBorer, H. in press. 'The Syntactic Domain of Content.' In Becker, Misha, John Grinstead and Jason Rothman (eds.), Generative Linguistics and Acquisition: Studies in honor of Nina M. Hyams. 2013. vi, 355 pp. + index (pp. 205–248).
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***This chapter has been accepted for publication in a book that is under copyright and the publisher should be contacted for permission to re-use or reprint the material in any form.***Borer, H. in press. "The syntactic domain of Content." In M. Becker, J. Grinstead, J. Rothman & B.D. Schwartz (eds.) Generative Linguistics and Acquisition: Studies in Honor of Nina M. Hyams. Philadelphia: John Benjamins.Borer, H. in press. "The syntactic domain of Content." In M. Becker, J. Grinstead, J. Rothman & B.D. Schwartz (eds.) Generative Linguistics and Acquisition: Studies in Honor of Nina M. Hyams. Philadelphia: John Benjamins.Borer, H. in press. "The syntactic domain of Content." In M. Becker, J. Grinstead, J. Rothman & B.D. Schwartz (eds.) Generative Linguistics and Acquisition: Studies in Honor of Nina M. Hyams. Philadelphia: John Benjamins.Borer, H. in press. "The syntactic domain of Content." In M. Becker, J. Grinstead, J. Rothman & B.D. Schwartz (eds.) Generative Linguistics and Acquisition: Studies in Honor of Nina M. Hyams. Philadelphia: John Benjamins.Borer, H. in press. "The syntactic domain of Content." In M. Becker, J. Grinstead, J. Rothman & B.D. Schwartz (eds.) Generative Linguistics and Acquisition: Studies in Honor of Nina M. Hyams. Philadelphia: John Benjamins.Borer, H. in press. "The syntactic domain of Content." In M. Becker, J. Grinstead, J. Rothman & B.D. Schwartz (eds.) Generative Linguistics and Acquisition: Studies in Honor of Nina M. Hyams. Philadelphia: John Benjamins.Borer, H. in press. "The syntactic domain of Content." In M. Becker, J. Grinstead, J. Rothman & B.D. Schwartz (eds.) Generative Linguistics and Acquisition: Studies in Honor of Nina M. Hyams. Philadelphia: John Benjamins.Borer, H. in press. "The syntactic domain of Content." In M. Becker, J. Grinstead, J. Rothman & B.D. Schwartz (eds.) Generative Linguistics and Acquisition: Studies in Honor of Nina M. Hyams. Philadelphia: John Benjamins.A main motivation for relegating Word Formation to the lexicon is the fact that its output is often non-compositional. The present article, however, presents a serious challenge to the presumed contradiction between non-compositionality and syntactic combinatorial processes. The investigation of N–N Constructs in Hebrew shows that equally syntactically complex expressions nonetheless interact differently with non-compositionality. Crucially, it is the syntactic differences between these expressions that give rise to distinct Content properties, with non-compositionality correlating not with syntactic structure as such, but with the absence of functional structure. The emerging syntactic domain of ‘word’ Content in turn allows the language learner to make informed decisions on where to look for non-compositionality and to draw the appropriate structural conclusions from its presenc
Chimoptesis albomixta Razowski & Becker, 2015, sp. n.
No full textChimoptesis albomixta, sp. n. Figs 22, 44 Diagnosis. Chimoptesis albomixta is closely related to C. castanescens but differs from the latter in having a cream white costal ground colour, a concave posterior edge of the sterigma, a longer cingulum, and smaller signa. Description. Wing span 18 mm. Male: Unknown. Female: Head and thorax brownish. Forewing slender; termen somewhat oblique, concave medially. Ground colour whitish in median part of costal area, otherwise suffused brown; strigulation brown; ocellar area indistinct; terminal third of wing tinted rust. Markings brown, weak; postbasal fascia almost complete. Cilia rust brown. Hindwing greyish white, tinged brown in distal half. Cilia concolorous with wing base. Genitalia (Fig. 22) with posterior part of sterigma broad, distal edge concave; sclerite of antrum short, membranous medioproximally; folds of subgenital sternite slender, straight; cingulum long; blades of signa small, slender. Holotype female: " Mexico: D[istrito] F[ederal], 2600 m, 24.VIII. 1981, Becker Col; Col. Becker 41854 "; GS 859 WZ. Etymology. The name refers to the colouration of the median part of costal area of the forewing; Latin: albus—white, mixta—mixed.Published as part of Razowski, Józef & Becker, Vitor Osmar, 2015, Systematics and faunistics of Neotropical Eucosmini. 1. Chimoptesis Powell, 1964 (Lepidoptera: Tortricidae), pp. 204-220 in Zootaxa 3941 (2) on page 210, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.3941.2.2, http://zenodo.org/record/23995
Personalentwicklung für Nachwuchswissenschaftler an der Universität Bielefeld
No full textBecker FG, Tölle M. Personalentwicklung für Nachwuchswissenschaftler an der Universität Bielefeld. Diskussionspapier der Fakultät für Wirtschaftswissenschaften. Vol 479b. Bielefeld: Inst. f. Unternehmungsführung an d. Univ. Bielefeld; Unpublished
On the QNX IPC: Assessing Predictability for Local and Distributed Real-Time Systems
No full textWith the advent of massively distributed applications such as those required by the IoT-to-Edge-to-Cloud compute continuum (i.e., automotive, smart agriculture, smart manufacturing, and more), real-time communication mechanisms allowing physically distributed nodes to seamlessly communicate as if they were running on the same host acquired noteworthy importance. To this end, the synchronous inter-process communication (IPC) mechanism provided by the QNX operating system (OS) is a promising candidate, as it allows using the application programming interface for communicating both on a single- and multi-node setting. Furthermore, it provides priority and partition inheritance mechanisms to improve predictability when working with the Adaptive Partitioning Scheduler (APS), a reservationbased scheduler provided by the QNX OS. This paper explores the behavior of the QNX synchronous message-passing (SyncMP) IPC with an extensive set of experiments, using them to formalize its behavior and model it from a real-time perspective. Then, it provides a response-time analysis for client-server applications based on the QNX SyncMP building upon self-suspending task theory. Finally, we evaluate the analysis on an application based on the WATERS 2019 Challenge by Bosch
First study for production pre-Preg metallic matrix basalt composite materials
No full textFIRST STUDY FOR PRODUCTION PRE-PREG METALLIC MATRIX BASALT COMPOSITE MATERIALS Marini D1,2, Lüking A3, Becker T3, Valente M1,2 1Department of Chemical Engineering, Material and Environment, University of Rome Sapienza; Italy 2National Interuniversity Consortium of Materials Science and Technology (INSTM); Florence, Italy 3Institute of textile (ITA), Rheinisch-Westfaelische Technische Hochschule (RWTH), University of Aachen, Germany ABSTRACT: Basalt, is an effusive rock of volcanic origin with excellent mechanical and thermal resistance properties, is becoming increasingly important. In order to promote its compatibility with the matrix (generally polymeric, PMC), in the composite material production, it is customary to cover the single filaments with a polymeric sizing. Likewise, metal-coated filaments could be obtained for subsequent use in metal matrix composites (MMC). In this work we discuss the changes made to a standard basalt and glass spinning plant replacing the polymeric sizing application system with a molten metal deposition chamber in order to obtain a coating of the fibers directly during the spinning procedure. The exploration phase was carried out using pure aluminium as covering metal, which has lower flammability and usage problems than magnesium, but at the same time the analogy between their melting temperatures would allow the same plant to be used for both. Morphology and interface between aluminium and fibers were investigated by SEM and EDS analysis. The variation of some parameters, such as the rotation speed of the winder and the temperature of the molten metal bath, allowed to obtain different metal thicknesses and different mechanical properties. Tensile tests on single filament were performed to investigate the potential effect of the metallic covering on mechanical properties of fibers and results shows that basalt filaments highlight a better resistance to aluminium melting temperature (660 °C) compared to E-glass filaments. With this method it would be possible to disperse even submicrometric or nanometric particles in the fibers metal covering obtaining a perfect homogeneity of dispersion in the composite that would be obtained subsequently with their use
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