TY - THES A1 - Wolff, Thomas T1 - Ein methodischer Bemessungsansatz zur Abschätzung des Tragverhaltens von Pfahlgründungen in weichem kalkigen Sedimentgestein T1 - A Methodical Design Approach to estimate the Laod Bearing Capacity of Pile Foundations in soft calcareous Sedimentary Rock N2 - In der vorliegenden Arbeit wird das Tragverhalten und das Sicherheitsniveau axial belasteter Großbohrpfähle in den pleistozänen Kalkarenit der Küstenregion von Dubai untersucht. Zunächst wird auf der Grundlage von Ergebnissen umfangreicher Baugrundanalysen und Probebelastungen das Tragverhalten detailliert beschrieben. Anschließend wird ein auf der Finiten-Elemente-Methode basierendes Strukturmodell zur Simulation des Last-Setzungsverhaltens von Großbohrpfählen im Sinne eines numerischen Versuchsstandes entwickelt. Um herstellungsbedingte Veränderungen der Baugrundeigenschaften in der Kontaktzone Pfahl-Baugrund zu berücksichtigen, die mit boden- und felsmechanischen Elementversuchen gewöhnlich nicht erfassbar sind, werden die Größen der relevanten konstitutiven Parameterwerte iterativ mittels inverser Optimierungsstrategien bestimmt. Abschließend wird eine methodische Vorgehensweise aufgezeigt, wie das Sicherheitsniveau axial belasteter Großbohrpfählen unter Berücksichtigung der räumlichen Variabilität der Baugrundeigenschaften zuverlässig abgeschätzt werden kann. N2 - The main focus of this dissertation is, how the Estimation of the Load-Settlement behaviour of axial loaded Pile foundation can be improved when the constitutive parametervalues are invers indentified by Optimisation strategies. Following it is shown how the reliability of pile foundations can be estimated on the basis of the identified parametervalues and the lod test results. T3 - Schriftenreihe Geotechnik - 22 KW - Pfahl KW - Pfahlgründung KW - Bemessung KW - Partikel-Schwarm-Optimierung KW - Optimierung KW - Zuverlässigkeit KW - Faseroptischer Sensor KW - Sediment KW - Parameteridentif KW - Autokorrelationslänge KW - Pfahlprobebelastung KW - Pile Foundation KW - Pile Load Test KW - Reliability KW - fiber optical Sensor KW - Paramter Identification Y1 - 2009 U6 - http://nbn-resolving.de/urn/resolver.pl?urn:nbn:de:gbv:wim2-20100125-14993 ER - TY - BOOK A1 - Graetz, Holger T1 - Synergiepotenzial einer fragmentierten Wasserwirtschaft T1 - Synergies of fragmented organizational structures in the water sector N2 - Problemstellung, Stand der Forschung und Zielsetzung der Arbeit Seit mehreren Jahren bestimmen veränderte Zielsetzungen in Europa den politischen Handlungsrahmen in der Organisation der Wasserwirtschaft und folgen dem Trend zu stärker ökonomisch und ökologisch ausgerichtetem Handeln. So fordert die Europäische Wasserrahmenrichtlinie u.a. die Umsetzung einer flussgebietsorientierten Bewirtschaftung der Oberflächengewässer und des Grundwassers innerhalb bestimmter Fristen. Derzeitige Modernisierungskonzepte der Wasserwirtschaft fokussieren im Wesentlichen die Organisationsstrukturen kommunaler Aufgabenträger und deren Unternehmen, nicht aber eine Veränderung der umfassenden politischen und verwaltenden Organisationsstrukturen zur Steuerung der operativen Ebene. Die angestrebte Modernisierung wird daher insbesondere in kleinteiligen und komplexen, so genannten fragmentierten Organisationsstrukturen mit einer ausschließlich auf Unternehmen fokussierten Betrachtung nicht erreichbar sein. Diese kaum erforschten Strukturen bieten aufgrund der bestehenden Intransparenz und Komplexität der zahlreichen Organisationselemente vielfältige Ansatzpunkte für Optimierungsmöglichkeiten. Den entsprechenden Stand der Forschung bilden nur grundlegende Ansätze zur Betrachtung des Zusammenwirkens von Akteuren in Organisationsstrukturen sowie entsprechende Optimierungsansätze der Organisations- und Managementtheorien. Sie beziehen sich meist nur auf Unternehmen allgemein. Es fehlen derzeit umfassende und transparente Darstellungen der komplexen Organisationsstruktur der Wasserwirtschaft. Zielsetzung der vorliegenden Arbeit ist es, eine ganzheitliche Modernisierung insbesondere fragmentierter Wasserwirtschaftsstrukturen voranzutreiben. Es soll eine Steigerung der gesamten Leistungsfähigkeit sowohl der politischen, der verwaltungs- als auch der unternehmensbezogenen Organisationsstrukturen in der Wasserwirtschaft erreicht werden. ... N2 - During recent years, changing political objectives have determined the organizational framework of the European water sector. Economic and ecological ideas have become even more important than they were in the past. As a result, the European Water Framework Directive now requires a river basin-oriented approach to manage surface and ground water within a defined period of time. Current approaches to modernize the water sector focus on the organizational structures of municipal authorities and their companies. They do not strive to change the political and administrative organizational structures, which govern at the operating level. Therefore the desired modernization of small and complex – so called ”fragmented” – organizational structures will not come true. These fragmented structures are rarely investigated, although they offer a variety of opportunities to optimize a highly non-transparent and complex system, which has many organizational elements. The approach presented in this dissertation provides an opportunity to modernize these fragmented organizational structures in the water sector. A comprehensive political, administrative and company-oriented organizational framework will be presented. This framework will allow a transparent overview of all the important players, including their specific activity spectra. Results of an analysis of international organizational models of the water sector are presented, together with an empirical study in Thuringia, Germany. This provides the key elements of a comprehensive collaboration in these fragmented organizational structures. Finally, a decision-making support instrument for federal authorities’ decision-makers is demonstrated, enabling them to qualify changes in organizational structures. It will also provide an opportunity to fulfill the current ambitious objectives of politicians in the water sector. T3 - Schriftenreihe der Professur Betriebswirtschaftslehre im Bauwesen - 3 KW - Entscheidungsträger KW - Fragmentierung KW - Konsens KW - Organisationsstruktur KW - Reorganisation KW - Optimierung KW - Siedlungswasserwirtschaft KW - Wasserwirtschaft KW - Entscheidungshilfemodell KW - flussgebietsorientierte Bewirtschaftung KW - Werthandlungsbereich KW - Werthandlungsmodell KW - value activity model KW - decision KW - synergy Y1 - 2008 U6 - http://nbn-resolving.de/urn/resolver.pl?urn:nbn:de:gbv:wim2-20080207-12903 UR - http://vg07.met.vgwort.de/na/2c6cd99b9eb3d1f5cfa4ac573dab4d SN - 978-3-86068-335-4 ER - TY - THES A1 - Weitzmann, Rüdiger T1 - Theory and application of optimization strategies for the design of seismically excited structures N2 - The study introduces into the theory and application of optimization strategies in earthquake engineering. The optimization algorithm substitutes the intuitive solution of practical problems done by the engineer in daily practice, providing automatic design tools and numerical means for further exploration of the design space for various extremum states. This requires a mathematical formulation of the design task, that is provided for typical seismic evaluations within this document. Utilizing the natural relation between design and optimization tasks, appropriate mechanical concepts are developed and discussed. The explanations start with an overview on the mechanical background for continua. Hereby the focus is placed on elasto-plastic structures. The given extremum formulations are treated with help of discretization methods in order to obtain optimization problems. These basics are utilized for derivation of programs for eigenvalue and stability analysis, that are applied in simplified linear analysis for the design of seismically excited structures. Another focus is set on the application in simplified nonlinear design, that uses limit state analyses on the basis of nonlinear problem formulations. Well known concepts as the response and pushover analysis are covered as well as alternative strategies on the basis of shakedown theory or cycle and deformation based evaluations. Furthermore, the study gives insight into the application of optimization problems in conjunction with nonlinear time history analyses. The solution of step-by-step procedures within optimization algorithms is shown and aspects of dynamic limit state analyses are discussed. For illustration of the great variety of optimization-based concepts in earthquake engineering, several specialized applications are presented, e.g. the generation of artificial ground motions and the determination of reduction coefficients for design spectrum reduction due to viscous and hysteretic damping. As well alternative strategies for the design of base isolated structures with controlled impact are presented. All presented applications are illustrated with help of various examples. N2 - Die vorliegende Arbeit führt in die Theorie und Anwendung von Optimiierungsverfahren im Erdbebeningenieurwesen ein. Die vorgestellten Optimierungsalgorithmen ersetzen die typische intuitive Lösung von praktischen Bemessungsaufgaben, mit Bereitstellung von automatischen Methoden und numerischen Mitteln für die Bewertung des Designraumes bezüglich extremer Zustände. Dies erfordert eine geeignete mathematische Formulierung der Bemessungsaufgaben, die für typische Anwendungsfälle bereitgestellt werden. Ausgehend von der engen Beziehung von Bemessungs- und Optimierungsaufgaben werden wesentliche theoretische Grundlagen für die Ableitung praxistauglicher Analysekonzepte entwickelt und diskutiert. Die Darstellung beginnt mit einem Überblick zum mechanischen Hintergrund. Der Schwerpunkt wird dabei auf die Analyse von elastisch-plastischen Tragwerken gelegt. Die vorgestellten Extremalformulierungen werden mit Methoden der Diskretisierung in Optimierungsprobleme umgeformt. Diese bilden die Grundlage für die Analyse von Eigenwert- und Stabilitätsproblemen im Erdbebeningenierwesen. Weiterhin werden vereinfachte lineare Bemessungsmethoden besprochen. Eine Erweiterung wird duch die Einbeziehung von nichlinearen Aspekten erzielt, die einen wesentlichen Teil der Arbeit ausmachen. Einerseits werden bekannte Konzepte auf der Basis von Antwortspektren und Pushoveranalysen einbezogen, andererseits werden auch alternative Strategien auf der Basis der Einspieltheorie oder zyklen- oder deformationsbasierten Analyse vorgestellt. Desweiteren werden Anwendungen von Optimierungsverfahren im Zusammenhang mit nichtlinearen Zeitverlaufsmethoden diskutiert. Die Lösung von Zeitverlaufsproblemen in Form von Optimierungsaufgaben wird vorgestellt und Aspekte der Grenzzustandsanalyse für dynamische Probleme behandelt. Die Vielfältigkeit von Optimierungsanwendungen im Erdbebeningenieurwesen wird anhand verschiedener Spezialanwendungen demonstriert wie z.B. die Generierung von künstlichen Erdbebenzeitverläufen und die Modifikation von Bemessungsspektren für die Analyse von nichtlinear beanspruchten Tragwerken mit viskoser und hysteretischer Dämpfung. Darüberhinaus wird eine alternative Methode für die Bemessung von basisisolierten Tragwerken unter Verwendung von kontrollierten Kollisionen vorgestellt. Alle Anwendungen werden in zahlreichen Beispielen näher erläutert. T2 - Theorie und Anwendung von Optimierungsstrategien für die Bemessung von seismisch beanspruchten Tragwerken T3 - Schriftenreihe des Instituts für Konstruktiven Ingenieurbau - 19 KW - Dynamik KW - Erdbeben KW - Bemessung KW - Optimierung KW - Dynamics KW - Earthquake KW - Design KW - Optimization Y1 - 2009 U6 - http://nbn-resolving.de/urn/resolver.pl?urn:nbn:de:gbv:wim2-20091030-14917 ER - TY - CHAP A1 - Sampaio, Alcinia Zita A1 - Henriques, Pedro T1 - Interactive project planning in construction based on virtual reality technology N2 - This paper describes a didactic application that is part of a research project whose main aim is to develop a computer-aided system which will assist design and construction processes. It is based on the visual simulation of construction activities. Geometric modeling and virtual reality techniques are used in the visualization of the design process and to define user-friendly interfaces in order to access construction information, which could prove useful to Civil Engineering professionals. As a first step, was developed a prototype that serves as a didactic tool for Civil Engineering students of disciplines concerned with building construction. The construction of a double brick wall is the case studied. The wall is defined as a three dimensional model formed with the several components needed to edify it. Using the wall's virtual model it is possible to show, in an interactive way, the sequence of the construction process and observe from any point of view the configurations in detail of the building components. This is then a didactic tool application in construction processes domain of great interest to Civil Engineering students. KW - Bauwesen KW - CAD KW - Optimierung Y1 - 2003 U6 - http://nbn-resolving.de/urn/resolver.pl?urn:nbn:de:gbv:wim2-20111215-3588 ER - TY - JOUR A1 - Takagi, Kousuke A1 - Tani, Akinori A1 - Kawamura, Hiroshi T1 - Research on Intelligent Fuzzy Optimal Active and Hybrid Control Systems of Building Structures - Verification of Optimization Method on Switching Rules of Control Forces N2 - Recently, many reseraches on active control systems of building structures are preformed based on modern control theory and are installed real buildings. The authors have already proposed intelligent fuzzy optimal active control (IFOAC) systems. IFOAC systems imitate intelligent activities of human brains such as prediction, adaptation, decision-kaking and so on. In IFOAC systems, objective and subjective judgements on the active control can be taken into account. However, IFOAC systems are considered to be suitable for far-field erathquake and control effect becomes small in case of near-field earthqaukes which include a few velosity pules with large amplitudes. To improve control effect in case of near-souece earthquakes, the authors have also proposed hybrid control (HC) systems, in which IFOAC systems and fuzzy control system are combined. In HC systems, the fuzzy control systems are introduced as a reflective fuzzy active control (RFAC) system and imitates spinal reflection of human. In HC systems, active control forces are activated to buildings in accordance with switching rules on active control forces. In this paper, optimizations on fuzzy control rules in RFAC system and switching rules of active control forces in HC system are performed by Parameter-Free Genetic Algorithms (PfGAs). Here, the optimization is performed by using different earthquake inputs. The results of digital simulations show that the HC system can reduce maximal response displacements under restrictions on strokes of the actuator effectively in case of a near-source earthquake and the effectiveness of the proposed HC system is discussed and clarified. KW - Mehragentensystem KW - Lernendes System KW - Fuzzy-Logik KW - Optimierung Y1 - 2004 U6 - http://nbn-resolving.de/urn/resolver.pl?urn:nbn:de:gbv:wim2-20111215-2238 ER - TY - CHAP A1 - Haase, Gundolf A1 - Langer, Ulrich A1 - Mühlhuber, Wolfram T1 - Optimal Sizing and Shape Optimization in Structural Mechanics N2 - We consider an industrial application consisting of the mass minimization of a frame in an injection moulding machine. This frame has to compensate the forces acting on the mould inside the machine and has to fulfill certain critical constraints. The deformation of that frame with constant thickness is described by the plain stress state equations for linear elasticity. If the thickness varies then we use a generalized plain stress state with constant thickness in the coarse grid elements. These direct problems are solved by an adaptive multigrid solver. The mass minimization problem leads to a constrained minimization problem for a non-linear functional which will be solved by some standard optimization algorithm which requires the gradients with respect to design parameters. For the shape optimization problem, we assume that the machine components consist of simple geometrical primitives determined by a few design parameters. Therefore, we calculate the gradient in the shape optimization by means of numerical differentiation which requires the solution of approximately 4 direct problems per design parameter. The adaptive solver guarantees the detection of critical regions automatically, and ensures a good approximation to the exact solution of the direct problem. This rather slow approach can be significantly accelerated by using the adjoint method to express the gradient. It will be combined with a direct implementation of several terms that appear after applying the chain rule to the gradient. KW - Baustatik KW - Tragwerk KW - Optimierung Y1 - 2003 U6 - http://nbn-resolving.de/urn/resolver.pl?urn:nbn:de:gbv:wim2-20111215-3005 ER - TY - JOUR A1 - Kicinger, Rafal A1 - Arciszewski, Tomasz A1 - De Jong, Kenneth T1 - Distributed Evolutionary Design: Island-Model-based Optimization of Steel Skeleton Structures in Tall Buildings N2 - This paper presents results of a study on distributed, or parallel, evolutionary computation in the topological design of steel structural systems in tall buildings. It describes results of extensive experimental research on various parallel evolutionary architectures applied to a complex structural design problem. The experiments were conducted using Inventor 2003, a networkbased evolutionary design support tool developed at George Mason University. First, a general introduction to evolutionary computation is provided with an emphasis on recent developments in parallel evolutionary architectures. Next, a discussion of conceptual design of steel structural systems in tall buildings is presented. Further, Inventor 2003 is briefly introduced as well as its design representation and evolutionary computation characteristics. Next, the results obtained from systematic design experiments conducted with Inventor 2003 are discussed. The objective of these experiments was to qualitatively and quantitatively investigate evolution of steel structural systems in tall buildings during a distributed evolutionary design process as well as to compare efficiency and effectiveness of various parallel evolutionary architectures with the traditional evolutionary design approaches. Two connectivity topologies (ring topology and fully-connected topology) have been investigated for four populations of structural designs evolving in parallel and using various migration strategies. Also, results of the initial sensitivity studies are reported in which two ways of initializing distributed evolutionary design processes were investigated, using either arbitrarily selected designs as initial parents or randomly generated ones. Finally, initial research conclusions are presented. KW - Mehragentensystem KW - Lernendes System KW - Stahlbau KW - Skelettbau KW - Optimierung Y1 - 2004 U6 - http://nbn-resolving.de/urn/resolver.pl?urn:nbn:de:gbv:wim2-20111215-2195 ER - TY - CHAP A1 - Raue, Erich A1 - Weitzmann, Rüdiger T1 - Analysis and Design of Hybrid Structures using Optimization Strategies N2 - The paper gives a general overview and concerns with a specified set of computer-aided analysis modules for hybrid structures loaded by extreme excitations. All problems are solved by methods of linear, quadratic or nonlinear mathematical optimization, that leads to very effective and economic design solutions. All approaches are derived from general optimization problem that can be easily altered to conform to specific design tasks. Some advantages and possibilities of hybrid structural modeling (single or mixed model-supported) are discussed. The methods will be illustrated by an example structure and optimization schemes. KW - Konzipieren KW - Bauwerk KW - Optimierung Y1 - 2004 U6 - http://nbn-resolving.de/urn/resolver.pl?urn:nbn:de:gbv:wim2-20111215-1023 ER - TY - CHAP A1 - Brennig, Thomas A1 - Sanio, Hans-Peter T1 - New Methods of Computer Aided Optimization of Investment and Operating Costs for Buildings During Their Useful Life N2 - Current software solutions for real estate planning, construction and use, do not model the complete life cycle of a building. Well-integrated software tools exist for the planning and construction phases. Data integrity exists throughout the planning and construction phases, but problems occur at the transition to the use-phase. At this interface, the complete data set of planning and execution gets lost. Another software deficiency is that current software solutions don’t handle construction work and maintenance work equally. This is why a new software generation is demanded, which continuously covers the entire workflow process from the planning phase to the demolition of a building. New data concepts have to be developed, which allow bringing work items for construction together with work items for real estate use. KW - Optimierung KW - Baukosten KW - Betriebskosten Y1 - 2004 U6 - http://nbn-resolving.de/urn/resolver.pl?urn:nbn:de:gbv:wim2-20111215-965 ER - TY - JOUR A1 - Berkowski, P. A1 - Boron, Jacek T1 - An Algorithm of compromise structural Optimisation of Bar Structures N2 - Authors' own research in applied unicriterial and multicriterial optimisation of bar structures, and also an analysis of accessible bibliography on structural synthesis allows to present herein an attempt to define a general algorithm for proceeding in formulation of a structural optimisation problem. A practical aspect of such an algorithm consists, in author's opinion, in enabling a designer a correct creation of a mathematical model of synthesis problems, independently of known mathematical methods employed to looking for an unconditional extremum of function of several variables. A proposed algorithm is not a ready-for-use tool for solving all the optimisation problems, but it constitutes an easy-to-expand theoretical basis. This basis should allow a designer to create a proper set of compromises on the way to construct a mathematical model of a specific optimisation problem. The algorithm, presented in the paper, is constructed as a sequence of the one-after-another problem questions, on which the designer answers: yes or no, and a set of selections from the knowledge base consisting of the elements of an optimisation problem components. The order of making questions adopted by the authors in the algorithm is subjective, however it is supported by their experience, both in applied optimisation and in designing of structures like trusses or frames. KW - Stabwerk KW - Optimierung Y1 - 1997 U6 - http://nbn-resolving.de/urn/resolver.pl?urn:nbn:de:gbv:wim2-20111215-5264 ER -