@article{MackeHiguchi,
  author    = {Macke, M. and Higuchi, Shoko},
  title     = {Optimizing maintenance interventions for deteriorating structures using cost-benefit criteria},
  series = {Journal of Structural Engineering},
  journal   = {Journal of Structural Engineering},
  pages     = {925 -- 934},
  abstract  = {Optimizing maintenance interventions for deteriorating structures using cost-benefit criteria},
  subject      = {Angewandte Mathematik},
  language  = {en}
}
@article{HiguchiMacke,
  author    = {Higuchi, Shoko and Macke, M.},
  title     = {Cost-benefit based optimization of maintenance interventions for deteriorating structures},
  series = {Structural Engineering/Earthquake Engineering},
  journal   = {Structural Engineering/Earthquake Engineering},
  pages     = {131 -- 147},
  abstract  = {Cost-benefit based optimization of maintenance interventions for deteriorating structures},
  subject      = {Angewandte Mathematik},
  language  = {en}
}
@article{HiguchiMacke,
  author    = {Higuchi, Shoko and Macke, M.},
  title     = {Cost-benefit based optimization of maintenance interventions for deteriorating structures},
  series = {Doboku Gakkai Ronbunshuu A},
  journal   = {Doboku Gakkai Ronbunshuu A},
  pages     = {727 -- 743},
  abstract  = {Cost-benefit based optimization of maintenance interventions for deteriorating structures},
  subject      = {Angewandte Mathematik},
  language  = {en}
}
@phdthesis{Higuchi2007,
  author    = {Higuchi, Shoko},
  title     = {Cost-Benefit Based Maintenance Optimization for Deteriorating Structures},
  doi       = {10.25643/bauhaus-universitaet.1288},
  url       = {http://nbn-resolving.de/urn:nbn:de:gbv:wim2-20080513-13616},
  school      = {Bauhaus-Universit{\"a}t Weimar},
  year      = {2007},
  abstract  = {In recent years increasingly consideration has been given to the lifetime extension of existing structures. This is based on the fact that a growing percentage of civil infrastructure as well as buildings is threatened by obsolescence and that due to simple monetary reasons this can no longer be countered by simply re-building everything anew. Hence maintenance interventions are required which allow partial or complete structural rehabilitation. However, maintenance interventions have to be economically reasonable, that is, maintenance expenditures have to be outweighed by expected future benefits. Is this not the case, then indeed the structure is obsolete - at least in its current functional, economic, technical, or social configuration - and innovative alternatives have to be evaluated. An optimization formulation for planning maintenance interventions based on cost-benefit criteria is proposed herein. The underlying formulation is as follows: (a) between maintenance interventions structural deterioration is described as a random process; (b) maintenance interventions can take place anytime throughout lifetime and comprise the rehabilitation of all deterioration states above a certain minimum level; and (c) maintenance interventions are optimized by taking into account all expected life-cycle costs (construction, failure, inspection and state-dependent repair costs) as well as state- or time-dependent benefit rates. The optimization is performed by an evolutionary algorithm. The proposed approach also allows to determine optimal lifetimes and acceptable failure rates. Numerical examples demonstrate the importance of defining benefit rates explicitly. It is shown, that the optimal solution to maintenance interventions requires to take action before reaching the acceptable failure rate or the zero expected net benefit rate level. Deferring decisions with respect to maintenance not only results, in general, in higher losses, but also results in overly hazardous structures.},
  subject      = {Kosten-Nutzen-Analyse},
  language  = {en}
}
@article{UngerEckardtKoenke,
  author    = {Unger, J{\"o}rg F. and Eckardt, Stefan and K{\"o}nke, Carsten},
  title     = {Modelling of cohesive crack growth in concrete structures with the extended finite element method},
  series = {Computer Methods in Applied Mechanics and Engineering},
  journal   = {Computer Methods in Applied Mechanics and Engineering},
  pages     = {4087 -- 4100},
  abstract  = {Modelling of cohesive crack growth in concrete structures with the extended finite element method},
  subject      = {Angewandte Mathematik},
  language  = {en}
}
@article{MostBucher,
  author    = {Most, Thomas and Bucher, Christian},
  title     = {Energy-based simulation of concrete cracking using an improved mixed-mode cohesive crack model within a meshless discretization},
  series = {International Journal for Numerical and Analytical Methods in Geomechanics},
  journal   = {International Journal for Numerical and Analytical Methods in Geomechanics},
  pages     = {285 -- 305},
  abstract  = {Energy-based simulation of concrete cracking using an improved mixed-mode cohesive crack model within a meshless discretization},
  subject      = {Angewandte Mathematik},
  language  = {en}
}
@article{Most,
  author    = {Most, Thomas},
  title     = {A natural neighbour-based moving least-squares approach for the element-free Galerkin method},
  series = {International Journal for Numerical Methods in Engineering},
  journal   = {International Journal for Numerical Methods in Engineering},
  pages     = {224 -- 252},
  abstract  = {A natural neighbour-based moving least-squares approach for the element-free Galerkin method},
  subject      = {Angewandte Mathematik},
  language  = {en}
}
@article{MostBucher,
  author    = {Most, Thomas and Bucher, Christian},
  title     = {Probabilistic analysis of concrete cracking using neural networks and random fields},
  series = {Probabilistic Engineering Mechanics},
  journal   = {Probabilistic Engineering Mechanics},
  pages     = {219 -- 229},
  abstract  = {Probabilistic analysis of concrete cracking using neural networks and random fields},
  subject      = {Angewandte Mathematik},
  language  = {en}
}