@phdthesis{Everts,
  author    = {Everts, Lotte},
  title     = {"Hey! I'm an Angel!" Zum Verh{\"a}ltnis von Medium, Subjekt und Wirklichkeit in Eija-Liisa Ahtilas Videoinstallationen},
  doi       = {10.25643/bauhaus-universitaet.3947},
  url       = {http://nbn-resolving.de/urn:nbn:de:gbv:wim2-20190730-39471},
  school      = {Bauhaus-Universit{\"a}t Weimar},
  pages     = {229},
  abstract  = {Die Dissertation „Hey! I'm an Angel! Zum Verh{\"a}ltnis von Medium, Subjekt und Wirklichkeit in Eija-Liisa Ahtilas Videoinstallationen" untersucht in der Hauptsache vier zentrale Videoinstallationen Ahtilas aus den Jahren 1995 bis 2014. Grundlegend ist die These, dass Ahtilas Arbeiten nicht, wie bisher angenommen, in den Kontext einer medien-, erkenntnis- und subjektkritischen Videokunst einzuordnen sind. Stattdessen werden sie als mediale Vehikel intersubjektiv gepr{\"a}gter Wirklichkeitserfahrungen f{\"u}r das Subjekt bereitgestellt: Entgegen dem aktuellen Forschungsstand arbeitet sich Ahtila nicht an der Kritik des Mediums Film/Video ab, das einen wirklichkeitsverf{\"a}lschenden oder -ersetzenden Einfluss auf das manipulierte Subjekt nimmt. Vielmehr nutzt die K{\"u}nstlerin das Potenzial des Mediums Film/Video aus, um einem relativ stabilen Subjekt die Wirklichkeitserfahrungen Anderer zu {\"o}ffnen und auf diese Weise seinen Erfahrungshorizont zu erweitern. Der systematische Schwerpunkt der Arbeit liegt erstens darauf, ein sich durch Ahtilas bisheriges Schaffen ziehendes ‚Ziel' der Integration der Betrachterin in eine intersubjektive Erfahrungssph{\"a}re nachvollziehbar zu machen. Hierf{\"u}r wird insbesondere eine Perspektive auf die fr{\"u}hen Arbeiten entwickelt, in der die Br{\"u}che in Ahtila Arbeiten integrative statt distanzierende Wirkung haben. Zweitens wird in eingehenden Analysen der Wandel verst{\"a}ndlich, der sich zwischen Ahtilas fr{\"u}her Schaffensphase (1995 - 2002) und der aktuellen Schaffensphase (seit 2010) hinsichtlich der Art und Weise vollzieht, wie diese Integration gelingt. Es zeigt sich, dass der Einstieg in die intersubjektiv gepr{\"a}gten Erfahrungssph{\"a}ren in der fr{\"u}hen Phase {\"a}sthetisch konstituiert ist. Mit der aktuellen Schaffensphase werden hingegen allt{\"a}gliche Formen der Empathie und Mimesis zentral, sowie deren leibliche Konsequenzen f{\"u}r die Betrachterin. Drittens wird eine zunehmende pragmatische Tendenz darin deutlich, die Integration der Betrachterin in die Erfahrungen Anderer zu erm{\"o}glichen. Dies wird vor dem Hintergrund eines allgemeinen pragmatischen Zuges aktueller zeitgeistiger Bewegungen erl{\"a}utert. Viertens wird gezeigt, dass Ahtilas Arbeiten auf der Annahme einer Kontinuit{\"a}t in gewisser Hinsicht von der außerfilmischen Wirklichkeit in die filmische Fiktion hinein basieren, sowie auf dem Verst{\"a}ndnis filmischer Fiktionen als virtuelle Weltfassungen. Ahtila fragt auf der Grundlage dieses Verst{\"a}ndnisses filmischer Fiktion nicht nach der Wahrheit dieser Fiktion als These {\"u}ber die Wirklichkeit, wie es dem Forschungskanon {\"u}ber die K{\"u}nstlerin zu entnehmen ist. Sondern nach der Wirksamkeit der filmischen Fiktion f{\"u}r die Wirklichkeit.},
  subject      = {Videokunst},
  language  = {de}
}
@phdthesis{Smirnova,
  author    = {Smirnova, Elena},
  title     = {"Kennst du das Land, wo bl{\"u}ht Oranienbaum?" - A Case Study on Strategic and Territorial Planning in St. Petersburg (Russia)},
  doi       = {10.25643/bauhaus-universitaet.3255},
  url       = {http://nbn-resolving.de/urn:nbn:de:gbv:wim2-20170711-32556},
  school      = {Bauhaus-Universit{\"a}t Weimar},
  abstract  = {The research examines the system of strategic and territorial planning of St. Petersburg focusing on Lomonosov (Oranienbaum) as its case study. The study provides the analysis of the planning documentation developed for the city in the post-Soviet period. In particular, it elaborates on the currently enforced Strategy of Economic and Social Development of St. Petersburg-2030 (2014) and the City General Plan (2005), discussing the aspects of their development and implementation, as well as complex interrelation. Thereby, peculiarities of the spatial development of the St. Petersburg agglomeration are also investigated, elaborating on the state policy on agglomerations, historic development of St. Petersburg and relations with the Leningrad Region, governance and imbalances of the St. Petersburg spatial development, including proposed development scenarios. Consequently, the study employs a highly indicative case of the Lomonosov town municipal unit aiming to illustrate the practical implementation of administrative, territorial and strategic policies in a given context within a system of the state planning adopted in St. Petersburg, in particular, taking into consideration recently proclaimed necessity for the transition to a polycentric city model following an innovative scenario for the socioeconomic and spatial development. In particular, Lomonosov (Oranienbaum) is explored egarding its current socio-economic situation and development scenarios: industrial site and cultural tourism. The Oranienbaum museum and nature-reserve is also thoroughly assessed with regard to its cultural tourism potential. Finally, the urban environment of Lomonosov (Oranienbaum) is comprehensively scrutinized in terms of its historic development, residential housing typology, UNESCO World Heritage preservation and local urban heritage. In conclusion, the data on Lomonosov present in the St. Petersburg strategic and territorial planning documents is provided.},
  subject      = {Lomonossow},
  language  = {en}
}
@phdthesis{Ma2006,
  author    = {Ma, Hang},
  title     = {"Villages" in Shenzhen- Persistence and Transformation of an Old Social System in an Emerging Megacity},
  doi       = {10.25643/bauhaus-universitaet.771},
  url       = {http://nbn-resolving.de/urn:nbn:de:gbv:wim2-20060806-8094},
  school      = {Bauhaus-Universit{\"a}t Weimar},
  year      = {2006},
  abstract  = {In the history of 'villages' in Shenzhen, rich traditional cultural resources that are directly related to the folk life in urban corporate community still exist today, synchronously agricultural economy of urban corporate community is transformed into joint-stock economy, and natural villages are transformed into 'heterogeneous' space of city. The most significant fact in the modern social transition is that modern societies have surpassed traditional societies, and cities have surpassed the country. Weber, Durkheim, T{\"o}nnies, Simmel and others devoted themselves to cultivating the essence of social transition. The most influential theory to observe and analyze it is the two-tiered approach of ideal type. T{\"o}nnies made distinction between 'Gemeinschaft and Gesellschaft', Durkheim distinguished 'mechanical solidarity and organic solidarity', and Redfield analyzed 'folk society and urban society'. In those classical theories, the former transit to the later is considered to be a general rule of transition from traditional society to modern society, and from traditional community to modern community. However, ever since Redfield used the dependent relationship and interactive framework of 'great tradition' and 'little tradition' to explain various complicated phenomena in the transition from tradition to modern in 1950s, he suggested that a folk-urban continuum can be formed in the transition from folk society to urban society. 'Both terms, 'city' and 'country', are not and have never been limited or restricted to their obvious denotations: 'city' is not and has never been only urban. As a category it always encompasses (includes, embodies, embraces) itself and its opposite, the country' (Hassenpflug 2002, 46). Generally, social groups and culture characterized by weak 'potential' will take their own 'little tradition' as 'bridge' and agency, in order to enter or melt themselves into a 'great tradition' that embodies great 'potential' to seek for space to live and develop. There are many different types of transitions that villagers enter and get melt into 'great tradition' through their individual 'little tradition'. There are exploration and development of traditional resources in 'segmentation', such as the frequent relation between a great flow of peasants to cities and the network of kinship, and of earthbound relations; alternatively, there are assistances and utilization of resources of a whole corporate network, such as the traditional corporate community's organization of local resources during the process of non-agriculturization of villages; and 'villages' in Shenzhen is of the latter situation. The following conclusion can be made based on the above analyses: urban corporate community formed in the process of non-agricultural development and urbanization is an organizing dependency on which villagers melt into city and adapt to urban life. The unique inner-structure and function determine that comparing with other organizations, it has a better performance, efficiency and more humanity care. Firstly, corporate community which is re-organized in the non-agricultural process currently is the only and the most effective organizational resources that can be utilized and has significant meanings in protecting villagers' interest and benefit; secondly, in the short term, other approaches do not have the advantage and the effect as urban corporate community has on the focusing degree of public affairs in the comprehensive urbanization process; thirdly, the 'new' key connotation of urban corporate community, including its community management functions, is the main reason for which such community has the rationality of being; fourthly, urban corporate community will inevitably face many problems in the urbanization due to its inner fixed characteristics (lack of external support), but to a certain degree it has the ability to self-repair and problem solving under the precondition that, the government and society have a fair, impersonal view of 'villages', and base on this view providing multi-supports, especially providing rational system arrangement and policy supports. Consequently, in order to preserve and protect social system and cultural heritage within the 'villages', and gradually make the coordinative development of 'great tradition' represented by cities and of 'little tradition' represented by 'villages', 'soft reconstruction' rather than 'hard reconstruction' should be adopted by the government, during the recent reconstruction of 'villages' in Shenzhen.},
  subject      = {China},
  language  = {en}
}
@phdthesis{Klose2009,
  author    = {Klose, Alexander},
  title     = {20 Fuß {\"A}quivalent Einheit. Die Herrschaft der Containerisierung},
  doi       = {10.25643/bauhaus-universitaet.1426},
  url       = {http://nbn-resolving.de/urn:nbn:de:gbv:wim2-20100805-15146},
  school      = {Bauhaus-Universit{\"a}t Weimar},
  year      = {2009},
  abstract  = {Container sind nicht nur das bei weitem wichtigste Transportmittel f{\"u}r die allermeisten Waren, mit denen wir tagt{\"a}glich zu tun haben. Container sind, vielleicht wegen ihrer schlichten, klaren Ausdruckskraft, zu dem Symbol der Globalisierung geworden und vieler Ph{\"a}nomene, die man mit dieser Entwicklung in Zusammenhang bringt. Dabei handelt es sich um ein durch und durch ambivalentes Symbol. Container stehen genauso f{\"u}r die beeindruckende Dynamik des modernen Kapitalismus und den ihm trotz aller Krisen zugrunde liegenden Optimismus wie f{\"u}r die {\"A}ngste und Einw{\"a}nde dagegen; gegen die Indifferenz eines rein auf Optimierung ausgelegten logistischen Organisationshandelns und gegen die zwangsweise Ann{\"a}herung und Angleichung ehedem entfernter Weltgegenden durch die exponentielle Vermehrung der Transport- und Kommunikationsvorg{\"a}nge. Der Schwerpunkt der Arbeit liegt im 20. Jahrhundert. Sie untersucht die (Vor)Geschichte und Theorie des Containers als moderner Kulturtechnik und zentralem Bestandteil eines weltumspannenden logistischen Systems. Und sie zeigt ihn als Element eines Denkens und Organisationshandelns in modularen, beweglichen Raumeinheiten, das sich auch auf viele andere Bereiche außerhalb des Warentransports {\"u}bertragen l{\"a}sst. Daf{\"u}r beschreibt und analysiert sie "Containersituationen" in so unterschiedlichen Feldern wie Handel und Transport, Architektur, Wissenschaften, Kunst und den sozialen Realit{\"a}ten von Migranten und Seeleuten.},
  subject      = {Globalisierung},
  language  = {de}
}
@phdthesis{Kunert,
  author    = {Kunert, Andr{\´e}},
  title     = {3D Interaction Techniques in Multi-User Virtual Reality : towards scalable templates and implementation patterns for cooperative interfaces},
  doi       = {10.25643/bauhaus-universitaet.4296},
  url       = {http://nbn-resolving.de/urn:nbn:de:gbv:wim2-20201204-42962},
  school      = {Bauhaus-Universit{\"a}t Weimar},
  pages     = {147},
  abstract  = {Multi-user projection systems provide a coherent 3D interaction space for multiple co-located users that facilitates mutual awareness, full-body interaction, and the coordination of activities. The users perceive the shared scene from their respective viewpoints and can directly interact with the 3D content. This thesis reports on novel interaction patterns for collaborative 3D interaction for local and distributed user groups based on such multi-user projection environments. A particular focus of our developments lies in the provision of multiple independent interaction territories in our workspaces and their tight integration into collaborative workflows. The motivation for such multi-focus workspaces is grounded in research on social cooperation patterns, specifically in the requirement for supporting phases of loose and tight collaboration and the emergence of dedicated orking territories for private usage and public exchange. We realized independent interaction territories in the form of handheld virtual viewing windows and multiple co-located hardware displays in a joint workspace. They provide independent views of a shared virtual environment and serve as access points for the exploration and manipulation of the 3D content. Their tight integration into our workspace supports fluent transitions between individual work and joint user engagement. The different affordances of various displays in an exemplary workspace consisting of a large 3D wall, a 3D tabletop, and handheld virtual viewing windows, promote different usage scenarios, for instance for views from an egocentric perspective, miniature scene representations, close-up views, or storage and transfer areas. This work shows that this versatile workspace can make the cooperation of multiple people in joint tasks more effective, e.g. by parallelizing activities, distributing subtasks, and providing mutual support. In order to create, manage, and share virtual viewing windows, this thesis presents the interaction technique of Photoportals, a tangible interface based on the metaphor of digital photography. They serve as configurable viewing territories and enable the individual examination of scene details as well as the immediate sharing of the prepared views. Photoportals are specifically designed to complement other interface facets and provide extended functionality for scene navigation, object manipulation, and for the creation of temporal recordings of activities in the virtual scene. A further objective of this work is the realization of a coherent interaction space for direct 3D input across the independent interaction territories in multi-display setups. This requires the simultaneous consideration of user input in several potential interaction windows as well as configurable disambiguation schemes for the implicit selection of distinct interaction contexts. We generalized the required implementation structures into a high-level software pattern and demonstrated its versatility by means of various multi-context 3D interaction tools. Additionally, this work tackles specific problems related to group navigation in multiuser projection systems. Joint navigation of a collocated group of users can lead to unintentional collisions when passing narrow scene sections. In this context, we suggest various solutions that prevent individual collisions during group navigation and discuss their effect on the perceived integrity of the travel group and the 3D scene. For collaboration scenarios involving distributed user groups, we furthermore explored different configurations for joint and individual travel. Last but not least, this thesis provides detailed information and implementation templates for the realization of the proposed interaction techniques and collaborative workspaces in scenegraph-based VR systems. These contributions to the abstraction of specific interaction patterns, such as group navigation and multi-window interaction, facilitate their reuse in other virtual reality systems and their adaptation to further collaborative scenarios.},
  subject      = {Virtuelle Realit{\"a}t},
  language  = {en}
}
@phdthesis{Chen,
  author    = {Chen, Na},
  title     = {A Balance between Ideals and Reality — Establishing and Evaluating a Resilient City Indicator System for Central Chinese Cities},
  doi       = {10.25643/bauhaus-universitaet.4030},
  url       = {http://nbn-resolving.de/urn:nbn:de:gbv:wim2-20191121-40309},
  school      = {Bauhaus-Universit{\"a}t Weimar},
  pages     = {212},
  abstract  = {Recent years have seen a gradual shift in focus of international policies from a national and regional perspective to that of cities, a shift which is closely related to the rapid urbanization of developing countries. As revealed in the 2011 Revision of the World Urbanization Prospects published by the United Nations, 51\% of the global population (approximately 3.6 billion people) lives in cities. The report predicts that by 2050, the world's urban population will increase by 2.3 billion, making up 68\% of the population. The growth of urbanization in the next few decades is expected to primarily come from developing countries, one third of which will be in China and India. With rapid urbanization and the ongoing growth of mega cities, cities must become increasingly resilient and intelligent to cope with numerous challenges and crises like droughts and floods arising from extreme climate, destruction brought by severe natural disasters, and aggregated social contradictions resulting from economic crises. All cities face the urban development dynamics and uncertainties arising from these problems. Under such circumstances, cities are considered the critical path from crisis to prosperity, so scholars and organizations have proposed the construction of "resilient cities." On the one hand, this theory emphasizes cities' defenses and buffering capacity against disasters, crises and uncertainties, as well as recovery after destruction; on the other hand, it highlights the learning capacity of urban systems, identification of opportunities amid challenges, and maintenance of development vitality. Some scholars even believe that urban resilience is a powerful supplement to sustainable development. Hence, resilience assessment has become the latest and most important perspective for evaluating the development and crisis defense capacity of cities. Rather than a general abstract concept, urban resilience is a comprehensive measurement of a city's level of development. The dynamic development of problems is reflected through quantitative indicators and appraisal systems not only from the perspective of academic research, but also governmental policy, so as to scientifically guide development, and measure and compare cities' development levels. Although international scholars have proposed quantitative methods for urban resilience assessment, they are however insufficiently systematic and regionally adaptive for China's current urban development needs. On the basis of comparative study on European and North American resilient city theories, therefore, this paper puts forwards a theoretical framework for resilient city systems consistent with China's national conditions in light of economic development pressure, natural resource depletion, pollution, and other salient development crises in China. The key factors influencing urban resilience are taken into full consideration; expert appraisal is conducted based on the Delphi Method and the analytic hierarchy process (AHP) to design an extensible and updatable resilient city evaluation system which is sufficiently systematic, geographically adaptable, and sustainable for China's current urban development needs. Finally, Changsha is taken as the main case for empirical study on comprehensive evaluation of similar cities in Central China to improve the indicator system.},
  subject      = {Stadtplanung},
  language  = {en}
}
@phdthesis{Lux,
  author    = {Lux, Christopher},
  title     = {A Data-Virtualization System for Large Model Visualization},
  doi       = {10.25643/bauhaus-universitaet.1985},
  url       = {http://nbn-resolving.de/urn:nbn:de:gbv:wim2-20130725-19855},
  school      = {Bauhaus-Universit{\"a}t Weimar},
  pages     = {211},
  abstract  = {Interactive scientific visualizations are widely used for the visual exploration and examination of physical data resulting from measurements or simulations. Driven by technical advancements of data acquisition and simulation technologies, especially in the geo-scientific domain, large amounts of highly detailed subsurface data are generated. The oil and gas industry is particularly pushing such developments as hydrocarbon reservoirs are increasingly difficult to discover and exploit. Suitable visualization techniques are vital for the discovery of the reservoirs as well as their development and production. However, the ever-growing scale and complexity of geo-scientific data sets result in an expanding disparity between the size of the data and the capabilities of current computer systems with regard to limited memory and computing resources. In this thesis we present a unified out-of-core data-virtualization system supporting geo-scientific data sets consisting of multiple large seismic volumes and height-field surfaces, wherein each data set may exceed the size of the graphics memory or possibly even the main memory. Current data sets fall within the range of hundreds of gigabytes up to terabytes in size. Through the mutual utilization of memory and bandwidth resources by multiple data sets, our data-management system is able to share and balance limited system resources among different data sets. We employ multi-resolution methods based on hierarchical octree and quadtree data structures to generate level-of-detail working sets of the data stored in main memory and graphics memory for rendering. The working set generation in our system is based on a common feedback mechanism with inherent support for translucent geometric and volumetric data sets. This feedback mechanism collects information about required levels of detail during the rendering process and is capable of directly resolving data visibility without the application of any costly occlusion culling approaches. A central goal of the proposed out-of-core data management system is an effective virtualization of large data sets. Through an abstraction of the level-of-detail working sets, our system allows developers to work with extremely large data sets independent of their complex internal data representations and physical memory layouts. Based on this out-of-core data virtualization infrastructure, we present distinct rendering approaches for specific visualization problems of large geo-scientific data sets. We demonstrate the application of our data virtualization system and show how multi-resolution data can be treated exactly the same way as regular data sets during the rendering process. An efficient volume ray casting system is presented for the rendering of multiple arbitrarily overlapping multi-resolution volume data sets. Binary space-partitioning volume decomposition of the bounding boxes of the cube-shaped volumes is used to identify the overlapping and non-overlapping volume regions in order to optimize the rendering process. We further propose a ray casting-based rendering system for the visualization of geological subsurface models consisting of multiple very detailed height fields. The rendering of an entire stack of height-field surfaces is accomplished in a single rendering pass using a two-level acceleration structure, which combines a minimum-maximum quadtree for empty-space skipping and sorted lists of depth intervals to restrict ray intersection searches to relevant height fields and depth ranges. Ultimately, we present a unified rendering system for the visualization of entire geological models consisting of highly detailed stacked horizon surfaces and massive volume data. We demonstrate a single-pass ray casting approach facilitating correct visual interaction between distinct translucent model components, while increasing the rendering efficiency by reducing processing overhead of potentially invisible parts of the model. The combination of image-order rendering approaches and the level-of-detail feedback mechanism used by our out-of-core data-management system inherently accounts for occlusions of different data types without the application of costly culling techniques. The unified out-of-core data-management and virtualization infrastructure considerably facilitates the implementation of complex visualization systems. We demonstrate its applicability for the visualization of large geo-scientific data sets using output-sensitive rendering techniques. As a result, the magnitude and multitude of data sets that can be interactively visualized is significantly increased compared to existing approaches.},
  subject      = {Computer Graphics},
  language  = {en}
}
@phdthesis{Hanko2007,
  author    = {Hanko, Johanne},
  title     = {A decision-making tool for the selection of an appropriate integrated MSW management system for tropical Asian cities; the case of Bangkok},
  doi       = {10.25643/bauhaus-universitaet.635},
  url       = {http://nbn-resolving.de/urn:nbn:de:gbv:wim2-20071213-10034},
  school      = {Bauhaus-Universit{\"a}t Weimar},
  year      = {2007},
  abstract  = {Einf{\"u}hrung Tropische asiatische Entwicklungs- und Schwellenl{\"a}nder zeigten rasches st{\"a}dtisches Wachstum dadurch, dass Bauern einwanderten, um ein besseres Leben in der Stadt zu suchen. Dadurch ergab sich in vielen St{\"a}dten ein Mangel an geeigneter Infrastruktur und an sozialen Diensten. Die st{\"a}dtische M{\"u}llversorgung bildet keine Ausnahme; sie wird sogar oft an das Ende der Prio-rit{\"a}tenliste f{\"u}r st{\"a}dtische Aufgabenpl{\"a}ne gestellt, da dabei zuerst die Gesetze und Verordnun-gen formuliert und umgesetzt werden m{\"u}ssen. Das Problem des nicht entsorgten st{\"a}dtischen M{\"u}lls f{\"u}hrt (mit Sicherheit) zu Luftverschmutzung, Krankheit und zur Verseuchung des Bo-dens und des Wassers. Diese Probleme stehen in tropischen Klimaten im Zusammenhang mit hoher Temperatur und Feuchtigkeit, mit heftigem Regen und mit h{\"a}ufigen {\"U}berschwemmun-gen. Stehendes Wasser und Ausschwemmung aus dem Abfall werden sehr schnell zu Brutst{\"a}t-ten von Insekten, Nagern und Bakterien, und damit zu einer Gesundheitsgefahr f{\"u}r Arbeiter und die allgemeine Bev{\"o}lkerung. Dar{\"u}ber hinaus kann Wasser- und Grundwasserverschmut-zung/Kontamination zu einer ernsten Umweltzerst{\"o}rung f{\"u}hren, mit direkten Auswirkungen auf die Wasserressourcen, und auf raschen Qualit{\"a}tsverlust der pflanzlichen Erzeugnisse, des R{\"u}ckgrates der meisten tropischen asiatischen L{\"a}nder. M{\"u}llentsorgung und die Verantwortlichkeiten Lokale Regierungen m{\"u}ssen die {\"o}ffentliche Gesundheit ihrer lokalen Bev{\"o}lkerung sicherstellen und sind deshalb f{\"u}r die M{\"u}llentsorgung verantwortlich. Asiatische tropische Klimate sich rasch {\"a}ndernde M{\"u}llzusammensetzung machen die M{\"u}llbehandlung und -entsorgung zu einer dauernden Herausforderung der Entscheidungstr{\"a}ger. Vor einer Entscheidung {\"u}ber das ver-wendete Entsorgungssystem muss eine geeignete Abfall-Charakterisierung treten. Diese Cha-rakterisierung liefert Kenntnisse {\"u}ber die Abfallmenge, die Feuchte, den Heizwert und die Menge der verschiedenen Komponenten im Abfallstrom, wie z. B.: organisches Material, Plas-tik, Papier, Karton, Holz, Textilien, Gummi, Leder, Glas, Metalle, Nichtmetalle, Steine und Keramiken. Dar{\"u}ber hinaus ist die Herausforderung, der sich asiatische L{\"a}nder gegen{\"u}ber se-hen, ein Mangel an Raum und damit wird die Platzierung eine Deponie zunehmend schwierig. Die Abfallwirtschaft ist eine kostenintensive, aber trotzdem notwendige Maßnahme, um das Wohlergehen sowohl der Bev{\"o}lkerung als auch f{\"u}r die Umwelt sicher zu stellen. Es wird ge-sch{\"a}tzt, dass Asien im Jahr 2025 etwa 47 Milliarden US\$ aufwenden muss, um 0,5 bis 1 Kg st{\"a}dtischen M{\"u}ll je Person und Tag abzufahren und zu behandeln, oder 5 US\$ je Kopf und Jahr. In Entwicklungsl{\"a}ndern sind unz{\"a}hlige Leute nicht in der Lage, diese hohen Preise f{\"u}r die Ab-fallentsorgung zu zahlen. Deshalb liegt es in der Verantwortung der Regierung, die Abfallent-sorgung zu betreiben und zu finanzieren, um die Bev{\"o}lkerung, die Gemeinde und die Umwelt zu sch{\"u}tzen. Tropische asiatische St{\"a}dte m{\"u}ssen jetzt bezahlbare und nachhaltige Verfahren f{\"u}r die Entsorgung ihrer zunehmenden Menge t{\"a}glichen Abfalls benennen, wobei gleichzeitig auf minimale Umweltbelastung, auf soziale Akzeptanz und auf minimale Landverbrauch zu achten ist. Eine leicht anwendbare Entscheidungshilfe zur Wahl des geeignetesten Abfallbehandlungs-system der Gemeinde w{\"a}re deshalb sehr n{\"u}tzlich. Proposition Der Zweck dieser Dissertation war die Entwicklung eines nutzerfreundlichen Instrumentariums f{\"u}r das Verwaltungs- und Regierungspersonal in tropischen Entwicklungs- und Schwellenl{\"a}n-der. 1. Diese Vorgehensweise basiert auf einem Netzwerk, das eine Liste ausgew{\"a}hlter entschei-dungsrelevanter Tatsachen in Betracht zieht, die n{\"o}tig sind, um eine informierte Entschei-dung machen zu k{\"o}nnen. Das entscheidungshelfende Verfahren muss von Entscheidungs-tr{\"a}gern bei einer vorl{\"a}ufigen Feststellung des Abfallentsorgungs- und -behandlungssystems f{\"u}r ihre Gemeinde benutzt werden. 2. Tropische asiatische St{\"a}dte m{\"u}ssen eine Reihe von Faktoren ber{\"u}cksichtigen, wenn sie {\"u}ber ihren Abfallwirtschaftsplan entscheiden. Dazu geh{\"o}ren die immerwechselnde Menge und Zusammensetzung des Abfalls infolge der zunehmenden Bev{\"o}lkerungszahl und des Ein-kommens je Kopf, der hohe Feuchtigkeitsgrad, Verbrennungsw{\"a}rme-Werte und die oft be-grenzten finanziellen M{\"o}glichkeiten. 3. Ferner sind gesetzliche, politische, verwaltungstechnische, soziale, finanzielle, {\"o}konomi-sche und technische Faktoren bestimmend. 4. Die Verwaltung muss dabei die Wichtigkeit jedes Teilschrittes der Abfallwirtschaft im Au-ge behalten, also Abfallerzeugung, Sammlung, Transport, Abfallcharakterisierung, Entsor-gung und Behandlung. 5. Die Rolle der lokalen Gemeinden in der Entscheidungsfindung ist nicht hoch genug einzu-sch{\"a}tzen; deshalb m{\"u}ssen Mitglieder der Gemeinde aktiv am Schutz der Umwelt und an der Verhinderung ihrer Zerst{\"o}rung mitwirken. Mehrere Entscheidungshilfsverfahren f{\"u}r ver-schiedene Anwendungen wurden entwickelt. Jedoch zieht die Mehrzahl von ihnen nicht notwendigerweise eine {\"o}ffentliche Teilnahme in Betracht, und sie sind auch nicht benutzer-freundlich. 6. Um die Komplexit{\"a}t der Probleme besser zu verstehen, die bei tropischen asiatischen St{\"a}d-ten auftreten, wurde die Innenstadt von Bangkok, Thailands gr{\"o}ßte Stadt und Hauptstadt, als repr{\"a}sentativer Fall ausgew{\"a}hlt, f{\"u}r die Entsorgung der 9000 t M{\"u}ll der t{\"a}glich produ-ziert wird. Thailands Klima ist, besonders w{\"a}hrend der j{\"a}hrlichen Monsunzeit, heiß und feucht mit einer mittleren Temperatur von 28,4°C und einer Feuchtigkeit zwischen 70 und 100\%. Die Gesetze und Verordnungen zeigen sehr deutlich an, wie wichtig die Behandlung des st{\"a}dtischen Abfalls genommen wird. Zahlreiche Interviews, verbunden mit der Durch-sicht von Dokumenten, Berichten und Ortsbesichtigungen ergaben Kenntnisse der zahlrei-chen Entscheidungsmaßnahmen, denen sich die st{\"a}dtischen Entscheidungstr{\"a}ger einer tro-pischen Stadt gegen{\"u}ber sehen. Die Durchsicht und die Analyse der Entscheidungsmaß-nahmen in Bangkoks Abfallentsorgungsstrategien zeigten, wie das Entscheiden als Werk-zeug in verschiedenen asiatischen tropischen St{\"a}dten benutzt werden kann. 7. Ein Entscheidungsrahmen wurde erstellt auf der Grundlage von Literatur-Recherchen und pers{\"o}nliche Erfahrungen, und anhand der in der Stadt Bangkok gesammelte Daten {\"u}ber-pr{\"u}ft. Die Entscheidungspunkte im Netzwerk umfassen eine allgemeine Beschreibung der Stadt, ihre klimatischen und hydrogeologischen Bedingungen, die Menge und Art des er-zeugten M{\"u}lls, einen {\"U}berblick {\"u}ber die bestehenden Anlagen und die existierenden Pro-gramme, {\"o}ffentliche Aufmerksamkeit zu gewinnen, den sozio{\"o}konomischen Aspekt eines Abfallbehandlungssystems und die {\"o}ffentliche Teilnahme. Es ber{\"u}cksichtigt ferner Ge-sundheits- und Sicherheits{\"u}berlegungen im Zusammenhang mit Abfallentsorgungsm{\"o}g-lichkeiten und ihrer Kosten. 8. Das Entscheidungsinstrumentarium hat als Ziel, ein geeignetes Abfallbehandlungssystem zu erm{\"o}glichen, das als Grundlage soziale, klimatische und technische Informationen be-nutzt. Ihre Einfachheit erlaubt einem Verwaltungspersonal, das wenig Erfahrung mit Ab-fallwirtschaft und Computerwissen besitzt, verschiedene Optionen zu analysieren und Sze-narien auszutesten. Des weiteren werden verschiedene M{\"o}glichkeiten {\"u}berpr{\"u}ft, und es wird versucht, die Optionen in die Abfallwirtschaft zu integrieren. 9. Das Instrumentarium beinhaltet {\"u}ber ein Hundert geschlossene Fragen, die auf das Analy-sieren der Bed{\"u}rfnisse und der gegenw{\"a}rtigen Situation der Abfallwirtschaft einer be-stimmten Gesellschaft ausgerichtet sind und die es erm{\"o}glichen, ein geeignetes Abfallwirt-schaftssystem f{\"u}r die entsprechende Gesellschaft zu w{\"a}hlen. Diese Fragen hatten als Grundlage die Rahmen und Eckpunkte des Entscheidungsinstrumentariums. Dieses Instru-mentarium ist selbsterkl{\"a}rend, und gleichzeitig bietet es Flexibilit{\"a}t bei der Entscheidung, um wie viel Prozent des Abfalls wieder verwertet wird, kompostiert oder behandelt durch irgend eine von den sechs Behandlungsoptionen; Kompostierung, Verg{\"a}rung, nicht-Verbrennungssysteme, Verbrennung, Deponierung und Energiegewinnung. 10. Die Ziele eines integrierten Abfallwirtschaftssystems k{\"o}nnen vom Benutzer ge{\"a}ndert und modifiziert werden. Dies erm{\"o}glicht die {\"U}berpr{\"u}fung verschiedener Szenarien und die Auswahl des geeignetesten Abfallbehandlungssystems. Das System kann sehr einfach sein und nur ein Behandlungssystem beinhalten oder mit einer Auswahl mehrere Behandlungs-systeme sehr kompliziert sein. In einigen L{\"a}ndern ist es Vorschrift mehrere Systeme anzu-wenden. Integrierte Abfallwirtschaftssysteme, die mindestens zwei oder drei Abfallbe-handlungssysteme beinhalten, sind deshalb gefragt. 11. Die Ziele der Gesellschaft sind ausschlaggebend und sind die Schl{\"u}sselfaktoren f{\"u}r den Entscheidungsprozess. Die Menge der wiederverwertbaren Materialien, die Brauchbarkeit des Komposts, die Interesse an Verg{\"a}rung, die M{\"o}glichkeit einer Verbrennungsanlage, das Verstehen eines nicht-Verbrennungssystems und die Verf{\"u}gbarkeit von Land f{\"u}r Deponien, die Notwendigkeit f{\"u}r Elektrizit{\"a}t sind einige Schl{\"u}sselfaktoren die {\"u}berlegt werden m{\"u}s-sen. Integrierte Abfallwirtschaft ist wahrscheinlich die vern{\"u}nftigste Vorgehensweise. Dies erm{\"o}glicht Flexibilit{\"a}t bei Abfallwirtschaftstechniken und erg{\"a}nzt sie gegenseitig. 12. {\"O}ffentliche Verwaltungen k{\"o}nnen DMT als eine erste Bewertung der geeignetesten Tech-nologie benutzen. Des weiteren gibt DMT dem Verwaltungspersonal Flexibilit{\"a}t in ihrer Wahl bez{\"u}glich der Menge an wiederverwertbarem Abfall unter der Anwendung verschie-denen Technologien, welches eine gut konstruiertes und gut integriertes Abfallbehand-lungssystem f{\"u}r die Gesellschaft darstellt. Fazit Das Fazit ist: die Abfallwirtschaft in einem tropischen Schwellenland ist mit bestimmten Her-ausforderungen verbunden, die behandelt werden m{\"u}ssen. {\"O}konomische, technische und sozi-ale Kriterien m{\"u}ssen in Betracht gezogen werden bei der Wahl geeigneter st{\"a}dtischer Abfall-wirtschaftsysteme. Begrenzte finanzielle M{\"o}glichkeiten, Mangel an {\"o}ffentlichem Bewusstsein und ein schwaches Wirtschaftssystem sind manchmal verantwortlich f{\"u}r die Wahl eines schlechtes Abfallbehandlungssystems, mit kurzsichtigen und {\"u}ber die Jahren teuren Entschei-dungen statt langfristigen und vern{\"u}nftigeren Entscheidungen. Wetterbedingungen und die Knappheit an Land in Stadtn{\"a}he sind besondere Herausforderungen. Das Entscheidungsinstru-mentarium DMT macht die Identifizierung von Schl{\"u}sselfragen n{\"o}tig f{\"u}r die Formulierung eines nachhaltigen Abfallwirtschaftskonzepts und f{\"u}r die Wahl eines technisch-, {\"o}konomisch- und sozial-akzeptierbaren Abfallwirtschaftssystems, das besonders geeignet ist f{\"u}r tropische Klimate. Die Ergebnisse der DMT-Daten-Analyse bietet eine faire Auswertung f{\"u}r ein ad{\"a}quates integ-riertes Abfallbehandlungssystems. Wenn einmal ein System identifiziert wurde, werden weitere Studien bez{\"u}glich Umsetzbarkeit und Anwendbarkeit n{\"o}tig sein. Jedoch wird die Notwendig-keit, ausf{\"u}hrliche Studien am multiplen Szenarien durchzuf{\"u}hren, minimiert, was erhebliche Ersparnisse f{\"u}r die Stadtverwaltung bedeutet. Eine Feasibility-Study und ein Masterplan haben zu folgen, um die standortspezifischen und Finanzierungsfragen zu kl{\"a}ren sowie die Auswahl der spezifischen Anlagentechnik zu definieren.},
  subject      = {Abfall},
  language  = {en}
}
@phdthesis{Nour2006,
  author    = {Nour, Mohamed},
  title     = {A Flexible Model for Incorporating Construction Product Data into Building Information Models},
  doi       = {10.25643/bauhaus-universitaet.740},
  url       = {http://nbn-resolving.de/urn:nbn:de:gbv:wim2-20060317-7781},
  school      = {Bauhaus-Universit{\"a}t Weimar},
  year      = {2006},
  abstract  = {When considering the integration and interoperability between AEC-FM software applications and construction products' data, it is essential to investigate the state-of-the-art and conduct an extensive review in the literature of both Building Information Models and electronic product catalogues. It was found that there are many reasons and key-barriers that hinder the developed solutions from being implemented. Among the reasons that are attributed to the failure of many previous research projects to achieve this integration aim are the proprietary developments of CAD vendors, the fragmented nature of construction product data i.e. commercial and technical data, the prefabrication versus on-site production, marketing strategies and brand-naming, the referencing of a product to the data of its constituents, availability of life-cycle data in a single point in time where it is needed all over the whole life-cycle of the product itself, taxonomy problems, the inability to extract search parameters from the building information model to participate in the conduction of parametric searches. Finally and most important is keeping the product data in the building information model consistent and up-to-date. Hence, it was found that there is a great potential for construction product data to be integrated to building information models by electronic means in a dynamic and extensible manner that prevents the model from getting obsolete. The study has managed to establish a solution concept that links continually updated and extensible life-cycle product data to a software independent building information model (IFC) all over the life span of the product itself. As a result, the solution concept has managed to reach a reliable building information model that is capable of overcoming the majority of the above mentioned barriers. In the meantime, the solution is capable of referencing, retrieving, updating, and merging product data at any point in time. A distributed network application that represents all the involved parties in the construction product value chain is simulated by real software tools to demonstrate the proof of concept of this research work.},
  subject      = {Produktinformation},
  language  = {en}
}
@phdthesis{Vogler,
  author    = {Vogler, Verena},
  title     = {A framework for artificial coral reef design: Integrating computational modelling and high precision monitoring strategies for artificial coral reefs - an Ecosystem-aware design approach in times of climate change},
  isbn      = {978-3-00-074495-2},
  doi       = {10.25643/bauhaus-universitaet.4611},
  url       = {http://nbn-resolving.de/urn:nbn:de:gbv:wim2-20220322-46115},
  school      = {Bauhaus-Universit{\"a}t Weimar},
  pages     = {243},
  abstract  = {Tropical coral reefs, one of the world's oldest ecosystems which support some of the highest levels of biodiversity on the planet, are currently facing an unprecedented ecological crisis during this massive human-activity-induced period of extinction. Hence, tropical reefs symbolically stand for the destructive effects of human activities on nature [4], [5]. Artificial reefs are excellent examples of how architectural design can be combined with ecosystem regeneration [6], [7], [8]. However, to work at the interface between the artificial and the complex and temporal nature of natural systems presents a challenge, i.a. in respect to the B-rep modelling legacy of computational modelling. The presented doctorate investigates strategies on how to apply digital practice to realise what is an essential bulwark to retain reefs in impossibly challenging times. Beyond the main question of integrating computational modelling and high precision monitoring strategies in artificial coral reef design, this doctorate explores techniques, methods, and linking frameworks to support future research and practice in ecology led design contexts. Considering the many existing approaches for artificial coral reefs design, one finds they often fall short in precisely understanding the relationships between architectural and ecological aspects (e.g. how a surface design and material composition can foster coral larvae settlement, or structural three-dimensionality enhance biodiversity) and lack an integrated underwater (UW) monitoring process. Such a process is necessary in order to gather knowledge about the ecosystem and make it available for design, and to learn whether artificial structures contribute to reef regeneration or rather harm the coral reef ecosystem. For the research, empirical experimental methods were applied: Algorithmic coral reef design, high precision UW monitoring, computational modelling and simulation, and validated through parallel real-world physical experimentation - two Artificial Reef Prototypes (ARPs) in Gili Trawangan, Indonesia (2012-today). Multiple discrete methods and sub techniques were developed in seventeen computational experiments and applied in a way in which many are cross valid and integrated in an overall framework that is offered as a significant contribution to the field. Other main contributions include the Ecosystem-aware design approach, Key Performance Indicators (KPIs) for coral reef design, algorithmic design and fabrication of Biorock cathodes, new high precision UW monitoring strategies, long-term real-world constructed experiments, new digital analysis methods and two new front-end web-based tools for reef design and monitoring reefs. The methodological framework is a finding of the research that has many technical components that were tested and combined in this way for the very first time. In summary, the thesis responds to the urgency and relevance in preserving marine species in tropical reefs during this massive extinction period by offering a differentiated approach towards artificial coral reefs - demonstrating the feasibility of digitally designing such 'living architecture' according to multiple context and performance parameters. It also provides an in-depth critical discussion of computational design and architecture in the context of ecosystem regeneration and Planetary Thinking. In that respect, the thesis functions as both theoretical and practical background for computational design, ecology and marine conservation - not only to foster the design of artificial coral reefs technically but also to provide essential criteria and techniques for conceiving them. Keywords: Artificial coral reefs, computational modelling, high precision underwater monitoring, ecology in design.},
  subject      = {Korallenriff},
  language  = {en}
}
@phdthesis{Zhang,
  author    = {Zhang, Yongzheng},
  title     = {A Nonlocal Operator Method for Quasi-static and Dynamic Fracture Modeling},
  doi       = {10.25643/bauhaus-universitaet.4732},
  url       = {http://nbn-resolving.de/urn:nbn:de:gbv:wim2-20221026-47321},
  school      = {Bauhaus-Universit{\"a}t Weimar},
  abstract  = {Material failure can be tackled by so-called nonlocal models, which introduce an intrinsic length scale into the formulation and, in the case of material failure, restore the well-posedness of the underlying boundary value problem or initial boundary value problem. Among nonlocal models, peridynamics (PD) has attracted a lot of attention as it allows the natural transition from continuum to discontinue and thus allows modeling of discrete cracks without the need to describe and track the crack topology, which has been a major obstacle in traditional discrete crack approaches. This is achieved by replacing the divergence of the Cauchy stress tensor through an integral over so-called bond forces, which account for the interaction of particles. A quasi-continuum approach is then used to calibrate the material parameters of the bond forces, i.e., equating the PD energy with the energy of a continuum. One major issue for the application of PD to general complex problems is that they are limited to fairly simple material behavior and pure mechanical problems based on explicit time integration. PD has been extended to other applications but losing simultaneously its simplicity and ease in modeling material failure. Furthermore, conventional PD suffers from instability and hourglass modes that require stabilization. It also requires the use of constant horizon sizes, which drastically reduces its computational efficiency. The latter issue was resolved by the so-called dual-horizon peridynamics (DH-PD) formulation and the introduction of the duality of horizons. Within the nonlocal operator method (NOM), the concept of nonlocality is further extended and can be considered a generalization of DH-PD. Combined with the energy functionals of various physical models, the nonlocal forms based on the dual-support concept can be derived. In addition, the variation of the energy functional allows implicit formulations of the nonlocal theory. While traditional integral equations are formulated in an integral domain, the dual-support approaches are based on dual integral domains. One prominent feature of NOM is its compatibility with variational and weighted residual methods. The NOM yields a direct numerical implementation based on the weighted residual method for many physical problems without the need for shape functions. Only the definition of the energy or boundary value problem is needed to drastically facilitate the implementation. The nonlocal operator plays an equivalent role to the derivatives of the shape functions in meshless methods and finite element methods (FEM). Based on the variational principle, the residual and the tangent stiffness matrix can be obtained with ease by a series of matrix multiplications. In addition, NOM can be used to derive many nonlocal models in strong form. The principal contributions of this dissertation are the implementation and application of NOM, and also the development of approaches for dealing with fractures within the NOM, mostly for dynamic fractures. The primary coverage and results of the dissertation are as follows: -The first/higher-order implicit NOM and explicit NOM, including a detailed description of the implementation, are presented. The NOM is based on so-called support, dual-support, nonlocal operators, and an operate energy functional ensuring stability. The nonlocal operator is a generalization of the conventional differential operators. Combining with the method of weighted residuals and variational principles, NOM establishes the residual and tangent stiffness matrix of operate energy functional through some simple matrix without the need of shape functions as in other classical computational methods such as FEM. NOM only requires the definition of the energy drastically simplifying its implementation. For the sake of conciseness, the implementation in this chapter is focused on linear elastic solids only, though the NOM can handle more complex nonlinear problems. An explicit nonlocal operator method for the dynamic analysis of elasticity solid problems is also presented. The explicit NOM avoids the calculation of the tangent stiffness matrix as in the implicit NOM model. The explicit scheme comprises the Verlet-velocity algorithm. The NOM can be very flexible and efficient for solving partial differential equations (PDEs). It's also quite easy for readers to use the NOM and extend it to solve other complicated physical phenomena described by one or a set of PDEs. Several numerical examples are presented to show the capabilities of this method. -A nonlocal operator method for the dynamic analysis of (thin) Kirchhoff plates is proposed. The nonlocal Hessian operator is derived from a second-order Taylor series expansion. NOM is higher-order continuous, which is exploited for thin plate analysis that requires \$C^1\$ continuity. The nonlocal dynamic governing formulation and operator energy functional for Kirchhoff plates are derived from a variational principle. The Verlet-velocity algorithm is used for time discretization. After confirming the accuracy of the nonlocal Hessian operator, several numerical examples are simulated by the nonlocal dynamic Kirchhoff plate formulation. -A nonlocal fracture modeling is developed and applied to the simulation of quasi-static and dynamic fractures using the NOM. The phase field's nonlocal weak and associated strong forms are derived from a variational principle. The NOM requires only the definition of energy. We present both a nonlocal implicit phase field model and a nonlocal explicit phase field model for fracture; the first approach is better suited for quasi-static fracture problems, while the key application of the latter one is dynamic fracture. To demonstrate the performance of the underlying approach, several benchmark examples for quasi-static and dynamic fracture are solved.},
  subject      = {Variationsprinzip},
  language  = {en}
}
@phdthesis{Hollberg,
  author    = {Hollberg, Alexander},
  title     = {A parametric method for building design optimization based on Life Cycle Assessment},
  doi       = {10.25643/bauhaus-universitaet.3800},
  url       = {http://nbn-resolving.de/urn:nbn:de:gbv:wim2-20180928-38000},
  school      = {Bauhaus-Universit{\"a}t Weimar},
  pages     = {262},
  abstract  = {The building sector is responsible for a large share of human environmental impacts. Architects and planners are the key players for reducing the environmental impacts of buildings, as they define them to a large extent. Life Cycle Assessment (LCA) allows for the holistic environmental analysis of a building. However, it is currently not employed to improve the environmental performance of buildings during the design process, although the potential for optimization is greatest there. One main reason is the lack of an adequate means of applying LCA in the architectural design process. As such, the main objective of this thesis is to develop a method for environmental building design optimization that is applicable in the design process. The key concept proposed in this thesis is to combine LCA with parametric design, because it proved to have a high potential for design optimization. The research approach includes the analysis of the characteristics of LCA for buildings and the architectural design stages to identify the research gap, the establishment of a requirement catalogue, the development of a method based on a digital, parametric model, and an evaluation of the method. An analysis of currently available approaches for LCA of buildings indicates that they are either holistic but very complex or simple but not holistic. Furthermore, none of them provide the opportunity for optimization in the architectural design process, which is the main research gap. The requirements derived from the analysis have been summarized in the form of a catalogue. This catalogue can be used to evaluate both existing approaches and potential methods developed in the future. In this thesis, it served as guideline for the development of the parametric method - Parametric Life Cycle Assessment (PLCA). The unique main feature of PLCA is that embodied and operational environmental impact are calculated together. In combination with the self-contained workflow of the method, this provides the basis for holistic, time-efficient environmental design optimization. The application of PLCA to three examples indicated that all established mandatory requirements are met. In all cases, environmental impact could be significantly reduced. In comparison to conventional approaches, PLCA was shown to be much more time-efficient. PLCA allows architects to focus on their main task of designing the building, and finally makes LCA practically useful as one of several criteria for design optimization. With PLCA, the building design can be time-efficiently optimized from the beginning of the most influential early design stages, which has not been possible until now. PLCA provides a good starting point for further research. In the future, it could be extended by integrating the social and economic aspects of sustainability.},
  subject      = {Bauentwurf},
  language  = {en}
}
@phdthesis{Hollberg,
  author    = {Hollberg, Alexander},
  title     = {A parametric method for building design optimization based on Life Cycle Assessment - Appendix},
  series = {A parametric method for building design optimization based on Life Cycle Assessment},
  journal   = {A parametric method for building design optimization based on Life Cycle Assessment},
  doi       = {10.25643/bauhaus-universitaet.2688},
  url       = {http://nbn-resolving.de/urn:nbn:de:gbv:wim2-20161101-26884},
  abstract  = {The building sector is responsible for a large share of human environmental impacts, over which architects and planners have a major influence. The main objective of this thesis is to develop a method for environmental building design optimization based on Life Cycle Assessment (LCA) that is applicable as part of the design process. The research approach includes a thorough analysis of LCA for buildings in relation to the architectural design stages and the establishment of a requirement catalogue. The key concept of the novel method called Parametric Life Cycle Assessment(PLCA) is to combine LCA with parametric design. The application of this method to three examples shows that building designs can be optimized time-efficiently and holistically from the beginning of the most influential early design stages, an achievement which has not been possible until now.},
  subject      = {{\"O}kobilanz},
  language  = {en}
}
@phdthesis{MizrakBilen,
  author    = {Mizrak Bilen, Burcin},
  title     = {A Power-Centered Approach to the Capitalization of Climate Change in Property Sector and Strategic Limitation},
  doi       = {10.25643/BAUHAUS-UNIVERSITAET.3840},
  url       = {http://nbn-resolving.de/urn:nbn:de:gbv:wim2-20190107-38406},
  school      = {Bauhaus-Universit{\"a}t Weimar},
  pages     = {256},
  abstract  = {The capitalization of 'certified' sustainable building sector will be investigated over the power theory of value approach of Jonathan Nitzan and Shimshon Bichler. The study will be initiated by questioning why the environment problems are one of the first items on the agenda and by sharing the ideas of scholars who approaches the subject skeptically, because the predominant literature underlying the necessity and prominence of the topic is already well-known and adapted by the majority. Over the theory developed by Nitzan and Bichler, the concepts of capitalization, strategic sabotage, power, legitimacy, and obedience will be discussed. The hypothesis of "the absentee owners of the construction sector, holding the whip hand and capitalizing the ecology, control the growth and the creativity of green building production and make it carbon-dependent, in order to increase their profit margin" will be questioned. To strengthen the arguments in the hypothesis, the factors, the institutional arrangements, value measurement methods, which affect directly the net present value, will be investigated both in corporation and in building scale in detail, because net present value/ capitalization is asserted as the most important criteria by Nitzan and Bichler to make the investment decisions in the capitalist economic system. To trace the implications of power and the strategic sabotage that power caused, as the empirical dimension of this dissertation, an interface exploring the correlational ties between the climate responsive architecture and the ever changing political, economical, and social contexts and building economics praxis by decades will be developed and the expert interviews will be conducted with the design teams and the appraisers.},
  subject      = {Klima{\"a}nderung},
  language  = {en}
}
@phdthesis{Fauth,
  author    = {Fauth, Judith},
  title     = {A process-oriented decision model for determining the permitability of construction projects},
  doi       = {10.25643/bauhaus-universitaet.4602},
  url       = {http://nbn-resolving.de/urn:nbn:de:gbv:wim2-20220309-46020},
  school      = {Bauhaus-Universit{\"a}t Weimar},
  pages     = {325},
  abstract  = {In recent years, the discussion of digitalization has arrived in the media, at conferences, and in committees of the construction and real estate industry. While some areas are producing innovations and some contributors can be described as pioneers, other topics still show deficits with regard to digital transformation. The building permit process can also be counted in this category. Regardless of how architects and engineers in planning offices rely on innovative methods, building documents have so far remained in paper form in too many cases, or are printed out after electronic submission to the authority. Existing resources - for example in the form of a building information model, which could provide support in the building permit process - are not being taken advantage of. In order to use digital tools to support decision-making by the building permit authorities, it is necessary to understand the current situation and to question conditions before pursuing the overall automation of internal authority processes as the sole solution. With a substantive-organizational consideration of the relevant areas that influence building permit determination, an improvement of the building permit procedure within authorities is proposed. Complex areas - such as legal situations, the use of technology, as well as the subjective alternative action - are determined and structured. With the development of a model for the determination of building permitability, both an understanding of influencing factors is conveyed and an increase in transparency for all parties involved is created. In addition to an international literature review, an empirical study served as the research method. The empirical study was conducted in the form of qualitative expert interviews in order to determine the current state in the field of building permit procedures. The collected data material was processed and subsequently subjected to a software-supported content analysis. The results were processed, in combination with findings from the literature review, in various analyses to form the basis for a proposed model. The result of the study is a decision model that closes the gap between the current processes within the building authorities and an overall automation of the building permit review process. The model offers support to examiners and applicants in determining building permit eligibility, through its process-oriented structuring of decision-relevant facts. The theoretical model could be transferred into practice in the form of a web application.},
  subject      = {Baugenehmigung},
  language  = {en}
}
@phdthesis{Sowoidnich,
  author    = {Sowoidnich, Thomas},
  title     = {A Study of Retarding Effects on Cement and Tricalcium Silicate Hydration induced by Superplasticizers},
  isbn      = {978-3-00-052204-8},
  doi       = {10.25643/bauhaus-universitaet.2544},
  url       = {http://nbn-resolving.de/urn:nbn:de:gbv:wim2-20160224-25444},
  school      = {Bauhaus-Universit{\"a}t Weimar},
  pages     = {214},
  abstract  = {Fließmittel werden in Betonen verwendet, um deren Fließeigenschaften w{\"a}hrend der Verarbeitung zu verbessern und Wasser einzusparen. Beide Faktoren beeinflussen nicht nur den Frischbeton, sondern auch signifikant die Festbetoneigenschaften. Nachteilig wirken sich Fließmittel auf die Festigkeitsentwicklung aus, die z.T. sehr stark verz{\"o}gert wird. Dies ist vor allem bei Bauteilen, die im Rahmen eines Vorfertigungsprozesses hergestellt werden, ein {\"o}konomischer Nachteil. Die vorliegende Arbeit widmet sich den Ursachen f{\"u}r die Verz{\"o}gerung der Portlandzementhydratation bei Verwendung von Fließmitteln. Um die komplexen Reaktionen, die w{\"a}hrend der Portlandzementhydratation auftreten, zu vereinfachen, betrachtet ein {\"u}berwiegender Teil der Arbeit die Wechselwirkung Fließmittel-Tricalciumsilikat (Abk. Ca3SiO5 oder C3S, Hauptbestandteil von Portlandzementklinker). Die Untersuchungen werden in drei Hauptteilen durchgef{\"u}hrt, wobei Methoden wie u.a. isotherme W{\"a}rmeflusskalorimetrie, Elektrische Leitf{\"a}higkeit, Elektronenmikroskopie, ICP-OES, TOC als auch Analytische Ultrazentrifugation Anwendung finden. Basierend auf der Wechselwirkung von Kationen mit anionischen Ladungstr{\"a}gern von Polymeren wird die Interaktion von Calcium mit Fließmitteln im ersten Teil der Arbeit untersucht. Dabei kommt es {\"u}berwiegend zur Komplexierung von Calciumionen durch die funktionellen Gruppen der Plymere (Carboxyl- bzw. Sulfonguppen), die in zement{\"a}ren Umgebungen sowohl gel{\"o}st in der w{\"a}ssrigen Phase als auch als Bestandteil von Partikelgrenzfl{\"a}chen vorhanden sind. Neben diesen Effekten kann auch gezeigt werden, dass Fließmittel die Bildung von nanoskaligen Partikeln hervorrufen, die infolge der sterischen Wirkung von Fließmitteln dispergiert in der w{\"a}ssrigen Phase vorliegen (Clusterbildung). Analog zu neuesten Erkenntnissen aus dem Bereich der Biomineralisation ist daher davon auszugehen, dass diese Nanopartikel durch Agglomeration das Kristallwachtsum beeinflussen. Ausgehend von der Annahme, dass die Aufl{\"o}sungs- und/ oder F{\"a}llungskinetik durch die Wirkung von Fließmitteln behindert und damit f{\"u}r den Verz{\"o}gerungseffekt der Fließmittel w{\"a}hrend der komplexen Hydratationsreaktion verantwortlich seien k{\"o}nnen, werden die zugrundeliegenden Vorg{\"a}nge im zweiten Abschnitt getrennt voneinander untersucht. Es wird anhand von L{\"o}sungsuntersuchungen an C-S-H Phasen und Portlandit herausgestellt, dass die Komplexierung von gel{\"o}sten Calciumionen durch funktionelle Gruppen der Polymere die L{\"o}slichkeit von Portlandit erh{\"o}ht. Im Gegensatz f{\"u}hrt die Komplexierung von Calciumionen in der w{\"a}ssrigen Phase zu einer Verringerung der Calciumionenkonzentration in der w{\"a}ssrigen Phase. Diese Effekte werden auf die unterschiedlich starke Adsorptionsneigung der Polymere an C-S-H-Phasen und Portlandit zur{\"u}ckgef{\"u}hrt. Es wird davon ausgegangen, dass die Adsorption aufgrund der gr{\"o}ßeren spezifischen Oberfl{\"a}che st{\"a}rker an den C-S-H-Phasen als am Portlandit auftritt. Demnach stellt sich dar, dass die Polymere erst nachdem die funktionellen Gruppen Calciumionen aus der w{\"a}ssrigen Phase komplexiert haben an den C-S-H-Phasen adsorbieren. Weiterhin kann gezeigt werden, dass die freie C3S Aufl{\"o}sungsrate in Anwesenheit von Fließmitteln keinen direkten Zusammenhang zur Verz{\"o}gerung erkennen l{\"a}sst. Teilweise kommt es zu einer in Bezug zur Kontrollprobe ohne Fließmittel erh{\"o}hten sowie auch verringerten Aufl{\"o}sungsrate. Wird das Komplexierungsvem{\"o}gen der Fließmittel ber{\"u}cksichtigt, so kann durchaus eine verlangsamte freie Aufl{\"o}sungsrate ermittelt werden. Doch auch Calcit zeigt einen verz{\"o}gernden Einfluss auf die freie C3S Aufl{\"o}sung, obwohl es den Gesamtprozess der Hydratation signifikant beschleunigt. Somit kann die behinderte Aufl{\"o}sung als m{\"o}gliche Ursache f{\"u}r die verz{\"o}gernde Wirkung w{\"a}hrend der Zementhydratation weder best{\"a}tigt noch widerlegt werden. Dieser Punkt sollte in zuk{\"u}nftigen Arbeiten weiter untersucht werden. Im letzten Schritt dieses Untersuchungsabschnitts wird die reine Kristallisation von C-S-H-Phasen und Portlandit untersucht. Es stellt sich heraus, dass Fließmittel insbesondere durch die Wirkung der Komplexierung von Ionen in der w{\"a}ssrigen Phase sowohl die Induktionszeit verl{\"a}ngern als auch die Kristallwachstumsrate ver{\"a}ndern. Dies allein kann aber nicht die komplette Verz{\"o}gerungswirkung erkl{\"a}ren. Ein wichtiger Verz{\"o}gerungsfaktor ist die Adsorption der Polymere an Kristalloberfl{\"a}chen als auch eine fließmittelbedingte Dispergierung von nanoskaligen Einzelpartikeln, die deren Agglomeration zu Kristallen behindert. Im letzten Hauptuntersuchungsabschnitt werden die gewonnenen Erkenntnisse auf die w{\"a}hrend der Zement- und Tricalciumsilikathydratation parallel ablaufenden Reaktionen analysiert. Dabei wird insbesondere die ionische Zusammensetzung der w{\"a}ssrigen Phase von C3S Pasten und Suspensionen untersucht, um Hinweise f{\"u}r eine kinetische Hemmung der Hydratationsreaktion zu identifizieren. Zusammenfassend wird festgestellt, dass die Ursachen der verz{\"o}gernden Wirkung von Fließmitteln auf die Hydratation von C3S auf die starke Verz{\"o}gerung der Kristallisation von Hydratphasen zur{\"u}ckzuf{\"u}hren ist. Dabei kommt den zwei Faktoren Komplexierung von Calciumionen an Oberfl{\"a}chen und Stabilisierung von nanoskaligen Partikeln eine zentrale Bedeutung zu. Diese Effekte k{\"o}nnen durch die Wirkung als Templat als auch durch Erh{\"o}hung der L{\"o}slichkeit infolge Komplexierung freier/gel{\"o}ster Ionen teilkompensiert werden. Dass die Aufl{\"o}sungsreaktion durch die Anwesenheit von Fließmitteln behindert wird, kann nur indirekt anhand der Entwicklung von Ionenkonzentrationen festgestellt werden. Ob dieser Vorgang die Ursache oder die Folge des L{\"o}sungs-F{\"a}llungs-Mechanismus der Hydratation ist und damit die verz{\"o}gernde Wirkung durch behinderte Aufl{\"o}sung des Edukts hervorgerufen wird, bleibt Gegenstand weiterer Untersuchungen. Im Rahmen der Arbeit kann auch gezeigt werden, dass Fließmittel chemisch als Inhibitoren wirken indem sie den Frequenzfaktor verringern. Dar{\"u}ber hinaus wird erstmalig eine Methode entwickelt, die die Bestimmung der Ionenkonzentration in Pasten in-situ erlaubt. Mit deren Hilfe wird dargestellt, dass die Entwicklung der Ionenkonzentration als auch die allgemein verwendete W{\"a}rmefreisetzungsrate (Kalorimetrie) miteinander korrespondiert. Dar{\"u}ber hinaus erlaubt die entwickelte Methode die weitere Differenzierung der Accelerationsperiode in drei Stadien. Die Kristallisation von C-S-H-Phasen und Portlandit ist f{\"u}r den Beginn der Haupthydratationsperiode entscheidend.},
  subject      = {Cement},
  language  = {en}
}
@phdthesis{Winkel,
  author    = {Winkel, Benjamin},
  title     = {A three-dimensional model of skeletal muscle for physiological, pathological and experimental mechanical simulations},
  doi       = {10.25643/bauhaus-universitaet.4300},
  url       = {http://nbn-resolving.de/urn:nbn:de:gbv:wim2-20201211-43002},
  school      = {Bauhaus-Universit{\"a}t Weimar},
  abstract  = {In recent decades, a multitude of concepts and models were developed to understand, assess and predict muscular mechanics in the context of physiological and pathological events. Most of these models are highly specialized and designed to selectively address fields in, e.g., medicine, sports science, forensics, product design or CGI; their data are often not transferable to other ranges of application. A single universal model, which covers the details of biochemical and neural processes, as well as the development of internal and external force and motion patterns and appearance could not be practical with regard to the diversity of the questions to be investigated and the task to find answers efficiently. With reasonable limitations though, a generalized approach is feasible. The objective of the work at hand was to develop a model for muscle simulation which covers the phenomenological aspects, and thus is universally applicable in domains where up until now specialized models were utilized. This includes investigations on active and passive motion, structural interaction of muscles within the body and with external elements, for example in crash scenarios, but also research topics like the verification of in vivo experiments and parameter identification. For this purpose, elements for the simulation of incompressible deformations were studied, adapted and implemented into the finite element code SLang. Various anisotropic, visco-elastic muscle models were developed or enhanced. The applicability was demonstrated on the base of several examples, and a general base for the implementation of further material models was developed and elaborated.},
  subject      = {Biomechanik},
  language  = {en}
}
@phdthesis{Borth2002,
  author    = {Borth, Olaf},
  title     = {Absch{\"a}tzung der Tragf{\"a}higkeit von Queranschl{\"u}ssen an Tr{\"a}gern aus Voll- und Brett-schichtholz im Rahmen der Linear-Elastischen Bruchmechanik},
  doi       = {10.25643/bauhaus-universitaet.23},
  url       = {http://nbn-resolving.de/urn:nbn:de:gbv:wim2-20040212-250},
  school      = {Bauhaus-Universit{\"a}t Weimar},
  year      = {2002},
  abstract  = {In der Arbeit werden M{\"o}glichkeiten aufgezeigt, die Tragf{\"a}higkeit von Queranschl{\"u}ssen an Tr{\"a}gern aus Voll- und Brettschichtholz abzusch{\"a}tzen. Die Tragf{\"a}higkeit dieser Anschl{\"u}sse wird nicht allein durch die Tragf{\"a}higkeit der mechanischen Verbindungsmittel selbst begrenzt. Die Tragf{\"a}higkeit der Verbindungsmittel wird in dieser Arbeit a priori als hinreichend betrachtet. Sie kann z. B. nach der Theorie von JOHANSEN bestimmt werden. Insbesondere bei solchen Anschl{\"u}ssen, welche unterhalb der Schwerachse von Tr{\"a}gern angeordnet sind, erzeugen die durch die Verbindungsmittel eingeleiteten Lasten Beanspruchungen, welche die Tragf{\"a}higkeiten dieser Anschl{\"u}sse bestimmen. Die Absch{\"a}tzung der Tragf{\"a}higkeit auf der Basis von Spannungen hat bei dieser Problemstellung methodische Schw{\"a}chen. Bauteile aus Holz k{\"o}nnen unter Gebrauchsbedingungen rißbehaftet sein. Mit den Methoden der Linear-Elastischen Bruchmechanik kann die Tragf{\"a}higkeit von rißbehafteten Bauteilen beurteilt werden. Es werden wegen der Vielzahl m{\"o}glicher Ausf{\"u}hrungvarianten lediglich Anschl{\"u}sse betrachtet, welche mit stiftf{\"o}rmigen Verbindungsmitteln hergestellt werden. Zur Bestimmung bruchmechanischer Kennwerte werden numerische Methoden angewendet. Es werden wichtige Parameter dieser Anschl{\"u}sse untersucht und hinsichtlich ihrer Ber{\"u}cksichtigung im Rechenmodell bewertet. Zur Verifizierung des Rechenmodells werden Vergleiche mit experimentellen Untersuchungen anderer Wissenschaftler angestellt. Der Einsatz verschiedener Versagenskriterien wird diskutiert. Schließlich wird ein formaler Zusammenhang zur Absch{\"a}tzung der Tragf{\"a}higkeit f{\"u}r einzelne Verbindungsmittel hergestellt. Weiterhin wird die Tragf{\"a}higkeit von praxis{\"u}blichen Anschl{\"u}ssen anhand einfacher Zusammenh{\"a}nge aufgezeigt.},
  subject      = {Tr{\"a}ger},
  language  = {de}
}
@phdthesis{Luther2010,
  author    = {Luther, Torsten},
  title     = {Adaptation of atomistic and continuum methods for multiscale simulation of quasi-brittle intergranular damage},
  doi       = {10.25643/bauhaus-universitaet.1436},
  url       = {http://nbn-resolving.de/urn:nbn:de:gbv:wim2-20101101-15245},
  school      = {Bauhaus-Universit{\"a}t Weimar},
  year      = {2010},
  abstract  = {The numerical simulation of damage using phenomenological models on the macroscale was state of the art for many decades. However, such models are not able to capture the complex nature of damage, which simultaneously proceeds on multiple length scales. Furthermore, these phenomenological models usually contain damage parameters, which are physically not interpretable. Consequently, a reasonable experimental determination of these parameters is often impossible. In the last twenty years, the ongoing advance in computational capacities provided new opportunities for more and more detailed studies of the microstructural damage behavior. Today, multiphase models with several million degrees of freedom enable for the numerical simulation of micro-damage phenomena in naturally heterogeneous materials. Therewith, the application of multiscale concepts for the numerical investigation of the complex nature of damage can be realized. The presented thesis contributes to a hierarchical multiscale strategy for the simulation of brittle intergranular damage in polycrystalline materials, for example aluminum. The numerical investigation of physical damage phenomena on an atomistic microscale and the integration of these physically based information into damage models on the continuum meso- and macroscale is intended. Therefore, numerical methods for the damage analysis on the micro- and mesoscale including the scale transfer are presented and the transition to the macroscale is discussed. The investigation of brittle intergranular damage on the microscale is realized by the application of the nonlocal Quasicontinuum method, which fully describes the material behavior by atomistic potential functions, but reduces the number of atomic degrees of freedom by introducing kinematic couplings. Since this promising method is applied only by a limited group of researchers for special problems, necessary improvements have been realized in an own parallelized implementation of the 3D nonlocal Quasicontinuum method. The aim of this implementation was to develop and combine robust and efficient algorithms for a general use of the Quasicontinuum method, and therewith to allow for the atomistic damage analysis in arbitrary grain boundary configurations. The implementation is applied in analyses of brittle intergranular damage in ideal and nonideal grain boundary models of FCC aluminum, considering arbitrary misorientations. From the microscale simulations traction separation laws are derived, which describe grain boundary decohesion on the mesoscale. Traction separation laws are part of cohesive zone models to simulate the brittle interface decohesion in heterogeneous polycrystal structures. 2D and 3D mesoscale models are presented, which are able to reproduce crack initiation and propagation along cohesive interfaces in polycrystals. An improved Voronoi algorithm is developed in 2D to generate polycrystal material structures based on arbitrary distribution functions of grain size. The new model is more flexible in representing realistic grain size distributions. Further improvements of the 2D model are realized by the implementation and application of an orthotropic material model with Hill plasticity criterion to grains. The 2D and 3D polycrystal models are applied to analyze crack initiation and propagation in statically loaded samples of aluminum on the mesoscale without the necessity of initial damage definition.},
  subject      = {Mechanik},
  language  = {en}
}
@phdthesis{Tietz,
  author    = {Tietz, Robert},
  title     = {Adaptierte und objektivierte Minderkostenberechnung bei unwesentlichen M{\"a}ngeln in Shoppingcentern},
  doi       = {10.25643/bauhaus-universitaet.2567},
  url       = {http://nbn-resolving.de/urn:nbn:de:gbv:wim2-20160425-25674},
  school      = {Bauhaus-Universit{\"a}t Weimar},
  pages     = {162},
  abstract  = {Minderkostenberechnung bei unwesentlichen M{\"a}ngeln},
  subject      = {Vergabe- und Vertragsordnung f{\"u}r Bauleistungen},
  language  = {de}
}
@phdthesis{Eckardt2009,
  author    = {Eckardt, Stefan},
  title     = {Adaptive heterogeneous multiscale models for the nonlinear simulation of concrete},
  doi       = {10.25643/bauhaus-universitaet.1416},
  url       = {http://nbn-resolving.de/urn:nbn:de:gbv:wim2-20100317-15023},
  school      = {Bauhaus-Universit{\"a}t Weimar},
  year      = {2009},
  abstract  = {The nonlinear behavior of concrete can be attributed to the propagation of microcracks within the heterogeneous internal material structure. In this thesis, a mesoscale model is developed which allows for the explicit simulation of these microcracks. Consequently, the actual physical phenomena causing the complex nonlinear macroscopic behavior of concrete can be represented using rather simple material formulations. On the mesoscale, the numerical model explicitly resolves the components of the internal material structure. For concrete, a three-phase model consisting of aggregates, mortar matrix and interfacial transition zone is proposed. Based on prescribed grading curves, an efficient algorithm for the generation of three-dimensional aggregate distributions using ellipsoids is presented. In the numerical model, tensile failure of the mortar matrix is described using a continuum damage approach. In order to reduce spurious mesh sensitivities, introduced by the softening behavior of the matrix material, nonlocal integral-type material formulations are applied. The propagation of cracks at the interface between aggregates and mortar matrix is represented in a discrete way using a cohesive crack approach. The iterative solution procedure is stabilized using a new path following constraint within the framework of load-displacement-constraint methods which allows for an efficient representation of snap-back phenomena. In several examples, the influence of the randomly generated heterogeneous material structure on the stochastic scatter of the results is analyzed. Furthermore, the ability of mesoscale models to represent size effects is investigated. Mesoscale simulations require the discretization of the internal material structure. Compared to simulations on the macroscale, the numerical effort and the memory demand increases dramatically. Due to the complexity of the numerical model, mesoscale simulations are, in general, limited to small specimens. In this thesis, an adaptive heterogeneous multiscale approach is presented which allows for the incorporation of mesoscale models within nonlinear simulations of concrete structures. In heterogeneous multiscale models, only critical regions, i.e. regions in which damage develops, are resolved on the mesoscale, whereas undamaged or sparsely damage regions are modeled on the macroscale. A crucial point in simulations with heterogeneous multiscale models is the coupling of sub-domains discretized on different length scales. The sub-domains differ not only in the size of the finite elements but also in the constitutive description. In this thesis, different methods for the coupling of non-matching discretizations - constraint equations, the mortar method and the arlequin method - are investigated and the application to heterogeneous multiscale models is presented. Another important point is the detection of critical regions. An adaptive solution procedure allowing the transfer of macroscale sub-domains to the mesoscale is proposed. In this context, several indicators which trigger the model adaptation are introduced. Finally, the application of the proposed adaptive heterogeneous multiscale approach in nonlinear simulations of concrete structures is presented.},
  subject      = {Beton},
  language  = {en}
}
@phdthesis{Bruns2010,
  author    = {Bruns, Erich},
  title     = {Adaptive Image Classification on Mobile Phones},
  doi       = {10.25643/bauhaus-universitaet.1421},
  url       = {http://nbn-resolving.de/urn:nbn:de:gbv:wim2-20100707-15092},
  school      = {Bauhaus-Universit{\"a}t Weimar},
  year      = {2010},
  abstract  = {The advent of high-performance mobile phones has opened up the opportunity to develop new context-aware applications for everyday life. In particular, applications for context-aware information retrieval in conjunction with image-based object recognition have become a focal area of recent research. In this thesis we introduce an adaptive mobile museum guidance system that allows visitors in a museum to identify exhibits by taking a picture with their mobile phone. Besides approaches to object recognition, we present different adaptation techniques that improve classification performance. After providing a comprehensive background of context-aware mobile information systems in general, we present an on-device object recognition algorithm and show how its classification performance can be improved by capturing multiple images of a single exhibit. To accomplish this, we combine the classification results of the individual pictures and consider the perspective relations among the retrieved database images. In order to identify multiple exhibits in pictures we present an approach that uses the spatial relationships among the objects in images. They make it possible to infer and validate the locations of undetected objects relative to the detected ones and additionally improve classification performance. To cope with environmental influences, we introduce an adaptation technique that establishes ad-hoc wireless networks among the visitors' mobile devices to exchange classification data. This ensures constant classification rates under varying illumination levels and changing object placement. Finally, in addition to localization using RF-technology, we present an adaptation technique that uses user-generated spatio-temporal pathway data for person movement prediction. Based on the history of previously visited exhibits, the algorithm determines possible future locations and incorporates these predictions into the object classification process. This increases classification performance and offers benefits comparable to traditional localization approaches but without the need for additional hardware. Through multiple field studies and laboratory experiments we demonstrate the benefits of each approach and show how they influence the overall classification rate.},
  subject      = {Kontextbezogenes System},
  language  = {en}
}
@phdthesis{Budarapu,
  author    = {Budarapu, Pattabhi Ramaiah},
  title     = {Adaptive multiscale methods for fracture},
  doi       = {10.25643/bauhaus-universitaet.2391},
  url       = {http://nbn-resolving.de/urn:nbn:de:gbv:wim2-20150507-23918},
  school      = {Bauhaus-Universit{\"a}t Weimar},
  abstract  = {One major research focus in the Material Science and Engineering Community in the past decade has been to obtain a more fundamental understanding on the phenomenon 'material failure'. Such an understanding is critical for engineers and scientists developing new materials with higher strength and toughness, developing robust designs against failure, or for those concerned with an accurate estimate of a component's design life. Defects like cracks and dislocations evolve at nano scales and influence the macroscopic properties such as strength, toughness and ductility of a material. In engineering applications, the global response of the system is often governed by the behaviour at the smaller length scales. Hence, the sub-scale behaviour must be computed accurately for good predictions of the full scale behaviour. Molecular Dynamics (MD) simulations promise to reveal the fundamental mechanics of material failure by modeling the atom to atom interactions. Since the atomistic dimensions are of the order of Angstroms ( A), approximately 85 billion atoms are required to model a 1 micro- m^3 volume of Copper. Therefore, pure atomistic models are prohibitively expensive with everyday engineering computations involving macroscopic cracks and shear bands, which are much larger than the atomistic length and time scales. To reduce the computational effort, multiscale methods are required, which are able to couple a continuum description of the structure with an atomistic description. In such paradigms, cracks and dislocations are explicitly modeled at the atomistic scale, whilst a self-consistent continuum model elsewhere. Many multiscale methods for fracture are developed for "fictitious" materials based on "simple" potentials such as the Lennard-Jones potential. Moreover, multiscale methods for evolving cracks are rare. Efficient methods to coarse grain the fine scale defects are missing. However, the existing multiscale methods for fracture do not adaptively adjust the fine scale domain as the crack propagates. Most methods, therefore only "enlarge" the fine scale domain and therefore drastically increase computational cost. Adaptive adjustment requires the fine scale domain to be refined and coarsened. One of the major difficulties in multiscale methods for fracture is to up-scale fracture related material information from the fine scale to the coarse scale, in particular for complex crack problems. Most of the existing approaches therefore were applied to examples with comparatively few macroscopic cracks. Key contributions The bridging scale method is enhanced using the phantom node method so that cracks can be modeled at the coarse scale. To ensure self-consistency in the bulk, a virtual atom cluster is devised providing the response of the intact material at the coarse scale. A molecular statics model is employed in the fine scale where crack propagation is modeled by naturally breaking the bonds. The fine scale and coarse scale models are coupled by enforcing the displacement boundary conditions on the ghost atoms. An energy criterion is used to detect the crack tip location. Adaptive refinement and coarsening schemes are developed and implemented during the crack propagation. The results were observed to be in excellent agreement with the pure atomistic simulations. The developed multiscale method is one of the first adaptive multiscale method for fracture. A robust and simple three dimensional coarse graining technique to convert a given atomistic region into an equivalent coarse region, in the context of multiscale fracture has been developed. The developed method is the first of its kind. The developed coarse graining technique can be applied to identify and upscale the defects like: cracks, dislocations and shear bands. The current method has been applied to estimate the equivalent coarse scale models of several complex fracture patterns arrived from the pure atomistic simulations. The upscaled fracture pattern agree well with the actual fracture pattern. The error in the potential energy of the pure atomistic and the coarse grained model was observed to be acceptable. A first novel meshless adaptive multiscale method for fracture has been developed. The phantom node method is replaced by a meshless differential reproducing kernel particle method. The differential reproducing kernel particle method is comparatively more expensive but allows for a more "natural" coupling between the two scales due to the meshless interpolation functions. The higher order continuity is also beneficial. The centro symmetry parameter is used to detect the crack tip location. The developed multiscale method is employed to study the complex crack propagation. Results based on the meshless adaptive multiscale method were observed to be in excellent agreement with the pure atomistic simulations. The developed multiscale methods are applied to study the fracture in practical materials like Graphene and Graphene on Silicon surface. The bond stretching and the bond reorientation were observed to be the net mechanisms of the crack growth in Graphene. The influence of time step on the crack propagation was studied using two different time steps. Pure atomistic simulations of fracture in Graphene on Silicon surface are presented. Details of the three dimensional multiscale method to study the fracture in Graphene on Silicon surface are discussed.},
  subject      = {Material},
  language  = {en}
}
@phdthesis{Heidenreich,
  author    = {Heidenreich, Christian},
  title     = {Adaptivit{\"a}t von freigeformten Fl{\"a}chentragwerken - M{\"o}glichkeiten zur Steigerung der Effizienz von Faserverbundstrukturen im Bauwesen},
  doi       = {10.25643/bauhaus-universitaet.2551},
  url       = {http://nbn-resolving.de/urn:nbn:de:gbv:wim2-20160314-25512},
  school      = {Bauhaus-Universit{\"a}t Weimar},
  pages     = {180},
  abstract  = {Die vorliegende Arbeit fokussiert die Optimierung freigeformter adaptiver Faserverbundfl{\"a}chentragwerke auf Basis einer entwickelten und auf einem parametrischen Gesamtmodell basierenden Entwurfsmethode. Die {\"U}bertragung adaptiver, nat{\"u}rlich inspirierter Vorg{\"a}nge stellt eine weitreichende Inspirationsquelle dar. Adaptive Tragwerke k{\"o}nnen unter Anwendung von Smart Materials als materialsparende, filigrane Tragwerke ausgef{\"u}hrt werden. Die Erf{\"u}llung der Grenzzust{\"a}nde der Tragf{\"a}higkeit und der Gebrauchstauglichkeit wird nicht allein {\"u}ber die Querschnittsabmessungen sichergestellt. Die notwendige Bauteilsteifigkeit kann vielmehr durch Eintragung von Aktivierungsenergie (Operational Energy) realisiert werden. Auf diese Weise kann die aufgrund der Bauteilabmessungen gebundene Energie (Embodied Energy) minimiert werden. Die entwickelte Entwurfsmethode erm{\"o}glicht die Auslegung und Optimierung materialminimierter Schalentragwerke in einem mehrstufigen Prozess. Hierbei wird aus tragwerksplanerischer Sicht die numerische Formfindung, die statische Berechnung und die Aktor- und Sensorpositionierung berechnet. Zudem werden Analysen hinsichtlich der Nachhaltigkeit auf Basis einer Lebenszyklusanalyse durchgef{\"u}hrt. Aufgrund der unterschiedlichen, sich aber gegenseitig beeinflussenden Kriterien, ist eine Optimierung durchzuf{\"u}hren. In der vorliegenden Arbeit wird ein Ansatz zur Definition zul{\"a}ssiger {\"O}kobilanzkennwerte von Smart Materials auf Basis der Energiedifferenz zwischen einer passiven und einer adaptiven Struktur vorgestellt. Anhand dieser Kennwerte kann die Entwicklung zuk{\"u}nftiger Smart Materials unter dem Aspekt der ganzheitlichen Nachhaltigkeit erfolgen. Die Allgemeing{\"u}ltigkeit und {\"U}bertragbarkeit der Entwurfsmethode auf weitere Tragsysteme im Bauwesen und speziell anderer Materialkonstellationen wird anhand verschiedener Beispiele aufgezeigt.},
  subject      = {Entwurf},
  language  = {de}
}
@phdthesis{Ajjour,
  author    = {Ajjour, Yamen},
  title     = {Addressing Controversial Topics in Search Engines},
  doi       = {10.25643/bauhaus-universitaet.6403},
  url       = {http://nbn-resolving.de/urn:nbn:de:gbv:wim2-20230626-64037},
  school      = {Bauhaus-Universit{\"a}t Weimar},
  pages     = {133},
  abstract  = {Search engines are very good at answering queries that look for facts. Still, information needs that concern forming opinions on a controversial topic or making a decision remain a challenge for search engines. Since they are optimized to retrieve satisfying answers, search engines might emphasize a specific stance on a controversial topic in their ranking, amplifying bias in society in an undesired way. Argument retrieval systems support users in forming opinions about controversial topics by retrieving arguments for a given query. In this thesis, we address challenges in argument retrieval systems that concern integrating them in search engines, developing generalizable argument mining approaches, and enabling frame-guided delivery of arguments. Adapting argument retrieval systems to search engines should start by identifying and analyzing information needs that look for arguments. To identify questions that look for arguments we develop a two-step annotation scheme that first identifies whether the context of a question is controversial, and if so, assigns it one of several question types: factual, method, and argumentative. Using this annotation scheme, we create a question dataset from the logs of a major search engine and use it to analyze the characteristics of argumentative questions. The analysis shows that the proportion of argumentative questions on controversial topics is substantial and that they mainly ask for reasons and predictions. The dataset is further used to develop a classifier to uniquely map questions to the question types, reaching a convincing F1-score of 0.78. While the web offers an invaluable source of argumentative content to respond to argumentative questions, it is characterized by multiple genres (e.g., news articles and social fora). Exploiting the web as a source of arguments relies on developing argument mining approaches that generalize over genre. To this end, we approach the problem of how to extract argument units in a genre-robust way. Our experiments on argument unit segmentation show that transfer across genres is rather hard to achieve using existing sequence-to-sequence models. Another property of text which argument mining approaches should generalize over is topic. Since new topics appear daily on which argument mining approaches are not trained, argument mining approaches should be developed in a topic-generalizable way. Towards this goal, we analyze the coverage of 31 argument corpora across topics using three topic ontologies. The analysis shows that the topics covered by existing argument corpora are biased toward a small subset of easily accessible controversial topics, hinting at the inability of existing approaches to generalize across topics. In addition to corpus construction standards, fostering topic generalizability requires a careful formulation of argument mining tasks. Same side stance classification is a reformulation of stance classification that makes it less dependent on the topic. First experiments on this task show promising results in generalizing across topics. To be effective at persuading their audience, users of an argument retrieval system should select arguments from the retrieved results based on what frame they emphasize of a controversial topic. An open challenge is to develop an approach to identify the frames of an argument. To this end, we define a frame as a subset of arguments that share an aspect. We operationalize this model via an approach that identifies and removes the topic of arguments before clustering them into frames. We evaluate the approach on a dataset that covers 12,326 frames and show that identifying the topic of an argument and removing it helps to identify its frames.},
  subject      = {Informatik},
  language  = {en}
}
@phdthesis{Riehmann,
  author    = {Riehmann, Patrick},
  title     = {Advanced Visual Interfaces for Informed Decision-Making},
  publisher = {Patrick Riehmann},
  doi       = {10.25643/bauhaus-universitaet.2454},
  url       = {http://nbn-resolving.de/urn:nbn:de:gbv:wim2-20150907-24542},
  school      = {Bauhaus-Universit{\"a}t Weimar},
  pages     = {132},
  abstract  = {This thesis presents new interactive visualization techniques and systems intended to support users with real-world decisions such as selecting a product from a large variety of similar offerings, finding appropriate wording as a non-native speaker, and assessing an alleged case of plagiarism. The Product Explorer is a significantly improved interactive Parallel Coordinates display for facilitating the product selection process in cases where many attributes and numerous alternatives have to be considered. A novel visual representation for categorical and ordered data with only few occurring values, the so-called extended areas, in combination with cubic curves for connecting the parallel axes, are crucial for providing an effective overview of the entire dataset and to facilitate the tracing of individual products. The visual query interface supports users in quickly narrowing down the product search to a small subset or even a single product. The scalability of the approach towards a large number of attributes and products is enhanced by the possibility of setting some constraints on final attributes and, therefore, reducing the number of considered attributes and data items. Furthermore, an attribute repository allows users to focus on the most important attributes at first and to bring in additional criteria for product selection later in the decision process. A user study confirmed that the Product Explorer is indeed an excellent tool for its intended purpose for casual users. The Wordgraph is a layered graph visualization for the interactive exploration of search results for complex keywords-in-context queries. The system relies on the Netspeak web service and is designed to support non-native speakers in finding customary phrases. Uncertainties about the commonness of phrases are expressed with the help of wildcard-based queries. The visualization presents the alternatives for the wildcards in a multi-column layout: one column per wildcard with the other query fragments in between. The Wordgraph visualization displays the sorted results for all wildcards at once by appropriately arranging the words of each column. A user study confirmed that this is a significant advantage over simple textual result lists. Furthermore, visual interfaces to filter, navigate, and expand the graph allow interactive refinement and expansion of wildcard-containing queries. Furthermore, this thesis presents an advanced visual analysis tool for assessing and presenting alleged cases of plagiarism and provides a three-level approach for exploring the so-called finding spots in their context. The overview shows the relationship of the entire suspicious document to the set of source documents. An intermediate glyph-based view reveals the structural and textual differences and similarities of a set of finding spots and their corresponding source text fragments. Eventually, the actual fragments of the finding spot can be shown in a side-by-side view with a novel structured wrapping of both the source, as well as the suspicious text. The three different levels of detail are tied together by versatile navigation and selection operations. Reviews with plagiarism experts confirm that this tool can effectively support their workflow and provides a significant improvement over existing static visualizations for assessing and presenting plagiarism cases. The three main contributions of this research have a lot in common aside from being carefully designed and scientifically grounded solutions to real-world decision problems. The first two visualizations facilitate the decision for a single possibility out of many alternatives, whereas the latter ones deal with text at varying levels of detail. All visual representations are clearly structured based on horizontal and vertical layers contained in a single view and they all employ edges for depicting the most important relationships between attributes, words, or different levels of detail. A detailed analysis considering the context of the established decision-making literature reveals that important steps of common decision models are well-supported by the three visualization systems presented in this thesis.},
  subject      = {Informatik},
  language  = {en}
}
@phdthesis{Gapševičius,
  author    = {Gapševičius, Mindaugas},
  title     = {Aesthetics of Maker Culture: the Active Role of the Audience},
  doi       = {10.25643/bauhaus-universitaet.4939},
  url       = {http://nbn-resolving.de/urn:nbn:de:gbv:wim2-20230313-49396},
  school      = {Bauhaus-Universit{\"a}t Weimar},
  pages     = {206},
  abstract  = {In this work, practice-based research is conducted to rethink the understanding of aesthetics, especially in relation to current media art. Granted, we live in times when technologies merge with living organisms, but we also live in times that provide unlimited resources of knowledge and maker tools. I raise the question: In what way does the hybridization of living organisms and non-living technologies affect art audiences in the culture that may be defined as Maker culture? My hypothesis is that active participation of an audience in an artwork is inevitable for experiencing the artwork itself, while also suggesting that the impact of the umwelt changes the perception of an artwork. I emphasize artistic projects that unfold through mutual interaction among diverse peers, including humans, non-human organisms, and machines. In my thesis, I pursue collaborative scenarios that lead to the realization of artistic ideas: (1) the development of ideas by others influenced by me and (2) the materialization of my own ideas influenced by others. By developing the scenarios of collaborative work as an artistic experience, I conclude that the role of an artist in Maker culture is to mediate different types of knowledge and different positions, whereas the role of the audience is to actively engage in the artwork itself. At the same time, aesthetics as experience is triggered by the other, including living and non-living actors. It is intended that the developed methodologies could be further adapted in artistic practices, philosophy, anthropology, and environmental studies.},
  subject      = {Medienkunst},
  language  = {en}
}
@phdthesis{Salmon,
  author    = {Salmon, Naomi Tereza},
  title     = {Als ich K{\"u}nstler war oder: Von der Z{\"a}hmung und Professionalisierung einer mythischen Freiheit oder: der K{\"u}nstler als Arbeiter},
  doi       = {10.25643/bauhaus-universitaet.1980},
  url       = {http://nbn-resolving.de/urn:nbn:de:gbv:wim2-20130718-19807},
  school      = {Bauhaus-Universit{\"a}t Weimar},
  pages     = {193},
  abstract  = {Einleitung: Die Kunst und der Kunstbetrieb haben sich in den letzten Jahrzehnten stark ver{\"a}ndert und werden sich aller Voraussicht nach in Zukunft noch weit rascher und durchgreifender {\"a}ndern. In meiner Dissertation geht es um eine Analyse des Jetzt-Zustandes des Kunstbetriebs und um die Konsequenzen die daraus f{\"u}r die zu erwartende Entwicklung zu ziehen sind, insbesondere bez{\"u}glich der Ausbildung von K{\"u}nstlern an Kunsthochschulen. Dort sollten meines Erachtens die beruflichen Aspekte des k{\"u}nstlerischen Feldes (in und außerhalb der Akademie) verst{\"a}rkt erl{\"a}utert und vermittelt werden. Der Fokus der Arbeit liegt auf den folgenden 4 Aspekten: Der K{\"u}nstler, die Arbeitswelt, die Ausbildung und das Netz und die Vernetzung und ihren Zusammenh{\"a}ngen. Diese Feststellungen basieren auf meinen Recherchen zu den vier Hauptthemen im Rahmen meiner Arbeit in der Lehre und der eigenen k{\"u}nstlerischen Praxis der letzten Jahre und spiegeln diese wider und sollen gleichzeitig als Beispiel f{\"u}r ihre Anwendung dienen und bieten einen {\"U}berblick in deren Ausf{\"u}hrung in der Praxis. Hinweis Die hier vorliegende Dateien (in 5 Teilen) sind die digitale Ver{\"o}ffentlichung meiner Dissertation im Rahmen der Promotion im Studiengang "Kunst und Design" an der Bauhaus-Universit{\"a}t Weimar. Diese Publikation ist open source und wird in einem offenen und kollaborativen Prozess weiterentwickelt werden. Die jeweils aktuelle Version wird hier zu finden sein: http://phd.nts.is Dort befinden sich auch weitere Formate zum Download, ebenso wie der vollst{\"a}ndige (markdown-formatierte) Quelltext. (Aus urheber- und lizenzrechtlichen Gr{\"u}nden sind in dieser Version der Bildtafeln einige Bilder ausgelassen. Die gedruckte Ausgabe enth{\"a}lt alle Bildtafeln, diese liegt in der Bibliothek der Bauhaus-Universit{\"a}t aus.) Teile: - Thesenpapier - PhD Dissertation - Bildtafeln - Der 5-Jahres-Plan - KIOSK09-Katalog},
  subject      = {Kunst},
  language  = {de}
}
@phdthesis{Nowak,
  author    = {Nowak, Saskia},
  title     = {Alterung von Calciumsulfatphasen : Physiko-chemisch bedingte Feuchteaufnahmen und Einfluss auf die Reaktivit{\"a}t},
  isbn      = {978-3-00-041328-5},
  doi       = {10.25643/bauhaus-universitaet.1873},
  url       = {http://nbn-resolving.de/urn:nbn:de:gbv:wim2-20130320-18731},
  school      = {Bauhaus-Universit{\"a}t Weimar},
  pages     = {155},
  abstract  = {Die Arbeit zeigt die wesentlichen Gr{\"u}nde auf, warum betahalbhydratreiche Niederbranntgipsbinder (industriell als Stuckgips bezeichnet) oft sehr unterschiedliche Eigenschaften aufweisen. Der Anteil an Halbhydrat, welches aus dem stark hygroskopischen Anhydrit III (A III) durch die Reaktion mit Luftfeuchtigkeit entsteht, stellt einen erheblichen, bislang vollkommen unbeachteten Einfluss dar. Dieses Halbhydrat aus A III zeigt andere Oberfl{\"a}cheneigenschaften und ein Reaktionsverhalten, das von frisch gebranntem Betahalbhydrat abweicht. Es zeigt sich, wie weitreichend der Einfluss physiko-chemischer Oberfl{\"a}chenprozesse wie Adsorption und Kondensation ist. Hierdurch wird nicht nur die Oberfl{\"a}chenenergie der Partikel abgebaut, sondern auch eine Verminderung der Hydratationsw{\"a}rme verursacht. Somit wirken sich physikalische Vorg{\"a}nge thermodynamisch aus. Einwirkende und resultierende Parameter einer Alterung wirken wie folgt {\"a}ußerst komplex zusammen: Die dominierenden Bindemitteleigenschaften Abbindeverhalten und Wasseranspruch ver{\"a}ndern sich durch eine Alterung sowohl aufgrund der Phasenumwandlungen als auch infolge der Ver{\"a}nderungen der Kristallite. Ebenso einflussreich ist die Ver{\"a}nderung der Oberfl{\"a}chencharakteristik. Die Auswirkung der Alterung auf die Reaktivit{\"a}t geht deutlich {\"u}ber den Abbau von Anhydrit III, die Dezimierung von abbindef{\"a}higem Material und die beschleunigende Wirkung von Alterungsdihydrat hinaus. Das Wachstum der Kristallite von Halbhydrat und die Verringerung der inneren Energie sowie die energetisch g{\"u}nstige spontane Beladung der Kristallgitterkan{\"a}le kleinster Anhydrit III-Kristallite mit dampff{\"o}rmigem Wasser m{\"u}ssen als maßgebliche Ursachen f{\"u}r die Abnahme der Reaktivit{\"a}t infolge der Alterung herausgestellt werden. Die Abnahme der spezifischen Oberfl{\"a}che und der Oberfl{\"a}chenenergie wirken sich außerdem auf den L{\"o}sungs- und den Hydratationsprozess aus. Der auf der Oberfl{\"a}che von Anhydrit III kristallisierte Anhydrit II wirkt sich auch nach der Umwandlung von A III in Halbhydrat l{\"o}sungshemmend aus. Infolge der alterungsbedingten Dihydratbildung, die bei anhaltender Feuchteeinwirkung einsetzt, wird diese Wirkung aufgehoben bzw. vermindert. Obgleich Dihydrat f{\"u}r seinen Beschleunigungseffekt bekannt ist, entfaltet Alterungsdihydrat infolge seiner besonderen Ausbildung innerhalb der wenige Molek{\"u}llagen umfassenden Kondenswasserschicht nur eine geringe keimbildende Wirkung. Eine wesentliche Erkenntnis betrifft den Bindungscharakter des {\"U}berst{\"o}chiometrischen Wassers. Diesbez{\"u}glich ist eine rein physikalische Bindung nachweisbar. Das in der Arbeit als st{\"a}rker adsorptiv gebunden bezeichnete Wasser kommt neben der Freien Feuchte ausschließlich bei Anwesenheit von Halbhydrat vor. Dieser Zusammenhang wird erstmalig hergestellt und mit Hilfe der kristallchemisch bedingten h{\"o}heren Oberfl{\"a}chenenergie von Halbhydrat erkl{\"a}rt.},
  subject      = {Alterung},
  language  = {de}
}
@phdthesis{Zimmermann,
  author    = {Zimmermann, Christina},
  title     = {Ambiguit{\"a}t im zeitgen{\"o}ssischen Film. Flugversuche : Zusammenfassung},
  doi       = {10.25643/bauhaus-universitaet.2633},
  url       = {http://nbn-resolving.de/urn:nbn:de:gbv:wim2-20160727-26336},
  school      = {Bauhaus-Universit{\"a}t Weimar},
  pages     = {1},
  abstract  = {Die Dissertation {\"u}ber „Ambiguit{\"a}t im zeitgen{\"o}ssischen Film - Flugversuche" folgt der Spur einer popul{\"a}ren narrativen Tendenz im Kino - n{\"a}mlich der Mehrdeutigkeit - und zeichnet ihr dramaturgisches Potential, wie ihre ethischen (bzw. mikropolitischen) Implikationen nach. Um typische Muster in der Wahrnehmung mehrdeutiger Filmerz{\"a}hlungen zu beschreiben, die bereits auf der vorbewussten Ebene der Affekte wirksam sind, greife ich auf Begriffe der Prozessphilosophie Alfred North Whitehead's zur{\"u}ck und auf ihre neueren Reformulierungen bei Gilles Deleuze und Brian Massumi. Ausgehend von Alejandro Gonz{\´a}lez I{\~n}{\´a}rritu's "Babel" (2006) begibt sich der Leser im ersten Teil auf einen virtuellen Rundflug durch ausgew{\"a}hlte Filmbeispiele mit einem kulturellen Ankerpunkt im heutigen Japan. Im zweiten Teil beschreibe und reflektiere ich mein methodisches Vorgehen in den ersten Phasen der Stoffentwicklung zu einem suggestiven Spielfilmprojekt, und kontextualisiere es mit Interviews zeitgen{\"o}ssischer Autorenfilmer, die {\"a}hnliche Erz{\"a}hlweisen entwickeln.},
  subject      = {Ambiguit{\"a}t},
  language  = {de}
}
@phdthesis{Kaltenbrunner,
  author    = {Kaltenbrunner, Martin},
  title     = {An Abstraction Framework for Tangible Interactive Surfaces},
  doi       = {10.25643/bauhaus-universitaet.3717},
  url       = {http://nbn-resolving.de/urn:nbn:de:gbv:wim2-20180205-37178},
  school      = {Bauhaus-Universit{\"a}t Weimar},
  pages     = {138},
  abstract  = {This cumulative dissertation discusses - by the example of four subsequent publications - the various layers of a tangible interaction framework, which has been developed in conjunction with an electronic musical instrument with a tabletop tangible user interface. Based on the experiences that have been collected during the design and implementation of that particular musical application, this research mainly concentrates on the definition of a general-purpose abstraction model for the encapsulation of physical interface components that are commonly employed in the context of an interactive surface environment. Along with a detailed description of the underlying abstraction model, this dissertation also describes an actual implementation in the form of a detailed protocol syntax, which constitutes the common element of a distributed architecture for the construction of surface-based tangible user interfaces. The initial implementation of the presented abstraction model within an actual application toolkit is comprised of the TUIO protocol and the related computer-vision based object and multi-touch tracking software reacTIVision, along with its principal application within the Reactable synthesizer. The dissertation concludes with an evaluation and extension of the initial TUIO model, by presenting TUIO2 - a next generation abstraction model designed for a more comprehensive range of tangible interaction platforms and related application scenarios.},
  subject      = {Informatik},
  language  = {en}
}
@phdthesis{Malik,
  author    = {Malik, Irfan},
  title     = {An adaptive contact formulation for Isogeometric Finite Element Analysis},
  doi       = {10.25643/bauhaus-universitaet.4612},
  url       = {http://nbn-resolving.de/urn:nbn:de:gbv:wim2-20220324-46129},
  school      = {Bauhaus-Universit{\"a}t Weimar},
  pages     = {124},
  abstract  = {Numerical simulation of physical phenomena, like electro-magnetics, structural and fluid mechanics is essential for the cost- and time-efficient development of mechanical products at high quality. It allows to investigate the behavior of a product or a system far before the first prototype of a product is manufactured. This thesis addresses the simulation of contact mechanics. Mechanical contacts appear in nearly every product of mechanical engineering. Gearboxes, roller bearings, valves and pumps are only some examples. Simulating these systems not only for the maximal/minimal stresses and strains but for the stress-distribution in case of tribo-contacts is a challenging task from a numerical point of view. Classical procedures like the Finite Element Method suffer from the nonsmooth representation of contact surfaces with discrete Lagrange elements. On the one hand, an error due to the approximate description of the surface is introduced. On the other hand it is difficult to attain a robust contact search because surface normals can not be described in a unique form at element edges. This thesis introduces therefore a novel approach, the adaptive isogeometric contact formulation based on polynomial Splines over hierarchical T-meshes (PHT-Splines), for the approximate solution of the non-linear contact problem. It provides a more accurate, robust and efficient solution compared to conventional methods. During the development of this method the focus was laid on the solution of static contact problems without friction in 2D and 3D in which the structures undergo small deformations. The mathematical description of the problem entails a system of partial differential equations and boundary conditions which model the linear elastic behaviour of continua. Additionally, it comprises side conditions, the Karush-Kuhn-Tuckerconditions, to prevent the contacting structures from non-physical penetration. The mathematical model must be transformed into its integral form for approximation of the solution. Employing a penalty method, contact constraints are incorporated by adding the resulting equations in weak form to the overall set of equations. For an efficient space discretization of the bulk and especially the contact boundary of the structures, the principle of Isogeometric Analysis (IGA) is applied. Isogeometric Finite Element Methods provide several advantages over conventional Finite Element discretization. Surface approximation with Non-Uniform Rational B-Splines (NURBS) allow a robust numerical solution of the contact problem with high accuracy in terms of an exact geometry description including the surface smoothness. The numerical evaluation of the contact integral is challenging due to generally non-conforming meshes of the contacting structures. In this work the highly accurate Mortar Method is applied in the isogeometric setting for the evaluation of contact contributions. This leads to an algebraic system of equations that is linearized and solved in sequential steps. This procedure is known as the Newton Raphson Method. Based on numerical examples, the advantages of the isogeometric approach with classical refinement strategies, like the p- and h-refinement, are shown and the influence of relevant algorithmic parameters on the approximate solution of the contact problem is verified. One drawback of the Spline approximations of stresses though is that they lack accuracy at the contact edge where the structures change their boundary from contact to no contact and where the solution features a kink. The approximation with smooth Spline functions yields numerical artefacts in the form of non-physical oscillations. This property of the numerical solution is not only a drawback for the simulation of e.g. tribological contacts, it also influences the convergence properties of iterative solution procedures negatively. Hence, the NURBS discretized geometries are transformed to Polynomial Splines over Hierarchical T-meshes (PHT-Splines), for the local refinement along contact edges to reduce the artefact of pressure oscillations. NURBS have a tensor product structure which does not allow to refine only certain parts of the geometrical domain while leaving other parts unchanged. Due to the B{\´e}zier Extraction, lying behind the transformation from NURBS to PHT-Splines, the connected mesh structure is broken up into separate elements. This allows an efficient local refinement along the contact edge. Before single elements are refined in a hierarchical form with cross-insertion, existing basis functions must be modified or eliminated. This process of truncation assures local and global linear independence of the refined basis which is needed for a unique approximate solution. The contact boundary is a priori unknown. Local refinement along the contact edge, especially for 3D problems, is for this reason not straight forward. In this work the use of an a posteriori error estimation procedure, the Super Convergent Recovery Solution Based Error Estimation Scheme, together with the D{\"o}rfler Marking Method is suggested for the spatial search of the contact edge. Numerical examples show that the developed method improves the quality of solutions along the contact edge significantly compared to NURBS based approximate solutions. Also, the error in maximum contact pressures, which correlates with the pressure artefacts, is minimized by the adaptive local refinement. In a final step the practicability of the developed solution algorithm is verified by an industrial application: The highly loaded mechanical contact between roller and cam in the drive train of a high-pressure fuel pump is considered.},
  subject      = {Isogeometrische Analyse},
  language  = {en}
}
@phdthesis{Wieneke2009,
  author    = {Wieneke, Lars},
  title     = {An analysis of productive user contributions in digital media applications for museums and cultural heritage.},
  doi       = {10.25643/bauhaus-universitaet.1442},
  url       = {http://nbn-resolving.de/urn:nbn:de:gbv:wim2-20101214-15285},
  school      = {Bauhaus-Universit{\"a}t Weimar},
  year      = {2009},
  abstract  = {In a historical perspective, the relationship between digital media and the museum environment is marked by the role of museums as example use cases for the appli- cation of digital media. Today, this exceptional use as an often technology oriented application has changed and instead digital media have turned into an integral part of mediation strategies in the museum environment. Alongside with this shift not only an increasing professionalization of application development but also a grow- ing demand for new content can be observed. Comparable to its role as the main cost factor in the media industry, the production of content rises to a challenge for museums. In particular small and medium scale european museums with limited funding and an often low level of staff coverage face this new demand and strive therefore for alternative production resources. While productive user contributions can be seen as such an alternative resource, user contributions are at the same time a manifestation for a different mode of in- teracting with content. In contrast to the dominantly passive role of audiences as re- ceivers of information, productive contributions emerge as a mode of content ex- ploration and become in this regard influential for museum mediation strategies. As applications of user contributions in museums and cultural heritage are currently rather seldom, a broader perspective towards user contributions becomes necessary to understand its specific challenges, opportunities and limitations. Productive user contributions can be found in a growing number of applications on the Internet where they either complement or fully substitute corporate content production processes. While the Wikipedia1, an online encyclopedia written entirely by a group of users and open to contributions by all its users, is one of the most prominent examples for this practice, several more applications emerged or are be- ing developed. In consequence user contributions are about to become a powerful source for the production of content in digital media environments.},
  subject      = {Neue Medien},
  language  = {en}
}
@phdthesis{Jenabidehkordi,
  author    = {Jenabidehkordi, Ali},
  title     = {An Efficient Adaptive PD Formulation for Complex Microstructures},
  doi       = {10.25643/bauhaus-universitaet.4742},
  url       = {http://nbn-resolving.de/urn:nbn:de:gbv:wim2-20221124-47422},
  school      = {Bauhaus-Universit{\"a}t Weimar},
  pages     = {118},
  abstract  = {The computational costs of newly developed numerical simulation play a critical role in their acceptance within both academic use and industrial employment. Normally, the refinement of a method in the area of interest reduces the computational cost. This is unfortunately not true for most nonlocal simulation, since refinement typically increases the size of the material point neighborhood. Reducing the discretization size while keep- ing the neighborhood size will often require extra consideration. Peridy- namic (PD) is a newly developed numerical method with nonlocal nature. Its straightforward integral form equation of motion allows simulating dy- namic problems without any extra consideration required. The formation of crack and its propagation is known as natural to peridynamic. This means that discontinuity is a result of the simulation and does not demand any post-processing. As with other nonlocal methods, PD is considered an expensive method. The refinement of the nodal spacing while keeping the neighborhood size (i.e., horizon radius) constant, emerges to several nonphysical phenomena. This research aims to reduce the peridynamic computational and imple- mentation costs. A novel refinement approach is introduced. The pro- posed approach takes advantage of the PD flexibility in choosing the shape of the horizon by introducing multiple domains (with no intersections) to the nodes of the refinement zone. It will be shown that no ghost forces will be created when changing the horizon sizes in both subdomains. The approach is applied to both bond-based and state-based peridynamic and verified for a simple wave propagation refinement problem illustrating the efficiency of the method. Further development of the method for higher dimensions proves to have a direct relationship with the mesh sensitivity of the PD. A method for solving the mesh sensitivity of the PD is intro- duced. The application of the method will be examined by solving a crack propagation problem similar to those reported in the literature. New software architecture is proposed considering both academic and in- dustrial use. The available simulation tools for employing PD will be collected, and their advantages and drawbacks will be addressed. The challenges of implementing any node base nonlocal methods while max- imizing the software flexibility to further development and modification will be discussed and addressed. A software named Relation-Based Sim- ulator (RBS) is developed for examining the proposed architecture. The exceptional capabilities of RBS will be explored by simulating three dis- tinguished models. RBS is available publicly and open to further develop- ment. The industrial acceptance of the RBS will be tested by targeting its performance on one Mac and two Linux distributions.},
  subject      = {Peridynamik},
  language  = {en}
}
@phdthesis{Jenabidehkordi,
  author    = {Jenabidehkordi, Ali},
  title     = {An efficient adaptive PD formulation for complex microstructures},
  doi       = {10.25643/bauhaus-universitaet.4738},
  url       = {http://nbn-resolving.de/urn:nbn:de:gbv:wim2-20221116-47389},
  school      = {Bauhaus-Universit{\"a}t Weimar},
  pages     = {118},
  abstract  = {The computational costs of newly developed numerical simulation play a critical role in their acceptance within both academic use and industrial employment. Normally, the refinement of a method in the area of interest reduces the computational cost. This is unfortunately not true for most nonlocal simulation, since refinement typically increases the size of the material point neighborhood. Reducing the discretization size while keep- ing the neighborhood size will often require extra consideration. Peridynamic (PD) is a newly developed numerical method with nonlocal nature. Its straightforward integral form equation of motion allows simulating dynamic problems without any extra consideration required. The formation of crack and its propagation is known as natural to peridynamic. This means that discontinuity is a result of the simulation and does not demand any post-processing. As with other nonlocal methods, PD is considered an expensive method. The refinement of the nodal spacing while keeping the neighborhood size (i.e., horizon radius) constant, emerges to several nonphysical phenomena. This research aims to reduce the peridynamic computational and imple- mentation costs. A novel refinement approach is introduced. The pro- posed approach takes advantage of the PD flexibility in choosing the shape of the horizon by introducing multiple domains (with no intersections) to the nodes of the refinement zone. It will be shown that no ghost forces will be created when changing the horizon sizes in both subdomains. The approach is applied to both bond-based and state-based peridynamic and verified for a simple wave propagation refinement problem illustrating the efficiency of the method. Further development of the method for higher dimensions proves to have a direct relationship with the mesh sensitivity of the PD. A method for solving the mesh sensitivity of the PD is intro- duced. The application of the method will be examined by solving a crack propagation problem similar to those reported in the literature. New software architecture is proposed considering both academic and in- dustrial use. The available simulation tools for employing PD will be collected, and their advantages and drawbacks will be addressed. The challenges of implementing any node base nonlocal methods while max- imizing the software flexibility to further development and modification will be discussed and addressed. A software named Relation-Based Sim- ulator (RBS) is developed for examining the proposed architecture. The exceptional capabilities of RBS will be explored by simulating three distinguished models. RBS is available publicly and open to further develop- ment. The industrial acceptance of the RBS will be tested by targeting its performance on one Mac and two Linux distributions.},
  subject      = {Peridynamik},
  language  = {en}
}
@phdthesis{Alalade,
  author    = {Alalade, Muyiwa},
  title     = {An Enhanced Full Waveform Inversion Method for the Structural Analysis of Dams},
  doi       = {10.25643/bauhaus-universitaet.3956},
  url       = {http://nbn-resolving.de/urn:nbn:de:gbv:wim2-20190813-39566},
  school      = {Bauhaus-Universit{\"a}t Weimar},
  abstract  = {Since the Industrial Revolution in the 1700s, the high emission of gaseous wastes into the atmosphere from the usage of fossil fuels has caused a general increase in temperatures globally. To combat the environmental imbalance, there is an increase in the demand for renewable energy sources. Dams play a major role in the generation of "green" energy. However, these structures require frequent and strict monitoring to ensure safe and efficient operation. To tackle the challenges faced in the application of convention dam monitoring techniques, this work proposes the inverse analysis of numerical models to identify damaged regions in the dam. Using a dynamic coupled hydro-mechanical Extended Finite Element Method (XFEM) model and a global optimization strategy, damage (crack) in the dam is identified. By employing seismic waves to probe the dam structure, a more detailed information on the distribution of heterogeneous materials and damaged regions are obtained by the application of the Full Waveform Inversion (FWI) method. The FWI is based on a local optimization strategy and thus it is highly dependent on the starting model. A variety of data acquisition setups are investigated, and an optimal setup is proposed. The effect of different starting models and noise in the measured data on the damage identification is considered. Combining the non-dependence of a starting model of the global optimization strategy based dynamic coupled hydro-mechanical XFEM method and the detailed output of the local optimization strategy based FWI method, an enhanced Full Waveform Inversion is proposed for the structural analysis of dams.},
  subject      = {Talsperre},
  language  = {en}
}
@phdthesis{Samingan2005,
  author    = {Samingan, Agus Setianto},
  title     = {An Experimental Study on Hydro-Mechanical Characteristics of Compacted Bentonite-Sand Mixtures},
  doi       = {10.25643/bauhaus-universitaet.646},
  url       = {http://nbn-resolving.de/urn:nbn:de:gbv:wim2-20051007-7082},
  school      = {Bauhaus-Universit{\"a}t Weimar},
  year      = {2005},
  abstract  = {Nuclear and hazardous waste disposal issues have become universal issues and problems related to the final disposal of these waste including finding a suitable site, natural and engineered barriers used, construction of the repository, long-term performance assessment have gained increasing attention all over the world. High-level radioactive and hazardous waste are required to be buried in deep geological repositories. In Germany, the ongoing researches have assessed the suitability of salt-stone formation in the country as a host rock candidate for its nuclear waste repository. Bentonite-based materials have been proposed to be used as sealing and buffer elements for the nuclear waste repository. Several hydro-mechanical processes will take place in the field and influence behaviour of the sealing and buffer elements of the repository. In this dissertation, a study on the hydro-mechanical characterisation of bentonite-sand mixtures is presented. Mixtures of a calcium-type bentonite, named Calcigel, and quartz sand were used in the investigation. Series of experiments including basic and physico-chemical characterisation, microstructure and fabric studies, suction and swelling pressure measurements, wetting and drying test, one-dimensional compression-rebound test, one-dimensional cyclic wetting-drying test under constant vertical stress, and saturated permeability test were conducted. The experimental data obtained are analysed and several characteristics of the material are brought out in this dissertation. Conclusions regarding basic behaviour of the materials are drawn based on the results of microstructure and fabric studies. Factors influencing the magnitude of suction and swelling pressure of the materials are outlined and discussed. The suction-induced compression and rebound characteristics of the material are described. The wetting and drying behaviour as influenced by the material boundary conditions are discussed. Permeability characteristics of the materials are examined based on several available permeability models. Several mechanical and hydraulic parameters that can be used in modelling using some available constitutive modelling approaches are derived based on the experimental data. At the end, conclusions regarding the hydro-mechanical characteristics of the materials are drawn and suggestions for future studies are made.},
  subject      = {hydro-mechanics},
  language  = {en}
}
@phdthesis{Wendler,
  author    = {Wendler, Andr{\´e}},
  title     = {Anachronismen: Historiografie und Kino},
  doi       = {10.25643/bauhaus-universitaet.1799},
  url       = {http://nbn-resolving.de/urn:nbn:de:gbv:wim2-20121219-17991},
  school      = {Bauhaus-Universit{\"a}t Weimar},
  pages     = {284+81},
  abstract  = {Die Arbeit »Anachronismen: Historiografie und Kino« geht von einer zun{\"a}chst einfachen Beobachtung aus: beinahe immer, wenn Historiker_innen sich mit Geschichtsfilmen auseinander setzen, findet sich die lautstark gef{\"u}hrte Beschwerde {\"u}ber die zahlreichen und vermeidbaren Anachronismen der Filme, die sie als ernst zu nehmende historiografische Beitr{\"a}ge desavouieren. Von hier ausgehend verfolgt die Arbeit ein dreifaches Projekt: zun{\"a}chst in einer kritischen Analyse geschichtstheoretischer Texte einige Hinweise f{\"u}r den Status von Anachronismen f{\"u}r die moderne westliche Historiografie zu gewinnen. Zweitens zu untersuchen, welche Rolle Anachronismen f{\"u}r den Geschichtsfilm spielen. Und drittens von dort aus das epistemische Potential anachronistischen Geschichtskinos zu untersuchen. Eine der Hauptthesen, welche den Blick sowohl auf die Filme wie auf die theoretischen Texte leitet, besagt, dass Anachronismen genau jene Punkte sind, an denen die Medien einer jeden Geschichtsschreibung beobachtbar werden. Die Beobachtung und Beschreibung dieser Medien der kinematografischen Geschichtsschreibung unternimmt die Arbeit unter Zuhilfenahme einiger theoretischer {\"U}berlegungen der Actor Network Theory (ANT). Die Arbeit ist in vier Kapitel gegliedert, in deren Zentrum jeweils die Diskussion eines ANT-Begriffs sowie die Analyse eines Geschichtsfilmes steht. Zu den untersuchten Filmen geh{\"o}ren Shutter Island (Martin Scorsese, 2010), Chronik der Anna Magdalena Bach (Jean-Marie Straub/Dani{\`e}le Huillet, 1968), Cleopatra (Joseph L. Mankiewicz, 1963) und Caravaggio (Derek Jarman, 1986). Die Arbeit kommentiert außerdem theoretische Texte zur Historiografie und zu Anachronismen von Walter Benjamin, Leo Bersani, Georges Didi-Huberman, Siegfried Kracauer, Friedrich Meinecke, Friedrich Nietzsche, Jacques Ranci{\`e}re, Leopold Ranke, Paul Ricœur, Georg Simmel, Hayden White u. a.},
  subject      = {Geschichtsschreibung},
  language  = {de}
}
@phdthesis{Riesel,
  author    = {Riesel, Tobias},
  title     = {Analyse des Querkrafttragverhaltens bewehrter Bauteile aus Porenbeton mit den Methoden der mathematischen Optimierung},
  publisher = {Bauhaus-Universit{\"a}t Weimar Universit{\"a}tsverlag},
  address   = {Weimar},
  doi       = {10.25643/bauhaus-universitaet.1835},
  url       = {http://nbn-resolving.de/urn:nbn:de:gbv:wim2-20130128-18351},
  school      = {Bauhaus-Universit{\"a}t Weimar},
  pages     = {178},
  abstract  = {Im Rahmen der Arbeit wird das Querkrafttragverhalten bewehrter Bauteile aus Porenbeton untersucht. Die vorherrschende Beschreibung des inneren Kr{\"a}ftezustandes basiert auf der Modellvorstellung eines Fachwerks oder Sprengwerks mit Stahlzugstreben und Betondruckstreben. Ziel ist die Entwicklung eines alternativen Verfahrens zur Ermittlung des inneren Kr{\"a}ftezustandes. Ausgehend vom Prinzip des Minimums des elastischen Gesamtpotentials wird eine Extremalaufgabe f{\"u}r das mechanische Problem formuliert. Die numerische Umsetzung basiert auf der {\"U}berf{\"u}hrung der Extremalaufgabe in eine nichtlineare Optimierungsaufgabe. Diese l{\"a}sst sich mit Standardsoftware l{\"o}sen. Der Vorteil dieser Vorgehensweise besteht darin, dass das grundlegende Verfahren unabh{\"a}ngig vom verwendeten Materialmodell ist. Nichtlineare Spannungs-Dehnungs-Beziehungen oder die Ber{\"u}cksichtigung der Rissbildung erfordern keine Anpassung des Berechnungsalgorithmus. Bewehrte Porenbetonbauteile besitzen im Hinblick auf das Trag- und Verformungsverhalten einige Besonderheiten. Berechnungsans{\"a}tze f{\"u}r Stahlbetonelemente lassen sich nicht ohne entsprechende Modifikationen {\"u}bertragen lassen. Die Bewehrung wird aus glatten St{\"a}ben hergestellt, so dass nach der Herstellung nur ein Haftverbund wirksam ist. Dieser kann {\"u}ber die Lebensdauer teilweise oder vollst{\"a}ndig versagen. Die Kraft{\"u}bertragung zwischen den Verbundelementen muss durch entsprechende Kopplungselemente (z.B. Querst{\"a}be, B{\"u}gel, Endwinkel) sichergestellt werden. Der Bewehrungskorb ist im Porenbeton gebettet. Aufgrund der relativ niedrigen Festigkeit bzw. Steifigkeit des Porenbetons und des teilweise unwirksamen Verbundes treten Relativverschiebungen zwischen beiden Verbundmaterialien auf. Hier sind die Ursachen daf{\"u}r zu finden, dass die Beanspruchung der Querkraftbewehrung viel geringer ist als bei vergleichbaren Stahlbetonbalken. Der Querkraftbewehrungsgrad erlaubt keine R{\"u}ckschl{\"u}sse auf den Querkraftwiderstand. Das zentrale Anliegen der Arbeit ist die Implementierung nichtlinearer Materialans{\"a}tze, der Rissbildung des Porenbetons sowie der porenbetonspezifischen Besonderheiten verschieblicher Verbund, diskrete Verankerung der Bewehrung und Relativverschiebungen zwischen Porenbeton und Bewehrung) in das Berechnungsmodell. Die Leistungsf{\"a}higkeit des entwickelten Berechnungsmodells wird anhand von Beispielen demonstriert. Die Kr{\"a}fte in der Bewehrung sowie das Tragwerksverhalten werden realit{\"a}tsnah bestimmt.},
  subject      = {Querkraft},
  language  = {de}
}
@phdthesis{MartinezSoto,
  author    = {Martinez Soto, Aner},
  title     = {Analyse und Erweiterung von bestehenden Prognosemodellen zur Bestimmung des Endenergiebedarfs im Wohnungssektor},
  doi       = {10.25643/bauhaus-universitaet.3225},
  url       = {http://nbn-resolving.de/urn:nbn:de:gbv:wim2-20170607-32251},
  school      = {Bauhaus-Universit{\"a}t Weimar},
  pages     = {291},
  abstract  = {Die wachsende Notwendigkeit zur Energieeinsparung hat in verschiedenen L{\"a}ndern zur Entwicklung von Prognosemodellen zur Bestimmung des Energiebedarfs im Wohnungssektor gef{\"u}hrt. Obwohl Prognosemodelle prinzipiell eine L{\"o}sung zur Bestimmung des Energiebedarfs und zur Beurteilung der Auswirkungen von zuk{\"u}nftigen Energieeinsparmaßnahmen darstellen, sind die bestehenden Modelle jedoch mit Unw{\"a}gbarkeiten in der Modellierung und M{\"a}ngeln bez{\"u}glich der verwendeten Daten und Methodik behaftet. In dieser Arbeit werden die {\"U}bertragbarkeit, Genauigkeit und stochastische Unsicherheit von zw{\"o}lf Prognosemodellen (MAED-2, FfE-Geb{\"a}udemodell, CDEM, REM, CREEM, ECCABS, REEPS, BREHOMES, LEAP, DECM, CHM, BSM) analysiert, wobei Deutschland als Fallbeispiel verwendet wird. Zur Verbesserung der {\"U}bertragbarkeit der bestehenden Modelle werden Anpassungen vorgeschlagen. Außerdem wird f{\"u}r jedes Modell eine Bestimmung der einflussreichsten Parameter auf den simulierten Endenergiebedarf mit Hilfe einer Sensitivit{\"a}tsanalyse vorgenommen. Es konnte gezeigt werden, dass Modelle mit einem hohen Detaillierungsgrad nicht zwangsl{\"a}ufig genauere Ergebnisse f{\"u}r den Endenergiebedarf garantieren. Dennoch wurde festgestellt, dass Modelle mit einem niedrigen Detaillierungsgrad Ergebnisse mit gr{\"o}ßeren Unsicherheiten liefern als Modelle mit einem h{\"o}heren Detaillierungsgrad. Es wurde weiterhin festgestellt, dass die einflussreichsten Parameter zur Bestimmung des Endenergiebedarfs im Wohnungssektor Innenraumtemperatur, Außentemperatur (Gradtagzahl), Bev{\"o}lkerungsentwicklung und Anzahl der Geb{\"a}ude/Wohnungen sind. Auf der Grundlage der Erkenntnisse zur Bewertung bestehender Modelle und der Bestimmung der einflussreichsten Parameter wurde ein optimiertes Prognosemodell (Transferable Residential Energy Model, TREM) entwickelt. Mit dessen Hilfe wurde die Entwicklung des Endenergiebedarfs im deutschen Wohnungssektor sowie in anderen L{\"a}ndern (Vereinigtes K{\"o}nigsreich und Chile) prognostiziert. Diese Ergebnisse wurden anschließend mit statistischen Daten verglichen. Das TREM-Modell bestimmt den Endenergiebedarf auf der Grundlage der wahrscheinlichsten Variationen der einflussreichsten Eingangsparameter mit Hilfe einer Monte-Carlo-Simulation. Im Gegensatz zu bestehenden Modellierungsans{\"a}tzen liefert das Modell damit auch einen Bereich mit Wahrscheinlichkeitsb{\"a}ndern f{\"u}r den zuk{\"u}nftigen Endenergiebedarf. Die Ergebnisse des TREM-Modells zeigen, dass das Modell genauere Ergebnisse liefern kann als derzeitige Modelle mit einem Mittelwert der prozentualen Differenz niedriger als 5\% und einem Korrelationskoeffizienten r h{\"o}her als 0,35 und dar{\"u}ber hinaus dazu geeignet ist, ohne Anpassungen eine Prognose der Entwicklung des zuk{\"u}nftigen Endenergiebedarfs im Wohnungssektor f{\"u}r unterschiedliche L{\"a}nder zu erstellen.},
  subject      = {Energieverbrauch},
  language  = {de}
}
@phdthesis{Machacek,
  author    = {Machacek, Helen},
  title     = {Analyse von Einflussfaktoren des Widerstands feink{\"o}rniger B{\"o}den bei hydraulischer Belastung},
  doi       = {10.25643/bauhaus-universitaet.6523},
  url       = {http://nbn-resolving.de/urn:nbn:de:gbv:wim2-20240109-65232},
  school      = {Bauhaus-Universit{\"a}t Weimar},
  pages     = {356},
  abstract  = {Bisherige Untersuchungen zum hydraulischen Grundbruch im bindigen Baugrund haben gezeigt, dass der Versagensmechanismus durch hydraulisch induzierte Risse ausgel{\"o}st wird. Um umstr{\"o}mte Bauwerke im Grundwasser sicher zu dimensionieren, ist daher ein Nachweis gegen hydraulisch induzierte Rissentstehung unerl{\"a}sslich. Ein solcher existiert bisher jedoch nicht, da die Rissentstehung in bindigen B{\"o}den {\"a}ußerst komplex ist und die zahlreichen Einflussgr{\"o}ßen nicht ausreichend untersucht sind. Aus diesem Grund wurde im Rahmen dieser Dissertation eine Laborstudie zu hydraulisch induzierter Rissbildung in verschiedenen feink{\"o}rnigen B{\"o}den in einem neuartigen Triaxialversuch durchgef{\"u}hrt. Aus den zahlreichen Versuchsvarianten lassen sich die wichtigsten Einflussgr{\"o}ßen auf den Widerstand des Bodens gegen Rissentstehung ermitteln. Die experimentelle Arbeit wird durch eine numerische Analyse der Versuchsvariationen erg{\"a}nzt. Daraus l{\"a}sst sich eine Hypothese zur Rissentstehung in bindigen B{\"o}den ableiten, die in Einklang mit der klassischen Bruchmechanik steht.},
  subject      = {Hydraulischer Grundbruch},
  language  = {de}
}
@phdthesis{Simon2008,
  author    = {Simon, Antje},
  title     = {Analyse zum Trag- und Verformungsverhalten von Straßenbr{\"u}cken in Holz-Beton-Verbundbauweise},
  doi       = {10.25643/bauhaus-universitaet.1358},
  url       = {http://nbn-resolving.de/urn:nbn:de:gbv:wim2-20081022-14216},
  school      = {Bauhaus-Universit{\"a}t Weimar},
  year      = {2008},
  abstract  = {Ziel der Arbeit ist es, einen Beitrag zur Weiterentwicklung und Adaption der Holz-Beton-Verbundbauweise auf den Straßenbr{\"u}ckenbau zu leisten. Dabei stehen differenzierte Untersuchungen zum Trag- und Verformungsverhalten hybrider Holzbr{\"u}ckentragwerke sowie die Entwicklung geeigneter Verbundelemente im Vordergrund. Um die Einf{\"u}hrung dieser innovativen Bauweise in der Praxis zu unterst{\"u}tzen, werden Bemessungs- und Konstruktionshinweise erarbeitet. Aufbauend auf eine Analyse des derzeitigen Forschungs- und Entwicklungsstandes auf dem Gebiet des Holz-Beton-Verbundbaus erfolgt die Untersuchung des Trag- und Verformungsverhaltens von Holz-Beton-Verbundbr{\"u}cken anhand einer umfangreichen Parameterstudie. Dabei wird der Einfluss verschiedener Geometrie- und Steifigkeitsparameter auf die Tragf{\"a}higkeit und Gebrauchstauglichkeit von Holz-Beton-Verbundbr{\"u}cken quantifiziert. Spezielle Untersuchungen dienen der Evaluation der Erm{\"u}dungssicherheit und der Ermittlung der Steifigkeitsdegradation unter Langzeitbeanspruchung auf der Basis einer realit{\"a}tsnahen Abbildung des differenten zeit- und klimaabh{\"a}ngigen Tragverhaltens der Verbundbaustoffe. Praxisgerechte Empfehlungen f{\"u}r die optimierte konstruktive Durchbildung hybrider Holzbr{\"u}ckentragwerke fassen die Ergebnisse der Parameterstudie zusammen. Aus den Parameteranalysen leitet sich ein Anforderungsprofil bez{\"u}glich der Steifigkeit und Tragf{\"a}higkeit geeigneter Verbundelemente f{\"u}r den Straßenbr{\"u}ckenbau ab. Das Tragverhalten von drei ausgew{\"a}hlten Verbundelementtypen, welche diesem Profil entsprechen, wird anhand systematischer Scherversuche unter Kurzzeit-, Langzeit- und dynamischer Belastung analysiert. Aufbauend auf diese Testreihen werden weiterf{\"u}hrende umfangreiche Versuchsserien mit dem Verbundelement D{\"u}belleiste zur Bestimmung der mechanischen Kennwerte und zur Analyse des Gesamttragverhaltens vorgestellt. In Auswertung der umfangreichen Bauteilversuche und rechnerischer Simulationen auf der Basis Finiter-Elemente-Modelle wird ein Bemessungskonzept erarbeitet und die Eignung des Verbundelementes D{\"u}belleiste f{\"u}r den Einsatz im Hybridbr{\"u}ckenbau nachgewiesen.},
  subject      = {Hybridbauweise},
  language  = {de}
}
@phdthesis{Fleischmann,
  author    = {Fleischmann, Ewan},
  title     = {Analysis and Design of Blockcipher Based Cryptographic Algorithms},
  doi       = {10.25643/bauhaus-universitaet.1983},
  url       = {http://nbn-resolving.de/urn:nbn:de:gbv:wim2-20130722-19835},
  school      = {Bauhaus-Universit{\"a}t Weimar},
  pages     = {272},
  abstract  = {This thesis focuses on the analysis and design of hash functions and authenticated encryption schemes that are blockcipher based. We give an introduction into these fields of research - taking in a blockcipher based point of view - with special emphasis on the topics of double length, double call blockcipher based compression functions. The first main topic (thesis parts I - III) is on analysis and design of hash functions. We start with a collision security analysis of some well known double length blockcipher based compression functions and hash functions: Abreast-DM, Tandem-DM and MDC-4. We also propose new double length compression functions that have elevated collision security guarantees. We complement the collision analysis with a preimage analysis by stating (near) optimal security results for Abreast-DM, Tandem-DM, and Hirose-DM. Also, some generalizations are discussed. These are the first preimage security results for blockcipher based double length hash functions that go beyond the birthday barrier. We then raise the abstraction level and analyze the notion of 'hash function indifferentiability from a random oracle'. So we not anymore focus on how to obtain a good compression function but, instead, on how to obtain a good hash function using (other) cryptographic primitives. In particular we give some examples when this strong notion of hash function security might give questionable advice for building a practical hash function. In the second main topic (thesis part IV), which is on authenticated encryption schemes, we present an on-line authenticated encryption scheme, McOEx, that simultaneously achieves privacy and confidentiality and is secure against nonce-misuse. It is the first dedicated scheme that achieves high standards of security and - at the same time - is on-line computable.},
  subject      = {Kryptologie},
  language  = {en}
}
@phdthesis{Forler,
  author    = {Forler, Christian},
  title     = {Analysis Design \& Applications of Cryptographic Building Blocks},
  publisher = {Shaker Verlag},
  doi       = {10.25643/bauhaus-universitaet.2376},
  url       = {http://nbn-resolving.de/urn:nbn:de:gbv:wim2-20150330-23764},
  school      = {Bauhaus-Universit{\"a}t Weimar},
  pages     = {213},
  abstract  = {This thesis deals with the basic design and rigorous analysis of cryptographic schemes and primitives, especially of authenticated encryption schemes, hash functions, and password-hashing schemes. In the last decade, security issues such as the PS3 jailbreak demonstrate that common security notions are rather restrictive, and it seems that they do not model the real world adequately. As a result, in the first part of this work, we introduce a less restrictive security model that is closer to reality. In this model it turned out that existing (on-line) authenticated encryption schemes cannot longer beconsidered secure, i.e. they can guarantee neither data privacy nor data integrity. Therefore, we present two novel authenticated encryption scheme, namely COFFE and McOE, which are not only secure in the standard model but also reasonably secure in our generalized security model, i.e. both preserve full data inegrity. In addition, McOE preserves a resonable level of data privacy. The second part of this thesis starts with proposing the hash function Twister-Pi, a revised version of the accepted SHA-3 candidate Twister. We not only fixed all known security issues of Twister, but also increased the overall soundness of our hash-function design. Furthermore, we present some fundamental groundwork in the area of password-hashing schemes. This research was mainly inspired by the medial omnipresence of password-leakage incidences. We show that the password-hashing scheme scrypt is vulnerable against cache-timing attacks due to the existence of a password-dependent memory-access pattern. Finally, we introduce Catena the first password-hashing scheme that is both memory-consuming and resistant against cache-timing attacks.},
  subject      = {Kryptologie},
  language  = {en}
}
@phdthesis{Mojahedin,
  author    = {Mojahedin, Arvin},
  title     = {Analysis of Functionally Graded Porous Materials Using Deep Energy Method and Analytical Solution},
  doi       = {10.25643/bauhaus-universitaet.4867},
  url       = {http://nbn-resolving.de/urn:nbn:de:gbv:wim2-20221220-48674},
  school      = {Bauhaus-Universit{\"a}t Weimar},
  abstract  = {Porous materials are an emerging branch of engineering materials that are composed of two elements: One element is a solid (matrix), and the other element is either liquid or gas. Pores can be distributed within the solid matrix of porous materials with different shapes and sizes. In addition, porous materials are lightweight, and flexible, and have higher resistance to crack propagation and specific thermal, mechanical, and magnetic properties. These properties are necessary for manufacturing engineering structures such as beams and other engineering structures. These materials are widely used in solid mechanics and are considered a good replacement for classical materials by many researchers recently. Producing lightweight materials has been developed because of the possibility of exploiting the properties of these materials. Various types of porous material are generated naturally or artificially for a specific application such as bones and foams. Like functionally graded materials, pore distribution patterns can be uniform or non-uniform. Biot's theory is a well-developed theory to study the behavior of poroelastic materials which investigates the interaction between fluid and solid phases of a fluid-saturated porous medium. Functionally graded porous materials (FGPM) are widely used in modern industries, such as aerospace, automotive, and biomechanics. These advanced materials have some specific properties compared to materials with a classic structure. They are extremely light, while they have specific strength in mechanical and high-temperature environments. FGPMs are characterized by a gradual variation of material parameters over the volume. Although these materials can be made naturally, it is possible to design and manufacture them for a specific application. Therefore, many studies have been done to analyze the mechanical and thermal properties of FGPM structures, especially beams. Biot was the pioneer in formulating the linear elasticity and thermoelasticity equations of porous material. Since then, Biot's formulation has been developed in continuum mechanics which is named poroelasticity. There are obstacles to analyzing the behavior of these materials accurately like the shape of the pores, the distribution of pores in the material, and the behavior of the fluid (or gas) that saturated pores. Indeed, most of the engineering structures made of FGPM have nonlinear governing equations. Therefore, it is difficult to study engineering structures by solving these complicated equations. The main purpose of this dissertation is to analyze porous materials in engineering structures. For this purpose, the complex equations of porous materials have been simplified and applied to engineering problems so that the effect of all parameters of porous materials on the behavior of engineering structure has been investigated. The effect of important parameters of porous materials on beam behavior including pores compressibility, porosity distribution, thermal expansion of fluid within pores, the interaction of stresses between pores and material matrix due to temperature increase, effects of pore size, material thickness, and saturated pores with fluid and unsaturated conditions are investigated. Two methods, the deep energy method, and the exact solution have been used to reduce the problem hypotheses, increase accuracy, increase processing speed, and apply these in engineering structures. In both methods, they are analyzed nonlinear and complex equations of porous materials. To increase the accuracy of analysis and study of the effect of shear forces, Timoshenko and Reddy's beam theories have been used. Also, neural networks such as residual and fully connected networks are designed to have high accuracy and less processing time than other computational methods.},
  subject      = {Por{\"o}ser Stoff},
  language  = {en}
}
@phdthesis{Oucif,
  author    = {Oucif, Chahmi},
  title     = {Analytical Modeling of Self-Healing and Super Healing in Cementitious Materials},
  doi       = {10.25643/bauhaus-universitaet.4229},
  url       = {http://nbn-resolving.de/urn:nbn:de:gbv:wim2-20200831-42296},
  school      = {Bauhaus-Universit{\"a}t Weimar},
  pages     = {208},
  abstract  = {Self-healing materials have recently become more popular due to their capability to autonomously and autogenously repair the damage in cementitious materials. The concept of self-healing gives the damaged material the ability to recover its stiffness. This gives a difference in comparing with a material that is not subjected to healing. Once this material is damaged, it cannot sustain loading due to the stiffness degradation. Numerical modeling of self-healing materials is still in its infancy. Multiple experimental researches were conducted in literature to describe the behavior of self-healing of cementitious materials. However, few numerical investigations were undertaken. The thesis presents an analytical framework of self-healing and super healing materials based on continuum damage-healing mechanics. Through this framework, we aim to describe the recovery and strengthening of material stiffness and strength. A simple damage healing law is proposed and applied on concrete material. The proposed damage-healing law is based on a new time-dependent healing variable. The damage-healing model is applied on isotropic concrete material at the macroscale under tensile load. Both autonomous and autogenous self-healing mechanisms are simulated under different loading conditions. These two mechanisms are denoted in the present work by coupled and uncoupled self-healing mechanisms, respectively. We assume in the coupled self-healing that the healing occurs at the same time with damage evolution, while we assume in the uncoupled self-healing that the healing occurs when the material is deformed and subjected to a rest period (damage is constant). In order to describe both coupled and uncoupled healing mechanisms, a one-dimensional element is subjected to different types of loading history. In the same context, derivation of nonlinear self-healing theory is given, and comparison of linear and nonlinear damage-healing models is carried out using both coupled and uncoupled self-healing mechanisms. The nonlinear healing theory includes generalized nonlinear and quadratic healing models. The healing efficiency is studied by varying the values of the healing rest period and the parameter describing the material characteristics. In addition, theoretical formulation of different self-healing variables is presented for both isotropic and anisotropic maerials. The healing variables are defined based on the recovery in elastic modulus, shear modulus, Poisson's ratio, and bulk modulus. The evolution of the healing variable calculated based on cross-section as function of the healing variable calculated based on elastic stiffness is presented in both hypotheses of elastic strain equivalence and elastic energy equivalence. The components of the fourth-rank healing tensor are also obtained in the case of isotropic elasticity, plane stress and plane strain. Recent research revealed that self-healing presents a crucial solution also for the strengthening of the materials. This new concept has been termed ``Super Healing``. Once the stiffness of the material is recovered, further healing can result as a strengthening material. In the present thesis, new theory of super healing materials is defined in isotropic and anisotropic cases using sound mathematical and mechanical principles which are applied in linear and nonlinear super healing theories. Additionally, the link of the proposed theory with the theory of undamageable materials is outlined. In order to describe the super healing efficiency in linear and nonlinear theories, the ratio of effective stress to nominal stress is calculated as function of the super healing variable. In addition, the hypotheses of elastic strain and elastic energy equivalence are applied. In the same context, new super healing matrix in plane strain is proposed based on continuum damage-healing mechanics. In the present work, we also focus on numerical modeling of impact behavior of reinforced concrete slabs using the commercial finite element package Abaqus/Explicit. Plain and reinforced concrete slabs of unconfined compressive strength 41 MPa are simulated under impact of ogive-nosed hard projectile. The constitutive material modeling of the concrete and steel reinforcement bars is performed using the Johnson-Holmquist-2 damage and the Johnson-Cook plasticity material models, respectively. Damage diameters and residual velocities obtained by the numerical model are compared with the experimental results and effect of steel reinforcement and projectile diameter is studied.},
  subject      = {Schaden},
  language  = {en}
}
@phdthesis{Anderka,
  author    = {Anderka, Maik},
  title     = {Analyzing and Predicting Quality Flaws in User-generated Content: The Case of Wikipedia},
  doi       = {10.25643/bauhaus-universitaet.1977},
  url       = {http://nbn-resolving.de/urn:nbn:de:gbv:wim2-20130709-19778},
  school      = {Bauhaus-Universit{\"a}t Weimar},
  abstract  = {Web applications that are based on user-generated content are often criticized for containing low-quality information; a popular example is the online encyclopedia Wikipedia. The major points of criticism pertain to the accuracy, neutrality, and reliability of information. The identification of low-quality information is an important task since for a huge number of people around the world it has become a habit to first visit Wikipedia in case of an information need. Existing research on quality assessment in Wikipedia either investigates only small samples of articles, or else deals with the classification of content into high-quality or low-quality. This thesis goes further, it targets the investigation of quality flaws, thus providing specific indications of the respects in which low-quality content needs improvement. The original contributions of this thesis, which relate to the fields of user-generated content analysis, data mining, and machine learning, can be summarized as follows: (1) We propose the investigation of quality flaws in Wikipedia based on user-defined cleanup tags. Cleanup tags are commonly used in the Wikipedia community to tag content that has some shortcomings. Our approach is based on the hypothesis that each cleanup tag defines a particular quality flaw. (2) We provide the first comprehensive breakdown of Wikipedia's quality flaw structure. We present a flaw organization schema, and we conduct an extensive exploratory data analysis which reveals (a) the flaws that actually exist, (b) the distribution of flaws in Wikipedia, and, (c) the extent of flawed content. (3) We present the first breakdown of Wikipedia's quality flaw evolution. We consider the entire history of the English Wikipedia from 2001 to 2012, which comprises more than 508 million page revisions, summing up to 7.9 TB. Our analysis reveals (a) how the incidence and the extent of flaws have evolved, and, (b) how the handling and the perception of flaws have changed over time. (4) We are the first who operationalize an algorithmic prediction of quality flaws in Wikipedia. We cast quality flaw prediction as a one-class classification problem, develop a tailored quality flaw model, and employ a dedicated one-class machine learning approach. A comprehensive evaluation based on human-labeled Wikipedia articles underlines the practical applicability of our approach.},
  subject      = {Data Mining},
  language  = {en}
}
@phdthesis{Dief,
  author    = {Dief, Shaima},
  title     = {Ancient Egyptian Hybrid Deities in Visual Form as Mediator in Cultural Transmission},
  doi       = {10.25643/bauhaus-universitaet.4933},
  url       = {http://nbn-resolving.de/urn:nbn:de:gbv:wim2-20230220-49337},
  school      = {Bauhaus-Universit{\"a}t Weimar},
  pages     = {170},
  abstract  = {The most fundamental understating of hybridization methodology takes the form of stable but dynamic notions, accumulated over time in the memory of individuals. Schematized and abstracted, the hybrids representation needs to be reproduced and reused in order to reconstruct and bring back other memories. Reinvented, or reused hybrids can support getting access to social, traditional, religious understanding of nations. In this manner, they take the form of the messenger / the mediator an innate, equivalent to the use of mental places in the art of memory. We remember mythology in order to remember other things. From individual memory perspective, or group collective memory, the act of recollection is assumed to be an individual act, biologically based in the brain, but by definition conditioned by social collectives. Following Halbwachs, this thesis does not recognize a dichotomy between individual and collective memory as two different types of remembering. Conversely, the collective is thought of as inherent to individual thought, questioning perspectives that regard individual recollection as isolated from social settings. The individual places himself in relation to the group and makes use of the collective frameworks of thought when he localizes and reconstructs the past, whether in private or in social settings. The frameworks of social relations, of time, and of space are constructs originating in social interaction and distributed in the memory of the group members. The individual has his own perspective on the collective frameworks of the group, and the group's collective frameworks can be regarded as a common denominator of the individual outlooks on the framework. In acts of remembering, the individual may actualize the depicted symbols in memory, but he could also employ precepts from the environment. The latter have been referred to as material or external frameworks of memory, suggesting their similar role as catalysts for processes of remembrance such as that of the hybrids in my paintings. It is only with reference to the hybrids, who work as messengers / mediators with a dual nature, that communicate between the past and the present, the internal and external space, that individual memory and group memory is in focus. The exhibition at the Egyptian museum in Leipzig is my practical method to create a communicative memory, using hybrids as mediators in cultural transimission, as when the act refers to informal and everyday situations in which group members informally search for the past, it takes place in the communicative 162 memory. As explained in chapter one, the exhibition at the Egyptian museum in Leipzig is an act of remembering in search for the past with support of my paintings, which then can considered as part of the cultural memory. In addition to the theoretical framework summarized above, I have applied my hypothesis practically in the form of the public exhibition, and shared the methodology with public audience from Cairo / Egypt and Leipzig / German in the form of visual art workshops and open discussions. I have also suggested an analyzed description of the meaning of hybrids in my artwork as mediators and messengers for the purpose of cultural transmission, as well as in relation to other artists' work and use of a similar concept. By using my hybrid creatures in my visual artwork, I am creating a bridge, mediators to represent both the past and the present, what we remember of the past, and how we understand the past. It is as explained in chapter two; that the hybridization methodology in terms of double membership represented in different cultures -Cairo / Egypt and Leipzig / Germany- can provide a framework which allows artistic discussions and could be individually interpreted, so individual cultures / individual memory can become transparent without losing their identities and turn into communicative memory. This transmission through the hybridization theoretical approech was explicitly clarified with the support of Kr{\"a}mer's hypothesis. The practical attempt was examined by creating a relationship between the witness -me as an artist- and the audience -the exhibition visitors-, to cross space and time, not to bridge differences, rather to represent the contrasts transparently. The Kin-making proposition is adopted by many academics and scholars in modern society and theoretical research; the topic was represented in the roots of the ancient Egyptian mindset and supported theoretically by similar understandings such as Haraway's definition of kin-making. The practical implementation of kin- making can be observed in many of my artwork and was analyzed visually and artistically in chapter three. My practical project outcome tested success by using hybrids in my paintings as mediators, it opened a communicative artistic discussion. This methodology gave a possible path of communication through paintings / visual analyses, and offered relativity through image self-interpretation.},
  subject      = {Kollektives Ged{\"a}chtnis},
  language  = {en}
}
@phdthesis{Marx2000,
  author    = {Marx, Steffen},
  title     = {Anwendung der mathematischen Optimierung bei der geometrisch und physikalisch nichtlinearen Analyse von Stahlbetontragwerken},
  doi       = {10.25643/bauhaus-universitaet.32},
  url       = {http://nbn-resolving.de/urn:nbn:de:gbv:wim2-20040216-343},
  school      = {Bauhaus-Universit{\"a}t Weimar},
  year      = {2000},
  abstract  = {Ausgehend von den klassischen Variationsprinzipien der Mechanik werden kinematische und gemischte Extremalprinzipe abgeleitet, die zur Beschreibung geometrisch und physikalisch nichtlinearen Tragverhaltens geeignet sind. Ein Schwerpunkt der Arbeit besteht in der Anwendung der Prinzipe zur Analyse und Bemessung von Stahlbeton-, Spannbeton- und Verbundquerschnitten. Aus einem einheitlichen Berechnungsmodell wird eine Vielzahl praxisrelevanter Problemstellungen abgeleitet. Ein weiterer Schwerpunkt ist die Anwendung der kinematischen Extremalformulierung f{\"u}r die geometrisch und physikalisch nichtlineare Berechnung von Stabtragwerken.},
  subject      = {Stahlbetonkonstruktion},
  language  = {de}
}
@phdthesis{Semar2010,
  author    = {Semar, Olivier},
  title     = {Anwendung der Perkolationstheorie zur Analyse des suffosiven Partikeltransportes},
  doi       = {10.25643/bauhaus-universitaet.1438},
  url       = {http://nbn-resolving.de/urn:nbn:de:gbv:wim2-20101124-15252},
  school      = {Bauhaus-Universit{\"a}t Weimar},
  year      = {2010},
  abstract  = {Die vorliegende Arbeit besch{\"a}ftigt sich mit der geometrischen Suffosionsbest{\"a}ndigkeit von Erdstoffen. Mit dem wahrscheinlichkeitstheoretischen Ansatz der Perkolationstheorie wurde ein analytisches Verfahren gew{\"a}hlt, mit dem suffosive Materialtransportprozesse modelliert und quantifiziert werden k{\"o}nnen. Mit dem verwendeten Perkolationsmodell wurde eine beliebige Porenstruktur eines realen Erdstoffes im 3-Dimensionalen modelliert. M{\"o}gliche Materialtransportprozesse innerhalb der modellierten Porenstruktur wurden anschließend simuliert. Allgemein g{\"u}ltige Gesetzm{\"a}ßigkeiten wurden hergeleitet und Grenzbedingungen formuliert. Diese sind vom Erdstoff unabh{\"a}ngig und beschreiben Zusammenh{\"a}nge zwischen Materialtransport und Porenstruktur. Anwendbar sind diese Ergebnisse auf homogene, isotrope und selbst{\"a}hnliche Erdstoffgef{\"u}ge. Aussagen {\"u}ber konkrete Erdstoffe k{\"o}nnen {\"u}ber die Transformationsmethode erfolgen. F{\"u}r die Verwendung der Transformationsmethode ist vorab die relevante Porenstruktur, d. h. die Porenengstellenverteilung, zu ermitteln.},
  subject      = {Perkolationstheorie},
  language  = {de}
}