TY - JOUR A1 - Gürlebeck, Klaus A1 - Legatiuk, Dmitrii A1 - Nilsson, Henrik A1 - Smarsly, Kay T1 - Conceptual modelling: Towards detecting modelling errors in engineering applications JF - Mathematical Methods in Applied Sciences N2 - Rapid advancements of modern technologies put high demands on mathematical modelling of engineering systems. Typically, systems are no longer “simple” objects, but rather coupled systems involving multiphysics phenomena, the modelling of which involves coupling of models that describe different phenomena. After constructing a mathematical model, it is essential to analyse the correctness of the coupled models and to detect modelling errors compromising the final modelling result. Broadly, there are two classes of modelling errors: (a) errors related to abstract modelling, eg, conceptual errors concerning the coherence of a model as a whole and (b) errors related to concrete modelling or instance modelling, eg, questions of approximation quality and implementation. Instance modelling errors, on the one hand, are relatively well understood. Abstract modelling errors, on the other, are not appropriately addressed by modern modelling methodologies. The aim of this paper is to initiate a discussion on abstract approaches and their usability for mathematical modelling of engineering systems with the goal of making it possible to catch conceptual modelling errors early and automatically by computer assistant tools. To that end, we argue that it is necessary to identify and employ suitable mathematical abstractions to capture an accurate conceptual description of the process of modelling engineering systems. KW - Angewandte Mathematik KW - Angewandte Informatik KW - Ingenieurwissenschaften KW - Modellierung KW - engineering KW - abstraction KW - modelling KW - formal approaches KW - type theory Y1 - 2019 U6 - http://nbn-resolving.de/urn/resolver.pl?urn:nbn:de:gbv:wim2-20200110-40614 UR - https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1002/mma.5934 SP - 1 EP - 10 ER - TY - CHAP A1 - Abrahamczyk, Lars A1 - Schwarz, Jochen T1 - Forecast Engineering: From Past Design to Future Decision 2017 N2 - The design of engineering structures takes place today and in the past on the basis of static calculations. The consideration of uncertainties in the model quality becomes more and more important with the development of new construction methods and design requirements. In addition to the traditional forced-based approaches, experiences and observations about the deformation behavior of components and the overall structure under different exposure conditions allow the introduction of novel detection and evaluation criteria. The proceedings at hand are the result from the Bauhaus Summer School Course: Forecast Engineering held at the Bauhaus-Universität Weimar, 2017. It summarizes the results of the conducted project work, provides the abstracts of the contributions by the participants, as well as impressions from the accompanying programme and organized cultural activities. The special character of this course is in the combination of basic disciplines of structural engineering with applied research projects in the areas of steel and reinforced concrete structures, earthquake and wind engineering as well as informatics and linking them to mathematical methods and modern tools of visualization. Its innovative character results from the ambitious engineering tasks and advanced modeling demands. T3 - Schriftenreihe des Instituts für Konstruktiven Ingenieurbau - 00 KW - Proceedings KW - Ingenieurbau KW - Sommerkurs KW - proceedings KW - summer school KW - Structural Engineering KW - Ingenieurwissenschaften Y1 - 2019 U6 - http://nbn-resolving.de/urn/resolver.pl?urn:nbn:de:gbv:wim2-20191122-40344 ER - TY - CHAP A1 - Abrahamczyk, Lars A1 - Schwarz, Jochen T1 - Forecast Engineering: From Past Design to Future Decision 2018 N2 - Institute of Structural Engineering, Institute of Structural Mechanics, as well as Institute for Computing, Mathematics and Physics in Civil Engineering at the faculty of civil engineering at the Bauhaus-Universität Weimar presented special topics of structural engineering to highlight the broad spectrum of civil engineering in the field of modeling and simulation. The summer course sought to impart knowledge and to combine research with a practical context, through a challenging and demanding series of lectures, seminars and project work. Participating students were enabled to deal with advanced methods and its practical application. The extraordinary format of the interdisciplinary summer school offers the opportunity to study advanced developments of numerical methods and sophisticated modelling techniques in different disciplines of civil engineering for foreign and domestic students, which go far beyond traditional graduate courses. The proceedings at hand are the result from the Bauhaus Summer School course: Forecast Engineering held at the Bauhaus-Universität Weimar, 2018. It summarizes the results of the conducted project work, provides the abstracts/papers of the contributions by the participants, as well as impressions from the accompanying programme and organized cultural activities. T3 - Schriftenreihe des Instituts für Konstruktiven Ingenieurbau - 000 KW - Proceedings KW - Ingenieurbau KW - Ingenieurwissenschaften KW - Sommerkurs KW - Structural Engineering KW - proceedings KW - summer school Y1 - 2019 U6 - http://nbn-resolving.de/urn/resolver.pl?urn:nbn:de:gbv:wim2-20191126-40364 ER - TY - INPR A1 - Kavrakov, Igor A1 - Argentini, Tommaso A1 - Omarini, Simone A1 - Rocchi, Daniele A1 - Morgenthal, Guido T1 - Determination of complex aerodynamic admittance of bridge decks under deterministic gusts using the Vortex Particle Method N2 - Long-span bridges are prone to wind-induced vibrations. Therefore, a reliable representation of the aerodynamic forces acting on a bridge deck is of a major significance for the design of such structures. This paper presents a systematic study of the two-dimensional (2D) fluid-structure interaction of a bridge deck under smooth and turbulent wind conditions. Aerodynamic forces are modeled by two approaches: a computational fluid dynamics (CFD) model and six semi-analytical models. The vortex particle method is utilized for the CFD model and the free-stream turbulence is introduced by seeding vortex particles upstream of the deck with prescribed spectral characteristics. The employed semi-analytical models are based on the quasi-steady and linear unsteady assumptions and aerodynamic coefficients obtained from CFD analyses. The underlying assumptions of the semi-analytical aerodynamic models are used to interpret the results of buffeting forces and aeroelastic response due to a free-stream turbulence in comparison with the CFD model. Extensive discussions are provided to analyze the effect of linear fluid memory and quasi-steady nonlinearity from a CFD perspective. The outcome of the analyses indicates that the fluid memory is a governing effect in the buffeting forces and aeroelastic response, while the effect of the nonlinearity is overestimated by the quasi-steady models. Finally, flutter analyses are performed and the obtained critical velocities are further compared with wind tunnel results, followed by a brief examination of the post-flutter behavior. The results of this study provide a deeper understanding of the extent of which the applied models are able to replicate the physical processes for fluid-structure interaction phenomena in bridge aerodynamics and aeroelasticity. KW - Bridge KW - Aerodynamik KW - Ingenieurwissenschaften KW - Aerodynamic admittance KW - Computational fluid dynamics KW - Vortex particle method KW - Buffeting KW - Long-span bridges Y1 - 2019 U6 - http://nbn-resolving.de/urn/resolver.pl?urn:nbn:de:gbv:wim2-20200206-40883 N1 - This is the pre-peer reviewed version of the following article: https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0167610519305719?via%3Dihub, which has been published in final form at https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jweia.2019.103971 ER -