TY - JOUR A1 - Rafiee, Roham A1 - Rabczuk, Timon A1 - Milani, Abbas S. A1 - Tserpes, Konstantinos I. T1 - Advances in Characterization and Modeling of Nanoreinforced Composites JF - JOURNAL OF NANOMATERIALS N2 - This special issue deals with a range of recently developed characterization and modeling techniques employed to better understand and predict the response of nanoreinforced composites at different scales. KW - Physikalische Eigenschaft KW - Werkstoff KW - nanoreinforced composites Y1 - 2016 U6 - http://nbn-resolving.de/urn/resolver.pl?urn:nbn:de:gbv:wim2-20170411-31134 ER - TY - JOUR A1 - Meyer-Kohlstock, Daniel A1 - Haupt, Thomas A1 - Heldt, Erik A1 - Heldt, Nils A1 - Kraft, Eckhard T1 - Biochar as Additive in Biogas-Production from Bio-Waste JF - ENERGIES N2 - Previous publications about biochar in anaerobic digestion show encouraging results with regard to increased biogas yields. This work investigates such effects in a solid-state fermentation of bio-waste. Unlike in previous trials, the influence of biochar is tested with a setup that simulates an industrial-scale biogas plant. Both the biogas and the methane yield increased around 5% with a biochar addition of 5%-based on organic dry matter biochar to bio-waste. An addition of 10% increased the yield by around 3%. While scaling effects prohibit a simple transfer of the results to industrial-scale plants, and although the certainty of the results is reduced by the heterogeneity of the bio-waste, further research in this direction seems promising. KW - Festphasen-Fermentation KW - Biogasanlage KW - Organischer Abfall Y1 - 2016 U6 - http://nbn-resolving.de/urn/resolver.pl?urn:nbn:de:gbv:wim2-20170406-31119 ER - TY - JOUR A1 - Meunier, David A1 - Walther, Christoph A1 - Worsley, Tom A1 - Dahl, Alexander A1 - Le Maître, Hélène T1 - Evolutions of the Reference Values Used in Transport CBA National Guidelines of 3 Countries and What they Reveal JF - Transportation Research Procedia 13 N2 - The paper presents, analyses and compares the evolution of reference values used in national guidelines issued for cost-benefit analysis of transport infrastructure projects, over the last fifty years, in France, UK and Germany. KW - Verkehrsinfrastruktur KW - Kosten-Nutzen-Analyse KW - Richtlinien Y1 - 2016 U6 - http://nbn-resolving.de/urn/resolver.pl?urn:nbn:de:gbv:wim2-20170406-31106 UR - http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S2352146516300114 SP - 100 EP - 113 ER - TY - JOUR A1 - Meel, Inder P. A1 - Satirasetthavee, Dussadee A1 - Kanitpong, Kunnawee A1 - Taneerananon, Pichai T1 - Using Czech TCT to Assess Safety Impact of Deceleration Lane at Thai U-turns JF - ENGINEERING JOURNAL-THAILAND N2 - Purpose of this study is to evaluate safety impact of the deceleration lane at the Upstream Zone of at-grade U-turns on 4-lane divided Thai highways. A substantial speed reduction is required by vehicles for diverging and making U-turn, and the deceleration lanes are provided for this purpose. These lanes are also providing a storage space for the U-turning vehicles to avoid unnecessary blockage of through lanes and reduce the potential of rear-end collisions. The safety at the U-turn is greatly influenced by the proper or improper use of the deceleration lanes. Subject to their length, full or partial speed adjustment can occur within the deceleration lane also the road users’ behavior is influenced. To assess the safety impact, the four groups of U-turns with the varying length of deceleration lanes were identified. Owing to limitation of availability and reliability of road crash data in Thailand, widely accepted Traffic Conflict Technique (TCT) was used as an alternative and proactive methodology. The U-turns’ geometric data, traffic conflicts and volume data were recorded in the field at 8 locations, 8 hours per location. Severity Conflict Rate (SCR) was assessed by applying a weighing factor (based on the severity grades according to the Czech TCT) to the observed conflicts related to the conflicting traffic volumes. A comparative higher value of SCR represents a lower level of safety. According to the results, increase in the functional length of the deceleration lane yields a lower value of SCR and a higher level of the road safety. KW - Verkehrssicherheit KW - Highway Y1 - 2016 U6 - http://nbn-resolving.de/urn/resolver.pl?urn:nbn:de:gbv:wim2-20170406-31097 SP - 121 EP - 135 ER - TY - JOUR A1 - Meel, Inder P. A1 - Brannolte, Ulrich A1 - Satirasetthavee, Dussadee A1 - Kanitpong, Kunnawee T1 - Safety impact of application of auxiliary lanes at downstream locations of Thai U-turns JF - IATSS Research N2 - To assess the safety impact of auxiliary lanes at downstream locations of U-turns, the Traffic Conflict Technique was used. On the basis of the installed components at those locations, four types of U-turns were identified: those without any auxiliary lane, those with an acceleration lane, those with outer widening, and those with both an acceleration lane and outer widening. The available crash data is unreliable, therefore to assess the level of road safety, Conflict Indexes were formulated to put more emphasis on severe crashes than on slight ones by using two types of weighting coefficients. The first coefficient was based on the subjective assessment of the seriousness of the conflict situation and the second was based on the relative speed and angle between conflicting streams. A comparatively higher Conflict Index value represents a lower level of road safety. According to the results, a lower level of road safety occurs if two components apply or if a location is without any auxiliary lane. The highest level of road safety occurs if the layout includes only a single component, either an acceleration lane or outer widening. KW - Verkehrssicherheit KW - Beschleunigungsstreifen KW - Auxiliary lane; Conflict Indexes; Road safety; Traffic Conflict Technique; U-turn Y1 - 2016 U6 - http://nbn-resolving.de/urn/resolver.pl?urn:nbn:de:gbv:wim2-20170401-31016 UR - http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0386111216300140 ER - TY - JOUR A1 - Xin, Li A1 - Hijazi, Ihab Hamzi A1 - König, Reinhard A1 - Lv, Zhihan A1 - Zhong, Chen A1 - Schmitt, Gerhard T1 - Assessing Essential Qualities of Urban Space with Emotional and Visual Data Based on GIS Technique JF - ISPRS INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF GEO-INFORMATION N2 - Finding a method to evaluate people’s emotional responses to urban spaces in a valid and objective way is fundamentally important for urban design practices and related policy making. Analysis of the essential qualities of urban space could be made both more effective and more accurate using innovative information techniques that have become available in the era of big data. This study introduces an integrated method based on geographical information systems (GIS) and an emotion-tracking technique to quantify the relationship between people’s emotional responses and urban space. This method can evaluate the degree to which people’s emotional responses are influenced by multiple urban characteristics such as building shapes and textures, isovist parameters, visual entropy, and visual fractals. The results indicate that urban spaces may influence people’s emotional responses through both spatial sequence arrangements and shifting scenario sequences. Emotional data were collected with body sensors and GPS devices. Spatial clustering was detected to target effective sampling locations; then, isovists were generated to extract building textures. Logistic regression and a receiver operating characteristic analysis were used to determine the key isovist parameters and the probabilities that they influenced people’s emotion. Finally, based on the results, we make some suggestions for design professionals in the field of urban space optimization. KW - Stadt KW - Gefühl KW - Geoinformationssystem KW - urban form; Geographical Information System;walking experience; isovists; logistic regression Y1 - 2016 U6 - http://nbn-resolving.de/urn/resolver.pl?urn:nbn:de:gbv:wim2-20170401-30995 ER - TY - JOUR A1 - Faridmehr, Iman A1 - Tahir, Mamood Md. A1 - Lahmer, Tom T1 - Classification System for Semi-Rigid Beam-to-Column Connections JF - LATIN AMERICAN JOURNAL OF SOLIDS AND STRUCTURES 11 N2 - The current study attempts to recognise an adequate classification for a semi-rigid beam-to-column connection by investigating strength, stiffness and ductility. For this purpose, an experimental test was carried out to investigate the moment-rotation (M-theta) features of flush end-plate (FEP) connections including variable parameters like size and number of bolts, thickness of end-plate, and finally, size of beams and columns. The initial elastic stiffness and ultimate moment capacity of connections were determined by an extensive analytical procedure from the proposed method prescribed by ANSI/AISC 360-10, and Eurocode 3 Part 1-8 specifications. The behaviour of beams with partially restrained or semi-rigid connections were also studied by incorporating classical analysis methods. The results confirmed that thickness of the column flange and end-plate substantially govern over the initial rotational stiffness of of flush end-plate connections. The results also clearly showed that EC3 provided a more reliable classification index for flush end-plate (FEP) connections. The findings from this study make significant contributions to the current literature as the actual response characteristics of such connections are non-linear. Therefore, such semirigid behaviour should be used to for an analysis and design method. KW - Tragfähigkeit KW - Stütze KW - Träger KW - Beam-to-column connection; semi-rigid; flush end-plate connection; moment-rotation curve Y1 - 2016 U6 - http://nbn-resolving.de/urn/resolver.pl?urn:nbn:de:gbv:wim2-20170401-30988 SP - 2152 EP - 2175 ER - TY - JOUR A1 - Elrasoul, Riham T1 - City Architectural Heritage Revival: The Need of a New Applied Approach JF - Procedia - Social and Behavioral Sciences 225 N2 - Egypt is a nation of 4000 years of civilization, which was known for its ancient architecture that occupied the highest rank of importance, but how long will our neglected heritage sites survive in our recent era? This is a rising debate. This paper is based on a hypothesis whether the conservation of the neglected or isolated heritage sites, particularly in the inhabited areas, can bind the citizens to their past. For this reason, the research provides scenes of many applied conservation practices in other countries. The study calls for developing a new applied approach of conservation that takes the interaction between citizens and the city heritage zones into consideration. KW - Sozialisation KW - Renovierung KW - Commercialization; Comprehencive; Memorlization; Renovation; Socialization Y1 - 2016 U6 - http://nbn-resolving.de/urn/resolver.pl?urn:nbn:de:gbv:wim2-20170401-30977 UR - http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S1877042816307066 SP - 216 EP - 225 ER - TY - JOUR A1 - Bremer, K. A1 - Wollweber, M. A1 - Weigand, F. A1 - Rahlves, M. A1 - Kuhne, Michael A1 - Helbig, R. A1 - Roth, B. T1 - Fibre Optic Sensors for the Structural Health Monitoring of Building Structures JF - Procedia Technology 26 N2 - In this work different fibre optic sensors for the structural health monitoring of civil engineering structures are reported. A fibre optic crack sensor and two different fibre optic moisture sensors have been designed to detect the moisture ingress in concrete based building structures. Moreover, the degeneration of the mechanical properties of optical glass fibre sensors and hence their long-term stability and reliability due to the mechanical and chemical impact of the concrete environment is discussed as well as the advantage of applying a fibre optic sensor system for the structural health monitoring of sewerage tunnels is demonstrated. KW - Structural Health Monitoring KW - crack sensor; fibre optic sensor; humidity sensor; SHM Y1 - 2016 U6 - http://nbn-resolving.de/urn/resolver.pl?urn:nbn:de:gbv:wim2-20170331-30912 UR - http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S2212017316304121 SP - 524 EP - 529 ER - TY - JOUR A1 - Dressel, Dennys T1 - Reaktivität von Hüttensand : Thermodynamische Grundlagen und Anwendung N2 - Die thermodynamischen Grundlagen der Hydratation von Hüttensand als Hauptbestandteil von Zementen werden erforscht. Hierbei werden thermodynamische Bildungs- und Reaktionsdaten experimentell bestimmt und berechnet. Darüber hinaus wird der Prozess der Feststoffauflösung von Hüttensand in wässrigen Lösungen untersucht. Lösungs- und Fällungsprozesse werden unter verschiedenen Konditionen gemessen, ausgewertet und diskutiert. Die Ergebnisse werden im weiteren Verlauf zur Bestimmung der Hydratationsgrades in Pasten sowie zum besseren Verständnis in der Wechselwirkung zwischen Hüttensanden und Mahlhilfsstoffen genutzt und angewandt. KW - Hüttensand KW - Thermodynamik Y1 - 2016 U6 - http://nbn-resolving.de/urn/resolver.pl?urn:nbn:de:gbv:wim2-20160829-26778 ER - TY - JOUR A1 - Treyer, Lukas A1 - Klein, Bernhard A1 - König, Reinhard A1 - Meixner, Christine T1 - Lightweight Urban Computation Interchange (LUCI): A System to Couple Heterogenous Simulations and Views JF - Spatial Information Research N2 - In this paper we introduce LUCI, a Lightweight Urban Calculation Interchange system, designed to bring the advantages of calculation and content co-ordination system to small planning and design groups by the means of an open source middle-ware. The middle-ware focuses on problems typical to urban planning and therefore features a geo-data repository as well as a job runtime administration, to coordinate simulation models and its multiple views. The described system architecture is accompanied by two exemplary use cases, that have been used to test and further develop our concepts and implementations. KW - Middle-ware KW - Design-simulation-loop KW - Computational urban planning KW - Distributed computing KW - Multiple comparative views Y1 - 2016 U6 - http://nbn-resolving.de/urn/resolver.pl?urn:nbn:de:gbv:wim2-20160622-26037 UR - http://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s41324-016-0025-y SP - 1 EP - 12 ER - TY - JOUR A1 - Hijazi, Ihab Hamzi A1 - König, Reinhard A1 - Schneider, Sven A1 - Li, Xin A1 - Bielik, Martin A1 - Schmitt, Gerhard A1 - Donath, Dirk T1 - Geostatistical Analysis for the Study of Relationships between the Emotional Responses of Urban Walkers to Urban Spaces JF - International Journal of E-Planning Research N2 - The described study aims to find correlations between urban spatial configurations and human emotions. To this end, the authors measured people’s emotions while they walk along a path in an urban area using an instrument that measures skin conductance and skin temperature. The corresponding locations of the test persons were measured recorded by using a GPS-tracker (n=13). The results are interpreted and categorized as measures for positive and negative emotional arousal. To evaluate the technical and methodological process. The test results offer initial evidence that certain spaces or spatial sequences do cause positive or negative emotional arousal while others are relatively neutral. To achieve the goal of the study, the outcome was used as a basis for the study of testing correlations between people’s emotional responses and urban spatial configurations represented by Isovist properties of the urban form. By using their model the authors can explain negative emotional arousal for certain places, but they couldn’t find a model to predict emotional responses for individual spatial configurations. KW - Emotion KW - Isovist KW - Geo-Statistical Analysis KW - GIS KW - Geografie KW - Architektur Y1 - 2016 U6 - http://nbn-resolving.de/urn/resolver.pl?urn:nbn:de:gbv:wim2-20160622-26025 N1 - Erschienen in: International Journal of E-Planning Research ; Volume 5, Issue 1 (2016) SP - 1 EP - 19 ER - TY - JOUR A1 - Klein, Bernhard A1 - König, Reinhard T1 - Computational Urban Planning: Using the Value Lab as Control Center JF - FCL Magazine, Special Issue Simulation Platform N2 - Urban planning involves many aspects and various disciplines, demanding an asynchronous planning approach. The level of complexity rises with each aspect to be considered and makes it difficult to find universally satisfactory solutions. To improve this situation we propose a new approach, which complement traditional design methods with a computational urban plan- ning method that can fulfil formalizable design requirements automatically. Based on this approach we present a design space exploration framework for complex urban planning projects. For a better understanding of the idea of design space exploration, we introduce the concept of a digital scout which guides planners through the design space and assists them in their creative explorations. The scout can support planners during manual design by informing them about potential im- pacts or by suggesting different solutions that fulfill predefined quality requirements. The planner can change flexibly between a manually controlled and a completely automated design process. The developed system is presented using an exemplary urban planning scenario on two levels from the street layout to the placement of building volumes. Based on Self-Organizing Maps we implemented a method which makes it possible to visualize the multi-dimensional solution space in an easily analysable and comprehensible form. KW - Computational Urban Design KW - Stadtgestaltung Y1 - 2016 U6 - http://nbn-resolving.de/urn/resolver.pl?urn:nbn:de:gbv:wim2-20160622-26011 SP - 38 EP - 45 ER - TY - JOUR A1 - Kaps, Christian A1 - Schuch, Kai A1 - Stäblein, Stefan T1 - Silicate coatings for concrete components with waterglass systems by means of neutral salt initiation N2 - The objective of the investigations was the proof of the use of the neutral salt initiation as a construction material in the protecting silicate coating of concrete components, e.g. factory finished parts or reinforced concrete construction parts, by means of waterglass fused silica suspensions KW - Silicate KW - Coating KW - Wasserglas KW - Aggregation KW - Bindemittel KW - Waterglass KW - Alkalisilicate KW - Coating KW - Wasserglas KW - Sol-Gel Y1 - 2016 U6 - http://nbn-resolving.de/urn/resolver.pl?urn:nbn:de:gbv:wim2-20160601-25888 SP - 1 EP - 14 ER - TY - JOUR A1 - Schuch, Kai T1 - Theoretische Grundlagen zum Aggregationsprozess von Wassergläsern im Hinblick auf silikatische Beschichtungen JF - Steuerung des Aggregationsprozesses in wässrigen Alkalisilikatsolen durch spezielle Gelinitiatoren und moderate Wärmebehandlung zum Aufbau einer stabilen Silikatbeschichtung N2 - Der Artikel beinhaltet den theoretischen Teil und die Ergebnisse der Dissertation von Kai Schuch, Bauhaus Universität Weimar, Nov. 2014 KW - Alkalisilikatsol KW - Wasserglas KW - Silicate KW - Gel KW - Aggregationsprozess KW - Wasserglas KW - Gelbildung KW - Alkalisilikat KW - Silikat Y1 - 2016 U6 - http://nbn-resolving.de/urn/resolver.pl?urn:nbn:de:gbv:wim2-20160113-24971 ER -