TY - THES A1 - Mendonça de Almeida, Karina T1 - Why isn't Google welcome in Kreuzberg? Social movement and the effects of Internet on urban space N2 - Advances in information and communication technologies such as the Internet have driven a great transformation in the interactions between individuals and the urban environment. As the use of the Internet in cities becomes more intense and diverse, there is also a restructuring of urban space, which is experienced by groups in society in various ways, according to the specificity of each context. Accordingly, large Internet companies have emerged as new players in the processes of urbanization, either through partnerships with the public administration or through various services offered directly to urban residents. Once these corporations are key actors in the digitalization of urban services, their operations can affect the patterns of urban inequality and generate a series of new struggles over the production of space. Interested in analyzing this phenomena from the perspective of civil society, the present Master Thesis examined a social movement that prevented Google to settle a new startup campus in the district of Kreuzberg, in Berlin. By asking why Google was not welcome in that context, this study also sought to understand how internet, as well as its main operators, has affected everyday life in the city. Thus, besides analyzing the movement, I investigated the particularities of the urban context where it arose and the elements that distinguish the mobilization’s opponent. In pursuit of an interdisciplinary approach, I analyzed and discussed the results of empirical research in dialogue with critical theories in the fields of urban studies and the Internet, with emphasis on Castells' definitions of urban social movements and network society (1983, 2009, 2015), Couldry's and Mejias' (2019) idea of data colonialism, Lefèbvre's (1991, 1996) concepts of abstract space and the right to the city, as well as Zuboff's (2019) theory of surveillance capitalism. The case at hand has exposed that Google plays a prominent role in the way the Internet has been developed and deployed in cities. From the perspective accessed, the current appropriation of Internet technologies has been detrimental to individual autonomy and has contributed to intensifying existing inequalities in the city. The alternative vision to this relies mainly on the promotion of decentralized solidarity networks. KW - Soziale Bewegung KW - Internet KW - Stadt KW - Social movement KW - urban space KW - Internet KW - tech company KW - Berlin Y1 - 2020 U6 - http://nbn-resolving.de/urn/resolver.pl?urn:nbn:de:gbv:wim2-20200924-42446 ER - TY - THES A1 - Pessoa, Suelen T1 - Why do the Archives archive? A journey from the hunko to the counter-ethnography and back N2 - A complex artistic research on the theme of cultural heritage and (neo)colonial processes of material and immaterial expropriation. Starting from the encounter with a phonographic relic at the Berliner Phonogramm-Archiv, the artist embarks on a journey to her own roots embodied in the practice of the Afro-Brazilian religion Candomblé. In the form of a theoretical treatise, an archive (photos, diagrams, maps, newspaper clippings, letters, documents), as well as a sound performance in the public space of the city of Weimar, several theoretical and performative elements are brought together in this transmedia artistic research that proposes a true decolonial practice. KW - Künstlerische Forschung KW - Museumskunde KW - Ethnologie KW - Candomblé KW - Brasilien KW - decolonisation KW - memoy KW - museum KW - visual arts KW - artistic research KW - Artistic Research KW - Museology KW - Counter-ethnography KW - Brazil Y1 - 2020 U6 - http://nbn-resolving.de/urn/resolver.pl?urn:nbn:de:gbv:wim2-20210112-43280 ER - TY - THES A1 - Maciel Costa da Silva, Luiza T1 - Smart Cities and Mobility Stations: Lessons learned from the Smarter Together in Vienna and Munich N2 - With an increasing urban population and urban problems arising from this unplanned growth, several projects aimed at promoting sustainable urban development have emerged. Smart mobility strategies, such as shared mobility and mobility stations, represent some of the solutions to promote changes in travel behavior. Despite its beneficial impacts, however, the implementation of such infrastructure is criticized for not contributing to current urban issues, as well as often disregarding knowledge about urban space and its functioning. In this context, the Smarter Together, a joint research and innovation project funded through the European Union program H2020, was implemented. The project selected three lighthouse cities to test and upscale innovative solutions: Vienna, Munich, and Lyon. This master thesis presents the main characteristics of the mobility stations systems implemented in Vienna and Munich in the scope of the project Smarter Together. Its main goal is to share what can be learned from their experiences while approaching critically the concept of smart cities. This master thesis identifies important aspects to take into account when planning, implementing, and operating mobility stations, and provides an understanding of smart cities and smart mobility that goes beyond the adoption of technology. Several methods were combined for the development of this master thesis, such as quantitative secondary data, observational studies, application of survey forms, explorative expert interviews, and literature review. This work has demonstrated that the Smarter Together has a cutting-edge scope and contributed greatly to research and innovation, by creating living laboratories to test the application of technology in the urban environment. However, from the perspective of the mobility stations assessment, many caveats were made. In short, many lessons could be learned and are presented throughout this work aiming at contributing to the improvement of the mobility stations implemented in the project areas in Munich and Vienna, as well as for inspiring other cities in Europe and worldwide. KW - Intelligente Stadt KW - mobility stations KW - mobility points KW - smart cities KW - smart mobility KW - Smarter Together KW - Soziale Mobilität Y1 - 2020 U6 - http://nbn-resolving.de/urn/resolver.pl?urn:nbn:de:gbv:wim2-20201012-42702 ER - TY - THES A1 - Ansari, Meisam T1 - Simulation methods for functional and microstructured composite materials T1 - Simulationsmethoden für funktionalisierte und mikrostrukturierte Verbundwerkstoffe N2 - In this thesis, a generic model for the post-failure behavior of concrete in tension is proposed. A mesoscale model of concrete representing the heterogeneous nature of concrete is formulated. The mesoscale model is composed of three phases: aggregate, mortar matrix, and the Interfacial Transition Zone between them. Both local and non-local formulations of the damage are implemented and the results are compared. Three homogenization schemes from the literature are employed to obtain the homogenized constitutive relationship for the macroscale model. Three groups of numerical examples are provided. N2 - In dieser Arbeit wird ein generisches Modell für das nichtlineare Materialverhalten des Betons unter Spannung vorgeschlagen. Ein Mesoskalenmodell wird aufgebildet, welches die heterogene Materialstruktur des Betons darstellt. Das Mesoskalenmodell besteht aus drei Phasen: groben Zuschlägen, Mörtelmatrix und Übergangszone zwischen Zuschlag und Matrix. Es werden sowohl die lokale als auch die nichtlokale Formulierung des Schädigungsgrades implementiert und die Ergebnisse verglichen. Drei Homogenisierungsmethoden aus der Literatur werden verwendet, um die homogenisierte konstitutive Beziehung für das Makroskalenmodell zu erhalten. Drei Gruppen von numerischen Beispielen werden angeführt. KW - Simulation KW - Verbundwerkstoff KW - Beton KW - Meso-Scale KW - Composite KW - Concrete Y1 - 2020 U6 - http://nbn-resolving.de/urn/resolver.pl?urn:nbn:de:gbv:wim2-20201103-42783 ER - TY - THES A1 - Freire, Kamai T1 - Panafricanism and African Revolution in Brazilian Music N2 - This research departs from the teachings of Kwame Ture on the difference between mobilization and organization in the panafricanist struggle to analyze then the use of Music within the anti-racist and anti-colonialist struggle in Brazil. KW - Saz KW - Pan-Africanism KW - Musik KW - Antikolonialismus KW - Antirassismus KW - African Revolution KW - Music KW - Brazilian Music KW - Musicology KW - Post-colonial studies KW - anti-racist KW - anti-colonialist Y1 - 2020 U6 - http://nbn-resolving.de/urn/resolver.pl?urn:nbn:de:gbv:wim2-20210216-43536 ER - TY - THES A1 - Fröhlich, Jan T1 - On systematic approaches for interpreted information transfer of inspection data from bridge models to structural analysis N2 - In conjunction with the improved methods of monitoring damage and degradation processes, the interest in reliability assessment of reinforced concrete bridges is increasing in recent years. Automated imagebased inspections of the structural surface provide valuable data to extract quantitative information about deteriorations, such as crack patterns. However, the knowledge gain results from processing this information in a structural context, i.e. relating the damage artifacts to building components. This way, transformation to structural analysis is enabled. This approach sets two further requirements: availability of structural bridge information and a standardized storage for interoperability with subsequent analysis tools. Since the involved large datasets are only efficiently processed in an automated manner, the implementation of the complete workflow from damage and building data to structural analysis is targeted in this work. First, domain concepts are derived from the back-end tasks: structural analysis, damage modeling, and life-cycle assessment. The common interoperability format, the Industry Foundation Class (IFC), and processes in these domains are further assessed. The need for usercontrolled interpretation steps is identified and the developed prototype thus allows interaction at subsequent model stages. The latter has the advantage that interpretation steps can be individually separated into either a structural analysis or a damage information model or a combination of both. This approach to damage information processing from the perspective of structural analysis is then validated in different case studies. KW - Brückenbau KW - Strukturanalyse KW - Schadensanalyse KW - BIM KW - IFC KW - bridge inspection KW - damage information model KW - structural analysis KW - IFC KW - BIM Y1 - 2020 U6 - http://nbn-resolving.de/urn/resolver.pl?urn:nbn:de:gbv:wim2-20200416-41310 ER - TY - THES A1 - Hamzah, Abdulrazzak T1 - Lösung von Randwertaufgaben der Bruchmechanik mit Hilfe einer approximationsbasierten Kopplung zwischen der Finite-Elemente-Methode und Methoden der komplexen Analysis N2 - Das Hauptziel der vorliegenden Arbeit war es, eine stetige Kopplung zwischen der ananlytischen und numerischen Lösung von Randwertaufgaben mit Singularitäten zu realisieren. Durch die inter-polationsbasierte gekoppelte Methode kann eine globale C0 Stetigkeit erzielt werden. Für diesen Zweck wird ein spezielle finite Element (Kopplungselement) verwendet, das die Stetigkeit der Lösung sowohl mit dem analytischen Element als auch mit den normalen CST Elementen gewährleistet. Die interpolationsbasierte gekoppelte Methode ist zwar für beliebige Knotenanzahl auf dem Interface ΓAD anwendbar, aber es konnte durch die Untersuchung von der Interpolationsmatrix und numerische Simulationen festgestellt werden, dass sie schlecht konditioniert ist. Um das Problem mit den numerischen Instabilitäten zu bewältigen, wurde eine approximationsbasierte Kopplungsmethode entwickelt und untersucht. Die Stabilität dieser Methode wurde anschließend anhand der Untersuchung von der Gramschen Matrix des verwendeten Basissystems auf zwei Intervallen [−π,π] und [−2π,2π] beurteilt. Die Gramsche Matrix auf dem Intervall [−2π,2π] hat einen günstigeren Konditionszahl in der Abhängigkeit von der Anzahl der Kopplungsknoten auf dem Interface aufgewiesen. Um die dazu gehörigen numerischen Instabilitäten ausschließen zu können wird das Basissystem mit Hilfe vom Gram-Schmidtschen Orthogonalisierungsverfahren auf beiden Intervallen orthogonalisiert. Das orthogonale Basissystem lässt sich auf dem Intervall [−2π,2π] mit expliziten Formeln schreiben. Die Methode des konsistentes Sampling, die häufig in der Nachrichtentechnik verwendet wird, wurde zur Realisierung von der approximationsbasierten Kopplung herangezogen. Eine Beschränkung dieser Methode ist es, dass die Anzahl der Sampling-Basisfunktionen muss gleich der Anzahl der Wiederherstellungsbasisfunktionen sein. Das hat dazu geführt, dass das eingeführt Basissys-tem (mit 2 n Basisfunktionen) nur mit n Basisfunktion verwendet werden kann. Zur Lösung diese Problems wurde ein alternatives Basissystems (Variante 2) vorgestellt. Für die Verwendung dieses Basissystems ist aber eine Transformationsmatrix M nötig und bei der Orthogonalisierung des Basissystems auf dem Intervall [−π,π] kann die Herleitung von dieser Matrix kompliziert und aufwendig sein. Die Formfunktionen wurden anschließend für die beiden Varianten hergeleitet und grafisch (für n = 5) dargestellt und wurde gezeigt, dass diese Funktionen die Anforderungen an den Formfunktionen erfüllen und können somit für die FE- Approximation verwendet werden. Anhand numerischer Simulationen, die mit der Variante 1 (mit Orthogonalisierung auf dem Intervall [−2π,2π]) durchgeführt wurden, wurden die grundlegenden Fragen (Beispielsweise: Stetigkeit der Verformungen auf dem Interface ΓAD, Spannungen auf dem analytischen Gebiet) über- prüft. KW - Mathematik KW - Bruchmechanik KW - Näherungsverfahren Y1 - 2020 U6 - http://nbn-resolving.de/urn/resolver.pl?urn:nbn:de:gbv:wim2-20200211-40936 ER -