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Although there are some good reasons to design engineering software as a stand-alone application for a single computer, there are also numerous possibilities for creating distributed engineering applications, in particular using the Internet. This paper presents some typical scenarios how engineering applications can benefit from including network capabilities. Also, some examples of Internet-based engineering applications are discussed to show how the concepts presented can be implemented.
In this contribution, the design of an analysis environment is presented, that supports an analyst to come to a decision within a gradual collaborative planning process. An analyst represents a project manager, planner or any other person, involved in the planning process. Today, planning processes are managed by several geographically distributed planners and project managers. Thus, complexity of such a process rises even more. Prediction of consequences of many planning decisions is not possible, in particular since assessment of a planning advance is not trivial. There have to be considered several viewpoints, that depend on individual perceptions. In the following, methods are presented to realize planning decision support.
Building design in Civil Engineering is characterized by the cooperation of experts in multiple disciplines. Close cooperation of engineers in different fields is the basis of high product quality, short development periods and a minimum of investment costs. For each building the engineers have to create a new fire engineering model. The consistent realization of the fire engineering model in all details has high demands on communication, collaboration and building models. Thereby, to preserve the related design models consistent to each other and compatible with the rules of fire engineering is a complex task. In addition, regulations and guidelines vary according to the building location, so the knowledge base must be integrated dynamically into the planning process. This contribution covers the integration of engineers and design models into a cooperation network on the basis of mobile agents. The distributed models of architectural design, structural planning and fire engineering are supported. These models are implemented as XML-based models which can be accessed by mobile agents for information retrieval and for processing tasks. Agents are provided to all planners, they are enabled to check up the distributed design models with the knowledge base of the fire protection regulations,. With the use of such an agent each planner is supported to check up his planning for accordance with the fire protection requirements. The fire-engineering-agent analyzes the design and detects inconsistencies by processing fire protection requirements and design model facts in a rule-based expert system. The possibility to check the planning information at an early state in the sense of compatibility to the fire protection regulations enables a comprehensive diagnosis of the design and the reduction of planning errors.
In the AEC (Architecture / Engineering / Construction) industry a number of individuals and organisations collaborate and work jointly on a construction project. The resulting consortium has large pool of expertise and experience and can be defined as a Virtual Organisation (VO) formed for the duration of the project. VOs are electronically networked organisations where IT and web based communication technology play an important role in coordinating various activities of these organisations. This paper describes the design, development and implementation of a Grid enabled application called the Product Supplier Catalogue Database (PSCD) which supports collaborative working in consortia. As part of the Grid-enabling process, specialised metadata is being developed to enable PSCD to effectively utilise Grid middleware such as Globus and Java CoG toolkits. We also describe our experience whilst designing, developing and deploying the security service of the application using the Globus Security Interface (GSI).
Assuring global consistency in a cooperative working environment is the main focus of many nowaday research projects in the field of civil engineering and others. In this paper, a new approach based on octrees will be discussed. It will be shown that by the usage of octrees not only the management and control of processes in a network-based working environment can be optimised but also an efficient integration platform for processes from various disciplines – such as architecture and civil engineering – can be provided. By means of an octree-based collision detection resp. consistency assurance a client-server-architecture will be described as well as sophisticated information services for a further support of cooperative work.
The conceptual structure of an application that can support the structural analysis task in a distributed collaboratory is described in (van Rooyen and Olivier 2004). The application described there has a standalone component for executing the finite element method on a local workstation in the absence of network access. This application is comparable to current, local workstation based finite element packages. However, it differs fundamentally from standard packages since the application itself, and its objects, are adapted to support distributed execution of the analysis task. Basic aspects of an object-oriented framework for the development of applications which can be used in similar distributed collaboratories are described in this paper. An important feature of this framework is its application-centred design. This means that an application can contain any number of engineering models, where the models are formed by the collection of objects according to semantic views within the application. This is achieved through very flexible classes Application and Model, which are described in detail. The advantages of the application-centred design approach is demonstrated with reference to the design of steel structures, where the finite element analysis model, member design model and connection design model interact to provide the required functionality.
Integrated Engineering Workflow focused on the Structural Engineering in the Industrial Environment
(2004)
The engineering and construction industry has been slow to exploit the full potential of information technology. The industry is highly fragmented, price sensitive, risk-adverse, and profit margins are small. Each project is unique with a small amount of technological innovation opportunities to capitalise on from one project to the next. Technological innovations that have been taking place are just simulating the old traditional paper workflow. Engineering information in digital form is being conveyed using traditional paper representations, which have to be interpreted by humans before the information can be used in other applications, thereby creating ‘islands of information’. It can be seen that poorly implemented IT strategies are duplicating paperwork, rather than reducing or eliminating it (Crowley et al., 2000). This paper will introduce the Integrated Engineering Workflow (IEW) concept to re-organise a structural discipline working on multi-disciplinary projects so as to maximise the advantages offered by new information technology.
Brückenkappen gewährleisten die Trennung der Verkehrsräume Fahrbahn und Gehweg und müssen aufgrund ihrer Anordnung im Querschnitt Schutz- und Leiteinrichtungen aufnehmen. Zur Verankerung der Brückenkappen am Überbau werden je nach Erfordernissen Anschlussbewehrung und / oder Telleranker angeordnet. Die vorliegende Arbeit analysiert grundlegende Möglichkeiten zur messtechnischen Untersuchung von Brückenkappen bei Anwendung von Tellerankern. Dabei werden die theoretische und konstruktiven Grundlagen der Kappenausbildung betrachtet. Außerdem werden die Zusammenhänge zwischen den auftretenden Einwirkungen und deren Auswirkungen auf Brückenkappen betrachtet. Darauf aufbauend werden Kennwerte zur Ermittlung der Beanspruchung in den Kappen und den Tellerankern abgeleitet und hinsichtlich der messtechnischen Erfassung und Auswertung der Messdaten analysiert.
The contribution introduces a method for the distributed process modelling in order to support the process orientation in Structural Engineering, i.e., the modelling, analysis and management of planning processes. The approach is based on the Petri Net theory for the modelling of planning processes and workflows in Structural Engineering. Firstly, a central and coarse process model serves as a pre-structuring system for the detailed modelling of the technical planning activities. Secondly, the involved planning participants generate distributed process models with detailed technical workflow information. Finally, these distributed process models will be combined in the central workflow net. The final net is of great importance for the process orientation in Structural Engineering, i.e., the identification, publication, analysis, optimization and finally the management of planning processes.
Die Entwicklung Berlins zur neuen Hauptstadt des vereinigten Deutschlands erfordert den umfangreichen Ausbau der innerstädtischen Verkehrswege und eine umfassende Einbindung in das bundesweite Verkehrsnetz. Der Ausbau der Inter-City-Express-Strecke zwischen Hannover und Berlin bedingte eine Umplanung großer Streckenabschnitte der Deutschen Bahn AG. Im Zeitalter der computergestützten Informationsverarbeitung sind gerade auf dem Gebiet der Tragwerksplanung konstruktiver Ingenieurbauten vielfältige Möglichkeiten gegeben. So ist bei der Planung von Brückenneubauten eine durchgehende computergestützte Konstruktion und Tragwerksplanung vom Vorentwurf bis hin zur Fertigung möglich. Weiterhin gestatten besondere Berechnungsmethoden bei speziellen Belastungsarten eine exaktere Schnittkraft- und Spannungsermittlung und dadurch eine dem wirklichen Tragverhalten entsprechende genauere Nachweisführung. An Beispielen aus dem konstruktiven Ingenieurbau im Zuge der Sanierung der Berliner Stadtbahn wird die Anwendung moderner Rechentechnik und computergestützter Konstruktionsmethoden und Berechnungsverfahren diskutiert. Die Berliner Stadtbahn wird in weiten Abschnitten über gemauerte Ziegelsteinviadukte geführt. Das Konzept der Sanierungsmaßnahmen sah neben der Anordnung einer lastverteilenden Platte einen Gleisaufbau als Feste Fahrbahn vor. Zusätzlich wurden die Gleisabstände den heutigen Bundesbahnvorschriften angepaßt. Aus diesem Grund wurde eine genaue Nachrechnung der Stadbahnviadukte unter Berücksichtigung der verschiedensten Parameter (z.B. Fugen in der lastverteilenden Platte, Rißbildung im Mauerwerk, Schubverformungen in Fugen zwischen Beton und Mauerwerk bei Überschreitung von Grenzwerten) erforderlich. Die zwischen dem Berliner Hauptbahnhof und dem Bahnhof Jannowitzbrücke befindliche Eisenbahnüberführung über die Holzmarktstraße wurden abgebrochen. Das neue Bauwerk besteht aus einer zweifeldrigen, schiefwinkligen Deckbrücke für 4 Gleise. Auf Grund der komplizierten geometrischen Randbedingungen erfolgte eine durchgängige computergestützte Erstellung der Ausführungsunterlagen. Die Hauptabmessungen der Konstruktion wurden mit Hilfe von Vermessungsdaten bestimmt, die im CAD-Programm verarbeitet wurden. Die CAD-Daten bildeten die geometrischen Eingangsgrößen für das Berechnungsprogramm. Die Querschnittsdimensionierung der Berechnung ging dann in die CAD-Bearbeitung ein. Die Koordinaten für die Werkstattfertigung sowie für die Montage auf der Baustelle ergaben sich ebenfalls aus den Berechnungsergebnissen.