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Usually, the co-ordination of design and planning tasks of a project in the construction industries is done in a paper based way. Subsequent modifications have to be handled manually. The effects of modifications cannot be determined automatically. The approach to specify a complete process model before project start does not consider the requirements of the construction industries. The effort of specification at the beginning and during the process (modifications) does not justify the use of standard process model techniques. A new approach is presented in the according paper. A complete process model is deducted on the basis of a core. The core consists of process elements and specific relations between them. Modifications need to be specified in the core only. The effort of specification is therefore reduced. The deduction of the complete process is based on the graph theory. Algorithms of the graph theory are also used to determine the effects of modifications during project work.
The research of the best building design requires a concerted design approach of both structure and foundation. Our work is an application of this approach. Our objective is also to create an interactive tool, which will be able to define, at the early design stages, the orientations of structure and foundation systems that satisfy as well as possible the client and the architect. If the concerns of these two actors are primarily technical and economical, they also wish to apprehend the environmental and social dimensions of their projects. Thus, this approach bases on alternative studies and on a multi-criterion analysis. In this paper, we present the context of our work, the problem formulation, which allows a concerted design of Structure and Foundation systems and the feasible solutions identifying process.
Computational Steering provides methods for the integration of modeling, simulation, visualization, data analysis and post processing. The user has full control over a running simulation and the possibility to modify objects (geometry and other properties), boundary conditions and other parameters of the system interactively. The objective of such a system is to explore the effects of changes made immediately and thus to optimize the target problem interactively. We present a computational steering based system for fluid flow problems in civil engineering. It is based on three software components as shown in figure 1. The modeler is the CAD-system AutoCAD, which offers a powerful programming interface allowing an efficient access to the geometric data. It also offers convenient manipulators for geometric objects. The simulation kernel is a Lattice-Boltzmann (LB) solver for the Navier-Stokes equations, which is especially suitable for instationary flows in complex geometries. For the visualization and postprocessing we use the software tool AVS, which provides a powerful programming interface and allows the efficient visualization of flow fields. These three components are interconnected through two communication modules and three interfaces as depicted in figure 1. Interface 1 is responsible for the transformation of the modified system for the simulation kernel, interface 2 is responsible for the proper preparation of the simulation data whereas interface 3 transforms the data from the modeler into a format suitable for the visualization system. The whole system is synchronized by the two communication modules.
Die verteilte Bearbeitung gemeinsamer Produktmodelle ist im Bauwesen Gegenstand der aktuellen Forschung. Der vorgestellte Lösungsansatz bewegt sich in einem Spannungsfeld: Zum einen sollen die zu bearbeitenden Teilmengen des Produktmodells sehr flexibel durch die Planer zu bilden sein, zum anderen müssen Revisions- und Freigabestände dauerhaft und unveränderlich definiert werden. In einer versionierten Umgebung mit vielen Abhängigkeiten sind diese Anforderungen schwierig zu erfüllen. Der vorgestellte Lösungsansatz zeigt die Bildung von Revisions- und Freigabeständen, ohne die flexible verteilte Bearbeitung einzuschränken. Die Freigabestände müssen bestimmte Eigenschaften erfüllen: Es darf beispielsweise nur eine Version eines Objekts enthalten sein und es müssen die Bindungen zu anderen Objektversionen in einer konsistenten Weise berücksichtigt werden. Es wird eine mathematische Beschreibung gewählt, die auf der Mengenlehre und der Graphentheorie basiert.