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The structure and development of cities can be seen and evaluated from different points of view. By replicating the growth or shrinkage of a city using historical maps depicting different time states, we can obtain momentary snapshots of the dynamic mechanisms of the city. An examination of how these snapshots change over the course of time and a comparison of the different static time states reveals the various interdependencies of population density, technical infrastructure and the availability of public transport facilities. Urban infrastructure and facilities are not distributed evenly across the city – rather they are subject to different patterns and speeds of spread over the course of time and follow different spatial and temporal regularities. The reasons and underlying processes that cause the transition from one state to another result from the same recurring but varyingly pronounced hidden forces and their complex interactions. Such forces encompass a variety of economic, social, cultural and ecological conditions whose respective weighting defines the development of a city in general. Urban development is, however, not solely a product of the different spatial distribution of economic, legal or social indicators but also of the distribution of infrastructure. But to what extent is the development of a city affected by the changing provision of infrastructure? As
Die Planung komplexer Bauwerke erfolgt zunehmend mit rechnergestützten Planungswerkzeugen, die den Export von Bauwerksinformationen im STEP-Format auf Grundlage der Industry Foundation Classes (IFC) ermöglichen. Durch die Verfügbarkeit dieser Schnittstelle ist es möglich, Bauwerksinformationen für eine weiterführende applikationsübergreifende Verarbeitung bereitzustellen. Ein großer Teil der bereitgestellten Informationen bezieht sich auf die geometrische Beschreibung der einzelnen Bauteile. Um den am Bauprozess Beteiligten eine optimale Auswertung und Analyse der Bauwerksinformationen zu ermöglichen, ist deren Visualisierung unumgänglich. Das IFC-Modell stellt diese Daten mit Hilfe verschiedener Geometriemodelle bereit. Der vorliegende Beitrag beschreibt die Visualisierung von IFC-Objekten mittels Java3D. Er beschränkt sich dabei auf die Darstellung von Objekten, deren Geometrie mittels Boundary Representation (Brep) oder Surface-Model-Repräsentation beschrieben wird.
Die Architekten, Künstler und Designer des Bauhauses prägten mit neuem gestalterischen Geist eine unverwechselbare Bauhaus-Handschrift. Ausgehend von Weimar schrieben sie sich damit in die Weltkulturgeschichte ein. Nachdem das Bauhaus 1933 dem Nationalsozialismus in Deutschland zum Opfer gefallen war, lebten Idee und Praxis des Bauhauses mit den emigrierenden Lehrern und Schülern im Ausland weiter. Weltweit existieren noch heute Gebäude, Produkte und Kunstwerke, die durch das Bauhaus entstanden sind, von ihm inspiriert wurden oder darauf Bezug nehmen. Mit dem Projekt ImpulsBauhaus versuchen Jens Weber und Andreas Wolter, die weltweite Verbreitung und Einflussnahme des Bauhauses anhand der Beziehungen, Bewegungen und Werke seiner Vertreter bis in die Gegenwart nachvollziehbar zu machen. Das Projekt besteht aus zwei Teilen. Die ImpulsBauhaus-Forschungsplattform ist eine Datenbank, in der Informationen über Bauhaus-Vertreter gesammelt und mithilfe von Analysetools und Visualisierungsinstrumenten ausgewertet werden können. Der zweite Teil besteht aus einer räumlichen Inszenierung der Informationsbestände – der ImpulsBauhaus-Ausstellung. Ausgangspunkt des Projekts ImpulsBauhaus war neben dem kunstwissenschaftlichen Interesse die Frage, wie mit heutigen digitalen Mitteln große Informationsmengen verwaltet, analysiert und visualisiert werden können.
Weiterführende Informationen zum Projekt finden sich auf der Website http://impuls-bauhaus.de, wo auch interessierte Wissenschaftler und Autoren Zugang zur ImpulsBauhaus-Forschungsplattform erhalten.
This term paper presents a literature review and discusses concepts of the following point: 1- Factors affecting small-strain stiffness in soil; 2- Methods to determine small-strain shear stiffness in laboratory and in-situ; 3- Brief introduction into wave propagation and 4- Bender elements technique to determine shear wave velocity in soil.
The initial shear modulus, Gmax, of soil is an important parameter for a variety of geotechnical design applications. This modulus is typically associated with shear strain levels about 5*10^-3% and below. The critical role of soil stiffness at small-strains in the design and analysis of geotechnical infrastructure is now widely accepted.
Gmax is a key parameter in small-strain dynamic analyses such as those to predict soil behavior or soil-structure interaction during earthquake, explosions, machine or traffic vibration where it is necessary to know how the shear modulus degrades from its small-strain value as the level of shear strain increases. Gmax can be equally important for small-strain cyclic situations such as those caused by wind or wave loading and for small-strain static situations as well. Gmax may also be used as an indirect indication of various soil parameters, as it, in many cases, correlates well to other soil properties such as density and sample disturbance. In recent years, a technique using bender elements was developed to investigate the small-strain shear modulus Gmax.
The objective of this thesis is to study the initial shear stiffness for various sands with different void ratios, densities, grain size distribution under dry and saturated conditions, then to compare empirical equations to predict Gmax and results from other testing devices with results of bender elements from this study.
Superimposing Dynamic Range
(2009)
Replacing a uniform illumination by a high-frequent illumination enhances the contrast of observed and captured images. We modulate spatially and temporally multiplexed (projected) light with reflective or transmissive matter to achieve high dynamic range visualizations of radiological images on printed paper or ePaper, and to boost the optical contrast of images viewed or imaged with light microscopes.
In der vorliegenden Arbeit werden auf Basis des Tensegrity-Konzeptes Strukturen entwickelt und vorgestellt, welche durch einen signifikanten Steifigkeitszuwachs in der Lage sind, die Anforderungen an die Gebrauchstauglichkeit von Tragwerken zu erfüllen.
Selbstverankerte Strukturen mit aufgelösten Druckstäben werden als Seil-Stab-Systeme bezeichnet und sind alleiniger Gegenstand aller angestellten Betrachtungen.
Tensegrity-Strukturen sollen eine Untergruppe der Seil-Stab-Systeme darstellen, deren symptomatische Eigenschaft eine sich im Tensegrity-Zustand befindliche Geometrie ist.
Einer Definition des Tensegrity-Zustandes folgt ein Überblick über die zur Untersuchung von Seil-Stab-Systemen notwendigen Berechnungsalgorithmen.
Der Kern der Arbeit beschäftigt sich zunächst mit dem Einfluss der Geometrie auf die Empfindlichkeit von Seil-Stab-Systemen gegenüber unvermeidlichen Herstellungstoleranzen sowie dem Einfluss von Topologie, Vorspannung, lokaler Steifigkeit der Elemente und Geometrie auf die Steifigkeit dieser Systeme.
Darauf aufbauend wird eine Möglichkeit gezeigt, die Steifigkeit von beweglichen Seil-
Stab-Systemen merklich zu erhöhen, ohne die Strukturen durch zusätzliche Elemente oder Verbindungen optisch zu verändern.
Der zu erzielende Steifigkeitszuwachs wird mittels Vergleichrechnungen und durchgeführten Belastungsversuchen verifiziert.
In a historical perspective, the relationship between digital media and the museum environment is marked by the role of museums as example use cases for the appli- cation of digital media. Today, this exceptional use as an often technology oriented application has changed and instead digital media have turned into an integral part of mediation strategies in the museum environment. Alongside with this shift not only an increasing professionalization of application development but also a grow- ing demand for new content can be observed. Comparable to its role as the main cost factor in the media industry, the production of content rises to a challenge for museums. In particular small and medium scale european museums with limited funding and an often low level of staff coverage face this new demand and strive therefore for alternative production resources. While productive user contributions can be seen as such an alternative resource, user contributions are at the same time a manifestation for a different mode of in- teracting with content. In contrast to the dominantly passive role of audiences as re- ceivers of information, productive contributions emerge as a mode of content ex- ploration and become in this regard influential for museum mediation strategies. As applications of user contributions in museums and cultural heritage are currently rather seldom, a broader perspective towards user contributions becomes necessary to understand its specific challenges, opportunities and limitations. Productive user contributions can be found in a growing number of applications on the Internet where they either complement or fully substitute corporate content production processes. While the Wikipedia1, an online encyclopedia written entirely by a group of users and open to contributions by all its users, is one of the most prominent examples for this practice, several more applications emerged or are be- ing developed. In consequence user contributions are about to become a powerful source for the production of content in digital media environments.
The present study analysis the environmental benefits of urban vegetation within the municipal boundary of a megacity through multi scale integrated modelling to estimate its benefits approximately. The advantages (and challenges) that Nature, inserted into cities, offers to the population are observed from different viewpoints. As geographical reference the profile of megacities located in low (tropical) latitudes was observed, in a case study on the city of São Paulo/ Brazil. Commonly, urban vegetation is overlooked by local people, governments and economical structures. Although sparse vegetation exists, it is hardly recognized. Along the brief history of rapid urbanization which is accompanied by massive environmental degradation, urban green becomes, in the dispute for space, a true luxury in cities like São Paulo. Not as retrogression but as advance, it demonstrates that the integration between nature and city would be desirable. The approximated quantification of the variations which occur between actual scenario and greened scenarios shows the need to rethink the urban biome as a man-dominated ecosystem. The benefits of the urban vegetation are diverse. This work details plants as agents of climatic and ecosystem balance and performance. It also approaches current issues like climate change, energy efficiency and thermal comfort, as well as the purification of natural resources, through the treatment of water, soil and air. Especially because at present no efficient technical solutions exist, that could substitute the environmental services of the vegetation. These benefits contribute to quality of life and increase socio-environmental equity especially important in high-contrast megacities. The vegetation assumes two important roles in cities. The functional dimension brings concrete and measurable benefits to the environment. From a symbolic vision, vegetation represents Nature in cities, approximating humans to their origins. Conclusively the study defends the importance of the valorization of Nature and of the united efforts for literally green cities because it proves that financial investment in urban vegetation has direct effects on the costs destined to the areas of health and infrastructure. The City of São Paulo, invested in 2008 about US$ 180 million (one hundred and eighty million dollars) in urban green (and environment) which tends to save US$ 980 million (nine hundred and eighty million dollars) of expenses annually. In other words, for each US$ 1 invested in planting and maintenance of urban green, the society saves at least US$ 5 of expenses in health, construction of French drains, energy etc.