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This research represents an effort made towards contribute to the critical thinking from an analysis of the hegemonic neoliberal ideology, which supports the idea of the end of history and the technocratic universalism which in turn implies the imposition of a single model of life, denying, in the name of realism and the end of utopias, any other alternative possibility.
This makes it necessary to recover the critical thinking to analyze and understand the reality, thus overcoming the ideological barrier towards claiming that things can be otherwise.
It is clear from this research that the discourse of sustainable development has unquestionably transformed the context and content of political activity in Europe. This discourse has exercised and obvious influence in the Governance processes, mainly because it has contributed to the introduction of a new political field, which was then promoted, either explicitly or implicitly by policy-makers, researchers on the field and practitioners during the last three decades. Though it may be bold to affirm that the discourse of sustainable development is the sole driver of these whole set of changes, there is no doubt that it has played a key part in the way in which the governance priorities have been handled in the European continent.
This thesis concerns the physical and mechanical interactions on carbon nanotubes and polymers by multiscale modeling. CNTs have attracted considerable interests in view of their unique mechanical, electronic, thermal, optical and structural properties, which enable them to have many potential applications.
Carbon nanotube exists in several structure forms, from individual single-walled carbon nanotubes (SWCNTs) and multi-walled carbon nanotubes (MWCNTs) to carbon nanotube bundles and networks. The mechanical properties of SWCNTs and MWCNTs have been extensively studied by continuum modeling and molecular dynamics (MD) simulations in the past decade since the properties could be important in the CNT-based devices. CNT bundles and networks feature outstanding mechanical performance and hierarchical structures and network topologies, which have been taken as a potential saving-energy material. In the synthesis of nanocomposites, the formation of the CNT bundles and networks is a challenge to remain in understanding how to measure and predict the properties of such large systems. Therefore, a mesoscale method such as a coarse-grained (CG) method should be developed to study the nanomechanical characterization of CNT bundles and networks formation.
In this thesis, the main contributions can be written as follows: (1) Explicit solutions for the cohesive energy between carbon nanotubes, graphene and substrates are obtained through continuum modeling of the van der Waals interaction between them. (2) The CG potentials of SWCNTs are established by a molecular mechanics model. (3) The binding energy between two parallel and crossing SWCNTs and MWCNTs is obtained by continuum modeling of the van der Waals interaction between them. Crystalline and amorphous polymers are increasingly used in modern industry as tructural materials due to its important mechanical and physical properties. For crystalline polyethylene (PE), despite its importance and the studies of available MD simulations and continuum models, the link between molecular and continuum descriptions of its mechanical properties is still not well established. For amorphous polymers, the chain length and temperature effect on their
elastic and elastic-plastic properties has been reported based on the united-atom (UA) and CG MD imulations in our previous work. However, the effect of the CL and temperature on the failure behavior is not understood well yet. Especially, the failure behavior under shear has been scarcely reported in previous work. Therefore, understanding the molecular origins of macroscopic fracture behavior such as fracture energy is a fundamental scientific challenge.
In this thesis, the main contributions can be written as follows: (1) An analytical molecular mechanics model is developed to obtain the size-dependent elastic properties of crystalline PE.
(2) We show that the two molecular mechanics models, the stick-spiral and the beam models, predict considerably different mechanical properties of materials based on energy equivalence. The difference between the two models is independent of the materials. (3) The tensile and shear failure behavior dependence on chain length and temperature in amorphous polymers are scrutinized using molecular dynamics simulations. Finally, the influence of polymer wrapped two neighbouring SWNTs’ dispersion on their load transfer is investigated by molecular dynamics (MD) simulations, in which the SWNTs' position, the polymer chain length and the temperature on the interaction force is systematically studied.
A fundamental characteristic of human beings is the desire to start learning at the moment of birth. The rather formal learning process that learners have to deal with in school, on vocational training or in university, is currently subject to fundamental changes. The increasing technologization, overall existing mobile devices, the ubiquitous access to digital information, and students being early adaptors of all these technological innovations require reactions on the part of the educational system.
This study examines such a reaction: The use of mobile learning in higher education.
Examining the subject m-learning first requires an investigation of the educational model e-learning. Many universities already established e-learning as one of their educational segments, providing a wide range of methods to support this kind of teaching.
This study includes an empirical acceptance analysis regarding the general learning behavior of students and their approval of e-learning methods. A survey on the approval of m-learning supplements the results.
Mobile learning is characterized by both the mobility of the communication devices and the users. Both factors lead to new correlations, demonstrate the potential of today's mobile devices and the probability to increase the learning performance.
The dissertation addresses these correlations and the use of mobile devices in the context of m-learning. M-learning and the usage of mobile devices not only require a reflection from a technological point of view. In addition to the technical features of such mobile devices, the usability of their applications plays an important role, especially with regard to the limited display size.
For the purpose of evaluating mobile apps and browser-based applications, various analytical methods are suitable.
The concluding heuristic evaluation points out the vulnerability of an established m-learning application, reveals the need for improvement, and shows an approach to rectify the shortcoming.
Bücher werden nicht erst seit ihrer industriellen Produktion aus gefalzten Papierbogen zusammengesetzt – schon mittelalterliche Codices wurden aus gefalteten Pergamenthäuten konstruiert. Fokus dieser Studie über das Medium Buch ist daher die Kulturtechnik der Faltung. Anders als in der philosophischen Auseinandersetzung mit dem Begriff der Falte, ist die Buchfalte keine anti-lineare Figur, sondern ein operationales Falzscharnier, welches Anordnungen im Buchraum bestimmt und Ornamente hervorbringt. Mediengeschichtliche Fragestellungen sind auf Analysen von Buchmaterial und Künstlerbüchern vom 19. Jahrhundert bis zur Gegenwart basiert. Mit den Büchern u.a. von Christian Boltanski, Hanne Darboven und Hans-Peter Feldmann werden Erkenntnisse über buchgeschichtliche Zusammenhänge gewonnen und das Künstlerbuch in eine Geschichte des Mediums Buch eingestellt.
Bücher werden nicht erst seit ihrer industriellen Produktion aus gefalzten Papierbogen zusammengesetzt – schon mittelalterliche Codices wurden aus gefalteten Pergamenthäuten konstruiert. Fokus dieser Studie über das Medium Buch ist daher die Kulturtechnik der Faltung. Anders als in der philosophischen Auseinandersetzung mit dem Begriff der Falte, ist die Buchfalte keine anti-lineare Figur, sondern ein operationales Falzscharnier, welches Anordnungen im Buchraum bestimmt und Ornamente hervorbringt. Mediengeschichtliche Fragestellungen sind auf Analysen von Buchmaterial und Künstlerbüchern vom 19. Jahrhundert bis zur Gegenwart basiert. Mit den Büchern u.a. von Christian Boltanski, Hanne Darboven und Hans-Peter Feldmann werden Erkenntnisse über buchgeschichtliche Zusammenhänge gewonnen und das Künstlerbuch in eine Geschichte des Mediums Buch eingestellt.
Die Entwicklung von Hybridtechnologien führt zu vielen neuartigen und effizienten Anwen-dungen. Hybridtechnologien kommen immer dann zum Einsatz, wenn die ausschließliche Nutzung einer Technologie oder eines Werkstoffs nicht zum gewünschten Ergebnis führt. Dann kann durch Kombination unterschiedlicher Werkstoffe oder Technologien ein System geschaffen werden, das in seiner Konfiguration ein Optimum an Eigenschaften darstellt.
Im Bauwesen geht die Entwicklung schon seit jeher in Richtung von immer schlankeren ar-chitektonisch ansprechenden Konstruktionen. In der gegenwärtigen Entwicklung ermöglichen hochtechnologische Kunststoffe und Faserwerkstoffe, wie z. B. Kohlenstofffasern, sehr schlanke, leichte und dennoch hochtragfähiger Konstruktionen. Der wirtschaftliche Aspekt bei der Entwicklung von Tragsystemen bzw. -strukturen erfordert dabei in fast allen Fällen eine kostengünstig effiziente Ausbildung und die Optimierung von Trageigenschaften und Kostenfaktoren. Daher besteht oft die Anforderung nach einem Verbundsystem, bei dem unterschiedliche Materialien in der Art miteinander kombiniert werden, dass jeder Werkstoff für eine bestimmte Beanspruchung angeordnet wird und sein Tragfähigkeitspotenzial optimal ausschöpft. Im Rahmen dieser Arbeit werden an konkreten Beispielen Möglichkeiten aufge-zeigt, Hochtechnologiewerkstoffe in effizienter Art und Weise zu nutzen.
Der Kunststoff-Faser-Verbundwerkstoff stellt eine Möglichkeit dar, den als solches nur für dünnschichtige Klebverbindungen nutzbaren Klebstoff in seinen Anwendungsmöglichkeiten zu erweitern. Die Fasern wirken dabei dem mechanischen Schwachpunkt des Klebstoffs, einer nur geringen Zugfestigkeit, effektiv entgegen. Mit faserverstärkten Klebstoff können Anwendungen realisiert werden, bei denen der Klebstoff auch zur Zugkraftübertragung ge-nutzt wird. Zusätzlich bieten Füllstoffe eine Möglichkeit, die Steifigkeit des Klebstoffs zu stei-gern, was für viele mechanischen Beanspruchungen Vorteile mit sich bringt. Die Kombination aus einem partikelgefüllten und zusätzlich faserverstärkten Klebstoff führt zu einem Ver-bundwerkstoff, der für viele unterschiedliche Anwendungen geeignet ist. Praktische Anwen-dungsmöglichkeiten finden sich in der Herstellung von Fassadenelementen, wo der faserver-stärkte Klebstoff zur Verbindung von Aluminiumhohlprofilen verwendet wird. Weitere Anwen-dungsgebiete erstrecken sich auf die Zugkraftbewehrung von Betontragelementen, bei denen der faserverstärkte Klebstoff die Rolle einer Zugbewehrung an der Betonoberfläche übernimmt.
Alu-CFK-Hybridelemente ermöglichen die Herstellung sehr effizienter Tragsysteme, bei de-nen Gewichtsreduzierung der Tragstruktur und Kosteneinsparungen im Betrieb des Bauwerks gleichermaßen ermöglicht werden. Die CFK-Lamellen werden dabei in den am stärksten längskraftbeanspruchten Bereichen eines Aluminiumtragelementes angeordnet, wodurch sich die Biegetragfähigkeit des dann hybriden Tragelements signifikant erhöht. In der Folge können Gewichtsreduzierungen, verglichen mit herkömmlichen Aluminiumtragelementen, erzielt werden. Weiterhin können die Querschnittsaußenmaße bei Alu-CFK-Hybridelementen deutlich reduziert werden. In der Folge vereinfachen sich der Transport und die Montage dieser Art Tragwerke, was besonders bei fliegenden Bauten einen wesentlichen Vorteil dar-stellt.
Der Einsatz von Glas-Kunststoff-Hybridelementen ermöglicht die Konstruktion transparenter Tragstrukturen in einer optisch einzigartigen Qualität. Die Konstruktion eines Glas-Kunststoff-Hybridelementes ermöglicht ein redundant wirkendes Tragverhalten, bei dem die Steifigkeit und optische Qualität des Glases optimal im Tragsystem genutzt werden können. Der Kunst-stoff stellt eine Art Sicherheitselement dar und übernimmt im Falle eines Glasbruchs die Tragwirkung des Glases. Die Eigenschaft der Vorankündigung eines Systemversagens stellt die Grundlage für eine baupraktische Anwendung des Glas-Kunststoff-Hybridelementes als statisches Tragsystem dar. Durch die Redundanz des Tragverhaltens von Glas-Kunststoff-Hybridelementen ist das Versagen dieser Tragstruktur durch optische oder strukturelle An-zeichen erkennbar und eine Bemessung somit möglich.
Für die mechanische Analyse grundlegender Zusammenhänge in Hybridsystemen können ingenieurmäßige, analytische und numerische Betrachtungen durchgeführt werden. Die in-genieurmäßigen Betrachtungen sind sehr gut geeignet, um Abschätzungen zu treffen, die in später durchgeführten experimentellen Bauteiluntersuchungen oft auch ihre Bestätigung fan-den. Bei Detailbetrachtungen, wie z. B. der Analyse eines nichtlinearen Spannungsverlaufes in mechanisch beanspruchten Klebfugen, bietet eine numerische Betrachtung mittels FEM Vorteile, da sie eine sehr detaillierte Auswertung in Bereichen mit hohen Spannungsgradien-ten ermöglicht. Durch die Anwendung der FEM ist es möglich, Strukturen in unterschiedlichen Skalierungsbereichen zu analysieren und dabei auch Bereiche einzubeziehen, die für experimentelle Untersuchungen nur sehr schwer zugänglich sind. Genaue Kenntnisse über das Materialverhalten der zu analysierenden Stoffe stellen dabei eine wesentliche Grundlage für die Erstellung qualitativ hochwertiger Rechenmodelle dar.
Druckbeanspruchte Bauteile aus Beton können mit zugfesten Umschnürungen von außen verstärkt werden. Mit dieser etablierten Methode konnten axiale Traglast und Duktilität von unzureichend bewehrten Stützen bereits verbessert werden. Es wurde jedoch festgestellt, dass der umschnürte Betonkern dennoch an Festigkeit verliert. Um die Wirksamkeit der Umschnürung zu erhöhen, wird deshalb vorgeschlagen, das umschnürende Material vorzuspannen. Dieser Vorschlag wird insbesondere von der neuen Materialgruppe der Formgedächtnislegierungen inspiriert, die thermisch vorspannbar sind.
Bisher sind die Auswirkungen der Vorspannung einer Umschnürung auf das Tragverhalten von Betondruckgliedern kaum untersucht worden. Diese Lücke wird durch systematische Versuche an Betonzylindern mit vorgespannter Umschnürung aus Stahl und kohlenstofffaserverstärktem Kunststoff geschlossen. Die Abbildung der Versuchsergebnisse durch geeignete Modelle ermöglicht auch Aussagen zum Verhalten von Betondruckgliedern mit Umschnürungen aus anderen Materialien, beispielsweise Formgedächtnislegierungen. Um diese in den Berechnungen zu simulieren, wird eine für das Bauwesen infrage kommende eisenbasierte Legierung in separaten axialen Versuchen charakterisiert und thermisch vorgespannt. Die in der vorliegenden Arbeit entwickelten neuen Modelle orientieren sich im Wesentlichen an zwei Zielen: dem Abbilden des mehraxialen Spannungs-Dehnungs-Verhaltens des vorgespannt umschnürten Betons und dem Berechnen der Restfestigkeit des Betons.
Die durchgeführten Versuche und Parameterstudien auf Basis der Modelle zeigen: Die Vorspannung der Umschnürung beeinflusst vor allem die Restfestigkeit des Betons wesentlich. Die gewonnenen Erkenntnisse und neuen Methoden können eingesetzt werden, um das Tragverhalten von Betondruckgliedern mit Umschnürungen aus Stahl, faserverstärktem Kunststoff oder Formgedächtnislegierungen zu bewerten.
Viele Baudenkmale sind dem Konflikt aus baulichem Instandsetzungsbedarf für eine zeitgemäße Nutzung und einer sich möglicherweise daraus ergebenden Gefährdung der Denkmalsubstanz ausgesetzt. Gründe sind steigende Energiekosten für den Gebäudebetrieb, zeitgemäße Anforderungen an Behaglichkeit und Arbeitsschutz, sowie die Vermeidung von Schäden an der Substanz aufgrund baulicher Mängel des konstruktiven Wärme- und Feuchteschutzes. Gleichzeitig gilt für viele Bauten aber auch die Notwendigkeit regelmäßiger Nutzung und Bewirtschaftung, um den Erhalt überhaupt zu sichern. Die energetische Ertüchtigung von Baudenkmalen scheitert in diesem Spannungsfeld oft am unlösbaren Konflikt zwischen dem Erhalt der bauzeitlichen Substanz auf der einen und der notwendigen energetischen Optimierung der Gebäudehülle auf der anderen Seite. Zielsetzung dieser Fallstudie ist die beispielhafte Entwicklung einer bauklimatischen und denkmalgerechten Ertüchtigungsstrategie am Beispiel eines Verwaltungsgebäudes der Nachkriegsmoderne als Beitrag zur Lösung dieses Konfliktes.
Die Reise der Zeichen - Eine Studie zur symbolischen Bildwelt der Xiyü-Kultur an der Seidenstraße
(2015)
Kurzfassung
Die vorliegende Studie untersucht die traditionellen Xiyü-Zeichen im Visuellen verschiedener Volksgruppen am Beispiel Xinjiangs im Nordwesten Chinas, wo einst die alte Seidenstraße entlangführte. Die Untersuchung versteht sich als ein Versuch der systematischen Darstellung der symbolischen Bildwelt in Xinjiang und damit im weiteren Sinne auch als ein Versuch, das Xiyü-Kulturerbe zu bewahren, das angesichts des tiefgreifenden Wandels in China und der Go-West-Strategie des chinesischen Wirtschaftsprogramms, welches sich auf die weiten Westgebiete Chinas bezieht, in Gefahr geraten ist. Es muss ein Weg gefunden werden, Modernisierung und Tradition in Einklang zu bringen.
Diese Studie beschreibt, analysiert und bewertet exemplarisch, wie sich Zeichen und Symbole des Wissens und der Kultur entlang der Seidenstraße in Xinjiang zwischen den östlichen und westlichen Kulturen vermischt haben, wie sie übertragen wurden und inwieweit die Xiyü-Kultur reflektiert, dass Xinjiang ein Treffpunkt zwischen östlichen und westlichen Einflüssen war. In der Annährung an dieses Forschungsziel werden drei Hauptfragen zusammengefasst:
Erstens, was kann das Erfahrungsmodell der alten Seidenstraße zum Verständnis der kulturellen Entwicklung im heutigen Informationszeitalter beitragen?
Zweitens, was bedeutet Vielfalt für die kulturelle Kommunikation in Xinjiang? Steigen die Medienereignisse der visuellen Kommunikation und die internationalen Einflüsse an?
Drittens, wie kann Xinjiang die Chancen der Go-West-Strategie des chinesischen Wirtschaftsprogramms in einer zunehmend globalisierten Welt nutzen und in der zukünftigen weltwirtschaftlichen Entwicklung wieder Vitalität zeigen?
Um sich auf diese Weise den Antworten zu nähern, verwendet diese Studie einen Ansatz, der eine kulturanthropologische Perspektive integriert. Auf Grundlage einer Feldstudie werden Eigenschaften der traditionellen visuellen Xiyü-Zeichen, ihre Bedeutung für die ethnischen Volksgruppen Xinjiangs und den kulturellen Austausch zwischen Europa und Asien diskutiert und der besondere Einfluss von Handel und Verkehrswegen aufgezeigt.
Die visuellen Zeichenformen der Xiyü-Kultur wurden von der Zeit vor der Islamisierung bis hin zur heutigen islamischen Zeit dargestellt. Die Forschung zeigt, dass die Zeichen kein ortsgebundenes Kulturphänomen oder eine lokale Tradition sind, vielmehr werden sie von regionalen, nationalen und internationalen Kulturkreisen bewusst oder unbewusst beeinflusst. Sie sind ein Ergebnis kultureller Kommunikation. Schließlich setzt sich die Studie mit den Zeichen der Xiyü-Kultur Xinjiangs in Relation mit der Go-West-Strategie der chinesischen Regierung auseinander. Die wirtschaftliche Entwicklung bringt für Xinjiang nicht nur Modernisierung und Wohlstand, sondern auch ein kulturelles und ökologisches Ungleichgewicht.
Der Mensch strukturiert alles, was er in seiner Umgebung wahrnimmt, mit Zeichen. Die Xiyü-Zeichen schaffen eine visuelle Strukturierung. Die Xiyü-Kultur hat nach wie vor Einfluss auf die Lebensweise der ethnischen Gruppen in Xinjiang. Heute hat die Konfrontation zwischen der traditionellen Xiyü-Kultur und der wirtschaftlichen Entwicklung zu einem ernsthaften Konflikt in Xinjiang geführt.
Diese Studie versteht sich als eine kritische Interpretation der aktuellen Situation der Xiyü-Kultur bzw. des chinesischen Wirtschaftsprogramms in Xinjiang. Sie will darüber hinaus einen Beitrag leisten zur Analyse der bislang nur unzureichend erfassten Wechselwirkungen zwischen Geschichte, Kultur, Politik und Wirtschaft in der kulturellen Globalisierung in Xinjiang.
As human thought was developing, likewise, the technology used for illumination was growing. But a haul through history, reviewing its pages and analyzing it, inherently brings up old and new question, like: Is it possible to alter negatively the image of historic buildings and monuments through inadequate lighting to the degree of distorting the perception that people have of the work? and if so, what are the causes that generate it? Do the light designers take into consideration criteria to protect not only historic buildings and monuments, but also the environment? What are the consequences that may generate the inadequate lighting of urban heritage to the environment? What are the factors to consider for a proper illumination of urban heritage? The answers to these questions will help lay the foundation for proper illumination of the urban heritage, avoiding at the maximum the light pollution and the effects that it generates, seeking a balance and harmonious reconciliation between the technology, urban heritage and environment, taking as a framework and the case study the urban heritage of a city from the colonial era in southern Mexico, with pre-Hispanic roots and where today you can still see through its streets and buildings an atmosphere of mysticism reflection of their folklore and traditions, this city is known as Chiapa de Corzo, Chiapas.
The conservation of living heritage sites is a highly complex process. Two factors need careful consideration in order to achieve a balance in the management of such sites: the conservation demands of conservation experts for built heritage and the needs of local people for development of their heritage living space. The complexity of factors involved make for an interesting study of living heritage, taken up by this research in its main case study of the town of Nan in Thailand.
Research into the historical background of Nan and its cultural heritage reveals a living heritage site, which is both unique and diverse. Present day Nan was examined using a variety of analysis tools, which were applied to data from interviews, empirical data, field surveys, and documents, in order to better understand the nature of the living heritage site and changing trends over time. Luang Prabang in Lao PDR, a World Heritage site since 1995, was also selected as a further case study with which to compare Nan’s potential World Heritage status from a point of view of changes to living heritage attributes.
The outcomes of the research indicate the importance of the management of the sites, which can be at risk of losing balance by focusing on one aspect of heritage to the detriment of the other. The conservation perspective, if allowed to dominate, as in Luang Prabang, can cause irreparable damage to the social fabric, where the development needs of the town are not met. This research concludes that a balance of power amongst stakeholders in the collaborative networks managing such sites is vital to sustaining a balance of living heritage attributes.
This is a work concerned with the increasing processes of social exclusion in cities nowadays. In approaching this phenomenon, the research highlights how people interact with their institutional environments. This is also, perhaps centrally, an investigation into the possibility to engage an individual perspective to understand the transformation in urban experience, which is orienting society to new uses and forms of exclusion. Following the perspective deployed by the so-called “sociology of individuals” in French sociology or “reengagement of agency” in the Anglo-Saxon world; I claim that individuals as well as collectives are gaining increasing power to question and re-organize institutions. This re-organization, in the case of socio-urban institutions, is no guarantee for major levels in integration, cohesion, and equality. Unfortunately, social institutions are becoming hard in its exclusionary capabilities under people intervention during the last four decades.
I believe that urban sociology is a field of struggle between different perspectives competing to “make sense” of social phenomena in cities. The orientation supported in this research is just one on many and it follows the roots of people and their life experiences within cities and how they influence the processes that shape the city. The last formulation is possibly not the clearest, because as we all know, references to “inhabitants” are presented in every variant of urban sociology. Nevertheless, there are not many variants focusing on peoples’ capability to influence institutional environments and by this way affecting the urban condition in which they find themselves. The particular institution selected for this study is the “School”.
This thesis is organized around two parts: part one includes the conceptual framework, methodological approach, and historical contextualization; part two describes three case studies produced to analyse the forms of and the relations between individuals and school institution. Part one starts from a premise: within the context of declining welfare State in the case of industrialized countries, an important part of urban studies focuses on economic and spatial restructuration. Confronted with the same situation, a part of social sciences shifts to the individuals’ agency and social uncertainty. This research is embedded in the last theoretical description presented above, thus, because it tries to observe urban processes from the perspective of the individual and outside of developed economies. In this sense, Latin America represents a fundamental reference because urban conditions are historically marked by weak institutional arrangements to integrating people and large levels of marginality and exclusion among population. In this scenario individuals’ practices around inclusion-exclusion have an essential meaning in everyday life.
Part two offers three study cases in which the relation between individuals and school institutions has been analyzed for the Metropolitan area of Santiago de Chile (MAS). Using different methodological resources an exhaustive account on three levels is presented: i) geo-referencing State intervention in public policies connected with neighborhood and schools to understand the form and extent of socio-urban exclusion in MAS, ii) narrative biographies applied to parents with children attending primary school, in order to reconstruct the familiar process of school selection and describing its impacts on the stabilization of school as an exclusionary device, and iii) autoethnography to describe in detail the temporal dimension involved in stabilizing actions which reinforces social mechanisms of urban integration-exclusion during the last three decades in Chile.
A key argument advanced by this research proposes that: the way in which the idea of integration is enacted by people in their biographical careers imprints changes on the institutional orientation and by this way, contributes to the reorganization urban life. The high level of social exclusion in Santiago de Chile is not accountable without considering transformation in all socio-urban institutions, especially the school. No family considers social integration with people from a low social, economical or cultural background as relevant orientation for school selection. This particularity of the Chilean social reality is not derivable from any big capitalistic or modernization processes impacting our cities.
Within the light of the thesis findings, I conclude that socio-urban institutions logics must be reassessment under the influences of people actions and representations. I also propose a consideration to major complementarities between urban studies and urban-institutions analysis. The school institutions is not just a sectorial field reserved to the researcher in education, on the contrary, it represent a key entrance to address people’s experience in their institutional urban environments. The re-emergence of social and urban movements in 2010, under the “Arab Spring” or the “Chilean Student Movements”, is not only a demonstration in the public space as result of major global trends. These situations are in essence, for this research, individuals gathering together and calling for recognition and autonomy inside institutional environment that tends to reject them. Similar situation was the focus of the Latin American urban sociology research, within the focus on grassroots and urban social movements at the end of the 1960s and beginning of the 1970s.
In both cases, socio-urban institutions, unaware of recognition requirements claimed by inhabitants, are not beyond individual or collective reach. My main concern is to show that socio-urban institutions are constantly re-shaped as a result of individual action, what makes the difference, is the spirit that we all, socially, imprint on the logics of our socio-urban institutions, moving them to inclusion or exclusion.
Nanostructured materials are extensively applied in many fields of material science for new industrial applications, particularly in the automotive, aerospace industry due to their exceptional physical and mechanical properties. Experimental testing of nanomaterials is expensive, timeconsuming,challenging and sometimes unfeasible. Therefore,computational simulations have been employed as alternative method to predict macroscopic material properties. The behavior of polymeric nanocomposites (PNCs) are highly complex.
The origins of macroscopic material properties reside in the properties and interactions taking place on finer scales. It is therefore essential to use multiscale modeling strategy to properly account for all large length and time scales associated with these material systems, which across many orders of magnitude. Numerous multiscale models of PNCs have been established, however, most of them connect only two scales. There are a few multiscale models for PNCs bridging four length scales (nano-, micro-, meso- and macro-scales). In addition, nanomaterials are stochastic in nature and the prediction of macroscopic mechanical properties are influenced by many factors such as fine-scale features. The predicted mechanical properties obtained by traditional approaches significantly deviate from the measured values in experiments due to neglecting uncertainty of material features. This discrepancy is indicated that the effective macroscopic properties of materials are highly sensitive to various sources of uncertainty, such as loading and boundary conditions and material characteristics, etc., while very few stochastic multiscale models for PNCs have been developed. Therefore, it is essential to construct PNC models within the framework of stochastic modeling and quantify the stochastic effect of the input parameters on the macroscopic mechanical properties of those materials.
This study aims to develop computational models at four length scales (nano-, micro-, meso- and macro-scales) and hierarchical upscaling approaches bridging length scales from nano- to macro-scales. A framework for uncertainty quantification (UQ) applied to predict the mechanical properties
of the PNCs in dependence of material features at different scales is studied. Sensitivity and uncertainty analysis are of great helps in quantifying the effect of input parameters, considering both main and interaction effects, on the mechanical properties of the PNCs. To achieve this major
goal, the following tasks are carried out:
At nano-scale, molecular dynamics (MD) were used to investigate deformation mechanism of glassy amorphous polyethylene (PE) in dependence of temperature and strain rate. Steered molecular dynamics (SMD)were also employed to investigate interfacial characteristic of the PNCs.
At mico-scale, we developed an atomistic-based continuum model represented by a representative volume element (RVE) in which the SWNT’s properties and the SWNT/polymer interphase are modeled at nano-scale, the surrounding polymer matrix is modeled by solid elements. Then, a two-parameter model was employed at meso-scale. A hierarchical multiscale approach has been developed to obtain the structure-property relations at one length scale and transfer the effect to the higher length
scales. In particular, we homogenized the RVE into an equivalent fiber.
The equivalent fiber was then employed in a micromechanical analysis (i.e. Mori-Tanaka model) to predict the effective macroscopic properties of the PNC. Furthermore, an averaging homogenization process was also used to obtain the effective stiffness of the PCN at meso-scale.
Stochastic modeling and uncertainty quantification consist of the following ingredients:
- Simple random sampling, Latin hypercube sampling, Sobol’ quasirandom sequences, Iman and Conover’s method (inducing correlation in Latin hypercube sampling) are employed to generate independent and dependent sample data, respectively.
- Surrogate models, such as polynomial regression, moving least squares (MLS), hybrid method combining polynomial regression and MLS, Kriging regression, and penalized spline regression, are employed as an approximation of a mechanical model. The advantage of the surrogate models is the high computational efficiency and robust as they can be constructed from a limited amount of available data.
- Global sensitivity analysis (SA) methods, such as variance-based methods for models with independent and dependent input parameters, Fourier-based techniques for performing variance-based methods and partial derivatives, elementary effects in the context of local SA, are used to quantify the effects of input parameters and their interactions on the mechanical properties of the PNCs. A bootstrap technique is used to assess the robustness of the global SA methods with respect to their performance.
In addition, the probability distribution of mechanical properties are determined by using the probability plot method. The upper and lower bounds of the predicted Young’s modulus according to 95 % prediction intervals were provided.
The above-mentioned methods study on the behaviour of intact materials. Novel numerical methods such as a node-based smoothed extended finite element method (NS-XFEM) and an edge-based smoothed phantom node method (ES-Phantom node) were developed for fracture problems. These methods can be used to account for crack at macro-scale for future works. The predicted mechanical properties were validated and verified. They show good agreement with previous experimental and simulations results.
Superplasticizers are utilized both to improve the fluidity during the placement and to reduce the water content of concretes. Both effects have also an impact on the properties of the hardened concrete. As a side effect the presence of superplasticizers affects the strength development of concretes that is strongly retarded. This may lead to an ecomomical drawback of the concrete manufacturing. The present work is aimed at gaining insights on the causes of the retarding effect of superplasticizers on the hydration of Portland cement. In order to simplify the complex interactions occurring during the hydration of Portland cement the majority of the work focuses on the interaction of superplasticizer and tricalcium silicate (Ca3SiO5 or C3S, the main compound of Portland cement clinker). The tests are performed in three main parts accompanied by methods as for example isothermal conduction calorimetry, electrical conductivity, Electron Microscopy, ICP-OES, TOC, as well as Analytical Ultracentrifugation.
In the first main part and based on the interaction of cations and anionic charges of polymers, the interactions between calcium ions and superplasticizers are investigated. As a main effect calcium ions are complexed by the functional groups of the polymers (carboxy, sulfonic). Calcium ions may be both dissolved in the aqueous phase and a constitute of particle interfaces. Besides these effects it is furthermore shown that superplasticizers induce the formation of nanoscaled particles which are dispersed in the aqueous phase (cluster formation). Analogous to recent findings in the field of biomineralization, it is reasonable to assume that these nanoparticles influence the crystal growth by their assembly process.
Based on the assumption that superplasticizers hinder either or both dissolution and precipitation and by that retard the cement hydration, the impact on separate reactions is investigated. On experiments that address the solubility of C-S-H phases and portlandite, it is shown that complexation of calcium ions in the aqueous phase by functional groups of polymers increases the solubility of portlandite. Contrary, in case of C-S-H solubility the complexation of calcium ions in solution leads to decrease of the calcium ion concentration in the aqueous phase. These effects are explained by differences in adsorption of polymers on C-S-H phases and portlandite. It is proposed that adsorption is stronger on C-S-H phases compared to portlandite due to the increased specific surface area of C-S-H phases. Following that, it is claimed that before polymers are able to adsorb on C-S-H phases the functional groups must be screened by calcium ions in the aqueous phase. It is further shown that data regarding the impact of superplasticizers on the unconstrained dissolution rate of C3S does not provide a clear relation to the overall retarding effect occurring during the hydration of C3S. Both increased and decreased dissolution rate with respect to the reference sample are detected. If the complexation capability of the superplasticizers is considered then also a reduced dissolution rate of C3S is determined. Despite the fact that the global hydration process is accelerated, the addition of calcite leads to a slower dissolution rate. Thus, a hindered unconstrained dissolution of C3S as possibly cause for the retarding effect still remains open for discussion. In the last section of this part, the pure crystallization of hydrate phases (C-S-H phases, portlandite) is fathomed. Results clearly show that superplasticizers prolong the induction time and modify the rate of crystal growth during pure crystallization in particular due to the complexation of ions in solution. But this effect is insufficient to account for the overall retarding effect. Further important factors are the blocking of crystal growth faces by adsorbed polymers and the dispersion of nanoscaled particles which hinders their agglomeration in order to build up crystals.
In the last main part of the work, the previously gathered results are utilized in order to investigate hydration kinetics. During hydration, dissolution and precipitation occur in parallel. Thereby, special attention is laid on the ion composition of the aqueous phase of C3S pastes and suspensions in order to determine the rate limiting step. All in all it is concluded that the retarding effect of superplasticizers on the hydration of tricalcium silicate is based on the retardation of crystallization of hydrate phases (C-S-H phases and portlandite). Thereby, the two effects complexation of calcium ions on surfaces and stabilization of nanoscaled particles are of major importance. These mechanisms may partly be compensated by template performance and increase in solubility by complexation of ions in solution. The decreased dissolution rate of C3S by the presence of superplasticizers during the in parallel occuring hydration process can only be assessed indirectly by means of the development of the ion concentrations in the aqueous phase (reaction path). Whether this observation is the cause or the consequence within the dissolution-precipitation process and therefore accounts for the retarding effect remains a topic for further investigations.
Besides these results it is shown that superplasticizers can be associated chemically with inhibitors because they reduce the frequency factor to end the induction period. Because the activation energy is widely unaffected it is shown that the basic reaction mechanism sustain. Furthermore, a method was developed which permits for the first time the determination of ion concentrations in the aqueous phase of C3S pastes in-situ. It is shown that during the C3S hydration the ion concentration in the aqueous phase is developed correspondingly to the heat release rate (calorimetry). The method permits the differentiation of the acceleration period in three stages. It is emphasized that crystallization of the product phases of C3S hydration, namely C-S-H phases and portlandite, are responsible for the end of the induction period.
One major research focus in the Material Science and Engineering Community in the past decade has been to obtain a more fundamental understanding on the phenomenon 'material failure'. Such an understanding is critical for engineers and scientists developing new materials with higher strength and toughness, developing robust designs against failure, or for those concerned with an accurate estimate of a component's design life. Defects like cracks and dislocations evolve at
nano scales and influence the macroscopic properties such as strength, toughness and ductility of a material. In engineering applications, the global response of the system is often governed by the behaviour at the smaller length scales. Hence, the sub-scale behaviour must be computed accurately for good predictions of the full scale behaviour.
Molecular Dynamics (MD) simulations promise to reveal the fundamental mechanics of material failure by modeling the atom to atom interactions. Since the atomistic dimensions are of the order of Angstroms ( A), approximately 85 billion atoms are required to model a 1 micro- m^3 volume of Copper. Therefore, pure atomistic models are prohibitively expensive with everyday engineering computations involving macroscopic cracks and shear bands, which are much larger than the atomistic length and time scales. To reduce the computational effort, multiscale methods are required, which are able to couple a continuum description of the structure with an atomistic description. In such paradigms, cracks and dislocations are explicitly modeled at the atomistic scale, whilst a self-consistent continuum model elsewhere.
Many multiscale methods for fracture are developed for "fictitious" materials based on "simple" potentials such as the Lennard-Jones potential. Moreover, multiscale methods for evolving cracks are rare. Efficient methods to coarse grain the fine scale defects are missing. However, the existing multiscale methods for fracture do not adaptively adjust the fine scale domain as the crack propagates. Most methods, therefore only "enlarge" the fine scale domain and therefore drastically increase computational cost. Adaptive adjustment requires the fine scale domain to be refined and coarsened. One of the major difficulties in multiscale methods for fracture is to up-scale fracture related material information from the fine scale to the coarse scale, in particular for complex crack problems. Most of the existing approaches therefore were applied to examples with comparatively few macroscopic cracks.
Key contributions
The bridging scale method is enhanced using the phantom node method so that cracks can be modeled at the coarse scale. To ensure self-consistency in the bulk, a virtual atom cluster is devised providing the response of the intact material at the coarse scale. A molecular statics model is employed in the fine scale where crack propagation is modeled by naturally breaking the bonds. The fine scale and coarse scale models are coupled by enforcing the displacement boundary conditions on the ghost atoms. An energy criterion is used to detect the crack tip location. Adaptive refinement and coarsening schemes are developed and implemented during the crack propagation. The results were observed to be in excellent agreement with the pure atomistic simulations. The developed multiscale method is one of the first adaptive multiscale method for fracture.
A robust and simple three dimensional coarse graining technique to convert a given atomistic region into an equivalent coarse region, in the context of multiscale fracture has been developed. The developed method is the first of its kind. The developed coarse graining technique can be applied to identify and upscale the defects like: cracks, dislocations and shear bands. The current method has been applied to estimate the equivalent coarse scale models of several complex fracture patterns arrived from the pure atomistic simulations. The upscaled fracture pattern agree well with the actual fracture pattern. The error in the potential energy of the pure atomistic and the coarse grained model was observed to be acceptable.
A first novel meshless adaptive multiscale method for fracture has been developed. The phantom node method is replaced by a meshless differential reproducing kernel particle method. The differential reproducing kernel particle method is comparatively more expensive but allows for a more "natural" coupling between the two scales due to the meshless interpolation functions. The higher order continuity is also beneficial. The centro symmetry parameter is used to detect the crack tip location. The developed multiscale method is employed to study the complex crack propagation. Results based on the meshless adaptive multiscale method were observed to be in excellent agreement with the pure atomistic simulations.
The developed multiscale methods are applied to study the fracture in practical materials like Graphene and Graphene on Silicon surface. The bond stretching and the bond reorientation were observed to be the net mechanisms of the crack growth in Graphene. The influence of time step on the crack propagation was studied using two different time steps. Pure atomistic simulations of fracture in Graphene on Silicon surface are presented. Details of the three dimensional multiscale method to study the fracture in Graphene on Silicon surface are discussed.
The main objective of this thesis is to investigate the characteristics of rice husk ash RHA) and then its behaviour in self-compacting high performance concrete (SCHPC) with respects to rheological properties, hydration and microstructure development and alkali silica reaction, in comparison with silica fume (SF). The main results show that the RHA is a macro-mesoporous amorphous siliceous material with a very high silica content comparable with SF. The pore size distribution is the most important parameter of RHA besides amorphous silica content. This parameter affects pore volume, specific surface area, and thus the water demand and the pozzolanic reactivity of RHA and its behaviour in SCHPC. The incorporation of RHA decreases filling and passing abilities, but significantly increases plastic viscosity and segregation resistance of SCHPC. Therefore, RHA can be used as a viscosity modifying admixture for SCHPC. The incorporation of RHA increases the superplasticizer adsorption, the superplasticizer saturation dosage, yield stress and plastic viscosity of mortar. Fresh mortar formulated from SCHPC is a shear-thickening material. The incorporation of RHA/SF ecreases the shearthickening degree. The incorporation of RHA/SF increases the degree of cement hydration. SF appears more effective at 3 days possibly due to the better nucleation site effect, whereas RHA dominates at the later ages possibly due to the internal water curing effect. The incorporation of RHA/SF increases the degree of C3S hydration, particularly the C3S hydration rate from 3 to 14 days. The pozzolanic reaction takes place outside and inside RHA particles.
The internal pozzolanic eaction products consolidate the pores inside RHA particles rather than contribute to the pore refinement in the cement matrix. In the presence of the high alkali concentration, RHA particles act as microreactive aggregates and react with alkali hydroxide to generate the expansive alkali silica reaction products. Increasing the particle size and temperature increases the alkali silica reactivity of RHA. The mechanism for the successive pozzolanic and alkali silica reactions of RHA is theorized. Additionally, a new simple
mix design method is proposed for SCHPC containing various supplementary cementitious materials, i.e. RHA, SF, fly ash and limestone powder.
Abstract
This doctoral thesis defines the relationship between the urban and rural in the 21st century, and focuses on food as a key component. The fact that food is, for the most part, produced in the countryside and then transported to the city has a significant influence on this very unbalanced relationship today. The main goal was to show that it is necessary to bring agriculture, urban gardening, the breeding of domestic farm animals, and beekeeping back to the city, which would have a positive affect on both the city and the countryside. All of this is already taking place at the local level, within the neighbourhoods of our cities and through the work of self-organised activities and initiatives, which have been taken up by city residents themselves. One example of this is the community garden, a new model of gardening which offers fertile ground for growing vegetables and to test various forms of co-existence, different ways of designing spaces, the creation of alternative values, and a positive vision for the future of city residents.
In 2010, I co-created the community urban garden Beyond a Construction Site, which is the central part of this artistic research. Throughout the entire four-year process of creating this community garden, theory and artistic practice were intertwined, and informed one another. This community garden is an example of a self-organised and self-managed community space located in a residential neighbourhood in the centre of the city of Ljubljana, and as such is a typical example of urbanism from the bottom up. I placed the creation and development of our community garden in a dialogue with the formal way of arranging urban gardening in Ljubljana, a top-down approach, which the city has been carrying out intensively since 2007. I compared the solutions being proposed by the city of Ljubljana for organising urban gardening with the way it is organised in other European cities, the UK, and the USA. I also researched the recent rapid growth of self-organised initiatives which are focused on the local production of food and seek to find more economic and ecologically friendly models to visibly influence the future of cities and the countryside. Here, community gardens play an important role, as in addition to the production of food they are also spaces for the criticism of existing urban policies, a self-organised revitalisation of neglected spaces, and places of resilience, because they differ from that which real estate agencies, large financial companies, and city authorities desire them to be.
The community garden Beyond a Construction Site has become living proof that, through a group action, the residents of a neighbourhood can influence existing city policies and the future of both their own neighbourhood and that of the entire city. The initiators of this garden are artists and architects, and we began this community garden in the context of an art festival, which also shows that art can influence the processes of everyday life and help to create much needed spaces within cities to serve various purposes. Our community garden has also shown itself to be an important platform for the exchange of knowledge on organic gardening, ecology in everyday life, and critical architecture, as well as serving to connect related initiatives. Together with these other initiatives we are stronger, and are influencing structural changes within city politics, thereby also co-creating the future of Ljubljana. This community garden is helping us to redefine our relationship with the city and re-awaken the desires and actions of residents connected with realising their fundamental right, the right to the city.
My other artworks, which I am presenting in the context of this doctoral thesis, show an optimistic vision for the future of cities. The video animations Back to the City (2011) and The Right Balance (2013), as well as the accompanying collages, visualise a city of the future where urban and rural practices live together side-by-side. This vision is being realised by city residents themselves, with their active participation in the creation of community gardens, growing their own vegetables, urban beekeeping, and by having egg-laying hens in their gardens. My desire was also to present the theoretical concept and scientific research to a non-academic public, and to people without specialised training. Using the method of storytelling I included knowledge from the research into the video animations and collages. In this way my artistic work, with an intentional playfulness, challenges today’s faith in science and theoretical concepts, as well as directing attention to working with common sense, with one’s own hands, and with the earth. This can contribute to a change in the still dominant anthropocentric view of nature, which is an urgently needed change for our future.
Keywords: rural, urban agriculture, community gardens, urban beekeeping, the bottom-up approach to urban planning, alternative spaces
This thesis applies the theory of \psi-hyperholomorphic functions dened in R^3 with values in the set of paravectors, which is identified with the Eucledian space R^3, to tackle some problems in theory and practice: geometric mapping properties, additive decompositions of harmonic functions and applications in the theory of linear elasticity.
In der vorliegenden Ph.D.-Arbeit werden die Bereiche Materialität, Objektkultur und Physical Computing adressiert. Der Autor erkennt nun durch die durchlaufene intensive theoretische Betrachtungsweise des Themas Materialität die Bedeutung von Tastsinn und Objektoberflächen für den Alltag des praktizierenden Gestalters und proklamiert eine Wende und Hinwendung der Designpraxis zu den Potenzialen von Materialität und deren Bedeutung für die Akteure. Die Aufgabe der Praxisforschung ist es, eine inklusive Optimierungsmethode des Produktdesigns zu gestalten, mit der Designentwicklungen durch überprüfbare Nutzungsdaten optimiert werden können. Die taktile Pilotmethode ergab auf Basis der Generierung von Nutzerkarten Erkenntnisse über biometrische Werte, individuelle Körpergrößen und unterschiedliche Handhabungsprinzipien.
Communities in discourse and space. Towards a spatial dialectic in gated residential developments
(2015)
This research projects deals with the discoursivity of spatial production.
By looking at contemporary residential development in the city of Istanbul, I will examine the reciprocity of the material production of space on one hand, and social discourses on the other, in order to make a contribution to how physical space can be used as a source of research in urban studies. In real estate marketing social discourses are used as a source of reference for place branding or identity design. Branding concepts therefore relate to how social groups imagine their position or future position in society, imaginaries that are continuously influenced and changed by social dynamics within the city but also from the outside. How such urban identities are formed and it what way they relate to the urban environment is crucial to a wide spectrum of social and cultural science. The constitutive role urban space attains has been described and analysed in much detail. Such scrutiny however has yet to be applied to the visual and communicative forms of engagement, the build environment partakes in the formation and change of social discourses.
In der vorliegenden Arbeit werden Manifestäußerungen des Design- und Architekturdiskurses im situativen, medialen, institutionellen und historischen Kontext untersucht. Auf Grundlage einer Analyse der Etymologie und der Ideengeschichte des Manifestes wird anhand ausgewählter Beispiele die These belegt, dass das Medium vor allem der gezielten Rezeptionssteuerung im Diskurs dient. Darüber hinaus wird die Fähigkeit und Bedeutung des Manifestes als Spiegel vergangener und gegenwärtiger, aber auch als Wegbereiter zukünftiger Diskurse analysiert und Entwicklungen des Manifestes hinsichtlich Stilistik, Inhalt, Funktion und Bedeutung im Design- und Architekturdiskurs dargestellt.
In der vorliegenden Arbeit werden Manifestäußerungen des Design- und Architekturdiskurses im situativen, medialen, institutionellen und historischen Kontext untersucht. Auf Grundlage einer Analyse der Etymologie und der Ideengeschichte des Manifestes wird anhand ausgewählter Beispiele die These belegt, dass das Medium vor allem der gezielten Rezeptionssteuerung im Diskurs dient. Darüber hinaus wird die Fähigkeit und Bedeutung des Manifestes als Spiegel vergangener und gegenwärtiger, aber auch als Wegbereiter zukünftiger Diskurse analysiert und Entwicklungen des Manifestes hinsichtlich Stilistik, Inhalt, Funktion und Bedeutung im Design- und Architekturdiskurs dargestellt.
This thesis deals with the basic design and rigorous analysis of cryptographic schemes and primitives, especially of authenticated encryption schemes, hash functions, and password-hashing schemes.
In the last decade, security issues such as the PS3 jailbreak demonstrate that common security notions are rather restrictive, and it seems that they do not model the real world adequately. As a result, in the first part of this work, we introduce a less restrictive security model that is closer to reality. In this model it turned out that existing (on-line) authenticated encryption schemes cannot longer beconsidered secure, i.e. they can guarantee neither data privacy nor data integrity. Therefore, we present two novel authenticated encryption scheme, namely COFFE and McOE, which are not only secure in the standard model but also reasonably secure in our generalized security model, i.e. both preserve full data inegrity. In addition, McOE preserves a resonable level of data privacy.
The second part of this thesis starts with proposing the hash function Twister-Pi, a revised version of the accepted SHA-3 candidate Twister. We not only fixed all known security issues
of Twister, but also increased the overall soundness of our hash-function design.
Furthermore, we present some fundamental groundwork in the area of password-hashing schemes. This research was mainly inspired by the medial omnipresence of password-leakage incidences. We show that the password-hashing scheme scrypt is vulnerable against cache-timing attacks due to the existence of a password-dependent memory-access pattern. Finally, we introduce Catena the first password-hashing scheme that is both memory-consuming and resistant against cache-timing attacks.
This thesis presents new interactive visualization techniques and systems intended to support users with real-world decisions such as selecting a product from a large variety of similar offerings, finding appropriate wording as a non-native speaker, and assessing an alleged case of plagiarism.
The Product Explorer is a significantly improved interactive Parallel Coordinates display for facilitating the product selection process in cases where many attributes and numerous alternatives have to be considered. A novel visual representation for categorical and ordered data with only few occurring values, the so-called extended areas, in combination with cubic curves for connecting the parallel axes, are crucial for providing an effective overview of the entire dataset and to facilitate the tracing of individual products. The visual query interface supports users in quickly narrowing down the product search to a small subset or even a single product. The scalability of the approach towards a large number of attributes and products is enhanced by the possibility of setting some constraints on final attributes and, therefore, reducing the number of considered attributes and data items. Furthermore, an attribute repository allows users to focus on the most important attributes at first and to bring in additional criteria for product selection later in the decision process. A user study confirmed that the Product Explorer is indeed an excellent tool for its intended purpose for casual users.
The Wordgraph is a layered graph visualization for the interactive exploration of search results for complex keywords-in-context queries. The system relies on the Netspeak web service and is designed to support non-native speakers in finding customary phrases. Uncertainties about the commonness of phrases are expressed with the help of wildcard-based queries. The visualization presents the alternatives for the wildcards in a multi-column layout: one column per wildcard with the other query fragments in between. The Wordgraph visualization displays the sorted results for all wildcards at once by appropriately arranging the words of each column. A user study confirmed that this is a significant advantage over simple textual result lists. Furthermore, visual interfaces to filter, navigate, and expand the graph allow interactive refinement and expansion of wildcard-containing queries.
Furthermore, this thesis presents an advanced visual analysis tool for assessing and presenting alleged cases of plagiarism and provides a three-level approach for exploring the so-called finding spots in their context. The overview shows the relationship of the entire suspicious document to the set of source documents. An intermediate glyph-based view reveals the structural and textual differences and similarities of a set of finding spots and their corresponding source text fragments. Eventually, the actual fragments of the finding spot can be shown in a side-by-side view with a novel structured wrapping of both the source, as well as the suspicious text. The three different levels of detail are tied together by versatile navigation and selection operations. Reviews with plagiarism experts confirm that this tool can effectively support their workflow and provides a significant improvement over existing static visualizations for assessing and presenting plagiarism cases.
The three main contributions of this research have a lot in common aside from being carefully designed and scientifically grounded solutions to real-world decision problems. The first two visualizations facilitate the decision for a single possibility out of many alternatives, whereas the latter ones deal with text at varying levels of detail. All visual representations are clearly structured based on horizontal and vertical layers contained in a single view and they all employ edges for depicting the most important relationships between attributes, words, or different levels of detail. A detailed analysis considering the context of the established decision-making literature reveals that important steps of common decision models are well-supported by the three visualization systems presented in this thesis.
Der vorliegende Text beschreibt die intensive Erforschung von Wabenplatten aus Papierwerkstoffen, die durch Faltprozesse neue räumliche Zustände einnehmen können und somit ihr ursprüngliches Anwendungsspektrum erweitern. Die gezeigten Lösungsansätze bewegen sich dabei im Spannungsfeld von Architektur und Ingenieurbau, denn die gefalteten Bauteile sind nicht nur äußerst tragfähig sondern besitzen auch eine ästhetische Form. Die entwickelten Verfahren und Konstruktionen werden auf einem hohen architektonischen Niveau präsentiert und mit einfachen ingenieurtechnischen Methoden verifiziert. Zur Lösungsfindung werden geometrische Verfahren ebenso angewendet wie konstruktive Faustformeln und Recherchen aus Architektur und Forschung.
Der Fokus der Arbeit liegt auf der Untersuchung von Faltungen in Wabenplatten. Während der Auseinandersetzung mit der Thematik erschienen jedoch viele weitere Aspekte als sehr interessant und bearbeitungswürdig. Als theoretische Grundlage dieser Arbeit werden deshalb die geschichtliche Entwicklung und die gesellschaftliche Bedeutung von Papier und Papierwerkstoffen analysiert und deren Produktionsprozesse beleuchtet. Diese Vorgehensweise ermöglicht eine Einordnung des Potentials und der Bedeutung des Werkstoffs Papier. Der Kontext der Arbeit wird dadurch gestärkt und führt zu interessanten zukünftigen Forschungsansätzen.
Intensive Untersuchungen widmen sich der geometrischen Bestimmung von Faltungen in Wabenplatten aus Papierwerkstoffen sowie deren Manifestation als konstruktive Bauteile. Auch die statischen Eigenschaften der Elemente und ihr Konstruktionspotential werden erforscht und aufbereitet. Wichtige Impulse aus Forschung und Technik fließen in die Recherche der Arbeit ein und erlauben die Verortung der Ergebnisse im architektonischen Kontext. Versuchsreihen und Materialstudien an Prototypen belegen die Ergebnisse virtueller und rechnerischer Studien. Konzepte zur parametrischen Berechnung und Visualisierung der Forschungsergebnisse werden präsentiert und zeigen zukunftsfähige Planungshilfen für die Industrie auf. Etliche Testreihen zu unterschiedlichsten Abdichtungskonzepten führen zur Realisierung eines sehenswerten Experimentalbaus. Er erlaubt die dauerhafte Untersuchung der entwickelten Bauteile unter realistischen Bedingungen und bestätigt deren Leistungsfähigkeit. Dadurch wird nicht nur ein dauerhaftes Monitoring und eine Evaluierung der Leistungsdaten möglich sondern es wird auch der sichtbare Beweis erbracht, dass mit Papierwerkstoffen effiziente und hochwertige Architekturen zu realisieren sind, welche das enorme gestalterische Potential von gefalteten Wabenplatten ausnutzen.
Abstract
In this research, based on socio-spatiality as the starting point, it has conducted extensive city space analysis to advance a new urban social space theory. Resting upon the basis of traditional continent philosophy, this social space theory has adopted the structuration methods, at the same time trying to build certain combination between theoretical frame work establishment and empirical observations. Therefore, the socio-spatial transition study is neither a macro theory of traditional structuralism nor a typology of urban planning theory, or a positivism social geography, but an operative theory on practical purpose. Firstly, what’s distinct from the traditional structuralism is that this study examines the endless transiting structural relations, not macroscopic narrations of absolute definition and structure. In fact, any city and space are always co-existed in their structurational transiting relationship, thus research in transition has become the main body of this study. And case study is a must for research in transition, as part of efforts to apply the structuration concept into practice reason. Secondly, this study first establishes the fundamental structuration concept of socio-spatial transition, which, as an operative tool, is applied to conduct transition analysis on specific case about the City of Beijing. Therefore, as a social space theory, referring to as science, remains criticism of traditional continent philosophy. However, this criticism did not working on the level of ideology or conceptions, but on transiting under structural relations, keeping it from incompetent ideology criticism of continental critical theory. Unfortunately contemporary urban and space development have now gone extremely unbalanced under a background of globalization; yet traditional macro theories are incapable of either producing significant impact on practice or helping people identify practical problems. While facing general issues, particularly the Chinese urban issue category established on a meta-structured city mode, the micro-case study has plunged into dilemma for unknowing either to ask questions or to answer questions. Therefore, this study is set to identify dilemma and find direction for future relevant research. In this dissertation, Beijing is used as a model, and structuration methods as tools. It has extensively analyzed the social-spatial transition of the city space of Beijing, acquiring brand-new knowledge of its urban space development. It is helpful to an in-depth understanding of the city space development not only in Beijing, but also in many other cities that were influenced by the capital model of Beijing. Since the start of reform and opening-up, China has created a unique development mode of the new-styled metropolitan and urbanization in history. This research is expected to analyze or decode what China’s urban development in between communal space and associative space.
The refurbishment of old buildings often goes hand in hand with an increase in both the dead and live loads. The latter, combined with the higher safety factors, often make the reinforcement of the old structures necessary. Most reinforcement methods involve transforming a structural timber member into a composite beam. Composite sections have a long tradition in timber construction. In the early days, multiple timber beams were connected with interlocking tooth and wooden shear connecters, which resulted in an elastic connection. Although historical timber structures are frequently upgraded, no method has yet been established and fully accepted by all stakeholders such as owners, builders, architects, engineers and cultural heritage organisations. Carbon fibre-reinforced polymers (CFRP) have already shown their efficiency in structural reinforcement especially in concrete structures. Moreover, previous studies have shown that CFRP has the potential to meet the expectations of all parties involved.
In order to reach the service-limit state, a high amount of carbon fibres has to be used, or considering the cost of reinforcement, prestress has to be applied. However, prestressing often goes hand-in-hand with delaminating issues. The camber method presented here offers an efficient solution for prestressing timber bending members and overcoming the known obstacles.
In the method proposed, the timber beam is cambered using an adjustable prop at midspan during the bonding of the CRFP-lamella to the lower side of the bending member. After curing the adhesive, the prop is removed and the prestressed composite beam is ready to be used. The prestress introduced in the system is not constant, but has a triangular shape and peaks at midspan, where it is used the most. The prestress force, which declines towards the end of the beam, leads to a constant shear stress over the whole length of the reinforcement,avoiding a concentrated anchorage zone.
An analytical calculation model has been developed to calculate and design prestressed timber-
bending members using the camber method. Numerical modelling, using a multi-surface plasticity model for timber, confirmed the results from the analytical model, and clearly reduced delaminating issues, comparing very favourably to traditional prestressing methods. The experimental parametric study, including the determination of the short-term loadbearing capacity of structural-sized beams, showed agreement with the analytical and numerical calculation. The prestressed reinforcement showed a benefit of nearly 50% towards the ultimate-limit state and up to 70% towards the service-limit state. Calculations revealed that the use of high modulus CFRP allows even higher benefits, depending on the configurations and requirements. The long-term design of the prestressed composite beam was investigated by extending the analytical model. The creep of the timber leads to a load transfer from the timber towards the CFRP, and therefore increases the benefit towards the ultimatelimit design. Applying high modulus CFRP-lamellas allows for a complete utilisation of the
design capacity of timber and carbon fibre-reinforced polymer.
The thorough investigation conducted demonstrated that the camber method is an efficient technique for prestressing and reinforcing timber-bending members. Furthermore, the calculation model presented allows for a safe design and estimation of long-term behaviour.
Methods based on B-splines for model representation, numerical analysis and image registration
(2015)
The thesis consists of inter-connected parts for modeling and analysis using newly developed isogeometric methods. The main parts are reproducing kernel triangular B-splines, extended isogeometric analysis for solving weakly discontinuous problems, collocation methods using superconvergent points, and B-spline basis in image registration applications.
Each topic is oriented towards application of isogeometric analysis basis functions to ease the process of integrating the modeling and analysis phases of simulation.
First, we develop reproducing a kernel triangular B-spline-based FEM for solving PDEs. We review the triangular B-splines and their properties. By definition, the triangular basis function is very flexible in modeling complicated domains. However, instability results when it is applied for analysis. We modify the triangular B-spline by a reproducing kernel technique, calculating a correction term for the triangular kernel function from the chosen surrounding basis. The improved triangular basis is capable to obtain the results with higher accuracy and almost optimal convergence rates.
Second, we propose an extended isogeometric analysis for dealing with weakly discontinuous problems such as material interfaces. The original IGA is combined with XFEM-like enrichments which are continuous functions themselves but with discontinuous derivatives. Consequently, the resulting solution space can approximate solutions with weak discontinuities. The method is also applied to curved material interfaces, where the inverse mapping and the curved triangular elements are considered.
Third, we develop an IGA collocation method using superconvergent points. The collocation methods are efficient because no numerical integration is needed. In particular when higher polynomial basis applied, the method has a lower computational cost than Galerkin methods. However, the positions of the collocation points are crucial for the accuracy of the method, as they affect the convergent rate significantly. The proposed IGA collocation method uses superconvergent points instead of the traditional Greville abscissae points. The numerical results show the proposed method can have better accuracy and optimal convergence rates, while the traditional IGA collocation has optimal convergence only for even polynomial degrees.
Lastly, we propose a novel dynamic multilevel technique for handling image registration. It is application of the B-spline functions in image processing. The procedure considered aims to align a target image from a reference image by a spatial transformation. The method starts with an energy function which is the same as a FEM-based image registration. However, we simplify the solving procedure, working on the energy function directly. We dynamically solve for control points which are coefficients of B-spline basis functions. The new approach is more simple and fast. Moreover, it is also enhanced by a multilevel technique in order to prevent instabilities. The numerical testing consists of two artificial images, four real bio-medical MRI brain and CT heart images, and they show our registration method is accurate, fast and efficient, especially for large deformation problems.
Theoretischer Teil:
Durch den Vergleich der Daten, die sowohl von den Instituten bzw. Statistikunternehmen z. B. Google, Bundesnetzagentur und Statista in Deutschland, 中国互联网络信息中心 in China, FIND in Taiwan usw. zur Verfügung gestellt wurden, als auch durch die von mir durchgeführten Umfragen in den jeweiligen Ländern, sowie durch die Interviews in Weimar, zeigen sich die kulturellen Unterschiede sowie die Gemeinsamkeiten bei der Nutzung des Smartphones. Darüber hinaus ergaben sich noch einige Konsequenzen bei den Interpretationen dieser Ergebnisse, die eng mit der Entstehung der kulturellen Unterschiede zusammenhängen.
Praktischer Teil:
Der erste Entwurf ist eine visuelle Tastatur. Um die Bildschirmtastatur zu verbessern, versucht type right ! (der Name meines Entwurfs) das Problem von Vertippen beim Eingeben zu lösen. type right ! hat zwei Schwerpunkte: 1. geänderte Positionen der Buchstaben und Zeichen und 2. geänderte Form der Taste.
Der zweite Entwurf handelt von einem Konzept einer App für die Integrationsmöglichkeit der Kommunikation.
Die Bau-Ausstellung zu Beginn des 20. Jahrhunderts oder „Die Schwierigkeit zu wohnen“, so lautet der Titel der Arbeit und legt damit ihren Fokus offen. Sie betrachtet ein um 1900 aufkommendes Ausstellungsphänomen in seinen ersten Dekaden; in einer Zeit, in der das Wohnen problematisiert wurde.
Der Praxis des Wohnens ist Anfang des 20. Jahrhunderts seine Selbstverständlichkeit abgesprochen worden. Die Bau-Ausstellung wird als ein Symptom dieses Verlusts interpretiert und zugleich als Versuch, ihm entgegenzuwirken. Statt sie innerdisziplinär als eine architekturgeschichtliche Episode der Moderne rein positivistisch zu beschreiben, legt die vorliegende Arbeit im Typus der Bau-Ausstellung eine weit reichende Problematik frei, die kulturphilosophische ebenso wie medientheoretische Dimensionen hat: Inwieweit lässt sich das Wohnen überhaupt ausstellen? Wie kann man eine alltägliche Praxis, die kaum eine Definition erlaubt, zeigen? Den Umgang mit dieser Aporie untersucht die Arbeit.
Promotion an der Bauhaus-Universität Weimar (Dr. phil.) und zugleich PhD an der University of British Columbia Vancouver.
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Die Dissertation über „Ambiguität im zeitgenössischen Film – Flugversuche“ folgt der Spur einer populären narrativen Tendenz im Kino – nämlich der Mehrdeutigkeit – und zeichnet ihr dramaturgisches Potential, wie ihre ethischen (bzw. mikropolitischen) Implikationen nach. Um typische Muster in der Wahrnehmung mehrdeutiger Filmerzählungen zu beschreiben, die bereits auf der vorbewussten Ebene der Affekte wirksam sind, greife ich auf Begriffe der Prozessphilosophie Alfred North Whitehead’s zurück und auf ihre neueren Reformulierungen bei Gilles Deleuze und Brian Massumi. Ausgehend von Alejandro González Iñárritu’s "Babel" (2006) begibt sich der Leser im ersten Teil auf einen virtuellen Rundflug durch ausgewählte Filmbeispiele mit einem kulturellen Ankerpunkt im heutigen Japan. Im zweiten Teil beschreibe und reflektiere ich mein methodisches Vorgehen in den ersten Phasen der Stoffentwicklung zu einem suggestiven Spielfilmprojekt, und kontextualisiere es mit Interviews zeitgenössischer Autorenfilmer, die ähnliche Erzählweisen entwickeln.
Inhaltliche Struktur:
Theoretischer Teil: Um Kulturtechniken des künstlerischen Ausdruckes, und damit den Bezug zwischen Kunst und Medientechnologie zu ergründen, wurde das Verhältnis zwischen dem Betrachter und dem Betrachteten erforscht. Begriffe wie Originalität, Repräsentation, Imitation sowie Aneignung und Rezeption kommen an historischen Beispielen zur Diskussion.
Praktischer Teil: Mit zwei Ausstellungen (Malerei, Installation) wurden verschiedene Modelle des Sehens problematisiert, um kulturelle und historische Variablen zu ermitteln, die visuelle Kultur begründen. Außerdem wurden die Unterschiede zwischen Beobachter und Betrachter/Zuschauer in Ausstellungssituationen hinterfragt.
Kurzfassung:
Medientechnologie hat sich selbst zu einer Kunstform entwickelt. Sie kann Künstler dabei unterstützen, ihre Ideen handwerklich umzusetzen (Beispiel: Camera Obscura) und zu reflektieren. Dabei geht es um mehr als um technische Hilfmittel für den künstlerischen Ausdruck. Wird die Beziehung zwischen Betrachter und Betrachtetem als eine Transaktion gesehen, in der beide Begriffe gleichermaßen aufs Spiel gesetzt werden, dann ist es notwendig eine Visualität zu bestimmen, an der der Betrachter (im Sinne von Jonathan Crary) aktiv teilnimmt. Das Sehen darf nicht als absolute Erfahrung verstanden werden, denn einzeln analysiert – ohne Einbeziehung anderer Sinneswahrnehmungen und deren mediale Erweiterungen – führt es zu keinem adäquaten Verständnis davon, wie Bedeutungen produziert werden. Daraus ergibt sich die Forschungsfrage, wie die künstlerische Reaktion auf die im 19. Jahrhundert aufstrebenden Fotografie die Ausdrucksformen beeinflusste und ob sich die gegenseitige Abhängigkeit von Malerei und Fotografie wissenschaftlich-künstlerisch rekonstruieren lässt.
Die theoretische Referenz für diese Forschung bildeten Theorieansätze nicht der Kunstgeschichte, sondern der „Visual Culture Studies“, konkret: Martin Jay („Scopic Regimes of Modernity“), Jonathan Crary („Techniques of the Observer“) und Rosalind Krauss („Originality“).
Dazu wurde die Rezeption der aufkommenden Fotografie in der künstlerischen Produktion beispielhaft untersucht, wobei mit Eugène Delacroix, Gustave Caillebotte sowie dem künstlerischen Dialog zwischen Henri Matisse und Brassai die Problematik herausgearbeitet wurde, mit der sich die bildende Kunst im Lauf jener Jahrzehnte, in denen die Fotografie sich etabliert hat, konfrontiert sah. Sie war eine medientechnische Neuheit mit älteren Wurzeln und diente der Malerei als Hilfsmittel (Camera Obscura) und hat durch ihr technische Potenzial dennoch das Verständnis von Kunst radikal verändert: sie löste das Ideal einer bestimmten Maltechnik ab, die sich mit dem Verbergen des Pinselstriches verband, und bedeutete in diesem gewissen Sinn das „Ende der Kunst“ (nach Paul Delaroche).
Bis in die heutige Kunstproduktion zieht sich die Frage, was nach dem Ende der Perfektionierung von Reproduktion durch ihre Übernahme mittels medientechnischer Apparatur, die nun selbst zum Ausdruck strebt, überhaupt noch ein „Kunstwerk“ ist oder sein kann. Technisch gestützte Formen der Aneignung und Imitation stellen das klassische Wertemodell der meisterlich ausgeführten Repräsentation von Wirklichkeit in Frage, obwohl „Originalität“ angesichts der Flut von Reproduktionen doch immer noch - oder gerade deswegen - eine Wertschätzung erfährt.
Daher wurden dann auch im künstlerischen Teil verschiedene Modelle des Sehens getestet, um kulturelle und historische Variablen zu ermitteln, die visuelle Kultur beeinflussen und festlegen. Dabei wurde vor allem auch die Rolle der Beobachter reflektiert - die anders als bei Unterhaltungsmedien - in Kunstkontexten eben keine passiven Zuschauer sind. Was den Künstler, und was den Betrachter von Kunst definiert, lässt sich gleichwohl weder auf ein bestimmte Sinnlichkeit noch eine bestimmte Medientechnologie reduzieren.
Wie schon nach dem Aufkommen der Fotografie werden Künstler weiterhin auf der Suche nach neuen Ausdrucksformen sein, um andere Weltwahrnehmungen und neue, andere Perspektiven menschlicher Existenz zu erlangen. Mediale Technologien haben sie dabei immer schon unterstützt. Aus meiner Untersuchung schließe ich, dass neue Technologien Kunst nicht definitv beeinflussen, wohl aber ihren Entstehungsprozess verändern und beeinflussen können. Die Frage, wie das geschieht und welche Effekte es zeitigt, bedarf einer stets erneuerten Verhandlung.
Daraus folgt die Schlussfolgerung, dass man von Künstlern verlangen kann oder sogar muss, sich vor der Wirklichkeit der Technologie nicht zurückzuziehen, sondern sich medientechnische Kompetenzen anzueignen und sich aktiv am Diskurs um neue Technologien zu beteiligen.
Die Ph.D.-Arbeit Soziales Grafikdesign – eine Frage der Haltung hinterfragt den Einfluss und die Wirkungsmacht, den visuelle Kommunikationsgestaltung auf den Betrachter und im weiteren Sinne auf die Gesellschaft im Ganzen haben können. Aufbauend auf den Erkenntnissen über die Wirkungsmacht wird untersucht, wie eine bewusste und sozial verantwortliche Haltung im Grafikdesign aussehen könnte.
Viele Grafikdesigner sind in der Werbebranche tätig und haben den Auftrag, ganz bewusst manipulativ und wirkungsstark Informationen visuell zu übersetzen, um den Betrachter zu einer Handlungsfolge zu animieren. Die bewusste Reflexion der eigenen Rolle als Designer in diesem Prozess führt immer wieder zu den Fragen nach der Verantwortlichkeit des Gestalters und auch dazu, wie der Gestalter die Potenziale der Kommunikationsgestaltung in anderen Bereichen, wie z. B. in städtischen Problemsituationen, für ein soziales Miteinander einsetzen kann.
In this study, the behavior of a widely graded soil prone to suffusion and necessity of homogeneity quantifi cation for such a soil in internal stability considerations are discussed. With the help of suffusion tests, the dependency of the particle washout to homogeneity of sample is shown. The validity of the great infl uence of homogeneity on suffusion processes by the presentation of arguments and evidences are established. It is emphasized that the internal stability of a widely graded soil cannot be directly correlated to the common geotechnical parameters such as dry density or permeability. The initiation and propagation of the suffusion processes are clearly a particle scale phenomenon, so the homogeneity of particle assemblies (micro-scale) has a decisive effect on particle rearrangement and washout processes. It is addressed that the guidelines for assessing internal stability lack a fundamental, scientifi c basis for quantifi cation of homogeneity. The observation of the segregation processes within the sample in an ascending layered order (for downwards fl ow) inspired the author to propose a new packing model for granular materials which are prone to internally instability.
It is shown that the particle arrangement, especially the arrangement of soil skeleton particles or the so-called primary fabric has the main role in suffusiv processes. Therefore, an experimental approach for identifi cation of the skeleton in the soil matrix is proposed. 3D models of Sequential Fill Tests using Discrete Element Method (DEM) and 3D models of granular packings for relative, stochastically and ideal homogeneous particle assemblies were generated, and simulations have been carried out.
Based on the numerical investigations and in dependency on the soil skeleton behavior, an approach for measurement of relevant scale, the so-called Representative Elementary Volume (REV) for homogeneity investigation is proposed. The development of a new testing method for quantifi cation of homogeneity is introduced (in-situ). An approach for quantifi cation of homogeneity in numerically or experimentally generated packings (samples) based on image processing method of MATLAB has been introduced. A generalized experimental method for assessment of internal stability for widely graded soils with dominant coarse matrix is developed, and a new suffusion criterion based on ideal homogeneous internally stable granular packing is designed.
My research emphasizes that in a widely graded soils with dominant coarse matrix, the soil fractions with diameters bigger than D60 build essentially the soil skeleton. The mass and spatial distribution of these fractions governs the internal stability, and the mass and distribution of the fi ll fractions are a secondary matter. For such a soil, the homogeneity of the skeleton must be cautiously measured and verified.
Problem definition and research objectives
1. The production of Portland cement clinker causes approx. 5% to 8% of the annual man-made CO2 emissions. This is due to the usage of mainly fossil fuel (approx. 40 % of the total CO2) and because of the decarbonation of limestone as a main component of the raw meal (approx. 60 % of the total CO2).
2. Various strategies are applied in order to reduce the green-house gas-emissions, such as optimizing the process of clinker production, the use of alternative fuel and the partial substitution of the clinker in blended cement by so-called SCM (supplementary cementitious materials). Hereby blast-furnace slag, fly ash and limestone are the most used materials.
3. Quaternary systems containing three SCM simultaneously besides Portland cement contribute to the reduction of CO2 emissions due to the decrease of the clinker content. In addition, such systems allow to use blast-furnace slag and fly ash in the most economical way and provide the possibility to account for shortages of SCM on the market.
4. Blast-furnace slag and fly ash show similarities in their principal chemical compositions such that similar hydrates are formed during their reaction in presence of Portland cement. Compared to ternary systems based on blast-furnace slag or fly ash besides limestone, quaternary systems that contain both, blast-furnace slag and fly ash, simultaneously besides limestone, are expected to perform similar in terms of phase assemblage and strength development.
5. The use of SCM as cement replacing materials is limited due to their generally slower reaction compared to neat cement which also leads to lower strength development, especially in the early stage of the hydration up to 28 d. To account for this it is necessary to study the reactivity of SCM such as blast-furnace slag and fly ash in detail in order to develop strategies to enhance the reactivity and thereby the strength development of SCM-containing systems.
6. The early hydration of clinker phases is studied in detail, mainly in diluted systems. It is unclear if processes that were found to control the reaction of such model systems are also prevailing in concentrated cement pastes under realistic water-to-solid ratios. Deeper insight to this aspect is needed to better understand interactions of neat Portland cement and SCM in the first hours of hydration.
State-of-the-art
7. Increasing Ca-concentrations lead to decreasing dissolution rates of C3S and C2S in diluted systems.
8. The hydration kinetics of C3S is controlled by the interplay of undersaturation with respect to C3S and oversaturation with respect to C-S-H.
9. Increasing Al-concentrations lead to a retardation of the hydration of C3S. It is unclear if the uptake of aluminum in C-S-H to form C-(A)-S-H which has a significantly lower growth rate than pure C-S-H or a retarding effect of Al on the dissolution of C3S causes this phenomenon.
10. The surface of limestone provides excellent conditions for the nucleation and growth of C-S-H such that significantly more C-S-H nuclei are formed in presence of limestone compared to other SCM.
11. The reactivity of blast-furnace slag and fly ash depends on the particle size as well as on the intrinsic reactivity of especially the amorphous phases.
12. An increase in network modifying oxides (e.g. CaO) in the chemical composition of amorphous (calcium)aluminosilicates leads to an increasingly depolymerized network which in turn causes increasing reactivity. The role of amphoteric oxides (Al2O3, Fe2O3) that can be present as network modifying oxides as well as network forming oxides is not completely solved.
13. CO2-containing AFm-phases are thermodynamically more stable than monosulfoaluminate. This indirectly stabilizes the voluminous ettringite which causes a higher total volume of hydrates and lower porosity whereby higher compressive strength is reached.
14. Only a few percent of limestone in blended cement reacts chemically dependent on the Al2O3 available for reaction. Al2O3 that is provided by the reaction of Portland cement but also by the dissolution of SCM, especially by fly ash, reacts to form hemicarboaluminate which is transformed to monocarboaluminate as the hydration proceeds.
Methodology
15. The influence of SCM on the early hydration of Portland cement in binary (including blast-furnace slag or fly ash or limestone or quartz) and ternary (including fly ash and limestone) systems was investigated applying isothermal calorimetry and analysis of the pore solution chemistry. Calculated saturation indices and solubility products of relevant phases were correlated with heat development. Based on the gained data it was reviewed if mechanisms that control the hydration of pure phases in diluted systems are also prevailing in cement pastes under realistic conditions.
16. The influence of the chemical composition of synthetic glasses on their dissolution at high pH was investigated in highly diluted systems using ion chromatography. Pozzolanity tests were conducted on pastes using simplified model systems and glass-blended Portland cements. The process of the glass dissolution was investigated by isothermal calorimetry and by thermogravimetry. Correlation of experimentally determined total bound water with bound water determined by mass balance calculations as a function of amount of glass reacted allowed to estimate the degree of glass reaction in the pastes. Further on selective dissolution experiments were carried out to crosscheck the results of the bound water/mass balance approach.
17. The reaction kinetics of quaternary pastes containing blast-furnace slag and fly ash simultaneously in the presence of limestone were investigated up to 28 d using isothermal calorimetry and chemical shrinkage measurements. In addition strength tests on mortar bars were carried out.
18. Pastes of quaternary blends were also investigated in terms of hydrate assemblage at ages of up to 182 d. Thermodynamic calculations regarding total volume of hydrates as a function of limestone and fly ash/blast-furnace slag content were conducted. The calculations were supported by thermogravimetric determination of bound water and portlandite content as well as qualitative X-ray diffraction. The results were correlated with strength tests on mortar bars.
19. The pore solutions of hydrated quaternary blends were extracted and investigated by means of ion chromatography at ages of up to 728 d. Based on the ion concentrations in the solutions saturation indices were calculated for relevant phases. In order to gain better insight to the blast-furnace slag reaction sulphate speciation was carried out at two blast furnace slag levels (20 and 30 wt.%) for selected samples up to 91 d of hydration and at 91 d for the whole matrix under investigation.
Main results
20. Investigations on the early hydration kinetics of binary systems showed a higher heat flow in presence of SCM compared to neat Portland cement. This is caused by the higher surface area that is available for the nucleation of hydrates and by the lower (over)saturation with respect to C-S-H. An increase in the Ca-concentration in the pore solution did not cause lower dissolution rates of C3S as was reported for pure phases in diluted systems. The highest dissolution was observed in the presence of limestone, i.e. at the highest Ca-concentration. The general trend of the reaction rate is inversely related to the degree of undersaturation with respect to C3S. The more undersaturated the faster the observed reaction. The presence of increasing Al-concentrations caused a retardation of the reaction which is in line with investigations on pure phases in diluted systems. Higher sulphate concentrations could be detected for the fly ash containing blend which possibly hindered ettringite precipitation and results in higher Al-concentrations. Correspondingly the low sulphate concentrations lead to lower Al-concentrations in the presence of quartz, blast-furnace slag and limestone compared to fly ash.
21. The early hydration kinetics of quaternary systems is significantly accelerated in the presence of limestone while fly ash leads to retardation. Compared to reference systems containing inert quartz, investigations by means of isothermal calorimetry and chemical shrinkage revealed an acceleration caused by blast-furnace slag. Additions of fly ash, limestone or mixtures thereof introduced another acceleration but differences are too small to be significant and clear distinguishing between the various SCM is not possible.
22. Investigations on the reactivity of synthetic glasses showed that increasing amounts of network modifying oxides caused an increase in reactivity and dissolution rates. The results reveal that Al2O3 acts mainly as network modifying oxide in all investigated glasses. Experimentally determined bound water (thermogravimetric experiments) in model systems and blended cements can be compared with bound water determined by mass balance calculations carried out as a function of the amount of glass reacted. This enables to estimate the degree of glass reaction.
23. The actual content of blast-furnace slag, fly ash or limestone does not exert significant influence on the development of compressive strength up to 7 d. At later ages thermodynamic calculations predict a degree of CaCO3 reaction of 2 to 5 wt.%. This leads to the formation of hemicarbonate and monocarbonate whereby ettringite is indirectly stabilized. As a result the total amount of solids is increased and compressive strength shows a slight maximum. Hereby the degree of CaCO3 reaction depends on the Al2O3 available for reaction which is not only provided by the dissolution of Portland cement but especially by the dissolution of the fly ash.
24. In general the presence of blast-furnace slag and fly ash in the presence of limestone exerts little influence on the hydrate assemblage. The substitution of some of the blast-furnace slag by fly ash leads to a slight decrease of portlandite and C-S-H and gives rise to the formation of more monocarbonate and hemicarbonate. Portlandite is consumed in a pozzolanic reaction with the fly ash whereby C-S-H is formed. However, the low reactivity of the fly ash causes a decrease in the amount of C-S-H formed. Thereby a lower total volume of hydrates is generated which is in line with slightly lower compressive strength in case of increasing fly ash content. The overall influence is small and all systems investigated reach strength class 42.5 N according to EN 196-1.
25. Corresponding to the investigations of the hydrate assemblage the pore solution chemistry of quaternary systems showed only small variations. Depending on the fly ash content the highest variations are observed for aluminium, i.e. increasing fly ash content leads to higher Al-concentrations. Another effect of increasing fly ash contents is an increasing undersaturation with respect to portlandite and a decreasing undersaturation with respect to strätlingite indicating the dissolution of portlandite.
26. The total concentration of sulfur in the pore solution is controlled by sulphate (SO42–) while the concentrations of sulphite (SO32–) and thiosulphate (S2O32–) were very low. Up to 2 d of hydration about 90 % of the total sulphur is present as SO42–. After 91 d this value is reduced to about 36 % while about 28 % are present as S2O32–. In general higher blast-furnace slag content leads to higher concentrations of sulphite and thiosulphate after 7 d.
Einfluss der Porosität von Beton auf den Ablauf einer schädigenden Alkali-Kieselsäure-Reaktion
(2016)
Der Dissertation liegt die Frage zugrunde, welchen Einfluss die Porosität von Beton auf den Ablauf einer schädigenden AKR hat. Insbesondere soll geklärt werden, ob der Einsatz von Gleitschalungsfertigern – anstelle von klassischen schienengeführten Betondeckenfertigern – und die damit verbundene verringerte Porosität der Betone den Ablauf einer schädigenden AKR begünstigt. Eine verringerte Porosität führt zu einer reduzierten Duktilität des Betons, so dass infolge AKR entstehende Zugspannungen schlechter abgebaut werden können. Weiterhin steht ein geringerer Expansionsraum für das entstehende AKR-Gel zur Verfügung. Diese Faktoren können den Ablauf einer AKR begünstigen. Allerdings können extern anstehende Alkalien schlechter in den Beton mit einer verringerten Porosität eindringen. Ferner wird die Diffusion der Alkalien zu den potenziell reaktiven Gesteinskörnungen verlangsamt.
Zur Beantwortung der aufgeworfenen Frage wird unter Einsatz einer neuartigen Prüfmethodologie und bei variierender Porosität untersucht, welche Schädigungsparameter maßgebend für den Ablauf und die Intensität einer schädigenden AKR sind. Die berücksichtigten Schädigungsparameter sind die mechanischen Eigenschaften des Betons, der zur Verfügung stehende Expansionsraum und die im Beton ablaufenden Transportvorgänge. Um den Einfluss der jeweiligen Schädigungsparameter spezifizieren zu können, gehen die Prüfungen einerseits von einem hohen internen und andererseits von einem hohen externen AKR-Schädigungspotenzial aus. In beiden Fällen erfolgen die Untersuchungen an langsam reagierenden alkaliempfindlichen Gesteinskörnungen. Die unterschiedlichen Porositäten ergeben sich hauptsächlich durch Variation des w/z-Wertes.
Bei dem hohen internen AKR-Schädigungspotenzial stehen die mechanischen Eigenschaften und der Expansionsraum im Vordergrund; außerdem ist der Einfluss der Zugabe eines LP-Bildners zu analysieren. Um ein hohes internes AKR-Schädigungspotenzial zu erreichen, kommt bei der Herstellung der Betonprobekörper ein Zement mit einem hohen Alkaligehalt zum Einsatz. Die Betonprobekörper werden der 40 °C-Nebelkammerlagerung und dem 60 °C-Betonversuch über Wasser unterzogen. Dabei findet eine neue Prüfmethodologie Anwendung, die der kontinuierlichen Messung der Dehnung und der ablaufenden Erhärtungs- und Rissbildungsprozesse dient. Diese Prüfmethodologie umfasst die Messung der Ultraschallgeschwindigkeit, die Schallemissionsanalyse und die µ-3D-Computertomografie.
Hingegen richtet sich der Fokus bei dem hohen externen AKR-Schädigungspotenzial auf die Transportvorgänge. Zur Provokation eines hohen externen AKR-Schädigungspotenzials werden die Probekörper der FIB-Klimawechsellagerung ausgesetzt.
The key objective of this research is to study fracture with a meshfree method, local maximum entropy approximations, and model fracture in thin shell structures with complex geometry and topology. This topic is of high relevance for real-world applications, for example in the automotive industry and in aerospace engineering. The shell structure can be described efficiently by meshless methods which are capable of describing complex shapes as a collection of points instead of a structured mesh. In order to find the appropriate numerical method to achieve this goal, the first part of the work was development of a method based on local maximum entropy (LME)
shape functions together with enrichment functions used in partition of unity methods to discretize problems in linear elastic fracture mechanics. We obtain improved accuracy relative to the standard extended finite element method (XFEM) at a comparable computational cost. In addition, we keep the advantages of the LME shape functions,such as smoothness and non-negativity. We show numerically that optimal convergence (same as in FEM) for energy norm and stress intensity factors can be obtained through the use of geometric (fixed area) enrichment with no special treatment of the nodes
near the crack such as blending or shifting.
As extension of this method to three dimensional problems and complex thin shell structures with arbitrary crack growth is cumbersome, we developed a phase field model for fracture using LME. Phase field models provide a powerful tool to tackle moving interface problems, and have been extensively used in physics and materials science. Phase methods are gaining popularity in a wide set of applications in applied science and engineering, recently a second order phase field approximation for brittle fracture has gathered significant interest in computational fracture such that sharp cracks discontinuities are modeled by a diffusive crack. By minimizing the system energy with respect to the mechanical displacements and the phase-field, subject to an irreversibility condition to avoid crack healing, this model can describe crack nucleation, propagation, branching and merging. One of the main advantages of the phase field modeling of fractures is the unified treatment of the interfacial tracking and mechanics, which potentially leads to simple, robust, scalable computer codes applicable to complex systems. In other words, this approximation reduces considerably the implementation complexity because the numerical tracking of the fracture is not needed, at the expense of a high computational cost. We present a fourth-order phase field model for fracture based on local maximum entropy (LME) approximations. The higher order continuity of the meshfree LME approximation allows to directly solve the fourth-order phase field equations without splitting the fourth-order differential equation into two second order differential equations. Notably, in contrast to previous discretizations that use at least a quadratic basis, only linear completeness is needed in the LME approximation. We show that the crack surface can be captured more accurately in the fourth-order model than the second-order model. Furthermore, less nodes are needed for the fourth-order model to resolve the crack path. Finally, we demonstrate the performance of the proposed meshfree fourth order phase-field formulation for 5 representative numerical examples. Computational results will be compared to analytical solutions within linear elastic fracture mechanics and experimental data for three-dimensional crack propagation.
In the last part of this research, we present a phase-field model for fracture in Kirchoff-Love thin shells using the local maximum-entropy (LME) meshfree method. Since the crack is a natural outcome of the analysis it does not require an explicit representation and tracking, which is advantageous over techniques as the extended finite element method that requires tracking of the crack paths. The geometric description of the shell is based on statistical learning techniques that allow dealing with general point set surfaces avoiding a global parametrization, which can be applied to tackle surfaces of complex geometry and topology. We show the flexibility and robustness of the present methodology for two examples: plate in tension and a set of open connected
pipes.
Piezoelectric materials are used in several applications as sensors and actuators where they experience high stress and electric field concentrations as a result of which they may fail due to fracture. Though there are many analytical and experimental works on piezoelectric fracture mechanics. There are very few studies about damage detection, which is an interesting way to prevent the failure of these ceramics.
An iterative method to treat the inverse problem of detecting cracks and voids in piezoelectric structures is proposed. Extended finite element method (XFEM) is employed for solving the inverse problem as it allows the use of a single regular mesh for large number of iterations with different flaw geometries.
Firstly, minimization of cost function is performed by Multilevel Coordinate Search (MCS) method. The XFEM-MCS methodology is applied to two dimensional electromechanical problems where flaws considered are straight cracks and elliptical voids. Then a numerical method based on combination of classical shape derivative and level set method for front propagation used in structural optimization is utilized to minimize the cost function. The results obtained show that the XFEM-level set methodology is effectively able to determine the number of voids in a piezoelectric structure and its corresponding locations.
The XFEM-level set methodology is improved to solve the inverse problem of detecting inclusion interfaces in a piezoelectric structure. The material interfaces are implicitly represented by level sets which are identified by applying regularisation using total variation penalty terms. The formulation is presented for three dimensional structures and inclusions made of different materials are detected by using multiple level sets. The results obtained prove that the iterative procedure proposed can determine the location and approximate shape of material subdomains in the presence of higher noise levels.
Piezoelectric nanostructures exhibit size dependent properties because of surface elasticity and surface piezoelectricity. Initially a study to understand the influence of surface elasticity on optimization of nano elastic beams is performed. The boundary of the nano structure is implicitly represented by a level set function, which is considered as the design variable in the optimization process. Two objective functions, minimizing the total potential energy of a nanostructure subjected to a material volume constraint and minimizing the least square error compared to a target
displacement, are chosen for the numerical examples. The numerical examples demonstrate the importance of size and aspect ratio in determining how surface effects impact the optimized topology of nanobeams.
Finally a conventional cantilever energy harvester with a piezoelectric nano layer is analysed. The presence of surface piezoelectricity in nano beams and nano plates leads to increase in electromechanical coupling coefficient. Topology optimization of these piezoelectric structures in an energy harvesting device to further increase energy conversion using appropriately modified XFEM-level set algorithm is performed .
Briefly, the two basic questions that this research is supposed to answer are:
1. Howmuch fiber is needed and how fibers should be distributed through a fiber reinforced composite (FRC) structure in order to obtain the optimal and reliable structural response?
2. How do uncertainties influence the optimization results and reliability of the structure?
Giving answer to the above questions a double stage sequential optimization algorithm for finding the optimal content of short fiber reinforcements and their distribution in the composite structure, considering uncertain design parameters, is presented. In the first stage, the optimal amount of short fibers in a FRC structure with uniformly distributed fibers is conducted in the framework of a Reliability Based Design Optimization (RBDO) problem. Presented model considers material, structural and modeling uncertainties. In the second stage, the fiber distribution optimization (with the aim to further increase in structural reliability) is performed by defining a fiber distribution function through a Non-Uniform Rational BSpline (NURBS) surface. The advantages of using the NURBS surface as a fiber distribution function include: using the same data set for the optimization and analysis; high convergence rate due to the smoothness of the NURBS; mesh independency of the optimal layout; no need for any post processing technique and its non-heuristic nature. The output of stage 1 (the optimal fiber content for homogeneously distributed fibers) is considered as the input of stage 2. The output of stage 2 is the Reliability Index (b ) of the structure with the optimal fiber content and distribution.
First order reliability method (in order to approximate the limit state function) as well as different material models including Rule of Mixtures, Mori-Tanaka, energy-based approach and stochastic multi-scales are implemented in different examples. The proposed combined model is able to capture the role of available uncertainties in FRC structures through a computationally efficient algorithm using all sequential, NURBS and sensitivity based techniques. The methodology is successfully implemented for interfacial shear stress optimization in sandwich beams and also for optimization of the internal cooling channels in a ceramic matrix composite.
Finally, after some changes and modifications by combining Isogeometric Analysis, level set and point wise density mapping techniques, the computational framework is extended for topology optimization of piezoelectric / flexoelectric materials.
The phenomenon of aerodynamic instability caused by the wind is usually a major design criterion for long-span cable-supported bridges. If the wind speed exceeds the critical flutter speed of the bridge, this constitutes an Ultimate Limit State. The prediction of the flutter boundary, therefore, requires accurate and robust models. The complexity and uncertainty of models for such engineering problems demand strategies for model assessment. This study is an attempt to use the concepts of sensitivity and uncertainty analyses to assess the aeroelastic instability prediction models for long-span bridges. The state-of-the-art theory concerning the determination of the flutter stability limit is presented. Since flutter is a coupling of aerodynamic forcing with a structural dynamics problem, different types and classes of structural and aerodynamic models can be combined to study the interaction. Here, both numerical approaches and analytical models are utilised and coupled in different ways to assess the prediction quality of the coupled model.
In der Ph.D.-Arbeit wird gefragt, wie verschieden gestaltete Landschaften heute erlebt werden und wie sie auf die Menschen wirken. Dafür wird die Atmosphärentheorie erweitert und auf Landschaften angewendet. Atmosphären sind räumliche Stimmungsqualitäten, geprägt von der Umgebung, welche Menschen beeinflussen. Es wird ein Modell entwickelt, welches die Prägung von Atmosphären auf massiver, mobiler und ephemer Ebene beschreibt. Mit künstlerischen Arbeiten werden Atmosphären verschiedener anthropogener Landschaften übersetzt. Mit der exemplarischen wie theoretischen Bearbeitung von landschaftsverbundenen Atmosphären wird die Korrelation von Menschen und Umgebung nachgewiesen.
In meiner theoretisch_praktischen Arbeit befasse ich mich mit der verletzenden Kraft von Sprache jenseits direkter Adressierung.
Es wird der Frage nachgegangen, ob und wie auch da Verletzung durch Sprache stattfindet, wo keine offensichtliche Diskriminierung erfolgt, sondern subtilere Wirkmächte der Performativität am Werk sind. Sprachliche Benenn- und Beweisbarkeit verletzenden Sprechens werden dabei in Frage gestellt und einem Wahrnehmen und Begegnen Vorrang gegeben.
Sowohl im eher theoretischen Teil, dem „Fragment I: 943 Fragen zur sprachlichen Gewalt“, als auch im vorwiegend praktischen Teil, dem „Fragment II: Untersuchungen und Zwischennutzungen“, wird eine Perspektive auf kritische Handlungsfähigkeit in Bezug auf Sprache und Gewalt eröffnet. Es wird ein Verständnis von Verantwortung als ein Affekt und zugleich Ort der Kritik zur Diskussion gestellt und befragt. Dabei versuche ich, über die dichotome Verfestigung von „Wir und die Anderen“ hinauszugelangen und dabei ein WIR, das nicht vom IHR getrennt ist, als WIHR in den Blick zu nehmen. Dieses WIHR muss notwendigerweise offen und flexibel bleiben. Es soll eine Art Möglichkeitsraum schaffen, der nicht neu geordnet, sondern im beständigen Fragen einer abschließenden Antwort entzogen wird.
Eine Annäherung in vor allem zeichnerischen und auditiven Untersuchungen sowie 943 Fragen.
In der Arbeit wurde eine Methode für eine kulturübergreifende Vergleichsstudie zwischen China und dem Westen erarbeitet. Diese Methode ermöglicht Unternehmensentwicklung in China aus dem eignen historischen Zusammenhang zu verstehen, statt nur aus einem rein theoretischen Blickwinkel. Weil heutige wissenschaftliche Theorien meist aus der westlichen Kultur stammen und mit Wertvorstellungen sowie mit Begriffen aus dem westlichen Kulturkreis verbunden sind, müssen sie im historischen Kontext des westlichen Kulturkreises betrachtet werden.
Im ersten Teil der Arbeit wird der westliche moderne Staat als Untersuchungsbegriff herangezogen, seine Entstehungsbedingungen und seine Verwendungsart und -weise, besonders wie er die ökonomische Theorie und die Praxis im Westen beeinflusst, dabei spielt das moderne Staatsprinzip eine wichtige Rolle. Die Neue Institutionenökonomik dient als theoretischer Referenzrahmen für diese Arbeit. Mittels einer theoretischen Erweiterung mit dem westlichen modernen Staatsverständnis werden wichtige westliche konstitutionelle Institutionen analysiert, da sie die Handlungsrechte und -pflichten der Bürger sowie die Bildung der kapitalistischen Unternehmung beeinflussen.
Im zweiten Teil der Arbeit wird das chinesische Staatsverständnis analysiert – vom traditionellen „Tianxia“ zum „modernen“ Staat. Mithilfe abgeleiteter Kriterien wird die chinesische Unternehmensentwicklung in drei zeitlichen Querschnittsphasen betrachtet, wie sich chinesische Unternehmen vom traditionellen bis zum „modernen“ entwickelten. Als Fallbeispiel werden chinesische Buchdruckunternehmen herangezogen. Zuerst wird das Buchdrucksystem sowie seine Veränderungen in drei Zeitphase betrachtet. Dabei wird auf die Aspekte Buchdruckorganisation, staatliche Verwaltung, wie Zensur und Urheberrecht sowie Lehrmaterial fokussiert, die für die Buchdruckunternehmensentwicklung von Bedeutung sind und ein System darstellen. Aus Mikrosicht werden drei Buchdruckunternehmen in den Zeitphasen analysiert. Im Ergebnis der Arbeit werden Schlussfolgerungen abgeleitet, bspw. dass Modernisierung als Aktualisierung verstanden werden sollte, aber nicht als Zerstörung.
A parametric method for building design optimization based on Life Cycle Assessment - Appendix
(2016)
The building sector is responsible for a large share of human environmental impacts, over which architects and planners have a major influence. The main objective of this thesis is to develop a method for environmental building design optimization based on Life Cycle Assessment (LCA) that is applicable as part of the design process. The research approach includes a thorough analysis of LCA for buildings in relation to the architectural design stages and the establishment of a requirement catalogue. The key concept of the novel method called Parametric Life Cycle Assessment(PLCA) is to combine LCA with parametric design. The application of this method to three examples shows that building designs can be optimized time-efficiently and holistically from the beginning of the most influential early design stages, an achievement which has not been possible until now.
This thesis suggests cooperation as a design paradigm for human-computer interaction. The basic idea is that the synergistic co-operation of interfaces through concurrent user activities enables increased interaction fluency and expressiveness. This applies to bimanual interaction and multi-finger input, e.g., touch typing, as well as the collaboration of multiple users. Cooperative user interfaces offer more interaction
flexibility and expressivity for single and multiple users.
Part I of this thesis analyzes the state of the art in user interface design. It explores limitations of common approaches and reveals the crucial role of cooperative action in several established user interfaces and research prototypes. A review of related research in psychology and human-computer interaction offers insights to the cognitive, behavioral, and ergonomic foundations of cooperative user interfaces. Moreover, this thesis suggests a broad applicability of generic cooperation patterns and contributes three high-level design principles.
Part II presents three experiments towards cooperative user interfaces in detail. A study on desktop-based 3D input devices, explores fundamental benefits of cooperative bimanual input and the impact of interface design on bimanual cooperative behavior. A novel interaction technique for multitouch devices is presented that follows the paradigm of cooperative user interfaces and demonstrates advantages over the status quo. Finally, this thesis introduces a fundamentally new display technology that provides up to six users with their individual perspectives of a shared 3D environment. The system creates new possibilities for the cooperative interaction of
multiple users.
Part III of this thesis builds on the research results described in Part II, in particular, the multi-user 3D display system. A series of case studies in the field of collaborative virtual reality provides exemplary evidence for the relevance and applicability of the suggested design principles.
Das Erzeugen räumlicher Konfigurationen ist eine zentrale Aufgabe im architektonischen bzw. städtebaulichen Entwurfsprozess und hat zum Ziel, eine für Menschen angenehme Umwelt zu schaffen. Der Geometrie der entstehenden Räume kommt hierbei eine zentrale Rolle zu, da sie einen großen Einfluss auf das Empfinden und Verhalten der Menschen ausübt und nur noch mit großem Aufwand verändert werden kann, wenn sie einmal gebaut wurde. Die meisten Entscheidungen zur Festlegung der Geometrie von Räumen werden während eines sehr kurzen Zeitraums (Entwurfsphase) getroffen. Fehlentscheidungen die in dieser Phase getroffen werden haben langfristige Auswirkungen auf das Leben von Menschen, und damit auch Konsequenzen auf ökonomische und ökologische Aspekte.
Mittels computerbasierten Layoutsystemen lässt sich der Entwurf räumlicher Konfigurationen sinnvoll unterstützen, da sie es ermöglichen, in kürzester Zeit eine große Anzahl an Varianten zu erzeugen und zu überprüfen. Daraus ergeben sich zwei Vorteile. Erstens kann die große Menge an Varianten dazu beitragen, bessere Lösungen zu finden. Zweitens kann das Formalisieren von Bewertungskriterien zu einer größeren Objektivität und Transparenz bei der Lösungsfindung führen. Um den Entwurf räumlicher Konfigurationen optimal zu unterstützen, muss ein Layoutsystem in der Lage sein, ein möglichst großes Spektrum an Grundrissvarianten zu erzeugen (Vielfalt); und zahlreiche Möglichkeiten und Detaillierungsstufen zur Problembeschreibung (Flexibilität), sowie Mittel anzubieten, mit denen sich die Anforderungen an die räumliche Konfiguration adäquat beschreiben lassen (Relevanz). Bezüglich Letzterem spielen wahrnehmungs- und nutzungsbezogene Kriterien (wie z. B. Grad an Privatheit, Gefühl von Sicherheit, Raumwirkung, Orientierbarkeit, Potenzial zu sozialer Interaktion) eine wichtige Rolle.
Die bislang entwickelten Layoutsysteme weisen hinsichtlich Vielfalt, Flexibilität und Relevanz wesentliche Beschränkungen auf, welche auf eine ungeeignete Methode zur Repräsentation von Räumen zurückzuführen sind. Die in einem Layoutsystem verwendeten Raumrepräsentationsmethoden bestimmen die Möglichkeiten zur Formerzeugung und Problembeschreibung wesentlich. Sichtbarkeitsbasierte Raumrepräsentationen (Sichtfelder, Sichtachsen, Konvexe Räume) eignen sich in besonderer Weise zur Abbildung von Räumen in Layoutsystemen, da sie einerseits ein umfangreiches Repertoire zur Verfügung stellen, um räumliche Konfigurationen hinsichtlich wahrnehmungs- und nutzungsbezogener Kriterien zu beschreiben. Andererseits lassen sie sich vollständig aus der Geometrie der begrenzenden Oberflächen ableiten und sind nicht an bestimmte zur Formerzeugung verwendete geometrische Objekte gebunden.
In der vorliegenden Arbeit wird ein Layoutsystem entwickelt, welches auf diesen Raumrepräsentationen basiert. Es wird ein Evaluationsmechanismus (EM) entwickelt, welcher es ermöglicht, beliebige zweidimensionale räumliche Konfigurationen hinsichtlich wahrnehmungs- und nutzungsrelevanter Kriterien zu bewerten. Hierzu wurde eine Methodik entwickelt, die es ermöglicht automatisch Raumbereiche (O-Spaces und P-Spaces) zu identifizieren, welche bestimmte Eigenschaften haben (z.B. sichtbare Fläche, Kompaktheit des Sichtfeldes, Tageslicht) und bestimmte Relationen zueinander (wie gegenseitige Sichtbarkeit, visuelle und physische Distanz) aufweisen. Der EM wurde mit Generierungsmechanismen (GM) gekoppelt, um zu prüfen, ob dieser sich eignet, um in großen Variantenräumen nach geeigneten räumlichen Konfigurationen zu suchen. Die Ergebnisse dieser Experimente zeigen, dass die entwickelte Methodik einen vielversprechenden Ansatz zur automatisierten Erzeugung von räumlichen Konfigurationen darstellt: Erstens ist der EM vollständig vom GM getrennt, wodurch es möglich ist, verschiedene GM in einem Entwurfssystem zu verwenden und somit den Variantenraum zu vergrößern (Vielfalt). Zweitens erlaubt der EM die Anforderungen an eine räumliche Konfiguration flexibel zu beschreiben (unterschiedliche Maßstäbe, unterschiedlicher Detaillierungsgrad). Letztlich erlauben die verwendeten Repräsentationsmethoden eine Problembeschreibung vorzunehmen, die stark an der Wirkung des Raumes auf den Menschen orientiert ist (Relevanz).
Die in der Arbeit entwickelte Methodik leistet einen wichtigen Beitrag zur Verbesserung evidenzbasierter Entwurfsprozesse, da sie eine Brücke zwischen der nutzerorientierten Bewertung von räumlichen Konfigurationen und deren Erzeugung schlägt.
Die vorliegende Arbeit fokussiert die Optimierung freigeformter adaptiver Faserverbundflächentragwerke auf Basis einer entwickelten und auf einem parametrischen Gesamtmodell basierenden Entwurfsmethode. Die Übertragung adaptiver, natürlich inspirierter Vorgänge stellt eine weitreichende Inspirationsquelle dar. Adaptive Tragwerke können unter Anwendung von Smart Materials als materialsparende, filigrane Tragwerke ausgeführt werden. Die Erfüllung der Grenzzustände der Tragfähigkeit und der Gebrauchstauglichkeit wird nicht allein über die Querschnittsabmessungen sichergestellt. Die notwendige Bauteilsteifigkeit kann vielmehr durch Eintragung von Aktivierungsenergie (Operational Energy) realisiert werden. Auf diese Weise kann die aufgrund der Bauteilabmessungen gebundene Energie (Embodied Energy) minimiert werden. Die entwickelte Entwurfsmethode ermöglicht die Auslegung und Optimierung materialminimierter Schalentragwerke in einem mehrstufigen Prozess. Hierbei wird aus tragwerksplanerischer Sicht die numerische Formfindung, die statische Berechnung und die Aktor- und Sensorpositionierung berechnet. Zudem werden Analysen hinsichtlich der Nachhaltigkeit auf Basis einer Lebenszyklusanalyse durchgeführt. Aufgrund der unterschiedlichen, sich aber gegenseitig beeinflussenden Kriterien, ist eine Optimierung durchzuführen. In der vorliegenden Arbeit wird ein Ansatz zur Definition zulässiger Ökobilanzkennwerte von Smart Materials auf Basis der Energiedifferenz zwischen einer passiven und einer adaptiven Struktur vorgestellt. Anhand dieser Kennwerte kann die Entwicklung zukünftiger Smart Materials unter dem Aspekt der ganzheitlichen Nachhaltigkeit erfolgen. Die Allgemeingültigkeit und Übertragbarkeit der Entwurfsmethode auf weitere Tragsysteme im Bauwesen und speziell anderer Materialkonstellationen wird anhand verschiedener Beispiele aufgezeigt.