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The construction and operation of a sanitary landfill (SLF) in the Philippines presents concerns on the regulation of the activities of the informal sector in the area. In anticipation of these directives, an association of informal waste reclaimers group called Uswag Calajunan Livelihood Association, Inc. (UCLA) was formed in May 2009. One option identified was the waste-to-energy activity through the production of fuel briquettes. With the availability of raw materials in the area, what was lacking then was an appropriate technology that would cater to their needs. This study, therefore, presented the case of UCLA on how socio-economic and technical aspects was integrated for the development and improvement of a briquetting technology needed in the production of quality briquettes as part of their income generating activities. A non-experimental posttest only design was utilized for the collection of descriptive information. Descriptions and discussions were also made on the enhancement of the briquetting machine from the first hand-press molder developed until the finalized design was attained.
Results revealed that the improved briquetting technology withstood the wear and tear of operation showing a significant (P<0.01) increase on the production rate (220 pcs/hr; 4 kg/hr) and bulk density (444.83 kg/m3) of briquettes produced. The quality of cylindrical briquettes produced in terms of bulk density, heating value (15.13 MJ/kg), moisture (6.2%), N and S closely met or has met the requirements of DIN 51731. Based on the operating expenses, the briquettes may be marked-up to Php0.25/pc (USD0.006) or Php15.00/kg (USD0.34) for profit generation. The potential daily earnings of Php130.00 (USD2.95) to Php288.56 (USD6.56) generated in producing briquettes are higher when compared to the majority of waste reclaimers’ daily income of Php124.00 (USD2.82). The high positive response (93%) on the usability of briquettes and the willingness of the respondents (81%) to buy them when sold in the market indicates its promising potential as fuel in the nearby communities. Results of briquette production citing the case of UCLA could be considered as potential source of income given the social, technical, economic and environmental feasibility of the experiment. This method of utilizing wastes in an urban setting of a developing country with similar socio-economic and physical set-ups may also be recommended for testing or replication.
The world society faces a huge challenge to implement the human right of “access to sanitation”. More and more it is accepted that the conventional approach towards providing sanitation services is not suitable to solve this problem. This dissertation examines the possibility to enhance “access to sanitation” for people who are living in areas with underdeveloped water and wastewater infrastructure systems. The idea hereby is to follow an integrated approach for sanitation, which allows for a mutual completion of existing infrastructure with resource-based sanitation systems.
The notion “integrated sanitation system (iSaS)” is defined in this work and guiding principles for iSaS are formulated. Further on the implementation of iSaS is assessed at the example of a case study in the city of Darkhan in Mongolia. More than half of Mongolia’s population live in settlements where yurts (tents of Nomadic people) are predominant. In these settlements (or “ger areas”) sanitation systems are not existent and the hygienic situation is precarious.
An iSaS has been developed for the ger areas in Darkhan and tested over more than two years. Further on a software-based model has been developed with the goal to describe and assess different variations of the iSaS. The results of the assessment of material-flows, monetary-flows and communication-flows within the iSaS are presented in this dissertation. The iSaS model is adaptable and transferable to the socio-economic conditions in other regions and climate zones.
In contemporary society, data representation is an important and essential part of many aspects of our daily lives. This thesis aims to contribute to our understanding on how people experience data and what role representational modality plays in the process of perception and interpretation. This research is grounded in phenomenology - I align my theoretical exploration to ideas and concepts from philosophical phenomenology, while also respecting the essence of a phenomenological approach in the choice and application of methods. Alongside offering a rich description of people’s experience of data representation, the key contributions I claim transcend four areas: theory, methods, design, and empirical findings. From a theoretical perspective, besides describing a phenomenology of human-data relations, I define, for the first time, multisensory data representation and establish a design space for the study of this class of representation. In relation to methodologies, I describe and deploy two methods to investigate different aspects of data experience. I blend the Repertory Grid technique with a focus group session and show how this adaption can be used to elicit rich design relevant insight. I also introduce the Elicitation Interview technique as a method for gathering detailed and precise accounts of human experience. Furthermore, I describe for the first time, how this technique can be used to elicit accounts of experience with data. My contribution to design relates to the creation of a series of bespoke data-driven artefacts, as well as describing an approach to design that I call Design Probes, which allows researchers to focus their enquiry on specific design features. To answer the research questions I set out in this thesis, I report on a series of empirical studies that used the aforementioned methods. The findings of these studies show, for instance, how certain representational modalities cause us to have heightened awareness of our body, some are more difficult to interpret than others, some rely heavily on instinct and each of them solicit us to reference external events during the process of interpretation. I conclude that a phenomenology of human-data relations show how representational modality affects the way we experience data, it also shows how this experience unfolds and it offers insight into particular moments such as the formation of meaning.
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.
Die vorliegende Arbeit beschäftigt sich mit dem Thema Stadthotels in Deutschland zwischen Energieeffizienz und Wirtschaftlichkeit - Studie auf Grundlagen der EnEV-Anforderungen. Die Arbeit setzt sich mit einer qualitativen und quantitativen Analyse über die Energieeffizienz auf Grundlagen der EnEV-Anforderungen und deren Wirtschaftlichkeit bei Stadthotels in Deutschland auseinander. Die Analyse wurde anhand von verschiedenen Untersuchungen bei Hotels aufgebaut. Diese umfassen empirische, energetische und wirtschaftliche Untersuchungen. Die durchgeführten Untersuchungen kommen schließlich zu eindeutigen Ergebnissen auf verschiedenen Ebenen. Im Ergebnis wird deutlich, dass die Optimierung der Gebäudetechnik sowie auch die Verbesserung der energetischen Qualität der Gebäudehülle der Hotels bedeutende Einflussfaktoren zur Steigerung der Energieeffizienz darstellen. Dabei ist jedoch festzuhalten, dass sich die Optimierung der Gebäudetechnik der Hotels insbesondere im Bereich der Lüftungs- und Klimatechnik als besonders wirksam erwiesen hat. Die Effektivität dieser Maßnahmen konnte sowohl in Hinsicht auf die Steigerung der Energieeffizienz als auch in Bezug auf die Wirtschaftlichkeit bewiesen werden.
The increasing success of BIM (Building Information Model) and the emergence of its implementation in 3D construction models have paved a way for improving scheduling process. The recent research on application of BIM in scheduling has focused on quantity take-off, duration estimation for individual trades, schedule visualization, and clash detection.
Several experiments indicated that the lack of detailed planning causes about 30% non-productive time and stacking of trades. However, detailed planning still has not been implemented in practice despite receiving a lot of interest from researchers. The reason is associated with the huge amount and complexity of input data. In order to create a detailed planning, it is time consuming to manually decompose activities, collect and calculate the detailed information in relevant. Moreover, the coordination of detailed activities requires much effort for dealing with their complex constraints.
This dissertation aims to support the generation of detailed schedules from a rough schedule. It proposes a model for automated detailing of 4D schedules by integrating BIM, simulation and Pareto-based optimization.
Development of a Sustainability-based Sanitation Planning Tool (SusTA) for Developing Countries
(2014)
Background and Research Goal
Despite all the efforts in the sanitation sector, it is acknowledged that the world is not on track to meet the MDG sanitation target to reduce the number of people without access to sanitation by 2015. Furthermore, a large number of existing sanitation facilities in developing countries is out of order. This leads to the conclusion that, besides technical failures, the planning process in the sanitation sector was ineffective. This ineffectiveness may be attributed to the lack of knowledge of the sanitation planners about the local conditions of the sanitation project. In addition, sustainability of a technology is often approached from a fragmented perspective that often leads to an unsustainable solution.
The dissertation is conducted within the framework of the Integrated Water Resources Management (IWRM) Indonesia project. The goal of this work is to contribute to the development of a methodology of a planning tool for sustainable sanitation technology. The tool is designed for sanitation planners in developing countries, where a top-down planning approach is common practice. The proposed tool enables comprehensive sustainability assessments (using the Helmholtz Concept of Sustainability as reference), taking into account local conditions.
State of the Science
In the planning practice, many sanitation planning tools focus on technology selection. However, it has become evident that the selection criteria for sustainable technologies are not always considered in the tools’ framework. In other cases, when the criteria are provided by the tool, there is no clear indication of the conditions to be fulfilled in order to meet these criteria. Specifically, there is no reference to what is meant by sustainable technology in a particular context and how to comprehensively assess the sustainability of different technology options.
Research Methodology
Developing a planning tool is an empirical process, combining theory and practical experience. Hence, the development process of such a tool requires extensive observations, particularly on the interaction between stakeholders in the sanitation sector as well as between technology and its environment. For this purpose, a case study within the project area was carried out. Pucanganom, a village representing common strategic problems in developing countries (e.g. top-down planning approaches, lack of involvement of beneficiaries in the planning process, lack of sustainability assessments) was finally selected as the case study area. After the in-depth case study, an analytical generalisation was developed to enable the tool’s application to a broader context.
Results
The result of this research is a new tool – the Sustainability-based Sanitation Planning Tool (SusTA). SusTA enables comprehensive sustainability assessment in its five generic steps, namely: (1) analysis of stakeholders and sanitation policy in the region, (2) distance-to-target analysis on sanitation conditions in the region, (3) examination of physical and socio-economic conditions in the project area, (4) contextualisation of the technology assessment process in the project area, and (5) sustainability-oriented technology assessment at the project level. These steps are conducted at two levels of planning – the region and the project area – in order to identify the specific problems and interests which influence the selection of a sanitation system. Each planning step is equipped with tool elements (e.g. set of indicators, household questionnaires, technology assessment matrices) to support the analysis.
From the development of SusTA, it can be concluded that four elements are required for an effective and widely applicable sanitation planning tool: sustainability concept, participatory approach, contextualisation framework and modification framework. SusTA provides both a theoretical and a practical basis for assessing the sustainability of sanitation technologies in developing countries. The tool’s main advantages for decision makers in these countries are: It is simple and transparent in its steps, does not require vast amounts of data and does not need a sophisticated computer program.
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.
This thesis presents two new methods in finite elements and isogeometric analysis for structural analysis. The first method proposes an alternative alpha finite element method using triangular elements. In this method, the piecewise constant strain field of linear triangular finite element method models is enhanced by additional strain terms with an adjustable parameter a, which results in an effectively softer stiffness formulation compared to a linear triangular element. In order to avoid the transverse shear locking of Reissner-Mindlin plates analysis the alpha finite element method is coupled with a discrete shear gap technique for triangular elements to significantly improve the accuracy of the standard triangular finite elements.
The basic idea behind this element formulation is to approximate displacements and rotations as in the standard finite element method, but to construct the bending, geometrical and shear strains using node-based smoothing domains. Several numerical examples are presented and show that the alpha FEM gives a good agreement compared to several other methods in the literature.
Second method, isogeometric analysis based on rational splines over hierarchical T-meshes (RHT-splines) is proposed. The RHT-splines are a generalization of Non-Uniform Rational B-splines (NURBS) over hierarchical T-meshes, which is a piecewise bicubic polynomial over a hierarchical
T-mesh. The RHT-splines basis functions not only inherit all the properties of NURBS such as non-negativity, local support and partition of unity but also more importantly as the capability of joining geometric objects without gaps, preserving higher order continuity everywhere and allow local refinement and adaptivity. In order to drive the adaptive refinement, an efficient recovery-based error estimator is employed. For this problem an imaginary surface is defined. The imaginary surface is basically constructed by RHT-splines basis functions which is used for approximation and interpolation functions as well as the construction of the recovered stress components. Numerical investigations prove that the proposed method is capable to obtain results with higher accuracy and convergence rate than NURBS results.