Process-orientation is an important approach for the support and the coordination of planning processes in civilengineering. Process-orientation relies on a comprehensive and consistent process model. The Petri Net t...
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Process-orientation is an important approach for the support and the coordination of planning processes in civilengineering. Process-orientation relies on a comprehensive and consistent process model. The Petri Net theory provides some significant benefits for the application on process modeling, -analysis and -runtime control. This contribution outlines the basic idea of process-orientation and presents the goals of process modeling in civilengineering. Then a Petri Net-based process model for civilengineering processes is presented and the corresponding reference implementation ProMiSE (Process Modeling in Structural engineering) is introduced. ProMiSE is a Java-based software tool for process modeling, -analysis and -control with network communication mechanisms based on the WebService technology.
Building design in civilengineering is characterized by the cooperation of experts in multiple disciplines. The close cooperation of engineers is the basis of a high product quality, short development periods and a m...
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Building design in civilengineering is characterized by the cooperation of experts in multiple disciplines. The close cooperation of engineers is the basis of a high product quality, short development periods and a minimum of investment costs. In contrast to most other design fields the development process in building design is characterized by the design of unique copies. For each building the engineers have to create a new fire protection model. As a result of huge fire disasters fire protection engineering is one of the central aspects for administrative authorities in the process of licensing the building design. Optimal conditions for the rescue of persons in case of fire only can be established, if the fire protection engineering conditions are created early in the planning process. The consistent realization of the fire protection model in all details has high demands on the communication and collaboration of the involved engineers and the corresponding building models. To preserve the related design models consistent to each other and compatible with the rules of fire protection engineering is a complex task. This leads to high demands on the semantic structure of communication, collaboration and building models. In addition, regulations and guidelines vary according to the building location, so the relevant rules must be integrated dynamically into the planning process. This paper covers the integration of engineers and design models into a cooperation network on the basis of mobile agents. Distributed models of architectural design, structural planning and fire protection engineering are supported. These can be accessed by mobile agents for information retrieval and for processing tasks. Agents which are enabled to check-up the distributed design models with the knowledge base of the fire protection regulations are provided to all planners. Thereby, the planners are supported to check-up their planning for accordance with the fire protection requirements.
Concrete strength and durability reduction are two of the major consequences of the long-term chemical reaction evolution between the cement alkali and certain minerals from the aggregate. This reaction is known as al...
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Concrete strength and durability reduction are two of the major consequences of the long-term chemical reaction evolution between the cement alkali and certain minerals from the aggregate. This reaction is known as alkali-aggregate reaction. It provokes a heterogeneous expansion of the concrete causing geometry changes and eventually, loss of functionality. In concrete dams these effects can be very costly and the development of numerical tools to diagnose and correct the problem should be welcome. In this work, a parametric model to simulate concrete expansion is proposed, which uses the main AAR influence factors to form its basis. The employed methodology consists on obtaining the spatial distribution of these influence factors, parameters normalization and the use of a constitutive relationship to retrieve the expansive AAR rate of deformation. An optimization technique is also employed to adjust the computed parameters to existing field measurements. The methodology was developed in a commercial finite element package and tested in a for simple three-dimensional finite element model.
The comprehensive modelling of soil-structure interaction requires three-dimensional dynamic design systems, which capture the changes that occur on the geotechnical components during the construction progress. The po...
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A new class of unconditionally stable staggered implicit–implicit time-stepping algorithms for coupled soil-pore fluid dynamic problems is presented. The proposed schemes are stabilized with a pressure correction met...
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The paper discusses the finite element analysis of the superplastic forming of thick sheet components. The incremental formulation proposed is based on a geometrical approximation of the flow type of constitutive equa...
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This paper describes an implementation in C++ and in parallel of an explicit finite element formulation for the solution of transient heat conduction problems with phase change. The scheme requires a very small timest...
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To enhance the resolution of numerically simulated flowfields, grid adaptivity is vitally important. Further, to afford complete flexibility in the spatial discretisation of the flow domain both structured, unstructur...
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To enhance the resolution of numerically simulated flowfields, grid adaptivity is vitally important. Further, to afford complete flexibility in the spatial discretisation of the flow domain both structured, unstructured and combinations of grid types are likely to be required. Hence, the development of grid adaptivity techniques for general grids is important. This paper discusses adaptivity achieved through point enrichment, point derefinement and point movement applied on general grids. A flexible data structure is described together with suitable strategies for adaptively refining a computational grid. Applications are presented of adaptive grid refinement for two-dimensional compressible flow simulation.
A method is described whereby structured multiblock meshes can be constructed from the solution of elliptic partial differential equations and which possess the property of orthogonality close to boundaries and near o...
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A method is described whereby structured multiblock meshes can be constructed from the solution of elliptic partial differential equations and which possess the property of orthogonality close to boundaries and near orthogonality within the domain. To construct grids for viscous flow simulations which have appropriate point distributions close to solid boundaries these grids are used with point redistribution formulations. The result is high-quality grids for use with both inviscid and viscous flow simulation algorithms. Examples using the approach are given, and these include grids for single and multicomponent aerofoils and bluff bodies.
A kinetic flux-vector-splitting method has been used to solve the Euler equations for inviscid, compressible flow on unstructured grids. This method is derived from the Boltzmann equation and is an upwind, cell-centre...
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A kinetic flux-vector-splitting method has been used to solve the Euler equations for inviscid, compressible flow on unstructured grids. This method is derived from the Boltzmann equation and is an upwind, cell-centred, finite volume scheme with an explicit time-stepping procedure. The Delaunay triangulation has been used to generate the grids. The approach is demonstrated for three flow field simulations, namely the subsonic flow over a two-component high-lift aerofoil, the transonic flow over an aerofoil and the supersonic flow in a channel.
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