The reliability of traffic infrastructures is a key factor in the performance of Germany as a business location. Bridges in transport networks are critical elements that are permanently exposed to high loads. Their inspection is currently being carried out by local experts. Major problems at highway bridges have recently highlighted the importance of early detection of aging damage to be able to take conservation measures before it is too late.
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The aim of »smood« is the modification of existing urban quarters with a high level of local self-sufficiency of renewable energies in terms of energy and warmth-neutral. The experts in »smood« are combining recently developed technologies for energy generation and storage with established technologies such as photovoltaics, solar thermal energy or geothermal energy to create an optimized system. The related departments at the Bauhaus-Universität Weimar, Modeling and Simulation (Prof. Dr. Guido Morgenthal), Building Physics (Prof. Dr. Conrad Völker) and Computer Vision in Engineering (Prof. Dr. Volker Rodehorst) are working together on the subproject »smood PLAN - Neighborhood Data Acquisition and Processing«.
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Potentials for thermal-energetic optimisation are especially given by buildings which are restricted to a low energy-efficiency by their remaining lifetime or their cultural value. Extending the view from the single building to a city quarter leads to a carbon-footprint influenced by the interactions of the entire cluster. The campus of the Bauhaus-Universität Weimar including historical buildings distributed over several city quarters is an excellent object for an exemplary case study. The research approach considers potentials of the building surface and (urban) energy systems, advantages of a functional combination as well as the integration of protected historical buildings into concepts of sustainable urban development supported by building registrations via unmanned aircraft vehicles.
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Global warming and the resulting associated changes in the climate system increase the risk for harmful consequences for safety and resilience of built environment. Sustainable structural adaptations to climate change through engineering measures can lead to a reduction of the vulnerability of structures and their exposure to climate changes. This project involves several chairs from BUW with the aim in working together towards a strategy of assessing the climate change models along with their consequences for structural safety and indoor climate, by analyzing certain reference objects.
The fundamental goal of this project is to develop a generally applicable methodological framework, which
makes it possible to evaluate the forces in structures due to complex dynamic wind-induced phenomena.
This shall be carried out by means of numerical simulations considering defined limit states and to optimize the structure on the basis of probability of occurrence or degree of utilization.
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In recent years, the conversion of the unstable response of thin-walled structures due to aeroelastic instabilities is a practical approach for small-scale energy harvesting. The aim is to supply sustainable green power for wireless sensor networks, portable and wireless electronic devices, especially those expected to operate for a long time with no human intervention.
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