Digital twin & smart structures
Conversion of analog guidelines into automatiable testing rules
SP in the joint research project SmartBridgeRules: Use of digital guidelines for efficient planning and testing of BIM-based railway bridge designs more details
Funding: BMV / mFUND
Period: 02/2026 – 02/2027
SP in the joint research project DTwinPro: Increasing the maturity level of digital twins for bridges through integration of maintenance-relevant predictions more details
Funding: BMV / mFUND
Period: 02/2026 – 01/2029
CARE data model (DIVE) more details
Funding: DFG / CARE
Period: 01/2026 – 12/2027
FOSsure: Fiber optic sensors for reliable condition assessment of concrete bridges
SP of TU Dresden in the joint research project FOSsure: Fiber optic sensors for reliable condition assessment of concrete bridges more details
Funding: Bundesministerium für Verkehr (BMV) / mFUND
Period: 02/2025 – 01/2028
Pic2Bridge: Image-based engineering design for bridges
SP of TU Dresden in the joint research project Pic2Bridge: Image-based engineering design for bridges more details
Funding: Bundesministerium für Verkehr (BMV) / mFUND
Period: 08/2024 – 07/2025
Pic2Bridge: Image-based engineering design for bridges
SP of TU Dresden in the joint research project HyBridGen: AI-based bridge generator with knowledge and experience data and early citizen participation more details
Funding: Bundesministerium für Digitales und Verkehr (BMDV) / mFUND
Period: 04/2024 – 03/2027
Installation of a coupling anchor in a precast element of the openLAB research bridge
SP of TU Dresden in the joint research project ANYTWIN about methods of measurement-based structural safety assessment in digital twins for road bridges more details
Funding: Bundesministerium für Digitales und Verkehr (BMDV)
Period: 09/2023 – 08/2026
The Nibelungen Bridge in Worms as a demonstration project in SPP 100+
Coordination of SPP 2388: Hundred plus – Extending the service life of complex structures through intelligent digitalisation more details
Funding: DFG / SPP 2388
Period:
08/2022 – 02/2026 (Phase 1)
03/2026 – 02/2029 (Phase 2)
Does more mean better? Sensors for monitoring a prestressed concrete bridge
Design methodology for cross-life structural health monitoring with unknown damage process mehr Infos
Funding: DFG / SPP 2388
Period:
08/2022 – 02/2026 (Phase 1)
12/2025 – 11/2028 (Phase 2)
Visualization of the real-lab
Subproject of TU Dresden in the joint research project IDA-KI: Automated assessment of monitoring data for infrastructure constructions more details
Funding: BMDV / mFUND
Period: 01/2022 – 06/2025
Laser scanning with drones
Subproject of TU Dresden within the joint research project mdfBIM+: Partially automated creation of object-based inventory models using multi-data fusion more details
Funding: BMDV / mFUND
Period: 12/2021 – 05/2025
Sensors integrated in tendons for structural monitoring
Subproject of TU Dresden within the joint
research project smart_tendon: Acquisition of structural data by means of spatially resolved strain sensors integrated in tendons more details
Funding: BMDV
Period: 11/2021 – 10/2024
Visualization of the shBIM-platform
Subproject of TU Dresden within the joint research project DiMaRB: Digital maintenance of railway bridges more details
Funding: BMVI / mFUND
Period: 09/2018 – 02/2022