Extreme stresses - San Diego research exchange
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| Titel | Title Betonkonstruktionen unter extremen Beanspruchungen | Impact Loads on Concrete Structures Förderer | Funding European Union / Marie Curie International Outgoing Fellowships for Career Development Zeitraum | Period 09/2010 – 08/2012 Leiter | Project manager Prof. Dr.-Ing. Dr.-Ing. E.h. Manfred Curbach Bearbeiter | Contributor Prof. Dr.-Ing. Steffen Marx Projektpartner | Project partners Prof. Frieder Seible and Prof. Benson Shing (UCSD), University of California San Diego (USA) |
Short description
Based on a funding under the EU’s Seventh Framework Programme (Marie Curie International Outgoing Fellowships) Prof. Steffen Marx is working as visiting professor at the University of California San Diego for a one year period. This cooperation project is devoted to the investigation of impact and earthquake loads on concrete structures. The design and dimensioning of concrete structures as redundant building structures, containments and other protection systems is a fundamental part of the present safety and reliability research. The clear knowledge of the various impact and other dynamic loads and of the interaction of those loads with reinforced or pre-stressed concrete structures is an essential basis for a realistic modelling and calculation and hence for the development of effective protection strategies against impact and severe dynamic loading. The project uses the combination of both, numerical simulations as well as advanced testing methods using instrumented impact or shaking table tests for validation of the numerical models.
The overall aim is to further develop the knowledge about the several types of impact problems and its special application on concrete structures. The result of the project should be a clear specification of these loads with recommendations for both, the suitable modelling and numerical simulation as well as the experimental reproduction. Furthermore, the project extends the experiences of impact and earthquake testing and the connected specific measurement methods (high-speed cineradiography and photogrammetry, acoustic emission, etc). The project will lead to advances of understanding of short-time response phenomena of concrete structures and provide a basis for designs capable of withstanding such severe environments.
The secondary main objective of the project is to establish a long-standing cooperation between the researchers from University of California San Diego and Technische Universitaet Dresden. This cooperation will consist of both, the collaboration in joint research projects as well as the possibility of exchange of researchers and students. To provide the prospective financial basis, Prof. Marx submits during his stay at UCSD proposals for common research projects together with his colleague Prof. Benson Shing, an UCSD-expert in earthquake engineering and concrete structures. One first exchange student from TU Dresden is already going to visit UCSD from March to May 2011.
Report in the yearbook 2010
Impact Loads on Concrete Structures
Unique Testing facilities of UCSD: The big Shaking Table
Based on a funding under the EU’s Seventh Framework Programme (Marie Curie International Outgoing Fellowships) Prof. Steffen Marx is working as visiting professor at the University of California San Diego for a one year period. This cooperation project is devoted to the investigation of impact and earthquake loads on concrete structures. The design and dimensioning of concrete structures as redundant building structures, containments and other protection systems is a fundamental part of the present safety and reliability research. The clear knowledge of the various impact and other dynamic loads and of the interaction of those loads with reinforced or pre-stressed concrete structures is an essential basis for a realistic modelling and calculation and hence for the development of effective protection strategies against impact and severe dynamic loading.
The project uses the combination of both, numerical simulations as well as advanced testing methods using instrumented impact or shaking table tests for validation of the numerical models. The overall aim is to further develop the knowledge about the several types of impact problems and its special application on concrete structures. The result of the project should be a clear specification of these loads with recommendations for both, the suitable modelling and numerical simulation as well as the experimental reproduction. Furthermore, the project extends the experiences of impact and earthquake testing and the connected specific measurement methods (high-speed cineradiography and photogrammetry, acoustic emission, etc). The project will lead to advances of understanding of short-time response phenomena of concrete structures and provide a basis for designs capable of withstanding such severe environments.
The secondary main objective of the project is to establish a long-standing cooperation between the researchers from University of California San Diego and Technische Universität Dresden. This cooperation will consist of both, the collaboration in joint research projects as well as the possibility of exchange of researchers and students. To provide the prospective financial basis, Prof. Marx submits during his stay at UCSD proposals for common research projects together with his colleague Prof. Benson Shing, an UCSD-expert in earthquake engineering and concrete structures. One first exchange student from TU Dresden is already going to visit UCSD from March to May 2011.