Bauingenieur

In this paper, a method is presented for the analysis of statically determinate supported partially composite beams with discontinuously arranged connectors. This method is applicable to arbitrary bending moments and arbitrary arrangements of...

It is evident that climate change and the increasing traffic volume are having a detrimental effect on pavements, resulting in elevated levels of thermal and mechanical stress. The current mechanistic pavement design procedure in Germany according...

The power supply on construction sites is becoming increasingly important in the context of growing energy scarcity, the ongoing electrification of construction processes, significant electricity costs, and the general transition from fossil...

The transformation of the building sector toward climate-neutral and, in the long term, climate-positive buildings requires innovative, integrated solutions that combine structural systems, energy supply, thermal storage, and digital building...

Open systems such as direct thermal groundwater utilization can be used to generate geothermal energy. The groundwater is extracted via extraction wells, heated in a chiller or cooled in a heat pump, and then returned to the aquifer via recharge...

At the Siemens Campus in Erlangen, new office buildings of equivalent architecture, cubature and use but differing structural systems were constructed. This provided a unique opportunity for systematic life cycle assessment (LCA) comparing...

This qualitative, exploratory case study investigates the integration of the 5D BIM methodology into the work processes of cost planning, cost estimating, and cost management. It considers the context of the German construction industry as well as a...

This paper presents the development and application of an efficient numerical method for realistic vibration prediction of railway bridges under high-speed traffic. The main motivation is the code-based limitation of bridge accelerations to ensure...

This study systematically investigates the high-temperature behaviour of concretes with varying proportions of recycled aggregate. The basis is formed by the requirements valid in Germany for recycled aggregates in accordance with EN 12620 [1], as...

The German guidelines for the mechanistic design of asphalt pavements, RDO Asphalt, enable material-optimized design based on mechanistic, empirical methods. However, the accuracy of the method depends largely on the precise recording and modeling...

Train passages in high-speed rail traffic impose dynamic loads on bridge structures and often represent the critical design criterion. The resulting vibrations are limited in standards by thresholds for vertical accelerations. In the dynamic...