@inproceedings{MuellerSchmittLeiseetal.2021,
  author    = {M{\"u}ller, Tim M. and Schmitt, Andreas and Leise, Philipp and Meck, Tobias and Altherr, Lena and Pelz, Peter F. and Pfetsch, Marc E.},
  title     = {Validation of an optimized resilient water supply system},
  series = {Uncertainty in Mechanical Engineering},
  booktitle = {Uncertainty in Mechanical Engineering},
  publisher = {Springer},
  address   = {Cham},
  isbn      = {978-3-030-77255-0},
  doi       = {10.1007/978-3-030-77256-7_7},
  pages     = {70 -- 80},
  year      = {2021},
  abstract  = {Component failures within water supply systems can lead to significant performance losses. One way to address these losses is the explicit anticipation of failures within the design process. We consider a water supply system for high-rise buildings, where pump failures are the most likely failure scenarios. We explicitly consider these failures within an early design stage which leads to a more resilient system, i.e., a system which is able to operate under a predefined number of arbitrary pump failures. We use a mathematical optimization approach to compute such a resilient design. This is based on a multi-stage model for topology optimization, which can be described by a system of nonlinear inequalities and integrality constraints. Such a model has to be both computationally tractable and to represent the real-world system accurately. We therefore validate the algorithmic solutions using experiments on a scaled test rig for high-rise buildings. The test rig allows for an arbitrary connection of pumps to reproduce scaled versions of booster station designs for high-rise buildings. We experimentally verify the applicability of the presented optimization model and that the proposed resilience properties are also fulfilled in real systems.},
  language  = {en}
}