@phdthesis{Herrmann2004,
  author    = {Herrmann, Ulf},
  title     = {Untersuchungen zur Rohrwandbenetzung bei der Dampferzeugung in horizontalen und geneigten Parabolrinnen-Solarkollektoren. - (FLAGSOL Forschungsbericht)},
  publisher = {FLAGSOL},
  address   = {K{\"o}ln},
  isbn      = {3-9804901-2-2},
  pages     = {IX, 145 S. : Ill., graph. Darst.},
  year      = {2004},
  language  = {de}
}
@phdthesis{Kurz2008,
  author    = {Kurz, Melanie},
  title     = {Die Modellmethodik im Formfindungsprozess am Beispiel des Automobildesigns : eine Betrachtung der Wechselwirkungen zwischen Entwurfs- und Darstellungsmethoden im Hinblick auf die systematische Entwicklung und die Bewertbarkeit der dreidimensionalen Form artefaktischer Gegenst{\"a}nde im Entstehungsprozess},
  publisher = {Dt. Wiss.-Verl.},
  address   = {Baden-Baden},
  isbn      = {978-3-935176-76-7},
  pages     = {158 S. : Ill., graph. Darst.},
  year      = {2008},
  language  = {de}
}
@phdthesis{Berndt1972,
  author    = {Berndt, Heinz},
  title     = {Zur Synthese der Sequenz 60-84[Ala71, Gly72, Val73] des Schweineproinsulins als monomeres cyclisches Bis-Cystinpeptidderivat},
  address   = {Aachen},
  pages     = {115 S.},
  year      = {1972},
  language  = {de}
}
@phdthesis{Bung2009,
  author    = {Bung, Daniel Bernhard},
  title     = {Zur selbstbel{\"u}fteten Gerinnestr{\"o}mung auf Kaskaden mit gem{\"a}ßigter Neigung. (Bericht / Fachbereich Bautechnik, Lehr- und Forschungsgebiet Wasserbau und Wasserwirtschaft, Bergische Universit{\"a}t Gesamthochschule Wuppertal ; Bd. 16)},
  publisher = {Shaker},
  address   = {Aachen},
  isbn      = {978-3-8322-8382-7},
  pages     = {XXVI, 292 S.. : Ill., graph. Darst.},
  year      = {2009},
  language  = {de}
}
@phdthesis{Wahle1985,
  author    = {Wahle, Michael},
  title     = {Beitrag zur passiven Kontrolle schwach ged{\"a}mpfter elastischer Strukturen mittels dynamischer Schwingungsd{\"a}mpfer},
  pages     = {XIV, 305 S. : Ill., zahlr. graph. Darst.},
  year      = {1985},
  language  = {de}
}
@phdthesis{Polaczek1995,
  author    = {Polaczek, Christa},
  title     = {Automatische 3-dimensionale FEM-Netzgenerierung f{\"u}r die Formf{\"u}ll- und Erstarrungssimulation. - (Fortschrittberichte VDI : Reihe 20, Rechnerunterst{\"u}tzte Verfahren ; 182)},
  number    = {Als Ms. gedr.},
  publisher = {VDI-Verl.},
  address   = {D{\"u}sseldorf},
  isbn      = {3-18-318220-3},
  pages     = {VII, 131 S. : Ill., graph. Darst.},
  year      = {1995},
  language  = {de}
}
@phdthesis{Kuperjans2000,
  author    = {Kuperjans, Isabel},
  title     = {Verfahren zur Analyse und Bewertung industrieller Energieanlagen},
  address   = {Aachen},
  pages     = {Getr. Z{\"a}hlung : graph. Darst.},
  year      = {2000},
  language  = {de}
}
@phdthesis{Benner1984,
  author    = {Benner, Joachim},
  title     = {Experimentelle Untersuchungen des mechanischen Verhaltens drehnachgiebiger Wellenkupplungen und Entwicklung eines Ersatzmodells},
  pages     = {147 S. : graph. Darst.},
  year      = {1984},
  language  = {de}
}
@phdthesis{Biewendt2022,
  author    = {Biewendt, Marcel},
  title     = {Socio-Economic challenges in sustainability and resource management},
  publisher = {Hungarian University of Agriculture and Life Sciences},
  pages     = {160 Seiten},
  year      = {2022},
  abstract  = {This dissertation uses in first stage a macroeconomic investigation to examine the dependence, influence and corruption of socio-economic development through effects of sustainability and resource management. The conducted research found that the state's dependence on its citizens decreases when the state's sources of revenue are largely detached and independent of the citizens' financial resources. In this case, financial resources are taxes and duties provided by the citizens. One possible consequence is the restriction of state investment in its citizens. Both the qualitative literature review and the quantitative data analysis revealed a negative correlation between socio-economic development and the resource economy's share of GDP for the period under study. The microeconomic investigation was primarily conducted through an intensive literature review. It was shown that the rebound effect as such is already very well researched. However, it also became clear that avoidance strategies for the rebound effect and links to sustainability initiatives are scarce or non-existent. The need for a redesign of the impact analysis with regard to technological innovations and their influence on resource consumption and resource management has become clear on the basis of the present study. Further, emerging and developing countries in particular, which will be confronted in the foreseeable future not only with the fundamental problems of resource abundance in the overall economic context, but also with the issues of their sustainable use, should be confronted with these problems as early as possible in order to find solutions in a timely manner.},
  language  = {de}
}
@phdthesis{Stapenhorst2012,
  author    = {Stapenhorst, Carolin},
  title     = {The concept as an operant instrument within the interdisciplinarity of the architectural design process},
  publisher = {Politecnico di Torino},
  address   = {Turin},
  pages     = {242 Seiten},
  year      = {2012},
  abstract  = {In the introduction to their book "What is philosophy?" Gilles Deleuze and Felix Guattari deplore the inflationary and trivialised use of the term concept: "Finally, the most shameful moment came when computer science, marketing, design and advertising, all the disciplines of communication, seized hold of the word concept itself and said: 'This is our concern, we are the creative ones, we are the ideas men! We are the friends of the concept, we put in our computers.' " This doctoral thesis shares the concern of Gilles Deleuze and Felix Guattari, but still, it is a thesis in architecture and thus collocated within the field of the representatives of the "ideas men". It engages in architectural design theory, and refers in particular to the investigation of methodological approaches within the design process. Therefore, the thesis will not contribute to the philosophical dimension of the term, but intends to overcome its imprecise use within the architectural discourse, in compliance with Eug{\`e}ne Viollet-le-Duc's admonition relative to vague definitions: "Dans les arts, et dans l'architecture en particulier, les d{\´e}finitions vagues ont caus{\´e} bien des erreurs, ont laiss{\´e} germer bien des pr{\´e}jug{\´e}s, enraciner bien des id{\´e}es fausses. On met un mot en avant, chacun y attache un sens diff{\´e}rent." The term concept in architecture is very often used as pure marketing collateral, it serves to sell an idea, a product, a design. Its functional applicability is reduced to a special manner of illustration, produced as one of the various design presentation documents at the end of the design process. In contrast, the original contribution of this thesis aims to give a precise, instrumental dimension to the term concept: the concept is the expression of a specific logic, capable to guide the decisional sequences of the process and thus to improve the quality of the designed projects. The motivation to define a specific instrumentality of the concept is closely connected to the issue of interdisciplinarity in the architects' profession. The interdisciplinary character of the architectural field is widely accepted and discussed as such, but the thesis intends to give a more precise definition of the various kinds of competences involved by classifying them into either the internal or the external group. The traditional notion of interdisciplinarity, predominantly seen as collaboration between architects and technical experts, and, most notably, the historical, sometimes contentious, relationship between architects and engineers is described. Referring to recent developments, the transformation of the architect's role within the professional sphere, marked by an increasing importance of diverse influences and linked to a growing risk of marginalisation, is illustrated. The thesis describes different ways to adapt to this specific kind of interdisciplinarity, which generally requires the architect's ability to connect and to integrate various contents, different points of view and diverse scales. On the other hand, the big potential which is implicit in the interdisciplinary field is exposed: architects can inform their core competence, the design, by extracting contents of different disciplinary competences, pertaining or not pertaining to their own professional field. They have the possibility to cross fields of external competences in a selective way and by doing so they can build up a corpus of knowledge capable to generate and communicate guidelines and systematic methodologies for their design. At the end, the analysis of these two aspects allows the definition of a more specific professional profile of the architect as specialist of interdisciplinarity. The thesis is concerned with the theories around the design process. The design process is seen as open to inspection and critical evaluation, with major focus on the decisional sequences which characterise it. It concentrates on the process' descriptiveness and the degree of self-conscious approaches applied within it. The importance of regulative, strategic mechanisms is illustrated by testimonies taken from a series of design researches and leads to the functional definition of the figure of the concept as representation of a coherent set of ideas, as generator of a project-specific system of rules and as communicator of decisional strategies. The concept's function is furthermore defined as communicative interface which generates and transmits the system of rules authoritative for all the disciplinary competences involved in the design process, a communicative interface which constitutes a basis of shared convictions capable to increase the efficiency of collaboration. Furthermore, the concept's capacity to explore and elaborate the contents of external disciplines is identified as a possible methodological approach to innovative design thinking. The approach to a specific functional definition of the concept is continued by the description of a series of instruments that are simultaneously generating and communicating it. It is outlined to which degree the concept itself is already the result of an ideational process, collocated within the initial phase of the design proceedings, serving as a guideline to them, but still continuously evolving and adapting in its progression. In addition, it is illustrated how all the diverse instruments of the concept are operational media through which the knowledge transition between different disciplines can occur. The considerations about the concept as operational instrument of design are elaborated with regard to a number of examples of didactical applications that are particularly involved in the development and teaching of specific design methods. These examples illustrate the interrelations between design theory and design education. They are derived from very different schools of architecture and diverse mindsets, but all of them transmit models of conceptual design thinking.},
  language  = {en}
}