TY  - CHAP
A1  - Rajan, S.
A1  - Butenweg, Christoph
A1  - Dalguer, L. A.
A1  - An, J. H.
A1  - Renault, P.
A1  - Klinkel, S.
T1  - Fragility curves for a three-storey reinforced concrete test structure of the international benchmark SMART 2013
T2  - 16th World Conference on Earthquake, 16WCEE 2017 Santiago Chile, January 9th to 13th 2017
Y1  - 2017
N1  - Paper No 2119
PB  - Chilean Association on Seismology and Earthquake Engineering (ACHISINA)
ER  - 
TY  - CHAP
A1  - Rosin, J.
A1  - Mykoniou, K.
A1  - Butenweg, Christoph
T1  - Analysis Of Base Isolated Liquid Storage Tanks With 3D Fsi-Analysis As Well As Simplified Approaches
T2  - 16th World Conference on Earthquake Engineering, 16WCEE 2017 Santiago Chile, January 9th to 13th 2017
N2  - Tanks are preferably designed, for cost-saving reasons, as circular, cylindrical, thin-walled shells. In case of seismic excitation, these constructions are highly vulnerable to stability failures. An earthquake-resistant design of rigidly supported tanks for high seismic loading demands, however, uneconomic wall thicknesses. A cost-effective alternative can be provided by base isolation systems. In this paper, a simplified seismic design procedure for base isolated tanks is introduced, by appropriately modifying the standard mechanical model for flexible, rigidly supported tanks. The non-linear behavior of conventional base isolation systems becomes an integral part of a proposed simplified process, which enables
the assessment of the reduced hydrodynamic forces acting on the tank walls and the corresponding stress distribution. The impulsive and convective actions of the liquid are taken into account. The validity of this approach is evaluated by
employing a non-linear fluid-structure interaction algorithm of finite element method. Special focus is placed on the boundary conditions imposed from the base isolation and the resulting hydrodynamic pressures. Both horizontal and vertical
component of ground motion are considered in order to study the principal effects of the base isolation on the pressure distribution of the tank walls. The induced rocking effects associated with elastomeric bearings are discussed. The results
manifest that base isolated tanks can be designed for seismic loads by means of the proposed procedure with sufficient accuracy, allowing to dispense with numerically expensive techniques.
KW  - liquid storage tank
KW  - seismic isolation
KW  - elastomeric bearing
KW  - friction pendulum bearing
KW  - simplified approach
Y1  - 2017
N1  - Paper No 2246
SP  - 1
EP  - 14
PB  - Chilean Association on Seismology and Earthquake Engineering (ACHISINA)
ER  - 
TY  - JOUR
A1  - Klein, Michel
A1  - Butenweg, Christoph
A1  - Klinkel, Sven
T1  - The Influence of Soil-Structure-Interaction on the Fatigue Analysis in the Foundation Design of Onshore Wind Turbines
JF  - Procedia Engineering
Y1  - 2017
U6  - https://doi.org/10.1016/j.proeng.2017.09.325
SN  - 1877-7058
VL  - 199
SP  - 3218
EP  - 3223
PB  - Elsevier
CY  - Amsterdam
ER  - 
TY  - CHAP
A1  - Steuer-Dankert, Linda
A1  - Bouffier, Anna
A1  - Gaedicke, Sonja
A1  - Leicht-Scholten, Carmen
T1  - Diversifying engineering education: a transdisciplinary approach from RWTH Aachen University
T2  - Strategies for increasing diversity in engineering majors and careers
N2  - Engineers and therefore engineering education are challenged by the increasing complexity of questions to be answered globally. The education of future engineers therefore has to answer with curriculums that build up relevant skills. This chapter will give an example how to bring engineering and social responsibility successful together to build engineers of tomorrow. Through the integration of gender and diversity perspectives, engineering research and teaching is expanded with new perspectives and contents providing an important potential for innovation. Aiming on the enhancement of engineering education with distinctive competencies beyond technical expertise, the teaching approach introduced in the chapter represents key factors to ensure that coming generations of engineers will be able to meet the requirements and challenges a changing globalized world holds for them. The chapter will describe how this approach successfully has been implemented in the curriculum in engineering of a leading technical university in Germany.
Y1  - 2017
SN  - 9781522522126
U6  - https://doi.org/10.4018/978-1-5225-2212-6.ch010
SP  - 201
EP  - 235
PB  - IGI Global
CY  - Hershey, USA
ER  -