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Research Cluster “Civil infrastructure systems”

Spokesperson: Professor Marcus Rutner, marcus.rutner(at)tuhh.de

Deputy Spokesperson: Professor Bastian Oesterle, bastian.oesterle(at)tuhh.de

Civil infrastructure systems form the backbone of our society and represent vulnerable and safety-relevant structures designed to fulfill critical operations, such as facilitating commute across natural impediments or protecting and managing traffic. Main challenges associated with maintenance and operation of civil infrastructure systems are related to structural deterioration, life-cycle assessment, adaptation to climate change as well as to digitalization and automation of construction processes. The research cluster “Civil infrastructure systems” aims to coordinate basic and applied research in an attempt to advance new methods and technologies that are essential to solve the aforementioned challenges. The research cluster is a working group of TUHH professors as well as associated members of partner universities. The goal is to bring together researchers and practitioners in an international network of excellence, to initiate coordinated research projects. The members and associated members of the research cluster bring in expertise in a broad wealth of areas to be applied to civil infrastructure systems, such as construction robotics, digital twinning, building information modeling, Internet of Things technologies, smart sensor systems, and additive manufacturing, computational mechanics, structural dynamics, and isogeometric analysis.

Current research topics covered by theresearch cluster include, but are not limited to

Smart infrastructure
Cognitive buildings
Adaptive structures
Digital roads
Innovative discretization schemes in computational mechanics
BIM/CAD-integrated design and analysis

Please find below the TUHH research field the research focus area is associated with as well as the member institutes. For further information, a selection of current projects, cooperations, and publications may be found below.

Prof. Marcus Rutner

Prof. Bastian Oesterle

Research fields

Aviation & Maritime Systems

Logistics, Mobility & Infrastructure

Institutes

Name	Institute
Prof. Fröhle	River and Coastal Engineering
Prof. Grabe	Geotechnical Engineering and Construction Management
Prof. Kölpin	High Frequency Technology
Prof. Kriegesmann	Structural mechanics in lightweight design
Prof. Oesterle	Structural Analysis
Prof. Rombach	Solid Construction
Prof. Rutner	Metal and Composite Structures
Prof. Schmidt-Döhl	Building Materials, Building Physics and Building Chemistry
Prof. Shokri	Geohydroinformatics
Prof. Smarsly	Digital and Autonomous Construction
Prof. Trieu	Microsystems Technology

Selected projects

Realization of additively manufactured integral structures - REGIS (LuFo); Principal investigator: Prof. Dr. Benedikt Kriegesmann, Project duration: 2018-2022 Project budget: € 215,000.00
Resilient infrastructure based on cognitive buildings, German Research Foundation (DFG): Research grant; Principal investigator: Professor Dr. Kay Smarsly, Project duration: 2022-2024; Project budget: € 317,850.00
Dynamic simulation of buckling and wrinkling of thin shells and membranes with smooth discretization methods: Research grant; Principal Investigator: Prof. Dr.-Ing. Bastian Oesterle, Research duration: 2020-2024, Project budget: € 307.700
Future of the Tidal Elbe in Climate Change - Climate Change and Flood Protection, BMU/UBA: Research grant; Principal Investigator: Prof. Dr.-Ing. Peter Fröhle; Research duration: 2021 – 2024, Project budget: € 2,936 Mio.
Adaptation to climate change induced changes in hazards and consequences of flood events, AnGKor; BMU (Deutsche Anpassungsstrategie - DAS); Principal Investigator: Prof. Dr.-Ing. Peter Fröhle; project duration 2021 - 2023: Project budget € 199.000
Climate, Climatic Change and Society (CLICCS) C1: Sustainable Adaptation Scenarios for Cities - Water from Four Sides and C3: Sustainable Adaptation Scenarios for Coastal Systems; DFG Cluster of Excellence; Subproject leader TUHH and Chair TP C3: Prof. Dr.-Ing. Peter Fröhle; Project duration 2019 - 2026: Project budget TUHH: 4 PhD students for 3 years.
Processes in natural and engineered particle fluid systems (PintPFS)., Graduiertenkolleg GRK 2462/1, DFG: Research grant; Principal Investigator: Prof. Dr.-Ing Jürgen Grabe; Research duration: 01.03.2019 bis 31.08.2023, Project budget: € 3.632.228
3D Laser Scanning Vibrometer, German Research Foundation (DFG): Research Grant for major instrumentation; Principal Investigator: Prof. Dr.-Ing. Marcus Rutner; Project budget: € 292.500
Chemical attack on foundation elements – concrete aspects (BAW); Principal investigator: Prof. Dr.-Ing. Frank Schmidt-Döhl, Project duration: 2017-2024: Project budget: € 600.000

Cooperation partners

Airbus

Behörde für Umwelt, Klima, Energie und Agrarwirtschaft BUKEA

Bundesanstalt für Materialforschung und -prüfung

Bundesanstalt für Wasserbau (BAW)

Bundesgesellschaft für Endlagerung (BGE)

Climate Service Center Germany (GERICS)

DCS Computing GmbH, Österreich

GEOMAR Helmholtz-Zentrum für Ozeanforschung Kiel

Hamburg Port Authority (HPA)

Hamburg Wasser

Landesamt für Landwirtschaft, Umwelt und ländliche Räume, Schleswig-Holstein (LLUR)

Marx Krontal Partner MKP GmbH

Max-Planck-Institut für Meteorologie Hamburg

Ministerium für Energiewende, Klimaschutz, Umwelt und Natur, Schleswig-Holstein (MEKUN)

Niedersachsen Ports (NPorts)

Niedersächsischer Landesbetrieb für Wasserwirtschaft, Küsten- und Naturschutz (NLWKN)

RWTH-Aachen

Universität Hamburg – Centrum für Erdsystemforschung und Nachhaltigkeit (CEN)

Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya, Spanien

University of California Berkeley, USA

University of Cambridge, UK

University of Texas at Austin, USA

Selected publications

Peralta Abadia, J., Walther, C., Osman, A. & Smarsly, K., 2022. A systematic survey of Internet of Things frameworks for smart city applications. Sustainable Cities and Society, 83, 103949.

Ambrozkiewicz, O., Kriegesmann, B., 2021. Simultaneous topology and fastener layout optimization of assemblies considering joint failure. International Journal for Numerical Methods in Engineering, 122 (1), 294-319.

Oesterle, B.; Geiger, F.; Forster, D.; Fröhlich, M.; Bischoff, M., 2022. A study on the approximation power of NURBS and the significance of exact geometry in isogeometric pre-buckling analyses of shells

Jordan, P.; Fröhle, P., 2022. Bridging the gap between coastal engineering and nature conservation?: A review of coastal ecosystems as nature-based solutions for coastal protection

Stapelfeldt, M.; Bienen, B.; Grabe, J., 2022. Influence of Low-Permeability Layers on the Installation and the Response to Vertical Cyclic Loading of Suction Caissons

Dorendorf, L., Lalkovski, N., Rutner, M., 2022. Physical explanation for vibro-acoustic modulation due to local and global nonlinearities in a structure and its experimental and numerical validation. Journal of Sound and Vibration 528.

Schmidt-Döhl, F.; Schmidt, H.; Franke, L.; Deckelmann, G., 2017: Limiting concentrations for ultra high strength concrete in contact with aggressive solutions. HPC conference, Tromsø, Norway, 6.-7.3.2017, DOI: doi.org/10.15480/882.2874.

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