References & Links
University users
Deutschland
TU München, Institut für Massivbau ( Rüdiger Rackwitz)
TU München, Centrum Baustoffe und Materialprüfung ( Peter Schießl, Till Felix Mayer)
TU Braunschweig, Institut für Baustoffe, Massivbau und Brandschutz (Christoph Klinzmann, Ralf Schnetgöke)
Universität der Bundeswehr München, Institut für konstruktiven Ingenieurbau - Massivbau (Manfred Keuser, Thomas Braml)
TU Dresden, Institut für Baumechanik und Bauinformatik ( Raimar J. Scherer)
TU Bergakademie Freiberg (Wolfram Kudla, G. Lippmann)
TU Kaiserslautern, Fachgebiet Massivbau und Baukonstruktion ( Alexander Fischer)
Universität Leipzig, Institut für Massivbau u. Baustofftechnologie ( Carsten Ahner)
FH Regensburg, Bauingenieurwesen ( Dimitrios Diamatidis)
Universität Stuttgart, Institut für Werkstoffe im Bauwesen ( Christian Fischer)
Europe
TU Delft (Hessel Voortman)
University of Breslau ( Pawel Sniady)
National Technical University of Athens (Vlasis Koumousis)
Universität Gent (Robby Caspeele)
Universität Liege (Jacques Rondal)
University of Tromsø (Didier Leynaud)
University of Bristol, Dept. of Mechanical Engineering (David Smith)
Chalmers University of Technology, Göteborg (Claes Alen)
Czech Technical University of Prague (Milan Holicky)
Heriot-Watt University, Edinburgh (Christiana Dymiotis)
IFMA, LaRama (Maurice Lemaire)
Instituto de Ciencias de la Construccion Eduardo Torroja, Madrid (David Izquierdo)
Lund University, Division of Structural Engineering (Fredrik Carlsson)
University J.J. Strossmayer, Dept. for Construction & Materials, Osijek, Croatia (Damir Markulak)
Polish Academy of Sciences: IPPT-PAN (Krzysztof Dolinski, Andrzej Siemaszko)
University of Bologna, DISTART Idraulica ( A. Lamberti)
Aalborg University, Inst. of Building and Structural Engineering (John D. Soerensen)
University College London, Dept. of Mechanical Engineering (Dover)
Eidgenössische Techn. Hochschule Zürich, Risiko und Sicherheit (Michael Havbro Faber)
World
Commercial Users
Deutschland
Airbus Deutschland GmbH (Gerd Bertrand)
Bilfinger Berger AG
concrete concepts Ingenieurgesellschaft mbH (Sascha Lay)
ComTec GmbH, Aachen (Hubert Schneider)
Germanischer Lloyd, Hamburg (Sven Otto)
INTES GmbH, Stuttgart (see also PERMAS and ASRA-HPC)
Keller Grundbau GmbH, Gröbenzell
Wölfel Beratende Ingenieure GmbH & Co.KG, Höchberg (J. Preißinger)
Europe
AMEC (R. Fraser)
Ballast Nedam, Amstelven
Billington Osborne-Moss Eng. Ltd. (Richard Turner)
BP (Martin Lamb)
Building Research Establishment, Centre of Concrete Construction
Centro Sviluppo Materiali SpA (Carlo Viglialoro)
COWI Consult, Lyngby (Inger Brigitte Kroon)
INTEC Engineering BV, Delft (P. Liu)
Lloyd's Register of Shipping (Graham Stewart)
Noble Denton, London (Paul Goodwin)
Norwegian Geotechnical Institute ( Farrokh Nadim)
Reinertsen Engineering AS, Trondheim (Trygve Ilstad)
Snamprogetti SpA (Giovanni Uguccioni)
TNO, Delft (N. Han, P.H. Waarts)
TWI (Amin Muhammed)
VTT Building Technology (Tomi Toratti)
WS Atkins Science & Technology (Navil Shetty, Jacek T. Gierlinski)
World
ABS Group Services do Brazil LTDA (Viviane Krzonkalla)
Chuo Fukken Consultants Co., Ltd. (Ryuzo Ozaki)
PERMAS-RA combines the state-of-the-art general
purpose Finite Element system PERMAS
by INTES GmbH, Stuttgart, with COMREL by RCP GmbH, Munich, for probabilistic
structural analysis. Some highlights on its features:
- Time-invariant and time-variant reliability analysis
by FORM/SORM, Adaptive Sampling and Monte Carlo Sampling Both predefined and user defined failure functions Multiple failure functions for system reliability analysis Dynamic analysis
- Non-linear analysis
The development was initiated and sponsored by the Forschungszentrum
Jülich GmbH (KFA).
ASRA-HPC The ASRA-HPC project, "Advanced Structural Reliability
Analysis on High Performance Computers", is a shared cost action under the EC-ESPRIT
IV/HPCN Simulation and Design (Project #28159). The aim of the project is to
develop an integrated system for the optimum design of structures under reliability
constraints. It started from the existing PERMAS-RA in October 1998. The scheduled
end is October 2001. Some highlights on development within this project:
- All definitions and settings supported by a Graphical
User Interface (GUI)Newest version of COMREL integrated with newest version
of PERMAS Improved efficiency of the algorithms for reliability
analysis in COMREL, especially in the time-variant caseMany enhancements in PERMAS regarding HPC
- New module COSTREL for optimization under reliability
constraints or constrained
reliability optimization integrated with PERMAS
- Interface of reliability and optimization algorithms
to PERMAS based on Response Surface Method (RSM) for the case of non-differentiable
failure- and constraint functions
The above link will bring you to the website of ASRA-HPC (hosted
at INTES)
ASRANet
In late 1999 an EPSRC Network named ASRANet, "Integration
of Structrural Reliability Analysis (SRA) with Advanced Structural Analysis
(ASA)" was founded in the UK co-ordinated by the University of Glasgow, Dept.
of Naval Architecture and Ocean Engineering, CASSaR.
There are ongoing courses and workshops, a online discussion
group and many useful contacts. In Sept.2000 the above mentioned ASRA-HPC project
was presented at a workshop in London by RCP & INTES.
E-mail contacts:
Newtwork Co-ordinatror: Nina Baker (nbaker@eng.gla.ac.uk)
Newtwork Principal Investigator: Purnendu K. Das (P.K.Das@eng.gla.ac.uk)
The above link will bring you to the website of ASRANet.
OTHER MATTERS
OF INTEREST
Selected Journals
Canadian
Journal Of Civil Engineering
Structural
Safety
Computational
Statistics & Data Analysis
