Project Details
Projekt
Polymorphic uncertainty modeling of heterogeneous thermo-hydro-mechanical coupled systems under vague assumptions of parameter correlations
Subject Area
Applied Mechanics, Statics and Dynamics
Geotechnics, Hydraulic Engineering
Mathematics
Geotechnics, Hydraulic Engineering
Mathematics
Term
from 2016 to 2021
Project identifier
Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG) - Project number 312783587
New hybrid materials and constructions with heterogeneous material properties gain increasing importance due to the development of new light-weight building concepts. Furthermore, many natural and technical materials applied show a heterogeneous material distribution in the existing engineering constructions.Examples are typical geoscience materials or aggregate-matrix materials w.r.t their meso- and microscopic treatment in a multi-scale approach. The modeling of the material behavior during forecast simulations can either be done by the estimation of upper and lower bounds or by the application of multi-dimensional random fields. In multi-field situations, e.g. coupled thermal-hydro-mechanical systems like dams, dikes or subsoil deposits, there are a series of sensitive material parameters which can be modeled via random fields. Often, these fields exhibit a certain correlation, e.g. in regions of deteriorated material the hydraulic permeability might be increased while the mechanical stiffness and strength are reduced. The question arising is, if this has also effects on other material properties and how the interdependency can be taken effectively into consideration in this case. In the given proposal, a general methodology shall be derived which allows, based on a polymorphic uncertainty model, the generation of random fields for multi-physic applications, where however, the degree of interdependence of the different fields and their model parameters is not fully known. Therefore, the proposal comprises the development, analysis and application of a polymorphic uncertainty model, which captures the random variability of the material properties with vague information concerning their correlations and correlation lengths. The methodology is planned to be applied for the assessment of the reliability of structures in civil and geotechnical engineering which are dominated by multi-physical phenomena. The qualitative gain applying polymorphic uncertainty models compared to classical uni-morphic models will be analyzed. As outlook for a second funding term, the related inverse problems might be tackled, e.g. how to determine parameters of the systems in a polymorphic uncertainty model and how to asses uncertainties in the identified parameters. Therefore, our approach meets the complexes B and C of the announcement of the SPP 1886.
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