25th Dresden Structural Engineering Seminar

Which questions are leading engineering and planning offices dealing with, which research projects are scientists currently working on? Traditionally, you can get a good overview of this at the Dresden Structural Engineering Seminar.  Reality - Modelling - Structural Design was the summarising conference topic, for which about 200 scientists gathered in the third week of October, partly online and partly directly on site in the Dresden World Trade Center. With the first lecture, Dr Thomas Schadow gave an impressive overview of the elaborate planning services of WTM Engineers for the large-scale project WH Überseequartier HafenCity Hamburg. This was followed by lectures on the necessity of demolition statics by Prof. Dr.-Ing. Harte, who used the example of the demolished cooling tower to explain how important static calculations for the various demolition states are for avoiding serious accidents. Dr.-Ing. Wolkwicz then spoke about interesting planning problems in the construction project of the outer shell of the Multi-Functional Building in the Lakhta Center in St. Petersburg, before Prof. Dr.-Ing. Kaliske from the Institute for Statics and Dynamics of Structures addressed the topic of "Load Case Impact - Approaches for Modelling Highly Dynamic Responses of Concrete Structures" in his lecture.

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After the lunch break, this year's Günther Grüning Prize was awarded to Camilla Lewerenz for her diploma thesis "Investigation of the discontinuity areas of an ortho composite deck". The Günther Grüning Prize, donated by the Landesvereinigung der Prüfingenieure für Bautechnik in Sachsen, is awarded annually for outstanding project work; the award was presented by Dipl.-Ing. Andreas Forner. In the afternoon, lectures were given by the following speakers:

Structure and architecture in a new dialogue
Prof. Dr.-Ing. M. Beckh
beckh vorhammer, Structural | Computational Design - Munich

Connections and stability in timber construction - possibilities and limits
Dr.-Ing. R. Schneider
Engineering Office Statics / Dynamics / Construction, Dippoldiswalde

Buildings in modular construction - challenges of structural fire protection
Dr.-Ing. Jörg Schmidt
MFPA Leipzig

Computer-aided modelling in timber construction - challenges & possibilities
Prof. Dipl.-Ing. Dr. techn. J. Füssl
Institute for Mechanics of Materials and Structures, TU Vienna

Additive manufacturing in concrete construction: material characterisation, modelling and design
Prof. Dr.-Ing. V. Mechtcherine
Institute for Building Materials, TU Dresden