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CSCP — Center for Structural Concrete Physics · RWTH Aachen University

Virtual Lab of the Center for Structural Concrete Physics

Less material, longer life, more physics

01

Capture physics → Generate models → Simulate tests

3 live · 1 in preparation
Model development: tailor-made simulation from first principles — hydration, fracture, creep, fatigue. The line of FATRESCON (ERC) and ReinfConFat (DFG).
02

Calibrate → Validate → Predict → Monitor

4 in preparation
Confronting reality: models calibrated and validated against experiments, then predicting and monitoring materials and structures in service.
Monitoring and assessment

Wind power plants

Monitoring and fatigue assessment of concrete towers and foundations.

In preparation
Digital twins

Digital twin bridges

The bridge, its monitoring and its model kept in step.

In preparation
Active crack control

Pavements

Crack control in concrete pavements by design and by intervention.

In preparation
Monitoring

From measured channels to assessment

Sensor channels of a structure, their interpretation through the models, and the assessment.

In preparation
03

Design → Assess → Build

2 live
Design, assessment and construction: the models carried into engineering practice.
04

Plan → Coordinate → Execute → Audit

1 live
Research progress axis: the research process itself planned and run as activities — workflows for many hands with gated steps, resources planned ahead and used in reality, results with their provenance.
Activity-centric workflow projection

REPROXIS

Research planned, coordinated, executed and audited along one axis: projects, test series and specimens as activities; people, machines and funds as the resources they use — every result with its provenance.

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