Technical information system for collaborative material research

  • Authors:

  • R. Chudoba;C. Butenweg;F. Peiffer

  • Affiliations:

  • Chair of Structural Statics and Dynamics Aachen University of Technology, RWTH Aachen, Mies-van-der-Rohe-Street 1, D-52056 Aachen, Germany;Chair of Structural Statics and Dynamics Aachen University of Technology, RWTH Aachen, Mies-van-der-Rohe-Street 1, D-52056 Aachen, Germany;Chair of Structural Statics and Dynamics Aachen University of Technology, RWTH Aachen, Mies-van-der-Rohe-Street 1, D-52056 Aachen, Germany

  • Venue:
  • Advances in Engineering Software - Special issue on engineering computational technology
  • Year:
  • 2004

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Abstract

This paper describes concepts used in the development of a technical information system for supporting collaborative material research of textile-reinforced concrete (TRC). The system has been set up by applying the modern theoretical concepts of software and database engineering to integrate the available open source tools in an effective way. The design is focused on the support of the activities such as experiment planning and analysis, calibration of material models and their subsequent validation. The technical information system works as a database-powered Internet server with a transparent definition of the product and process model. These models have been formally specified by using the Unified Modeling Language [UML distilled. A brief guide to the standard object modeling language (2003)] and implemented by defining class hierarchies and methods in an object-oriented database system employing the technique of object-relational mapping.