Concrete Panel Connecting Element Positioning Optimization
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Solution Overview
Problem
In structural engineering, the selection and positioning of concrete part connecting elements between a projecting building part and a building facade often result in suboptimal connections due to static requirements and geometric constraints, leading to assembly issues and post-processing work.
Innovation Solution
A computer-assisted method and device that modify a provisional installation plan using a modification algorithm to optimize the selection and positioning of concrete part connecting elements, ensuring static validity and maximizing a parameterizable quality function based on dimensioning criteria such as torque and shear force curves, material properties, and geometric dimensions.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Strength
If concrete part connecting elements are selected and positioned based on static requirements, then structural strength is improved, but assembly feasibility deteriorates due to geometric constraints
Solution Approach 1:
The software performs preliminary analysis and optimization of connecting element positioning before actual assembly, identifying geometric constraints and static requirements in advance to prevent assembly issues
Solution Approach 2:
The system provides feedback loops that continuously evaluate both static validity and geometric constraints, allowing iterative optimization of connecting element positions to satisfy both strength and assembly requirements
2Adaptability or versatility
If manual selection and positioning methods are used, then flexibility is improved, but planning time and error rate increase
Solution Approach 1:
Manual mechanical planning processes are replaced with automated software systems that perform calculations, optimizations, and validations, dramatically reducing planning time while maintaining flexibility through programmable parameters
Solution Approach 2:
The system allows flexible modification of parameters such as connecting element types, positions, and structural properties, enabling adaptive planning while automating the computational aspects to reduce time consumption
3Strength
If connecting elements are positioned to meet static requirements, then load-bearing capacity is improved, but compliance with building regulations deteriorates due to edge distance constraints
Solution Approach 1:
The software performs preliminary checks against building regulations and edge distance requirements before finalizing the connecting element positioning, ensuring compliance is built into the design from the outset
Solution Approach 2:
The system incorporates feedback mechanisms that continuously monitor both static validity and regulatory compliance, alerting users to violations and suggesting corrections to maintain both load-bearing capacity and regulation adherence
Data Source
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AI summary
The invention relates to a method and a device for selecting and/or positioning at least one concrete element connecting element (1, 1a, 1b), which is/are intended to be arranged between a concrete element (3) cantilevered from a building (2) and a building facade (4), comprising the following steps: - Modifying (C) a statically valid preliminary installation plan (21) by a modification algorithm (31) to generate at least one alternative installation plan (32), wherein the modification algorithm (31) determines values of a quality function parameterizable with respect to several dimensioning criteria (P1, P2, P3, P4, P5) for modifying the preliminary installation plan (21) into the alternative installation plan (31) and modifies the preliminary installation plan (21) within the scope of static validity such that the quality function assumes a maximum; and - Outputting the alternative installation plan (31).