Current Research Projects at the Institute for Risk and Reliability

• Angewandtes Programmieren für Ingenieur*innen und Lehramtsstudierende

  Led by: Prof. Dr. Lysann Zander, M. Sc. Marius Bittner

  Team: M. Sc. Marius Bittner

  Year: 2022

  Funding: Niedersächsisches Ministerium für Wissenschaft und Kultur (MWK); Innovative Lehr- und Lernkonzepte: Innovation plus, 50 000€

  Duration: 2022-2023
• Experimentally-validated stochastic model for freeze-thaw microstructural degradation and damage of hardened cement paste

  Led by: Prof. Dr.-Ing. Michael Beer, Dr. techn. Matteo Broggi, Prof. Dr.-Ing. Michael Haist

  Team: Felix Mett, M.Sc.

  Year: 2022

  Funding: DFG, Grant No. BE 2570/13-1, BR 5446/8-1, HA 7917/11-1, Amount: € 315,999

  Duration: 05/2022 – 04/2025
• Risk-based Assessment of Salt Domes as Disposal Sites for Nuclear Waste (RADON)

  Led by: Prof. Dr.-Ing. Michael Beer, Dr. techn. Matteo Broggi

  Team: Andrea Perin, M.Sc.

  Year: 2022

  Funding: Federal company for Radioactive Waste Disposal (BGE)

  Duration: 01/2022-01/2025
• SPP 2388: Intelligent resilience analysis for infrastructure considering uncertain real-time data

  Led by: Prof. Dr.-Ing. Michael Beer, Dr. techn. Matteo Broggi

  Team: Niklas Winnewisser, M.Sc.; Julian Salomon, M.Sc.

  Year: 2022

  Funding: DFG, Grant No. BE 2570/14-1 / BR 5446/9-1 , Amount: € 331,600

  Duration: 09/2022 – 08/2025
• IRTG 2657: Efficient time-dependent reliability analysis of dynamical systems

  Led by: Prof. Dr.-Ing. Michael Beer, Prof. Dr. Amelie Fau

  Team: M.Sc. Marius Bittner

  Year: 2021
• IRTG 2657: Real-time diagnostics of complex mechanical systems

  Led by: Prof. Dr.-Ing. Michael Beer, Prof. Dr. Ludovic Chamoin

  Team: Jan Grashorn, M.Sc.

  Year: 2021

  Funding: DFG

  Duration: 09/2021-08/2024
• Stochastische Antwortanalysetechniken für „unkonventionell modellierte“ dynamische Konstruktionssysteme

  Team: Dr. Vasileios Fragkoulis

  Year: 2021

  Funding: Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (Bonn, Germany): Grant No. FR 4442/2-1 “Temporary Positions for Principal Investigators”, Amount: € 327,932

  Duration: 09/2021 - 08/2024
• Risk and Resilience

  Project part FI1 within the Research Group “Success factors of reciprocal knowledge transfer in Chinese-German cooperation projects: Joint competence development in the research and innovation phase”

  Led by: Prof. Dr.-Ing. Michael Beer

  Team: M.Sc. Marco Behrendt, M.Sc. Marius Bittner

  Year: 2020

  Funding: € 69.986,50

  Duration: 03/2020 - 02/2023
• SFB 1463, Project C1: Robuste lebensdauerumfassende Monitoring Konzepte für Offshore-Windenergieanlagen

  Der Digitale Zwilling basiert essentiell auf der Verknüpfung zwischen realen Objekthierarchien (Teilkomponenten der Windenergieanlagen) sowie digitalen Repräsentanten und muss die reale Struktur mit all ihren Abweichungen von der geplanten Struktur möglichst exakt abbilden. Die wesentlichen Informationen dafür müssen über Monitoringsysteme gewonnen werden, die eine lebenslange Verknüpfung von realem und virtuellem System gewährleisten.

  Led by: Prof. Dr.-Ing. Michael Beer, Prof. Dr.-Ing. Steffen Marx

  Team: M. Eng. Masaru Kitahara

  Year: 2020

  Funding: € 341.112

  Duration: 01/2021 – 12/2024

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• H2020-MSCA-ITN-2020 "Grey-Box Models for Safe and Reliable Intelligent Mobility Systems" (GREYDIENT)

  Led by: Prof. Dr.-Ing. Michael Beer & Dr. techn. Matteo Broggi (Beneficiary)

  Team: M.Sc. Chen Ding, M.Eng. Ruchika Elizabeth Scott

  Year: 2020

  Funding: European Commission: 505.576,80€

  Duration: 02/2021 – 01/2025
• Bayesian inference and updating for reliability analysis of complex systems under incomplete knowledge

  Led by: Prof. Dr.-Ing. Michael Beer

  Team: Dr. techn. Matteo Broggi, M.Sc. Jasper Behrensdorf, Dr.-Ing. Chao Dang, M.Sc. Peihua Ni, M.Sc. Julian Salomon,

  Year: 2020

  Funding: granted by Sino-German Center for Research Promotion (Sino-German Mobility Program), Project number M-0175 Amount: € 93,580

  Duration: 01/2021 - 12/2023
• Nonlinear random vibration analysis methods for the design of dynamic MDOF structural systems subject to seismic hazard

  Led by: Dr. Ioannis P. Mitseas, Prof. Dr.-Ing. Michael Beer

  Team: TBA

  Year: 2019

  Funding: DFG, Grant No. BE 2570/7-1 & MI 2459/1-1, Amount: € 284,500

  Duration: 01/2019 – 12/2021

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• SFB 871, Project D5: Resilienzbasierte Entscheidungskriterien für optimale Regeneration

  Led by: Prof. Dr.-Ing. Michael Beer, Dr. techn. Matteo Broggi

  Team: M. Sc. Julian Salomon

  Year: 2018

  Funding: DFG Grant No. D5 in SFB871 (part of the Collaborative Research Center SFB871 “Regeneration of Complex Capital Goods"), Amount: € 349,600

  Duration: 01/2018 – 12/2021

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• Uncertainty modelling in power spectrum estimation of environmental processes with applications in high rise building performance evaluation

  Led by: Prof. Dr.-Ing. Michael Beer, Dr. Liam Comerford

  Team: M. Sc. Marco Behrendt

  Year: 2018

  Funding: DFG Grant No.: BE 2570/4-1 and CO 1849/1-1, Amount: € 298,450

  Duration: 02/2018 – 07/2021

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• H2020-MSCA-ITN-2017 "Dynamic virtualisation: modelling performance of engineering structures" (DyVirt)

  Led by: Prof. Dr.-Ing. Michael Beer (Beneficiary)

  Team: Dr. techn. Matteo Broggi, Dr. Liam Comerford, Dr. Ioannis P. Mitseas, Dr. Vasileios Fragkoulis, M. Sc. George Pasparakis

  Year: 2018

  Funding: European Commission: 237.735,22€

  Duration: 02/2018 – 02/2022

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• H2020-MSCA-RISE-2016 “Reliability and Safety Engineering and Technology for large maritime engineering systems” (RESET)

  Led by: Prof. Dr.-Ing. Michael Beer (Beneficiary)

  Team: Dr. techn. Matteo Broggi, Dr. Vasileios Fragkoulis, M.Sc. Marco Behrendt, M. Sc. Jasper Behrensdorf, M.Sc. Tobias-Emanuel Regenhardt, M.Sc. Julian Salomon

  Year: 2017

  Funding: European Commission: 229.500,00€

  Duration: 05/2017 – 05/2021

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Finalized Research Projects at the Institute for Risk and Reliability

• Effiziente Zuverlässigkeitsanalyse komplexer Systeme

  Led by: Prof. Dr.-Ing. Michael Beer, Dr. techn. Matteo Broggi

  Team: M. Sc. Tobias-Emanuel Regenhardt

  Year: 2017

  Funding: DFG Grant No.: BE 2570/3-1 and BR 5446/1-1, Amount: € 332.373,45

  Duration: 05/2017 – 04/2020

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• Risk Assessment of Regeneration Paths for Supporting Simultaneous Decisions

  Led by: Prof. Dr.-Ing. Michael Beer, Dr. techn. Matteo Broggi

  Team: Dr.-Ing. Shorash Miro

  Year: 2016

  Funding: Grant No. D5 in SFB871 (part of the Collaborative Research Center SFB871) Amount: € 126,600

  Duration: 06/2016 – 12/2017
• Marie Curie FP7-PEOPLE-2013 International Research Staff Exchange Scheme “PLENOSE: Large Multipurpose Platforms for Exploiting Renewable Energy in Open Seas”

  Year: 2014

  Funding: European Commission: 42.100,00£

  Duration: 05/2014 – 04/2018
• Ein multi-modales Soziale-Kräfte-Modell zur Konfliktanalyse und Abschätzung der Verkehrssicherheit und Leistungsfähigkeit gemeinsam genutzter Verkehrsflächen (MODIS)

  Led by: Univ.-Prof. Dr.-Ing. Bernhard Friedrich, apl. Prof. Dr.-Ing. Volker Berkhahn

  Team: Dipl.-Ing. Chris Timmermann

  Year: 2013

  Funding: DFG

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• Kopplung von Routenplanung und Verkehrssimulation zur Optimierung des Verkehrsflusses

  Team: Dipl.-Ing. N. Rinke

  Year: 2010
• NTH-Top-Down-Projektverbund: Strategien und Methoden des Life-Cycle-Engineerings für Ingenieurbauwerke und Gebäude

  Led by: apl. Prof. Dr.-Ing. Volker Berkhahn

  Team: Dipl.-Ing. N. Rinke

  Year: 2010

  Funding: Land Niedersachsen
• Transshipment: Simulation des Umschlages auf Umschlagterminals des kombinierten Verkehrs

  Team: M. Sc. Matthias Bode

  Year: 2010

  Funding: DB DUSS
• EQuiP: Effizienzoptimierung und Qualitätssicherung ingenieurgeodätischer Prozesse im Bauwesen

  Led by: apl. Prof. Dr.-Ing. Volker Berkhahn

  Team: Dipl.-Ing. N. Rinke

  Year: 2009

  Funding: DFG
• BMBF-Projekt ImTG: "Identifikation morphologischer Tendenzen und Geschwindigkeiten im Küstennahbereich" (03KIS059)

  Led by: apl. Prof. Dr.-Ing. habil. Peter Milbradt

  Year: 2006
• DFG-Projekt MI 518/5-1: „Kopplung zellularer Automaten und hydrodynamischer Modelle zu Beschreibung ökologischer Prozesse“

  Led by: apl. Prof. Dr.-Ing. habil. Peter Milbradt

  Year: 2004
• DFG-Projekt MI 518/3-1 : "Finite Elemente Approximation auf der Basis beliebig dimensionaler finiter Zelle

  Led by: apl. Prof. Dr.-Ing. habil. Peter Milbradt

  Year: 2003
• Dynamische Verkehrsprognosen in Netzen auf der Basis makroskopischer Modellansätze

  Led by: Prof. Dr.-Ing. Rudolf Damrath

  Team: Dr.-Ing. Martin Rose

  Year: 2001

  Funding: BASt
• Relationale Prozessmodellierung in kooperativer Gebäudeplanung

  Team: M. König, A. Klinger

  Year: 2000

  Funding: DFG
• MorWin

  Led by: apl. Prof. Dr.-Ing. habil. Peter Milbradt

  Year: 1997