advanced infrastructure for excellent consultation technical equipment of the baw

Advanced Infrastructure for Excellent Consultation Technical Equipment of the BAW

September 2016

Most major cities and important industrial centres are connected to Germany's federal waterways

Structural Engineering

Geotechnical Engineering

Hydraulic Engineering

Organizational structure

Head: Prof. Dr. Christoph Heinzelmann

227 million tons of goods transported (2013)

9 % Waterway

70 % Road

18 % Rail

3 % Pipeline

Total volume transported:

The BAW at a glance

Total gross assets of ca. 50 bn euro

More than 2,300 structures

Germany has the largest network of waterways in western Europe

Locations: Karlsruhe & Hamburg

Our key areas

Consultancy & expert opinions Research & Development

Standardisation

Transfer of knowledge

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Who We Are

Approximately 400 employees Karlsruhe and Hamburg

5 departments and 22 sections KFKI Office

30 % Hamburg

70 % Karlsruhe

Budget of approx. 41 mio euro

23 mio staff appro-priations

18 mio material resources

Approximately 1,300 projects

Approximately 100 research projects

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Office in Karlsruhe


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Technical Equipment of the BAW

Office in Hamburg

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Technical Equipment of the Federal Waterways Engineering and Research Institute (BAW)

Technical Equipment of the BAW 28.09.2016

Use of numerical, testing and experimental methods to provide assessments of actions, structural elements or structures.

Hydraulic Engineering

Use of physical models as detailed reconstruction of river sections or building structures as well as system models for principle tests.

Geotechnical Engineering

Use of experiments, measurements and calculations to investigate the ground and groundwater conditions.

Structural Engineering

Use of numerical, testing and experimental methods to provide assessments of actions, structural elements or structures.

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Construction Materials Laboratory

Objective: Carrying out physical tests on structural specimens and construction materials.

Equipment: Universal testing machines, ultrasonic measuring instruments, mercury porosimeter, concrete calorimeter, test equipment for determining the properties of fresh concrete, climate simulation chambers, fog chamber, migration cells, abrasion drum

Examples for the Technical Equipment of the BAW


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Laboratory for Chemical Analysis

Objective: Verifying the suitability of coating materials for hydraulic steel structures and test construction materials as well as analysing damages.

Equipment: Infra-red spectroscopy (FTIR), headspace gas chromatography (HS-GC), thermal analysis, atomic absorption spectrometry (AAS), incident light microscopy



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Geotechnical Laboratory

Objective: Determination of geotechnical parameters of the in-situ ground for planning and designing hydraulic structures, determination of parameters for advancement of material models and for research purposes in the context of waterways engineering

Equipment: Special experimental and laboratory equipment, soil and rock mechanical testing equipment



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Shallow Water Ship Basin

Objective: Studying the interaction of seagoing ships and tidal fairways, enabling predictions of ship-induced loading in tidal fairways as well as manoeuvre attempts in shallow water

Equipment: Aerial access platforms, crane systems, model ships, guidance and control systems



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Peripheral Channel

Objective: Carrying out experiments on a large scale

Equipment: Bow thruster, acoustic level measuring system, acoustic Doppler velocity meter, peristaltic pumping system, aerial access platforms, crane



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Field Measuring Laboratory

Objective: Carrying out and supporting special field measurement

Equipment: Flow measurement systems, in-situ particle analysis systems, localization and positioning systems, samplers, measuring systems for temperature and conductivity, sediment echo sounding systems



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Ship Handling Simulator

Objective: Training of nautical personnel on seagoing ships

Equipment: Full mission bridge simulator with radar displays, electronic nautical chart system and autopilot; propulsion control levers with: traditional rudder wheel, engine lever and engines; visualization system



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Survey Boat

Objective: Flow velocity and discharge measurements, water level measurements, longitudinal and transverse soundings, determination of waterway bed roughness, studies of the waterway bed using an underwater camera

Equipment: Echo sounders, acoustic Doppler current profiler, GPS, crane, various probes, sensors and other measuring instruments



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Physical models

Objective: Hydraulic and morphological investigations in free-flowing rivers Investigation and assessment of weirs, locks, groynes and other hydraulic structures

Equipment: Large-scale models of river or building structures which enable studies of flows during different discharge situations



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Test Channel for Hydraulic Engineering Structures

Objective: Nature-like studying of flow separation processes, ingress of air, energy dissipation or vibration behaviour

Equipment: Magnetic inductive flow sensor, electrically controllable outlet flap, water level measuring station, modular measuring frame



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High-performance Computers

Objective: Working with mathematical models which are not possible or which would not be appropriate to run on PCs

Equipment: There are a total of three high-performance computers (HPCs) at the Karlsruhe and Hamburg locations. This guarantees a high level of availability as any HPC functions which fail can be temporarily taken over by the other HPCs. Together the 3 HPCs theoretically provide total capacity of over 280 TFlops.



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Clips on our YouTube Channel

Consulting on the building new hydraulic structures

Hydraulic Modelling

Tracer experiments on the weir Hessigheim, River Neckar

Shear force tests on new shear model

Assembly of a new test channel

Manufacturer for the Technical Equipment

https://www.zwick.de

http://www.gunt.de



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More Information on the BAW

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advanced infrastructure for excellent consultation technical equipment of the baw

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