Research profile of Faculty 14
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In its five Institutes with 20 specialist areas, the Faculty of Civil and Environmental Engineering achieves research results that are sure to attract national and international attention. We concentrate on four main areas of research, which are interlinked in a variety of ways and have great potential for cooperation across institutes. These are New materials and material compounds in civil engineering; environment; traffic and mobility as well as methods of modeling and simulation of technical systems.
Research at the department
Civil and environmental engineering
Civil and environmental engineers shape the world. We are convinced that they can and must make an important contribution to the careful use of resources and sustainable management. The research profile in the environmental field covers the areas of
- Climate protection and climate adaptation in the areas of transportation and water
- Nanotechnology for water and wastewater
- New sanitation concepts
- Renewable energies: Water, biogas
- Environmentally compatible flood protection
- Components for the ecological improvement of hydropower plants
- Watercourse development
- Chemicals in the aquatic environment
- Anthropogenic interventions in the water balance
- Environmentally compatible passenger and freight transportation
- Post-fossil mobility
- Material flows
- Sustainable resource management
- Energy from waste
- Sensor array technology
Safe and resource-conserving buildings - our researchers are also working on this. Their developments make valuable and sometimes sensational contributions in practice. The research profile covers the following areas:
- New, high-performance concretes
- Adhesive bonds and fiber composites in the construction industry
- Earthquake-proof construction and substructure technology
- Material modeling
- Renewable raw materials for load-bearing components
- Reuse and recycling of building materials in traffic route construction
- Nanotechnology for building materials
The transportation system is facing major upheavals - due to demographic change, new lifestyles and the emergence of new vehicle drives and intelligent transport technology. Our research profile covers the following areas:
- Transport infrastructures and transport systems
- Traffic technology and traffic management
- Public transportation
- Bicycles and sustainable modes of transport
- Mobility in rural areas
- New building materials in road construction
We have been using modeling and simulation of materials, structures and processes in all specialist areas for many years as an important method for analysis and behavior prediction. This has led to the development of these key research areas:
- Modeling of mechanical systems for the realistic recording of load-bearing structures
- Modeling and simulation of road traffic, environmental pollution through immissions, water currents and socio-technical systems
- Earthquake effects on the load-bearing behavior of spatial structures
- Predicting the load-bearing capacity of foundations
- Analysis of construction processes in building construction and civil engineering
- Modeling and simulation of flow processes in hydraulic engineering
The Faculty intends to sharpen its profile in comparison to other university civil and environmental engineering faculties with the help of the focus areas in order to improve its attractiveness for prospective students, also beyond the region, and to increase its volume of third-party funding.
To this end, the Faculty uses a large number of laboratories and research facilities.
Current and completed research projects can be researched in detail via the central research portal of the University of Kassel.