DIN 18 024 & 18 025: The development of barrier-free building in 1970s Germany

DIN 18 024 and 18 025, published in Germany in the 1970s, were among the first standards in Europe on the subject of accessibility in the built environment. The paper describes their historical context, reception and their effects on literature and practice.

Tool development & validation for brand manifestation design

Nowadays, social media plays an increasingly important role in people’s daily lives. Many brands make use of it and send out different information, for instance, sales, event notifications and sometimes even their position on social issues through platforms like Facebook and Instagram. However, the process of developing these manifestations have...

Towards a cyber approach for large organisations

Participation in cyberspace is of key importance for large organisations (and the functioning of our society), but to participate responsibly a comprehensive cyber approach is needed. Cyberspace is a dynamic and complex environment due to the hyper-connectedness and therefore such an approach should aim for cyber resilience to cope with this...

The Emergence of De Facto Standards: The value of integrative frameworks in the analysis of standards battles

Usually, no particular framework is used in the analysis of standards battles. Such an approach is good for the discovery of new knowledge, but it cannot reliably lead to a comprehensive analysis of a standards battle. The comprehensiveness of an analysis of a standards battle is currently very dependent on the knowledge and expertise of the...

Defining parameters for buckling checks of plated structures in finite element sofware packages.

Plated structures are widely used in many engineering structures. Most designs are poor in resisting compressive forces. Usually, the buckling phenomena observed in compressed conditions take place rather suddenly and may lead to catastrophic structural failure. Therefore it is important to know the buckling capacities of the plates and...

INSPIRE Compliant Datasets Transformation & Conformance Testing

The INSPIRE initiative sets up a framework for the creation of an European Spatial Data Infrastructure (ESDI), which will enable the sharing of environmental spatial information among public sector organisations and better facilitate public access in general to spatial information across Europe. To do so, several common specifications have been...