The proceedings at hand are the result from the GRK International Workshop held at the
Bauhaus-Universität at Weimar 2017. It comprises a collection of abstracts and articles
dedicated to the overall topic of the DFG funded research training group 1462: Coupled
Numerical and Experimental Models in Structural Engineering. The solution of any engineering
problem is based on models. The quality of their results strongly depends on characteristics of
the used model. Moreover modern problems of engineering typically require not only single
models but rather a combination of different partial models. Thus the coupling quality also
has to be taken into account when assessing model quality. The research area of the GRK 1462
covers such topics as stochastic adaptive inverse and meta-modelling considering model
properties like uncertainty complexity robustness and sensitivity. The authors are both well
experienced specialists and young researchers from various countries who share an interest in
the description assessment and evaluation of model quality.
