Abstract: Guidelines for progress scheduling and control of department‐of‐transportation (DOT) construction projects are presented. The guidelines are based on best current practices and management techniques and are modified to ...

Abstract: An interactive system for analysis of construction operations is proposed. The analysis is carried out in the context of various work modules which address quantity development, resource definition, and production and cost ...

Abstract: In Iran the government under the Shah's regime nationalized the water resources of the country and legislated a detailed statute concerning the development, allocation, and use of this limited resource. This paper critically ...

Abstract: The increasing competition in the construction industry today not only calls for lower bid prices but for accurate estimates as well. Therefore, a contractor must continuousiy strive to improve his or her estimating ...

Abstract: Existing work concerning adaptive control of uncertain teleoperation systems only deals with linearly parameterized (LP) dynamic uncertainties. Typical teleoperation system dynamics, however, also ...

Abstract: The results of a questionnaire that reports the use of the critical path method (CPM) in the top 400 construction companies as rated by the

Abstract: This paper deals with integral based methods to estimate the order and parameters of simple fractional order models from the extracted noisy step response data of a process. This data can be obtained from both openloop and ...

Abstract: To synchronize quadratic chaotic systems, a synchronization scheme based on simultaneous estimation of nonlinear dynamics (SEND) is presented in this paper. To estimate quadratic terms, a compensator including Jacobian ...

Abstract: Dead-zone is one of the most common hard nonlinearities ubiquitous in master–slave teleoperation systems, particularly in the slave robot joints. However, adaptive control techniques applied in teleoperation systems usually ...

Abstract: Disregarding the partial drainage of saturated clay foundations during staged construction of a building would underestimate the calculated short-term bearing capacity of foundations, resulting in imposing an extra burden ...