Journal of Computing in Civil Engineering: Recent submissions
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Data Model–Centered Four-Dimensional Information Management System for Road Maintenance
(American Society of Civil Engineers, 2013)Roads are networks that connect social infrastructure and accommodate the delivery of emergency services. Because of the importance of roads, they should be safe and kept in good condition. To perform effective road ... -
Three-Dimensional Tracking of Construction Resources Using an On-Site Camera System
(American Society of Civil Engineers, 2012)Vision trackers have been proposed as a promising alternative for tracking at large-scale, congested construction sites. They provide the location of a large number of entities in a camera view across frames. However, ... -
Multiuser Virtual Safety Training System for Tower Crane Dismantlement
(American Society of Civil Engineers, 2012)Tower crane dismantling is one of the most dangerous activities in the construction industry. Tower crane erection and dismantlement causes 10–12% of the fatalities of all crane accidents. The nature of the task is such ... -
Optimization-Based Strong Coupling Procedure for Partitioned Analysis
(American Society of Civil Engineers, 2012)The concept of partitioning a complex engineering problem into smaller, manageable components and investigating each individual component autonomously has been in use for many decades. Such partitioning approaches, however, ... -
Target-Focused Local Workspace Modeling for Construction Automation Applications
(American Society of Civil Engineers, 2012)To improve the efficiency and effectiveness of the geometric data collection and processing for automated construction operations, a light-weight hybrid light amplification for detection and ranging (LADAR) system was ... -
Formalized Representation for Supporting Automated Identification of Critical Assets in Facilities during Emergencies Triggered by Failures in Building Systems
(American Society of Civil Engineers, 2012)This paper presents a formalized vulnerability representation schema that targets supporting vulnerability assessment in a facility during an emergency triggered by a failure in a building system by identifying which ... -
Crane Pose Estimation Using UWB Real-Time Location System
(American Society of Civil Engineers, 2012)Operating a crane is a complex job, which requires not only the experience of the operator, but also sufficient and appropriate real-time support to conceive and react to the environment. To help the crane operator, crane ... -
Simplified Calculation Approach for Settlement of Single Pile and Pile Groups
(American Society of Civil Engineers, 2012)This paper proposes a simple analytical approach for nonlinear analyses of the load-displacement response of single piles and pile groups. Two models were adopted in the proposed approach. One model is based on a hyperbolic ... -
Deployment Strategies and Performance Evaluation of a Virtual-Tag-Enabled Indoor Location Sensing Approach
(American Society of Civil Engineers, 2012)Indoor location information is valuable to the construction industry for a wide range of purposes, including on-site personnel safety, asset security, facility maintenance, and in-building emergency response. Indoor location ... -
Return on Investment Analysis of Using Building Information Modeling in Construction
(American Society of Civil Engineers, 2013)The recent emergence of building information modeling (BIM) and the evolution of virtual design and construction (VDC) in the architecture, engineering, and construction (AEC) industry are fundamentally changing the process ... -
Simulation-Based Approach for Estimating Project Completion Time of Stochastic Resource–Constrained Project Networks
(American Society of Civil Engineers, 2012)This paper proposes a new approach, entitled discrete event simulation with probabilistic event list (DESPEL), for approximating the project completion time and the critical path in a stochastic resource–constrained project ... -
Agent-Based Modeling of Occupants and Their Impact on Energy Use in Commercial Buildings
(American Society of Civil Engineers, 2012)Energy modeling is globally used during the design phase to estimate future building energy performance. Predictions obtained from common energy estimation software typically deviate from actual energy consumption levels. ... -
Development of a Fuzzy Risk Ranking Model for Prioritizing Manhole Inspection
(American Society of Civil Engineers, 2012)Manholes are designed to provide access points to underground sewer networks for inspection and maintenance. Manhole collapses, although rare, can result in severe consequences and have a significant effect on the performance ... -
Extended Period Simulation for Pressure-Deficient Water Distribution Network
(American Society of Civil Engineers, 2012)A water distribution network is said to be under pressure-deficient condition when hydraulic-head or pressure-head at any of its nodes fall below the required level. The demands at these pressure-deficient nodes cannot be ... -
Hybrid Artificial Intelligence–Based PBA for Benchmark Functions and Facility Layout Design Optimization
(American Society of Civil Engineers, 2012)Facility layout design (FLD) presents a particularly interesting area of study because of its relatively high level of attention to aesthetics and usability qualities, in addition to common engineering objectives such as ... -
Performance of Shuffled Frog-Leaping Algorithm in Finance-Based Scheduling
(American Society of Civil Engineers, 2012)Currently, meta-heuristics including the genetic algorithms (GA) and simulated annealing (SA) have been used extensively to solve non-deterministic polynomial-time hard (NP-hard) problems. Continued efforts of researchers ... -
Planning-Based Approach for Fusing Data from Multiple Sources for Construction Productivity Monitoring
(American Society of Civil Engineers, 2012)Project management tasks, such as productivity monitoring and cost estimation, require data to be fused from multiple data sources. Data fusion approaches incorporated in the existing research studies within the construction ... -
On-Site Building Information Retrieval by Using Projection-Based Augmented Reality
(American Society of Civil Engineers, 2012)This research focuses on a long-standing problem at construction sites: on-site information retrieval. A wearable device, therefore, has been developed that can project the construction drawings and related information on ... -
Litigation Outcome Prediction of Differing Site Condition Disputes through Machine Learning Models
(American Society of Civil Engineers, 2012)The construction industry is one of the main sectors of the U.S. economy that has a major effect on the nation’s growth and prosperity. The construction industry’s contribution to the nation’s economy is, however, impeded ... -
Model-Based Groupware Solution for Distributed Real-Time Collaborative 4D Planning through Teamwork
(American Society of Civil Engineers, 2012)Construction planning plays a fundamental role in construction project management that requires teamwork among planners from a diverse range of disciplines and in geographically dispersed working situations. Model-based ...