Journal of Computing in Civil Engineering: Recent submissions
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Expert System for Asphalt‐Paving Construction Inspection
(American Society of Civil Engineers, 1990)A knowledge‐based expert system has been developed to aid in the construction of asphalt pavements. The goal of the expert system is to provide advice to inexperienced inspectors concerning how to identify and correct ... -
Bar Code‐Driven Equipment and Materials Tracking for Construction
(American Society of Civil Engineers, 1990)The utilization of bar code‐based materials management systems has helped the Department of Defense, as well as entire industries, to save hundreds of millions of dollars through improved productivity, timeliness, and data ... -
Triangulation Applications in Volume Calculation
(American Society of Civil Engineers, 1991)Results from volume calculation of soils are a major input in heavy construction and earth‐moving operations. Traditional methods for volume calculation have been based on the application of the end‐area method or prismoidal ... -
Automated Identification Systems—Focus on Bar Coding
(American Society of Civil Engineers, 1990)Automated inventory control has been used for many years in such industries as manufacturing, automotive, and retail grocery. These industries have recognized technologies such as bar coding, magnetic stripe, optical ... -
Manipulating Shape and Its Function
(American Society of Civil Engineers, 1990)Shape and other geometric information about design objects play a pivotal role in design. Shape grammars provide a technique to manipulate and reason with shape. A shape grammar consists of a set of productions on rules ... -
Process Planning for Automated Stone Cutting
(American Society of Civil Engineers, 1990)The need to increase productivity, quality, and effectiveness in construction challenges researchers to seek and develop bold innovative changes. Technological adaptation of successful concepts from other industries into ... -
Knowledge‐Based Tool for Decomposing Complex Design Problems
(American Society of Civil Engineers, 1990)A design problem is viewed as a complex system divisible into modules. For designs based on novel concepts, such as designs for space platforms, the determination of subsystems, their interactions, and the participating ... -
Automatic Mesh Generator for Use in Two‐Dimensional <i>h‐p</i> Analysis
(American Society of Civil Engineers, 1990)Paper presents a fully automatic mesh generator specifically designed to create the coarse, exponentially graded meshes needed for the optimal application of the -
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Geotechnical Data Management System
(American Society of Civil Engineers, 1990)For many geotechnical projects in both the field and the laboratory, there is a trend toward using automatic data acquisition systems to collect information. This usually leads to the generation of a large volume of data, ... -
Computerized Applications for Station Equations
(American Society of Civil Engineers, 1990)The general form of a station equation does not produce a constant relationship between the ahead station number and the back station number. For this reason, station equations are considered only in the most sophisticated ... -
REPCON: Expert System for Building Repairs
(American Society of Civil Engineers, 1990)Buildings, whether adequately designed or not, develop a variety of problems over the years. The choice of an appropriate repair method requires systematic observations of the symptoms and relating them to their probable ... -
Automating Building Design Process with KBES
(American Society of Civil Engineers, 1990)The building design process represents such a highly complex activity that only restricted and well‐structured tasks have been successfully computerized until now. The process is still largely characterized by the contribution ... -
Knowledge‐Based Prototype for Improving Scheduling Productivity
(American Society of Civil Engineers, 1990)The development of efficient construction plans and schedules presents continuing challenges to construction schedulers. Knowledge‐based systems offer considerable potential as computer‐based planning tools to aid the ... -
Logic‐Based Approach for Modeling Organization of Design Standards
(American Society of Civil Engineers, 1990)Several studies have been conducted on representing and processing design standards for design automation. One of the main outcomes of these studies is the standards analysis, synthesis, and expression (SASE) model. To ... -
Costs and Benefits of Computerization in Design and Construction
(American Society of Civil Engineers, 1990)Results of an analysis of engineering‐construction computerization cost‐effectiveness are presented in this paper. Benefits of such automation are discussed first. They are most easily measured by home‐office hour savings. ... -
Intelligent Planning of Construction Projects
(American Society of Civil Engineers, 1990)Knowledge representation and reasoning techniques derived from artificial intelligence (AI) research permit computers to generate plans, not merely analyze plans produced by humans. They explicitly represent knowledge about ... -
Algorithms for Computing Conic Splines
(American Society of Civil Engineers, 1990)Conic splines play an important role in engineering geometry and computer graphics, in particular, in geometric and solids modeling where the majority of objects are bounded by simple surfaces such as natural quadrics ... -
Knowledge‐Elicitation Study in Construction Scheduling Domain
(American Society of Civil Engineers, 1990)Little discussion has occurred in journal circles regarding knowledge‐elicitation experiences during the development of civil engineering expert systems. This paper focuses on that subject by discussing CRITEX, a system ... -
Uncertain Reasoning in Construction Legal Expert System
(American Society of Civil Engineers, 1990)Because human knowledge is uncertain, knowledge‐base systems must include an uncertainty scheme. Many procedures have been developed to handle uncertain reasoning in expert systems. It is therefore important to investigate ...