Journal of Computing in Civil Engineering: Recent submissions
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QUALIFIER‐1: Contractor Prequalification Model
(American Society of Civil Engineers, 1990)Contractor prequalification involves screening candidate contractors, based on a set of criteria established by each project owner. A computer program, QUALIFIER‐1, has been developed to aid in this task. The decision ... -
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Expert System for Sewer Network Maintenance: Validation Issues
(American Society of Civil Engineers, 1990)A program to improve the sewer maintenance activities in a suburb of Paris, France, includes an expert system to diagnose the need for sewer repairs. Organizational constraints (e.g., insufficient funds for knowledge ... -
Automated Text Generation for Building Standards
(American Society of Civil Engineers, 1990)A methodology for generating English text from a computer‐processible representation of a design standard is proposed. The machine representation of the standard uses a network of decision tables. A computer program ... -
PC‐Based Data‐Acquisition System for structural monitoring
(American Society of Civil Engineers, 1989)While personal‐computer‐based data‐acquisition systems have become commonplace in the laboratory environment over the past several years, their use as remote, automatically triggered data‐collection systems has been somewhat ... -
HIBIC: Expert System for Highway Bridge Dynamics
(American Society of Civil Engineers, 1989)The current highway bridge design codes treat the dynamic effect of traffic loads by applying an empirical amplification factor, called the “impact factor,” which is a function of span length only and has little theoretical ... -
Intelligent Decision Support and Reservoir Management and Operations
(American Society of Civil Engineers, 1989)Reservoir management and operations are very complex activities in the field of water resources engineering. During the last two decades, a number of systems analysis techniques, particularly optimization and simulation, ... -
CSTRUCT: Computer Environment for Design of Steel Structures
(American Society of Civil Engineers, 1989)CSTRUCT is a computational environment for the structural design and analysis of earthquake‐resistant steel frames. CSTRUCT is currently running on a MicroVax II/GPX workstation. This paper summarizes our recently developed ... -
Automatic Generation of Seepage Flow Nets by Finite Element Method
(American Society of Civil Engineers, 1989)An analytical method for automatically generating a seepage flow net using the finite element method (FEM) is described. This technique includes a new, more analytical (as compared with numerical) approach to determining ... -
Knowledge‐Based System for Soil Improvement
(American Society of Civil Engineers, 1989)The practice of soil improvement has received renewed attention in the last two decades. As a result, existing methods were improved and new ones developed. This paper presents a knowledge‐based decision support system for ... -
Simulating Construction Robot Agents and Their Knowledge Environment
(American Society of Civil Engineers, 1989)In future construction environments, intelligent machines must harness considerable knowledge to plan and control autonomous tasks even though they will be limited in their own knowledge. However, no unifying theory and ... -
Computer Graphics in Truss‐Model Design Approach
(American Society of Civil Engineers, 1989)The main objective of this paper is to extend and simplify the use of truss models in the design of reinforced concrete members for flexure and shear by means of user‐friendly, interactive computer graphics. An interactive ... -
Sensitivity Analysis of Construction Contract Prices Using Spreadsheets
(American Society of Civil Engineers, 1989)“Bad profits” have been identified as the cause of more than one‐half of all business failures in construction. To improve the profitability of the construction contractors, the Fair and Reasonable Markup (FaRM) is defined ... -
Linking Civil Engineering Design and Drafting Software via IGES
(American Society of Civil Engineers, 1989)A Methodology for integrating application design programs and Computer Aided Drafting (CAD) packages is presented. Application of the methodology enables the automatic translation of the final design information into ... -
Emulation for Control System Analysis in Automated Construction
(American Society of Civil Engineers, 1989)Advances in Computer‐Integrated Construction (CIC) and automation are heavily dependent on the development on communication links to integrate design with engineering and construction. Efforts are presently under way to ... -
Assessment of Computational Practices in Dynamic Soil‐Structure Interaction
(American Society of Civil Engineers, 1989)This paper presents a comparative study of the most widely used numerical methods in dynamic soil‐structure interaction (SSI). The developments follow in parallel treatments of representative SSI problems solved by frequency, ... -
Numerical Approach for Generating Beta Random Variates
(American Society of Civil Engineers, 1989)There are a number of probability density functions available to model time durations and other activities of interest in computer simulation programs. Among the available functions, the beta probability density function ... -
Unified Activity Network Model
(American Society of Civil Engineers, 1989)Activity network models are usually represented by activity‐on‐node precedence diagramming or activity‐on‐branch arrow diagramming. We present a unified model in which each activity is represented by a start node, a finish ... -
Discussion of “<i>Transient Analysis of Viscoelastic Tapered, Bars and shafts</i>” by Constantine Chris Spyrakos (January, 1988, Vol. 2, No. 1)
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Discussion of “<i>Generic Design Standards Processing in an Expert System Environment</i>” by William J. Rasdorf and Tso Jen E. Wand (January, 1987, Vol. 2, No. 1)
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