Journal of Computing in Civil Engineering: Recent submissions
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Neural Basis Analysis of Firefighters’ Wayfinding Performance via Functional Near-Infrared Spectroscopy
(ASCE, 2022/04/30)Disorientation has been identified as one of the leading causes of firefighter injuries and fatalities. In search and rescue tasks, firefighters have to build up a general understanding of an unfamiliar space with limited ... -
Submodel Comparison Method Based on IFC File Content
(ASCE, 2022/04/27)Because large-scale building projects are designed through multiprofessional collaboration and the design changes are unavoidable and frequent, it is essential to efficiently detect the changes between submodels in different ... -
Demographics as Determinants of Building Occupants’ Indoor Environmental Perceptions: Insights from a Machine Learning Incremental Modeling and Analysis Approach
(ASCE, 2022/05/02)The relationship between the demographical characteristics of building occupants and their perception of indoor comfort is increasingly being studied. However, the added value from accounting for such characteristics when ... -
A Parameter-Driven Method for Modeling Bridge Defects through IFC
(ASCE, 2022/04/29)Bridges experience regular inspections from transport agencies/authorities periodically. However, current approaches for the storage and visualization of inspection-related data are often restricted to spreadsheets and ... -
Deep Learning–Based Analytics of Multisource Heterogeneous Bridge Data for Enhanced Data-Driven Bridge Deterioration Prediction
(ASCE, 2022/06/30)Existing data-driven bridge deterioration prediction methods mostly learn from abstract inventory data from a single source to predict the future conditions of bridges. Bridge inventory data [e.g., the National Bridge ... -
Hierarchical Representation and Deep Learning–Based Method for Automatically Transforming Textual Building Codes into Semantic Computable Requirements
(ASCE, 2022/06/30)Most of the existing automated compliance checking (ACC) systems are unable to fully automatically convert building-code requirements, especially requirements that have hierarchically complex semantic and syntactic structures, ... -
Semantic Information Extraction of Energy Requirements from Contract Specifications: Dealing with Complex Extraction Tasks
(ASCE, 2022/07/06)Automated specification energy compliance checking aims to check the compliance of building designs captured in building information models (BIMs) with energy requirements from contract specifications. However, automated ... -
Phase Change Memories in Smart Sensing Solutions for Structural Health Monitoring
(ASCE, 2022-04-12)Smart devices for structural health monitoring provide edge computing capabilities to reduce wireless transmission and, thus, power consumption. Although effective algorithms have been proposed in the last few decades, ... -
Two-Dimensional and Three-Dimensional CNN-Based Simultaneous Detection and Activity Classification of Construction Workers
(ASCE, 2022-03-25)The type and duration of construction workers’ activities are useful information for project management purposes. Therefore, several studies have used surveillance cameras and computer vision to automate the time-consuming ... -
Physical Distancing Analytics for Construction Planning Using 4D BIM
(ASCE, 2022-04-12)The COVID-19 pandemic has impacted how the construction industry operates around the world. To fight the risk of transmission, new health, safety, and environmental (HSE) protocols have been put in place. Among these ... -
Pavement Distress Recognition via Wavelet-Based Clustering of Smartphone Accelerometer Data
(ASCE, 2022-03-16)The ubiquity of smartphones has led to a variety of studies on how phone accelerometers can be used to assess road pavement quality. The majority of prior studies have emphasized supervised machine learning, assuming the ... -
B-EagleV: Visualization of Big Point Cloud Datasets in Civil Engineering Using a Distributed Computing Solution
(ASCE, 2022-02-28)Point cloud data (PCD) have attracted attention in many disciplines, including civil engineering. However, big PCD have posed great challenges for conventional approaches using a single computer. Although many published ... -
A Topological Approach to Partitioning Flow Networks for Parallel Simulation
(ASCE, 2022-03-29)System partitioning for effective simulation of civil infrastructure flow networks on parallel processors is a nontrivial problem. Arbitrary partitioning focused only on balancing processor workload can lead to a large ... -
NLP-Based Query-Answering System for Information Extraction from Building Information Models
(ASCE, 2022-02-21)The construction industry is information-intensive, and building information modeling (BIM) has been proposed as an information source for supporting decision making by construction project team members in the architecture, ... -
Impact of VR-Based Training on Human–Robot Interaction for Remote Operating Construction Robots
(ASCE, 2022-02-28)Despite the increased interest in automation and the expanded deployment of robots in the construction industry, using robots in a dynamic and unstructured working environment has caused safety concerns in operating ... -
Conditional Generative Adversarial Networks with Adversarial Attack and Defense for Generative Data Augmentation
(ASCE, 2022-02-07)Developing deep neural network (DNN) models for computer vision applications for construction is challenging due to the shortage of training data. To address this issue, we proposed a novel data augmentation method that ... -
Development of a Car-Free Street Mapping Model Using an Integrated System with Unmanned Aerial Vehicles, Aerial Mapping Cameras, and a Deep Learning Algorithm
(ASCE, 2022-02-07)Road condition and quality are critical road maintenance and risk reduction factors. Most existing road monitoring systems include regular on-site surveys and maintenance. However, major roads in urban areas are generally ... -
Constructing Invariant Signatures for AEC Objects to Support BIM-Based Analysis Automation through Object Classification
(ASCE, 2022-03-22)Building information modeling (BIM) object classification is a key step in supporting the full automation of architecture, engineering, and construction (AEC) domain tasks such as cost estimation and building code compliance ... -
An Infrastructure-Less Emergency Communication System: A Blockchain-Based Framework
(ASCE, 2021-12-24)In the aftermath of a disaster, natural or man-made, successful emergency management operations vitally depend on reliable communication infrastructures. However, large-scale extreme events may dismantle telecommunication ... -
Capturing Environmental Distress of Pedestrians Using Multimodal Data: The Interplay of Biosignals and Image-Based Data
(ASCE, 2021-12-15)Urban built environments often include many negative stimuli (e.g., unleashed dogs, dead animals, litter, graffiti, abandoned vehicles) that are linked with stress symptomatology among urban populations. Biosignals ...