Journal of Computing in Civil Engineering: Recent submissions
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Multiattribute Utility Theory Deployment in Sewer Defects Assessment
(American Society of Civil Engineers, 2018)Assessing the condition of sewer pipelines is a backbone process to plan for rehabilitation and maintenance work. The closed circuit-television (CCTV) method is the widely adopted method to record the inner condition of ... -
EEG Signal-Processing Framework to Obtain High-Quality Brain Waves from an Off-the-Shelf Wearable EEG Device
(American Society of Civil Engineers, 2018)Investigating brain waves collected by an electroencephalogram (EEG) can be useful in understanding human psychosocial conditions such as stress, emotional exhaustion, burnout, and mental fatigue. Recently, an off-the-shelf ... -
Automated Point Cloud Registration Using Visual and Planar Features for Construction Environments
(American Society of Civil Engineers, 2018)Because of the limited view of data of each single laser scan, multiple scans are required to cover all scenes of a large construction site, and a registration process is needed to merge them together. Although many research ... -
Comparison of Five Evolutionary Algorithms for Optimization of Water Distribution Networks
(American Society of Civil Engineers, 2018)In this paper, five models based on evolutionary algorithms (EAs) are introduced and compared for the optimization of the design and rehabilitation of water distribution networks. These EAs include the genetic algorithm ... -
Dynamics of Project-Driven Production Systems in Construction: Productivity Function
(American Society of Civil Engineers, 2017)Mathematical models have historically enabled a thorough understanding of production mechanisms in manufacturing supporting actions and laws to improve fabrication and building performance. Although much work has been done ... -
New Multiobjective Optimization Approach to Rehabilitate and Maintain Sewer Networks Based on Whole Lifecycle Behavior
(American Society of Civil Engineers, 2018)This study proposes a new methodology for selecting renewal plans for sewer networks based on their impacts on the behavior of the networks over their whole lifecycle. The proposed approach combines a multiobjective genetic ... -
Utility of Genetic Algorithms for Solving Large-Scale Construction Time-Cost Trade-Off Problems
(American Society of Civil Engineers, 2018)The time-cost trade-off (TCT) problem has long been a popular optimization question for construction engineering and management researchers. The problem manifests itself as the optimization of total costs of construction ... -
Multiphysics Coupling Model for Computing Pier Scour upon Simulation and Experiment
(American Society of Civil Engineers, 2018)This paper established a laboratory-scale model with multiphysics coupling computation to estimate the scour depth of the pier. The model employed governing equations based on structural dynamics (SD) and fluid–structure ... -
Urban Point Cloud Mining Based on Density Clustering and MapReduce
(American Society of Civil Engineers, 2017)This paper proposes an approach to classify, localize, and extract automatically urban objects such as buildings and the ground surface from a digital surface model created from aerial laser scanning data. To achieve that, ... -
Automated Schedule and Progress Updating of IFC-Based 4D BIMs
(American Society of Civil Engineers, 2017)Researchers have studied the detection of actual site conditions and the state of construction progress using various field data capture technologies. To fully exploit these solutions, a method was developed to automatically ... -
Guided Modal Strain Energy-Based Approach for Structural Damage Identification Using Tug-of-War Optimization Algorithm
(American Society of Civil Engineers, 2017)In this paper a new guided structural damage identification approach is presented in order to localize and quantify multiple damage cases in different structural systems. The change in the amount of modal strain energy of ... -
Development and Evaluation of a Probabilistic Local Search Algorithm for Complex Dynamic Indoor Construction Sites
(American Society of Civil Engineers, 2017)The nature of an indoor construction site is dynamic and complex. This characteristic becomes even more evident when a multitude of interactions among workers, equipment, and materials exists. To assist various operations ... -
Development and Verification of Distributed Real-Time Hybrid Simulation Methods
(American Society of Civil Engineers, 2017)Hybrid simulation combines numerical simulation and physical testing, and is thus considered to be an efficient alternative to traditional testing methodologies in the evaluation of global performance of large or complex ... -
Site Layout and Construction Plan Optimization Using an Integrated Genetic Algorithm Simulation Framework
(American Society of Civil Engineers, 2017)Efficiency of a planned site layout is essential for the successful completion of construction projects. Despite considerable research undertaken for optimizing construction site layouts, most models developed for this ... -
Multilayer Agent-Based Modeling and Social Network Framework to Evaluate Energy Feedback Methods for Groups of Buildings
(American Society of Civil Engineers, 2017)Important energy reductions can be achieved in the building sector by providing occupants with feedback about their energy-consumption levels. Recent studies link the success of energy-feedback methods to the level of ... -
Efficient Crack Detection Method for Tunnel Lining Surface Cracks Based on Infrared Images
(American Society of Civil Engineers, 2017)The detection of tunnel lining cracks is a very key procedure in the inspection of tunnels. Traditional image-processing approaches are commonly based on the characteristic that the grayscale value of the crack is a local ... -
Three-Dimensional Reconstruction of Macrotexture and Microtexture Morphology of Pavement Surface Using Six Light Sources–Based Photometric Stereo with Low-Rank Approximation
(American Society of Civil Engineers, 2017)Inadequate skid resistance of pavement surface is a substantial reason for traffic accidents. There is a close relationship between sliding resistance and characteristics of texture morphology, demanding high precision and ... -
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Methodology for Accurate AASHTO PP67-10–Based Cracking Quantification Using 1-mm 3D Pavement Images
(American Society of Civil Engineers, 2017)Quantification of cracking is crucial to assessing overall cracking condition, monitoring cracking propagation, and other pavement design and managerial decision-making purposes. For a majority of the highway agencies, the ... -
Principal Axes Descriptor for Automated Construction-Equipment Classification from Point Clouds
(American Society of Civil Engineers, 2017)Recognizing construction assets (e.g., materials, equipment, labor) from point cloud data of construction environments provides essential information for engineering and management applications including progress ...