Journal of Computing in Civil Engineering: Recent submissions
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Indoor Spatial Model and Accessibility Index for Emergency Evacuation of People with Disabilities
(American Society of Civil Engineers, 2016)Although indoor emergency evacuation drills, simulations, and plans are addressed and well covered in literature, little attention is currently paid to the evacuation of people with disabilities (PWD). Routing is a major ... -
Motion Planning and Coordination for Mobile Construction Machinery
(American Society of Civil Engineers, 2015)Inadequate tools for evaluating construction machinery management have resulted in engineers relying heavily on experience to plan and replan site management during short time frames, with a lack of consideration for the ... -
Leveraging BIM to Provide Automated Support for Efficient Troubleshooting of HVAC-Related Problems
(American Society of Civil Engineers, 2016)Prompt response and troubleshooting of HVAC-related problems in facilities are vital to ensure a comfortable indoor environment for occupants. Two main challenges in the current practice result in an ad hoc troubleshooting ... -
BIM Standards for Automated BEM Structural Analysis and Design of RC Plates
(American Society of Civil Engineers, 2016)This paper introduces a new system that utilizes the advantages of boundary element analysis in structural engineering applications. A standardized building information model (BIM) for automated structural analysis and ... -
Multistep Explicit Stereo Camera Calibration Approach to Improve Euclidean Accuracy of Large-Scale 3D Reconstruction
(American Society of Civil Engineers, 2016)The spatial accuracy of point clouds generated from a mobile stereo camera set is very sensitive to the intrinsic and extrinsic camera parameters (i.e., camera calibration) used in stereo image-based three-dimensional (3D) ... -
Applications of Fast Fourier Transform in the Integrity Evaluation of Deep Foundations: Innovative Method for Quality Control
(American Society of Civil Engineers, 2016)The widespread use of drilled shafts and the large and critical nature of loads they carry make post-construction quality control a rather important aspect of inspections. For this reason, states have implemented specific ... -
Online Sequential Extreme Learning Machine for Vibration-Based Damage Assessment Using Transmissibility Data
(American Society of Civil Engineers, 2016)Traditional vibration-based damage assessment approaches include the use of feed-forward neural networks. However, the slow learning speed of these networks and the large number of parameters that need to be tuned have ... -
Bi-Objective Optimization Approach for Exclusive Bus Lane Scheduling Design
(American Society of Civil Engineers, 2015)Implementation of an exclusive bus lane (XBL) requires proper planning as it reduces road capacity for nonbus traffic and could possibly worsen traffic congestion in urban cities. Exclusive bus lane scheduling (XBLS) has ... -
Integrated Information Repository for Risk Assessment of Embankment Dams: Requirements Identification for Evaluating the Risk of Internal Erosion
(American Society of Civil Engineers, 2016)Dams are continuing to age and deteriorate that affect the service life of the dams in the U.S. Risk assessment is required to understand the behavior of dams and to prioritize the remedial actions and maintenance, and yet ... -
Design and Evaluation of an Integrated Visualization Platform to Support Corrective Maintenance of HVAC Problem–Related Work Orders
(American Society of Civil Engineers, 2016)HVAC mechanics need to know various information items about a facility and its building systems to troubleshoot HVAC-related problems. Whether HVAC mechanics can comprehend the situation and pinpoint the problem source in ... -
Comprehensive Fall-Risk Assessment of Construction Workers Using Inertial Measurement Units: Validation of the Gait-Stability Metric to Assess the Fall Risk of Iron Workers
(American Society of Civil Engineers, 2016)In construction worksites, slips, trips, and falls are major causes of fatal injuries. This fact demonstrates the need for a safety assessment method that provides a comprehensive fall-risk analysis inclusive of the effects ... -
Optimal Sensor Placement for Time-Dependent Systems: Application to Wind Studies around Buildings
(American Society of Civil Engineers, 2016)Warm climates pose challenges to building energy consumption and pedestrian comfort. Knowledge of the wind flow around buildings can help address these issues through improving natural ventilation, energy use, and outdoor ... -
Preliminary Discussion Regarding SVM Kernel Function Selection in the Twofold Rock Slope Prediction Model
(American Society of Civil Engineers, 2016)The kernel function, which is an important component of support vector machine (SVM) theory, directly affects the results of a prediction model. When establishing an effective prediction slope model, analysis factors such ... -
Modeling of Nonlinear Guided Waves and Applications to Structural Health Monitoring
(American Society of Civil Engineers, 2015)Propagation of nonlinear waves in solid waveguides is a branch of wave mechanics that has received ever-increasing interest in the last few decades. Nonlinear guided waves are promising candidates for interrogating long ... -
Proximity-Based Outlier Detection Method for Roadway Infrastructure Condition Data
(American Society of Civil Engineers, 2016)The quality of roadway condition data is critical for the accuracy of infrastructure management decision support systems and, ultimately, for the confidence in these systems. This paper presents a novel outlier detection ... -
BIM and GIS Integration and Interoperability Based on Semantic Web Technology
(American Society of Civil Engineers, 2016)When making design and construction decisions, planners must consider information from different scales and domains. Currently, building and geospatial data are shared and exchanged through a common data format, such as ... -
Fully Automated As-Built 3D Pipeline Extraction Method from Laser-Scanned Data Based on Curvature Computation
(American Society of Civil Engineers, 2015)There has been a growing demand for the three-dimensional (3D) reconstruction of as-built pipelines. The as-built 3D pipeline reconstruction process consists of the measurement of an industrial plant, identification of ... -
Highly Stable Explicit Temporal Integration for Discrete Element Computations
(American Society of Civil Engineers, 2015)This paper presents the adaptation of a semi-implicit time integration scheme that has been reported in the literature and its implementation for use in discrete element methods (DEM). The computational efficiency of DEM ... -
Automated Information Transformation for Automated Regulatory Compliance Checking in Construction
(American Society of Civil Engineers, 2015)To fully automate regulatory compliance checking of construction projects, regulatory requirements need to be automatically extracted from various construction regulatory documents and then transformed into a formalized ... -
Computation of Dynamic Passive Earth Pressure Using LISP
(American Society of Civil Engineers, 1995)Few solution techniques exist for the determination of dynamic passive earth pressures for cohesionless soils. The pseudostatic dynamic Mononobe-Okabe equation is widely used to design structures that must resist earthquake ...