YaBeSH Digital Library: Recent submissions
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Impacts of Physical and Informational Failures on Worker–Autonomy Trust in Future Construction
(American Society of Civil Engineers, 2025)Autonomous agents are increasingly becoming construction workers’ teammates, making them an integral part of tomorrow’s construction industry. Although many expect that worker–autonomy teaming will enhance construction ... -
Question-Answering System Powered by Knowledge Graph and Generative Pretrained Transformer to Support Risk Identification in Tunnel Projects
(American Society of Civil Engineers, 2025)Risk identification is fundamental to effective risk management in any construction project. It is especially true for tunnel projects where technicality and complexity increase the risks, uncertainties, and challenges of ... -
Enhanced Highway Project Clustering Framework to Support Project Cost Estimation
(American Society of Civil Engineers, 2025)State highway agencies (SHAs) frequently need to cluster projects based on their scope similarity to support various construction planning tasks such as cost estimation. Few recent studies have presented systematic methods ... -
Optimal Outcome Sharing among Clients, Builders, and Designers in Collaborative Construction Contracts: Comparing Design–Bid–Build and Design–Build Methods Using Principal–Agent Theory
(American Society of Civil Engineers, 2025)This study addresses a significant gap in the literature by proposing an optimal outcome–sharing framework within client–builder–designer relationships, specifically in design–bid–build (DBB) and design–build (DB) project ... -
Multifaceted Optimization for Bridge Inspection Process
(American Society of Civil Engineers, 2025)Regular bridge inspections are essential for ensuring user safety and maintaining the integrity of bridge decks. The effective planning of this process requires careful consideration of various parameters, such as selecting ... -
Analysis of Existing Resource Distribution Metrics and Suggestion of New Metrics
(American Society of Civil Engineers, 2025)Resource leveling aims to reduce peak resource demand and fluctuations in resource usage histograms throughout a construction period. The objective function optimum can be obtained in the digitalized construction management ... -
Ergonomic Risk Mitigation through Workforce Planning for Construction Projects
(American Society of Civil Engineers, 2025)Construction workers are facing significant ergonomic risks, which negatively affect their health, safety, and productivity, and therefore it is essential to develop effective and applicable risk control measures. In ... -
Smart Rehabilitation-Planning Framework for Sustainable Infrastructure: Roofing Application
(American Society of Civil Engineers, 2025)Aging infrastructure assets, including buildings, require efficient rehabilitation to sustain services. However, current rehabilitation planning is a complex process that is challenged by strict budgets and the difficulty ... -
Data-Driven Stochastic Fatigue Load Modeling for Fatigue Failure Simulation of Onshore Wind Turbine Foundations
(American Society of Civil Engineers, 2025)Assessing fatigue damage in onshore wind turbine foundations is crucial for ensuring the safety of the entire wind turbine system. While indirect simulations of fatigue damage based on upper structure wind loads have been ... -
Identification of Causes and Individuals at Risk of Falls during Vertical Formwork Operation in Construction
(American Society of Civil Engineers, 2025)The construction sector contributes to the occurrence of fatal falls and injuries. Experts believe that identifying the causes and individuals at risk of falls has the potential to prevent/minimize falls on-site. While ... -
Enhancing Worker Safety: Real-Time Automated Detection of Personal Protective Equipment to Prevent Falls from Heights at Construction Sites Using Improved YOLOv8 and Edge Devices
(American Society of Civil Engineers, 2025)Personal protective equipment (PPE), including helmets, harnesses, and lanyards, is pivotal in preventing falls from heights at construction sites. However, ensuring consistent and correct usage of PPE presents a significant ... -
Evaluation Model for Crack Detection with Deep Learning: Improved Confusion Matrix Based on Linear Features
(American Society of Civil Engineers, 2025)Damage due to cracking can be detected through either manual visual methods or machine vision techniques for early prevention and maintenance. In recent years, image-based deep learning methods have emerged as potent tools ... -
Harnessing Project Identity and Safety Norms to Promote Construction Workers’ Safety Behavior: Field Intervention Study
(American Society of Civil Engineers, 2025)The importance of workers’ social identity in shaping their safety behaviors has become increasingly acknowledged. Among various social identities (e.g., workgroup, trade, etc.), improving project identity stands out ... -
Gap Analysis of Digitalization Levels in Construction and Manufacturing: A Comparative Study of Construction 4.0 and Industry 4.0
(American Society of Civil Engineers, 2025)The digital transformation of the construction industry has been much slower than that of manufacturing. The gaps and causes require in-depth study, and the findings contribute to future directions. Therefore, this study ... -
Construction Quality Hazard Management with Deep Learning–Based Multimodal Storage Strategy–Enabled Blockchain
(American Society of Civil Engineers, 2025)Hazard-related data are a critical component in construction quality hazard management (CQHM). However, data security and latency issues in CQHM cannot be guaranteed in centralized systems currently and prevent it from ... -
Contactless Vital-Sign Monitoring of Construction Machinery Operators Using Millimeter-Wave Technology
(American Society of Civil Engineers, 2025)Accidents related to construction machinery primarily result from operators engaging in unsafe behavior. Continuous monitoring of the vital signs of heavy machinery operators is necessary to enable timely intervention in ... -
A Novel Real-Time Torque Prediction of EPB Shield in Mixed Ground Using Machine Learning Method Based on Geological Knowledge Fusion
(American Society of Civil Engineers, 2025)Intelligent tunneling has become a necessary technology in urban underground development. Machine learning (ML) algorithms have been widely used in predicting earth pressure balance shield (EPBS) machine tunneling; however, ... -
Performance and Efficiency Diffusion of US Surface Transportation Public–Private Partnerships
(American Society of Civil Engineers, 2025)With successes and attritions, the US transportation industry has implemented public–private partnership (P3) projects for over 3 decades. However, performance inquiries of P3 have not kept up with its development, ... -
Exploring Labor Presence in Work Zone and Tiling Trade Labor Productivity: The Moderating Role of Skilled-Labor Proportion
(American Society of Civil Engineers, 2025)Labor-tracking technologies, including Bluetooth Low Energy (BLE), have been studied extensively for their applicability in labor presence detection within the construction industry. Although prior research has utilized ... -
AI, Agility, and Environmental Performance: A New Framework for Construction Project Managers
(American Society of Civil Engineers, 2025)Artificial intelligence (AI) increasingly is being used by businesses to improve capabilities and performance. Guided by the dynamic capabilities framework, this study investigated how AI assimilation affects environmental ...