Data Collection and Information Dissemination: Current Efforts and Challenges
The need for the civil engineering community to collect and disseminate information on failures has been discussed widely. It appears that in recent years our profession's reluctance to...
Large Mat Foundation Analysis on Expansive Soil
This paper describes a comparison of predicted and observed performance of mat foundations on stiff expansive soil. Foundation performance was predicted using a new computer program BOSEF...
What is an Expert System
Knowledge-based expert systems (KBES) have created much excitement in the civil engineering computer user community. KBES evoke expectations of full-blown Artificial Intelligence (AI)...
Expert System Tools for Civil Engineering Applications
Expert system software tools have played a major role in expediting program development. Some problems should not and possibly cannot be solved by current expert system technology. For...
Attributes and Characteristics of Expert Systems
This paper discusses some of the characteristics of expert systems, with emphasis on the incorporation of these attributes in the development stage. It is suggested that the scope of expert...
Expert Systems in an Engineering-Construction Firm
Although it has been generally accepted that the field of engineering provides a wide variety of potential applications for expert systems, most developments have been academic in nature....
Howsafe: A Microcomputer-Based Expert System to Evaluate the Safety of a Construction Firm
This paper discusses the development of the Howsafe expert system as a case history in knowledge engineering on microcomputers. The focus is on issues of knowledge representation, reasoning...
An Expert System for Flood Estimation
This study was made to investigate the feasibility of expert systems for solving certain engineering problems. A prototype system was developed to demonstrate the applicability of these...
Knowledge Engineering in Object and Space Modeling
This paper gives a description of Topology-1, which attempts to provide a tool for object and space modeling through the use of knowledge engineering techniques. It elaborates the system...
KBES and Interactive Graphics
Knowledge Based Expert System (KBES) is at research and testing stage at present. Engineers have begun to accept Interactive graphics System (IGS) as a tool in decision making. This paper...
Applications of Automated Interpretation to Sensor Data
This paper focuses on potential applications of the AISD. (A knowledge-based concept for automating the interpretation of sensor data) concept in civil engineering. A number of potential...
Qualitative Physics and the Prediction of Structural Behavior
A key need in the application of expert systems to structural engineering design is the ability to predict structural deformation and stresses in the absence of a quantitative model. The...
Planning and Budgets in the Construction Industry
In the ever changing and volatile construction industry it is becoming more necessary for the General Contractor and major subcontractors to become businessmen as well as engineers. This...
Manpower Planning?Make a Moral Contract
One key to manpower planning is forecasting realistic and accurate manhour projections for work in-house or work in the proposal stage. A method used by the author to project manhours...
Business Planning for Engineering Projects
Fluor Engineers is a full-service international engineering firm serving the process and energy industries. In conjunction with other Fluor subsidiaries, Daniel Constructors and Fluor...
Technical Training Programs
There is a definite reorientation of the work force in this country. The move to a more technical society has been widely forecast, and despite the valleys and peaks driven by fluctuation...
In-House Training in the Corps of Engineers
The Corps of Engineers is very active in the training of its employees and the results of training are the growth and professionalism of the employees. Supervisors must always develop...
Professional Training Potomac Electric Power Company (PEPCO)
Training of professionals within the Generating Engineering and Construction Group at the Potomac Electric Power Company is most intensive right after hiring but continues to the executive...
Training Programs for Engineering Consulting Firms
Engineering consulting firms heavily use and support in-house training programs. The objectives of these training programs are to: (1) supplement the graduate engineer's educational...
In-House Training Program at J. A. Jones Construction Services Company
This paper offers an overview of the training provided by a construction company located at Hanford, Washington. It posits that attention to the training development of the individual...
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