An Effective Estimate of the Percentage Completion of Construction Projects and Concomitant Progress Payments
This paper will discuss the methods of assistance to contractors in visualizing the effects of variations in the quantities of their work and how to obtain such information effectively....
Does Computer Usage Dictate the Curriculum?
We have all heard anecdotes illustrating a stodgy, intransigent professor's disdain for the PC. Faculty resistance to computing runs the gambit from complete refusal to touch the things...
Computer Fluent Civil Engineer: What Does it Mean?
The rapidly changing arena of computer and information technology has an impact on civil engineering education, what is taught, how it is presented, type of homework, maintaining computer...
Filing of Construction Photos Linked with Database
In order to raise the added value of construction information, a filing system of construction pictures is built up and is used theoretically linked with a database. Here, conditions set...
Tutorial: Fuzzy Expert Systems
This extended abstract presents a brief introduction to a tutorial on fuzzy expert systems. The precepts of set theory and classical predicate logic are briefly reviewed to provide a foundation...
A Spatial Decision Support System for Vehicle Routing
This paper describes the design, development, and implementation of a computer aided system for planning efficient network maintenance routes. The system has been used to design snow and...
GIS Applications in Urban Roadway Management Systems
The urban roadway network is a major component of any municipal infrastructure system. Effective management with systems methodology can greatly increase the service life of these facilities...
The Engineering Implications of an Integrated GIS and CAD System
A Geographic Information System is an information system optimized to operate on geographically referenced data. A Computer Aided Drafting software package duplicates the tasks involved...
Design Information Hierarchy for Construction Method Selection Process
The Construction Project Planning (CPP) stage is a critical stage for the success of a construction project. This stage lays the framework upon which most of the construction decisions...
Optimum Design Software Package for Shortening Civil Engineering Construction Period
The optimum software package for engineering network has adopted a coverage technology to facilitate an analysis of large-sized projects. This package has the following functions: (1)...
Construction Enterprise Management Computer-Aided Diagnosis Technique
Due to the problem existed in the traditional management consulting of construction enterprise, the author has developed the MCAD (Management Computer-aided Diagnosis) technology which...
Qualitative Formulation of Load Paths Through a Functional Description of Structures
The past few decades have seen major advances in computer tools to analyze complex structures and loadings. For the most part, these programs have focused on two areas - A, programs for...
A Constraint-Based Composites Design Advisor
Most engineering problems, because they involve mathematical relations (constraints) on real valued quantities (objects), can be reduced to constraint networks. The authors speculate that...
A Knowledge-Based System for the Damage Assessment of Timber Trusses
A knowledge-based system for the maintenance of over two hundred timber Warren truss buildings is being developed at the Royal Military College of Canada by the Knowledge-Based Expert...
Quality Control and Constructability of Slabs on Grade With Expert Systems
Constructability and quality control problems associated with the construction of slabs on grade are many. They vary from problems associated with cracking, scaling, dusting and spalling,...
Accurate and Efficient Element for Analysis of Concrete Structures
Reinforcement details in concrete structures are inherently complex. Therefore, the treatment of reinforcements is one of the most influential factors in the accuracy and efficiency of...
Crack and Contact Problems in Masonry Arch Bridges
A two-dimensional finite element program has been developed to predict the load carrying capacity of masonry arch bridges with different structural defects such as missing bricks and tangential...
Stress Analysis in Concrete with Cooling Pipes
A substructure method of finite element analysis is adopted in this paper to simulate heat transfer and thermal stresses in a concrete dam. The massive concrete structure is cooled by...
Study of a Computer System for Evaluation of Bearing Wall Stresses in Structural Planning ? Reasoning by Neural Network
This report proposes a reasoning system for bearing shear wall stresses in the ultimate state by using geometrical data of buildings and shear walls at the initial stage of aseismic structural...
Analysis of Sequential Route Choice Under ATIS
An experiment to collect sequential route choice data under the influence of an Advanced Traveller Information System (ATIS) was performed using a PC-based interactive simulation. The...
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