Finite Element Analysis and Design of Bridges with Applicatrons of ICAD
This paper describes applications of client-server models, interprocess communications (IPC), and concepts of intelligent CAD (ICAD) to the interactive design and analysis of highway bridge...
Conceptual Cost Estimating: A Hybrid Neural-Expert System Approach
This paper presents a hybrid neural-expert system approach for developing conceptual cost estimates based on historical data of construction projects. The proposed hybrid neural-expert...
POE System Development Using Personal Computers
This is a report concerning personal computer utilization such as CAD and spreadsheets which are often used establish the investigation, analysis and evaluation method. These are based...
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...
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...
An Application of Neural Networks to Hysteretic Modeling of Steel Structures
This paper describes an application of the neural networks to realistic hysteretic modeling. The neural networks learn from sample data (training cases) and make predictions for new cases....
Applying Constraint Satisfaction Neural Networks to Multiple Views' Data Partitioning in Building Engineering
A typical building engineering process involves multiple project participants and several computer applications. These participants and applications have their own views of the underlying...
NEUROFLOOR: A Flooring System Selection Neural Network
A back-propagation neural network (BPNN) has been trained to help building designers and engineers in designing or analyzing steel bar joist flooring systems. The NEUROFLOOR BPNN allows...
Migration to a Networked Workstation Environment
Most engineering firms and universities are in the process of migrating from mainframe(s) and/or minicomputer(s) and personal computers to a networked workstation environment. Although...
Use of Construction Simulation in Claims Analysis
The increasing complexity of today's construction projects has led to considerable progress in developing sophisticated simulation-based methods and tools for the analysis and planning...
Expert System for the Preloading Method of Ground Improvement
Design practice of the preloading method, which is one of the ground improvement techniques, applied for the hydraulic fill area includes quite complicated problems, especially when draining...
Artificial Neural Networks and Knowledge-Based Systems: Complementary AI Techniques for Civil Engineering
This paper considers the feasibility of integrating Artificial Neural Networks (ANNs) and Knowledge-Based Systems (KBSs) to solve civil engineering problems. KBSs are superior at representing...
NETSYN: Neural Network-based Support for Synthesis
Our goal in applying machine learning for synthesis is to develop a tool that assists in acquiring the relationships between form, function, and behavior properties that can be used to...
Neural Network Learning in Structural Engineering Applications
Neural networks based on the backpropagation learning algorithm have been used in a number of structural engineering applications. The paper classifies the different types of relationships...
Optimal Adaptive and Predictive Control System of Buildings by Neural Network and Fuzzy Theory
This paper describes an optimal adaptive and predictive control system and its digital simulations for a single-degree-of-freedom system subjected to earthquake loading. In this system,...
Verification of Real-Time Software for Active Structural Control
In this paper we give an overview of our preliminary work in verifying the reliability of real-time software systems for active structural control. While there have been numerous studies...
The Reliability Program in Truncated JC Method
JC method is in common use in the structure reliability analysis. In this paper, the program which can be used as to consider the truncated distribution has been proposed, With this method...
Graph?database of Large Dams in China (GLDC)
GLDC is a software with the dynamic processing and categorizing of the main graphs and data of the large dams in China. It can run by means of screen sidebar menu and in interactive mode...
Neural Network System for Automated Highway Pavement Inspection
A multi-layer perceptron back propagation neural network based methodology has been developed to process and analyze moire fringes obtained with an automated highway pavement inspection...
Evaluation of Two Automated Thresholding Techniques for Pavement Images
Thresholding of pavement images is an important step towards the design of an automated pavement crack detection system. However, traditional automated thresholding techniques generally...
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