Subdivider: Advanced Subdivision Design with the IBM-PC
SUBDIVIDER is an IBM-PC program which aids engineers in the process of dividing tracts of land into lots, streets, and building floor plans. It can be used for the design of traditional...
Microcomputer Implementation of Geographic Information Systems
With the more recent development of high performance microcomputers, efforts have been made to adapt. Information Systems (GIS) software to microcomputers for application to a wide variety...
Mainframe to Micro Conversions?The HEC'S Experience
This paper describes the experience of the HEC in adapting, on a large scale, mainframe computer programs for the micro computer user. The paper addresses the technical issues involved...
Implementing Large Fortran Programs on the IBM PC: A National Weather Service Case Study
The paper discusses the effort required to implement a group of National Weather Service (NWS) programs - DAMBRK, BREACH, DWOPER, & NETWORK on the IBM PC, using currently available...
Knowledge Bases for Multistory Concrete Buildings
Heuristics are used in the concrete building industry. A knowledge base is developed with heuristics used in the selection of the floor framing system of a concrete building....
Expert System for Risk Assessment of Concrete Dams
An expert system is presented that will assist a field inspector, during the site investigation of an existing concrete dam, to perform a preliminary structural risk assessment of the...
MAIDService: An Engineering Expert System Tool
A general purpose software tool (or inference engine), called MAIDService, for use in creating artificial intelligence expert diagnostic systems is described. Syntax, development cycle,...
Expert Systems for Dynamic Analysis Interpretation
Recent developments in expert systems technology have enabled expertise to be represented within a computer solution. This technology has allowed for the development of 'intelligent'...
Expert System Integrity Maintenance for the Retrieval of Data From Engineering Databases
This paper describes a mechanism that enables one to automatically monitor and evaluate engineering design data retrieval. It presents a framework, associated with a relational database...
Expert Systems in Construction Management: Microcomputer Application
Microcomputer based expert systems will assist construction industry by: changing the construction manager's role from day-to-day decision making to strategic planning and...
A Knowledge Based Technique for Structural Component Design Programs
Traditionally, computer programs written for the purpose of sizing and checking standards compliance of individual structural members have been authored in high level compiled languages...
Pattern Recognition Techniques for Distinguishing Structural Failure Modes from High Pressure Loading Records
Pattern recognition techniques have been successfully employed in a wide variety of fields, such as geophysical exploration, medical diagnosis, radar tracking, and earthquake structural...
Planning Computer Development to Increase Productivity
The use of computers and computer programs has become widespread in the engineering industry. Various types and classes of hardware are available with software for varied purposes. Certainly...
UNIX: Its Promise and Its Problems
AT&T's computer operating system, UNIX, has long been considered the answer to the transportability, training, and non-uniformity problems of modern computer operating...
Construction Resource Analysis Using Symphony
In 1983, the Air Force was directed to commence engineering design of a small, single warhead ICBM for potential deployent in the early 1990's. As construction agent for the...
Microcomputer Expert Systems for Welded Construction
Stone & Webster Engineering Corporation has developed expert systems including various applications within the field of welded construction. Systems have been developed in the...
The Local Area Network in an Engineering Office
During the past several years, the St. Paul District, U. S. Army Corps of Engineers, has purchased a variety of computer equipment. In late 1985, the District solved the problem of communication...
Commercially Available Workstation Networks
Twelve commercially available local area networks are compared, transmitting variously over optical fiber, twisted pair and cable. Throughput, tunability, cost and ease of use are discussed,...
The Engineering Workstation at Skidmore, Owings & Merrill
The computer group at Skidmore, Owings & Merrill has developed a unique workstation environment which aids both the generation of information in the design phase, as well as the...
Microcomputer-Based Engineering Expert Systems
Expert systems may be developed by programming an inference mechanism and knowledge representation module, or by using commercially available expert system building tools (shells). The...
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