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Application of OOP and GUI to the Development of Educational Software in Structural Mechanics
A pilot project on the development of educational software in structural mechanics is reported herein. A computer program for the demonstration of shear, moment, and deflection diagrams...

Teaching Soil Mechanics Laboratories with Computer Assistance
This paper discusses the methods involved in teaching the laboratory section of an undergraduate course in soil mechanics using computer assistance. The lab covered one semester with students...

Using Knowledge Based Systems for Training the Young Engineer
A Knowledge Based System 'HYDOC' (Hydraulic Design of Open Channels) is presented as a means to capture the knowledge of evaluating an open channel design problem to help teach evaluating...

A Flexible Structural Analysis Method for Computer-Aided Preliminary Design
This paper presents a new method for supporting structural analysis during preliminary design stage that is based on Gere's idea of 'moment distribution'. The extension is that in this...

Integrated Automation Systems in Structural Engineering
This paper presents the current integrated automation systems available in the industry for structural engineering application. An integrated automation application essentially consists...

Integrating Computer Applications for Traffic Data Analysis
Transportation and traffic engineers have traditionally used a variety of software packages and data sources to comprehensively evaluate traffic operations and establish project priorities....

Studying Route Choice Behavior Using Computer-Aided Telephone Interviews and GIS
In this paper two innovative techniques in developing route choice surveys are introduced. The first is using computer-aided telephone interviews (CATI), and the second utilizes geographic...

Computer Based Energy Analysis for Mechanical Retrofit of Buildings
Visionaries in the HVAC arena are now focusing their attention on servicing and retrofitting existing buildings. These efforts include modernizing and upgrading deteriorated equipment,...

Computer Implementation of Fuzzy Reasoning in Tendering
There are a lot of risk factors need to be considered in tendering in the construction industry. Examples are a) The market conditions: the degree of competition, the prevailing and the...

Expert System for Bridge Scour and Stream Stability
Significant engineering judgment is required to ascertain the scour susceptibility of bridges. This judgment is typically acquired through many years of experience. This paper describes...

A Hypermedia Constructability System
Traditional civil engineering follows as segmented process of design then construction. Separating the two provides a system of accountability and creativity. One of the shortfalls with...

Comparing Two OODBMSs: An Application Developer's Perspective
Advances in database management technology lead application developers to consider new implementation options such as Object-Oriented Database Management Systems (OODBMSs). Current OODBMS...

Computer Aided Design in Civil Engineering Based Upon the OODBMS ONTOS
Recent research in numerous projects carried out at the Institute of Computational Engineering (ICE) demonstrates the capability of object-oriented database management systems (OODBMS),...

Application of Pen Computing to Construction Inspection
This paper discusses one customized inspection software package which runs on a pen computer. This program provides a format that assures a fast and accurate inspection process....

Bringing the Construction Foreman Into the Computer Age
Field-oriented construction foremen, have continued to use pencil and paper, or sometimes a good memory, to manage their responsibilities. Until recently, the use of the keyboard and the...

SteelDEM: An Interactive Multimedia Intelligent Tutor and Teaching Aid for Structural Steel Design
SteelDEM integrates full motion video, computer graphics, animations, text, and audio to allow users to investigate different structural steel members and their behavior, limit states,...

Practical Solution of the Flexibility to Stiffness Transformation Problem With a Mathematical Assistant for the Personal Computer
This paper will show how a relatively complicated structural mechanics problem can be solved easily with a symbolic manipulation program. Specifically, the authors will demonstrate how...

A Sketch is Worth a Thousand Rule Traces
The paper presents techniques for augmenting communication among building designers by providing (1) interdisciplinary explanation facilities to visualize and annotate CAD models, such...

A Formal Product/Process Model for Engineering
This paper describes an extended object data model which is suitable for modeling complex design information. The model provides extensions to object oriented model by providing explicit...

A Framework for Collaborative Distributed Facility Engineering
A framework for collaborative distributed facility engineering is presented. This framework is an extension of an agent-based framework for facility design software integration. The focal...

 

 

 

 

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