Road construction work has a multitude of impacts on its host environment, and the effect of these impacts varies according to the areas it crosses. Taking these impacts into account from the earliest stages of project planning is the ideal approach...
The construction sector faces persistent challenges in productivity, workforce availability, and safety, motivating the adoption of robotics, automation, and digitization across planning and execution. Within construction-scale robotic 3D printing, c...
Modular construction methods, where products are manufactured beforehand in a factory and then transported to the site for installation, are becoming increasingly popular for construction projects in many countries as this method facilitates the use...
Prefabricated building projects represent industrialized and intelligent construction through factory production, standardized design, and mechanized assembly. This study presents a multi-agent simulation approach to model the prefabricated construct...
Automated progress monitoring of construction sites using cameras has been proposed in recent years. Although previous studies have tried to identify the most informative camera views according to 4D BIM to optimize installation plans, video collecti...
Digital Twins (DTs) are transforming construction and energy management sectors by integrating 3D surveying, monitoring, Building Performance Simulation (BPS), and Building Energy Simulation (BES) from the earliest design or retrofit stages. Moreover...
The building construction sector is undergoing one of the most profound transformations towards the digital transition of production. In recent decades, the advent of a novel technology for the 3D printing of clay opened up new sustainable possibilit...
The use of lunar regolith (LR) for lunar construction is a key route to reducing the mass of materials transported from Earth. In this work, highly filled composites based on polyphenylsulfone (PPSU) with Tg = 219.1 °C and modified polyetherimide...
Focusing on the Lingshan section of Guangxi’s Pinglu Canal, this study addresses frequent waterlogging during construction under subtropical monsoon rainfall. Human disturbances alter hydrological processes, causing project delays and economic...
The paper presents part of a comprehensive and complex investigation in the field of computer design and 3D garment simulation within which it investigates developed computer-based parametric prototype of a men's suit and whether it is suitable for c...
Building Information Modeling (BIM) is a relevant booster to the modernization of construction. The adoption of digital technologies positively contributes to more agile and integrated processes in all phases of the building life-cycle, namely with r...
Three-dimensional (3D) printing, or additive manufacturing (AM), is a production can be utilised to fabricate 3D shapes from a simulated file. This technology has gained global popularity in the construction industry since 2014 due to its wide range...
Change orders in construction projects frequently lead to disputes, schedule delays, and cost overruns, particularly in the rapidly expanding construction sector of Saudi Arabia. Traditional techniques for resolving claims like litigation and arbitra...
The UK government made significant commitments to upgrading the energy efficiency of seven million British homes by 2020, aiming at reducing carbon emissions and addressing fuel poverty. One alternative to achieve better energy performance in existin...
With China’s high-speed rail network undergoing rapid expansion, turnouts constitute critical elements whose safety and stability are essential to railway operation. At present, the efficiency of wheel–rail force safety monitoring conduct...
Earthwork construction presents significant challenges due to its unique characteristics, including irregular topography, inhomogeneous geotechnical properties, dynamic operations involving heavy equipment, and continuous terrain updates over time. E...
This paper presents results of a study that focuses on developing a genetic algorithm (GA) for multi-criteria optimization of orthotropic, energy-efficient cementitious composite sandwich panels (CSP). The current design concept of all commercially p...
Garment simulation enables the reduction of physical prototypes, saving time, material and costs. Complete elimination of physical prototypes is not yet possible because simulation is not reliable enough for a robust fit analysis. In addition, predic...
Eco-evo-devo is an interdisciplinary field integrating ecology, evolutionary biology, and developmental biology. Niche construction refers to the phenomenon where organisms alter selection pressures through ecological activities, and ecological inher...
This research aims to promote the use of natural materials in construction. Its purpose is to rediscover the interlacing of flat wooden strips. Attending to environmental criteria, it focuses on the study of wood from a locally produced tree, the che...
The problem of thermal modeling of modern three-dimensional (3D) integrated circuit (IC) systems in packages (SiPs) is discussed. An effective quasi-3D (Q3D) approach of thermal design is proposed taking into account the specific character of 3D IC s...
This paper presents a novel method for UAV-based 3D modeling of large infrastructure objects, such as pipelines, canals and levees, that combines anomaly detection with automatic on-board 3D view planning. The study begins by assuming that anomaly de...
Crown simulation based on basis spline (b-spline) interpolation is a compatible method to simulate tree polymorphism at present. However, there are two problems when it simulates the crown: the first problem is that the derivative value at the top po...
Three-dimensional concrete printing is a technique that has been growing constantly, presenting advantages such as reduced completion times and a decreased environmental impact by eliminating the use of formworks. To carry out the process, the printi...
Rapid urbanization and environmental challenges necessitate innovative construction solutions in Egypt. This study presents a 6D Green Building Information Modeling (BIM) framework designed to enhance sustainability, reduce costs, and optimize constr...
This study proposes a method to construct a dynamic simulation model to implement the lateral overturning and backward rollover characteristics of an actual tractor. Based on theoretical analysis, factors affecting these characteristics are identifie...
The high-temperature deformation behavior of Q345 steel is detected by a Gleeble-3800 thermal simulator. The Arrhenius constitutive equation for high-temperature flow stress and the dynamic recrystallization model are constructed. With the secondary...
In this study, a 3D multicomponent multiphase simulator with a new fracture characterization technique is developed to simulate the enhanced recovery of coalbed methane. In this new model, the diffusion source from the matrix is calculated using the...
Virtual 3D city models can be stored and exchanged in the CityGML open data model. When dynamic phenomena in 3D cities are represented with a CityGML application domain extension (ADE), the objects in CityGML are often used as static background, and...
In this paper, we construct a laser 3D imaging simulation model based on the 3D imaging principle of electro–optical crystal modulation. Unlike the traditional 3D imaging simulation method, this paper focuses on the laser scattering characteris...
With the continuous development of the construction technology of the main structure of high-rise buildings, traditional construction techniques have been widely used in high-rise building projects. However, these technologies have problems such as l...
This study analyzed landslide susceptibility and numerically simulated the runout distance of debris flows near a construction site in Korea. Landslide susceptibility was based on a landslide prediction map of the study area. In the prediction map, 3...
The spatial conflicts in the construction of high-speed railways not only reduce project efficiency, but also lead to serious accidents. To address these key issues, this paper presents a dynamic simulation method for constructions processes based on...
Environmental factors substantially influence the growth of trees. The current studies on tree growth simulation have mainly focused on the effect of environmental factors on diameter at breast height and tree height. However, the influence of enviro...
This paper demonstrates the impact of 3D effects on performance parameters in small-sized Time Delay Integration (TDI) image sensor pixels. In this paper, 2D and 3D simulation models of 3.5 μm × 3.5 μm small-sized TDI pixels were construc...
Traditional teaching methods in construction management education often face challenges in providing students with practical, real-world experiences crucial for skill development. To address these limitations, this study explores the potential of int...
Crystal plasticity simulations help to understand the local deformation behavior of multi-phase materials based on the microstructural attributes. The results of such simulations are mainly dependent on the Representative Volume Element (RVE) size an...
Underground coal gasification (UCG) is a coal utilization technology that has attracted extensive attention over the years. In order to study the distribution and evolution law of the growth boundary of a coal gasification cavity under UCG, COMSOL nu...
Three-dimensional (3D) geological models are important representations of the results of regional geological surveys. However, the process of constructing 3D geological models from two-dimensional (2D) geological elements remains difficult and is not...
Finding new, effective predictive variables for 3D mineral prospectivity modeling is both important and challenging. The 3D ore-forming numerical modeling quantitively characterizes the complex coupling-mineralization process of the structure, fluid,...
The growing adoption of off-site construction methods has increased the critical role of mobile cranes within the construction sector. This study develops a Construction Digital Twin (CDT) framework to optimize crane lifting positions and capacities...
In this article we deal with the optimal sizing of low-noise amplifiers (LNAs) using newly proposed metamodeling techniques. The main objective is to construct metamodels of main performances of the LNAs (namely, the third intercept point (IIP3), the...
In order to solve the problem of the high complexity of polarization code construction under free-space optical communication, this paper proposes a segmented turbulent partial order construction method, which effectively reduces the complexity of po...
The pile foundation construction adjacent to an operational subway tunnel can induce the creep effects of the surrounding soil of the tunnel, resulting in the deformation of the existing tunnel lining and potentially compromising the safe operation o...
Effective safety management is a key aspect of managing construction projects. Current safety management practices are heavily document-oriented that rely on historical data to identify potential hazards at a construction job site. Such document-boun...
This paper studies the influence law of existing tunnels on the construction of intersecting new tunnels in a shallow slope burial context through 3D numerical analysis. The emphasis is on exploring the effect of new tunnels constructed in 54 conditi...
This paper takes the tomb murals as the research object, and realizes the development of the costume patterns of the Tang tomb murals and the 3D simulation restoration of the costumes through 3D interactive clothing pattern-making technology and virt...
The high salt content, low permeability, and fragile structure of saline–alkali land severely constrain the construction and development of irrigation channels. Compaction is an effective means of improving the soil’s engineering performa...
Cartilage is an avascular tissue with extremely limited self-regeneration capabilities. At present, there are no existing treatments that effectively stop the deterioration of cartilage or reverse its effects; current treatments merely relieve its sy...
There are three main types of forest fires: surface fires, tree crown fires, and underground fires. The frequency of surface fires and tree crown fires accounts for more than 90% of the overall frequency of forest fires. In order to construct an imme...
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