Airborne Magnetic Survey Applied for Civil Construction Purpose

Multi-Purpose Wireless Accelerometers for Civil Infrastructure Monitoring

A new wireless MEMS accelerometer sensor board is designed to meet the specific hardware and software requirements of structural engineering applications. The board has four channels of accelerometers in two directions and one thermometer. It is compatible with Mica devices for control and communication, which in turn support TinyOS as their operating system. Hardware components are designed to...

Purpose Simulation Template for Utility Tunnel Construction

Utility construction projects have great opportunities for simulation applications in construction. This paper describes the special purpose tunneling simulation template developed based on the tunneling operations performed at the City of Edmonton Public Works Department for shielded tunnel boring machines. The tunneling operations are described, then the tunnel template and its components are...

Virtual Reality Technology Applied in Civil Engineering Education: Visual Simulation of Construction Processes

Normally, academic applications of computer-aided design in construction provide a visual presentation of the final state of the project and they are not able to produce changes in the geometry following the construction process. It was developed a didactic prototype that allows physical changes in a building component. This prototype illustrates the construction of common external wall. First,...

Expert systems in civil engineering, construction and construction robotics

CATCG: a general purpose parsing tool applied

This paper focuses on the language processing tool being developed at our centre and briefly describes two of its applications. CATCG, our morphosyntactic analyser, is designed to deal with general written Catalan text. In CATCG the whole processing task has been divided into specific subtasks and for each one of them we try to apply the best strategy available. The most relevant properties of ...