PRESENTED BY

1 CH.SAI RAM YADAV

ROLL NO
18021D2021
CIVIL ENGINEERING {S.E}
JNTUK
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1. Introduction

2. Development of AI

3. Intelligent optimization methods in civil engineering

4. Application of AI in civil engineering

5. Future trends

6. Advantages

7. Disadvantages

8. Conclusion

9. Reference
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• Branch of computer science, involves- research, design and application of computer
science- developed in 1956

• Goal- how to imitate and execute some of the intelligent functions of human brain

• Interaction of several kinds of disciplines such as

 Computer science • Main theories and methods -

 Cybernetics  Symbolism

 Information theory  Behaviourism

 Psychology  Connectionism approach

 Neurophysiology
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• Developed by John McCarthy

• Describes the process of human thinking as a mechanical manipulation of symbols

• Main constituents of soft computing -

• Application of AI in civil engineering include the use
 Neural networks
of ANN in
 Evolutionary algorithms
 Designing
 Probability reasoning
 Planning
 Fuzzy-logic
 Construction and management of infrastructures

• Helps to predict tender bids, construction cost and

construction budget
performance
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• Applied in

 Expert system

 Knowledge base system

 Intelligent database system

 Intelligent robot system

• Expert system- “the knowledge management and decision-making technology of the

21st century”
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• Used in construction management, building materials, hydraulic optimization,

geotechnical and transportation engineering

• Construction planners generate and evaluate optimal/near-optimal construction

scheduling plans

• The smart system refers to a device which can sense changes in its
environment

• Development of robots and automated system

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1. Structural health monitoring

• Embedding sensors- monitor stress and damage can reduce maintenance cost and increase
lifespan

• Used in over 40 bridges worldwide

2. Self repair materials

• Embedding thin tubes containing uncured resin

• Due to damage these tubes break, exposing the resin which fills any damage and sets

• It is important in inaccessible environments such as underwater or in space

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3. Structural engineering

• Used to evaluate durability

• Smart materials or structures are restricted to sensing

• They adapt to their surrounding environment

• Monitor the integrity of bridges, dams, offshore oil drilling towers etc.

4. Waste management

• Challenging, expensive and time consuming task

• Smart material helps to automate the process

• Even it shows a role in food waste management

 5. Concrete mix design
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• Difficult and sensitive

• Based on the principle of workability of concrete, desired strength and durability of

concrete which in turn is governed by water cement ratio law

• Strength of concrete determined by the characteristics of mortar and coarse aggregate

6. Estimation

• Suited for developing decision aids with analogy based problem solving capabilities

7. Analogy based solution to mark-up estimation problem

• A methodology is presented and used to develop a practical model

• The model design, training, and testing are described along with the generalization
improvements
 8. Neuromodex- Neural network system for modular construction decision making

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• Decision is based on several decision
attributes

 Plant location

 Labour related

 Plant characteristics

 Project risks

Fig 1: Neural network

system
 9. Neuroform- Neural network system for vertical formwork selection
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• A computer system- provides the

selection of vertical formwork
system for a building site

• A statistical hypothesis test

demonstrates the system’s fault-
tolerant and generalization
properties

Fig 2: Neuroform
 10. Belief networks for construction performance diagnostics
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• Form of artificial intelligence that incorporates
uncertainty through probability theory and
conditional dependence

• Variables - conditional dependence

relationships

• First defining the variables in the domain and

the relationships between those variables

• Computer simulation - used to model the

construction operations
Fig 3: Belief network
 11. Building KBES for diagnosing PC pile with ANN
• Diagnosis of damage of prestressed concrete piles during driving - important problem in
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foundation engineering

• ANN can work sufficiently as a knowledge acquisition tool for the diagnosis
problem

• Reasoning strategy that hybridizes forward-and backward-reasoning schemes is proposed

12.Construction robot fleet management system

Fig 6: Construction robot fleet management

 13. Modelling initial design process using ANN

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• Initial design process - extremely
difficult to computerize

• Development of a network for the

initial design of reinforced-concrete
rectangular single-span beams has
been reported

• The network predicts a good initial

design for a given set of input
parameters
Fig 4: Initial design process
 14. Intelligent planning of construction project
• Represent knowledge about how to generate plans
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• Researchers Kartam and Levitt, have chosen the system for
interactive planning and execution (SIPE)

Fig 5: Intelligent planning

16 15. Bridge planning using GIS and Expert system approach

• GIS and expert systems -

two methodologies in
comparing candidate site
and candidate type
• Computation power and
quantitative
comparison can be
done faster

Fig 7: Bridge planning using GIS and expert system

approach
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• Selecting an appropriate maintenance and repair action for a defected pavement

• Done by collecting condition data, analysing and selecting appropriate

maintenance and repair actions

17. ANN for EHS

• Robot carrying out tasks in construction

• Accidents would potentially be zero because of the lack of human

errors
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• Important factor in determining constructions or activity in maritime areas

• Kalman(1960) proposed the Kalman filtering method - calculate the harmonic

parameters

19. Earthquake induced liquefaction

• Damage of civil structures occur in two modes

 Structural failure

 Foundation failure

• Estimation of the earthquake induced liquefaction potential - essential for

civil
engineers in the design procedure

• Helps in the design of structures to safeguard against earthquakes

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1. Reduce the risk of accidents in the workplace
2. Not affected by hostile environments

3. Can replace tiresome tasks

4. Don’t need break at work time

1. Can be very expensive

2. Not able to work outside of what they are programmed to do

3. Unemployment may rise

4. Robots do not get better with experience…yet

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• Applied to many civil engineering areas

• Plays a major role in constructing and maintaining different aspects of civil

engineering problems

• Perform better than the conventional methods

• Help inexperienced users solve engineering problems and experienced

users to
improve the work efficiency

• Powerful and practical tool for solving many problems in civil engineering
field

• Instruments based on the algorithms and database to reduce the efforts and
cost
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