Automation in Construction toward Resilience: Robotics, Smart Materials and Intelligent Systems [Hardcover]

This book presents all aspects of automation in construction pertaining to the use of information technologies in design, engineering, construction technologies, and maintenance and management of constructed facilities.

1. Autonomous Inspection and Construction of Civil Infrastructure Using Robots.  2. Robotics in 3D Concrete Printing: Current Progress & Challenges.  3. Reinforcement Learning-Based Robotic Motion Planning for Conducting Multiple Tasks in Virtual Construction Environments.  4. The Impact of Smart Materials on Structural Vibration Control. 5. Green Construction Workforce Training using Virtual Reality.  6. Building Information Modeling (BIM) in Geotechnics and Infrastructures. 7. Building Information Modeling Implementation in the UK Construction Industry: A Commercial Perspective.  8. Towards Automated Quality Assurance: Generating Synthetic Images of Building Components for Vision-based Semantic Segmentation.  9. Truss Bridge Construction Using Self-Propelled Modular Transporters Compared to Traditional Bridge Building Methods. 10. Bacteria-Based Self-Healing Concretes for Sustainable Structures. 11. Structural Health Monitoring as a Tool toward More Resilient Societies.  12. Toward More Seismic Resilient Construction via Risk-Based Application of Smart Vibration Control Systems.  13. Decision Systems to Support Cost-Benefit Analysis Toward Railway Infrastructures Sustainable Rehabilitation.  14. Adaptive System Supervising the Response Control for Smart Structures.  15. SiDMACIB: A Digital Tool for Automated Structurally-Informed Design of Interlocking Masonry Assemblages. . 16. Parametric Study of Low-Rise BuildinglÓé