Digital Twins in Transportation Infrastructure: An Investigation of the Key Enabling Technologies, Applications, and Challenges

X Chang, R Zhang, J Mao, Y Fu - IEEE Transactions on …, 2024 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Transportation infrastructure constitutes a significant part of civil infrastructure, such as
bridges, tunnels, and roads, enormously promoting economic development. Transportation …

Development of large-scale synthetic 3D point cloud datasets for vision-based bridge structural condition assessment

M Shi, H Kim, Y Narazaki - Advances in Structural …, 2024 - journals.sagepub.com
Visual recognition of 3D point cloud data of bridge inspection scenes is a key step in
automating the visual inspection process, which is currently largely manual and inefficient …

[HTML][HTML] Design space exploration and explanation via conditional variational autoencoders in meta-model-based conceptual design of pedestrian bridges

V Balmer, SV Kuhn, R Bischof, L Salamanca… - Automation in …, 2024 - Elsevier
Today, engineers rely on conventional iterative (often manual) techniques for conceptual
design. Emerging parametric models facilitate design space exploration based on …

Hierarchical SVM for Semantic Segmentation of 3D Point Clouds for Infrastructure Scenes

M Mansour, J Martens, J Blankenbach - Infrastructures, 2024 - mdpi.com
The incorporation of building information modeling (BIM) has brought about significant
advancements in civil engineering, enhancing efficiency and sustainability across project life …

Joint detection PCD-based method for automatic construction of geometric digital twin in cable dome structure

A Zhang, J Wang, Y Zhang, G Shangguan - Engineering Structures, 2024 - Elsevier
The geometric digitization of cable dome structures using Point Cloud Datasets (PCD) holds
significant importance as it serves as a foundational step in constructing the Digital Twin of …

Reverse engineering as a non-invasive examining method of the water tower brick structure condition

JA Pawłowicz, P Knyziak, JR Krentowski… - Engineering Failure …, 2024 - Elsevier
Reverse engineering is a method of obtaining information about the geometry of an existing
object. To obtain such information, among others: 3D laser scanning is used. The result of …

[PDF][PDF] Automated data-driven method for creating digital building models from dense point clouds and images through semantic segmentation and parametric model …

M Mehranfar, MA Vega-Torres, A Braun… - Advanced …, 2024 - mediatum.ub.tum.de
This paper proposes an automated method for creating semantic digital building models
using dense point clouds and images. The method employs a hybrid bottom-up, top-down …

Research on 3D Measurement and Rapid Location Technique for Assembling the Special‐Shaped Structural Segments

S Wang, Z Wang, Q Feng - Advances in Civil Engineering, 2024 - Wiley Online Library
The pylon of the Xinshougang Bridge, a welded steel box arch with a variable cross‐section,
exhibits asymmetrical design and unevenly inclined limb ends. The segmented assembly of …

Geospatial Semantic Enriched Digital Twin with Logical Reasoning Rules for Managing Control Loops

I Shah, A Ghahramani - Energy Informatics Academy Conference, 2024 - Springer
This study introduces a framework for the development of a geospatial semantic enriched
Digital Twins (DTs) with integrated logical reasoning rules, aimed towards addressing the …

From Purpose to Technology: A Requirements-Driven Approach to Designing Digital Twin Implementations

F Noichl, FC Collins, Y Pan, MS Mafipour, M Mehranfar… - 2024 - trid.trb.org
The digital twin (DT) paradigm promises to take permanent, bidirectional data exchange
between the physical asset and its digital representation into account at its core …