Visual modeling and simulation for construction operations

✍ Scribed by Zhang Hong; Jonathan J Shi; C.M Tam

• Publisher: Elsevier Science
• Year: 2002
• Tongue: English
• Weight: 426 KB
• Volume: 11
• Category: Article
• ISSN: 0926-5805
• DOI: 10.1016/s0926-5805(01)00049-8

✦ Synopsis

Simulation practitioners in construction often experience difficulties in developing simulation models, i.e., tediousness and error-proneness. The visual environment presented in this paper gives users user-friendly support throughout the entire simulation development process, with the provision of a visual modeling interface, easy-to-use icon animation, and dynamic statistics. Under the visual modeling interface, modeling construction operations is completed through editing activity-based graphics as the standard graphic editing tools do, and no programming is required. An easy-to-use animation can facilitate communication between the simulation model and users, and assist users in verification and validation of the simulation model. Instead of creating 3-D images with adequate skills and much time, this animation takes the graphic simulation model as the background images and the pre-created 2-D iconic images as moving objects, in order that the preparing for animation is simple.