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Full-Text Articles in Civil Engineering
Vrml Applications In Construction, Purdue Ect Team
Vrml Applications In Construction, Purdue Ect Team
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Traditionally construction process information is communicated with paper documents and 2D CAD drawings. Recently, the industry has embraced many kinds of web-based technologies, but information still uses document-based model. The applicability of the Virtual Reality Modeling Language (VRML) is being investigated for visualizing the activities at a construction site and creating an advanced web-based 3D user interface for construction process information by the Computer-Integrated Construction Group at NIST.
Pipe Structural Reliability Evaluating System, Purdue Ect Team
Pipe Structural Reliability Evaluating System, Purdue Ect Team
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The MAC system (Mecanique d'Auscultation des Conduites, i.e., buried pipelines mechanical inspection) is an integrated mechanical-electronic system that inspects different kinds of pipes (reinforced concrete, plain concrete, masonry, and clay) from 0.7 to 4.0 m in diameter. The system assesses the reliability of the pipe by analyzing the pipe-soil interactive structural behavior.
Cured In Place Pipe Repair, Purdue Ect Team
Cured In Place Pipe Repair, Purdue Ect Team
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Insituform Technologies Inc. offers a pipe lining system called Paltem which uses a woven synthetic fiber covered with a polyester elastomer as the lining material. This system is used to rehabilitate pressure pipelines that have been damaged by corrosion or are experiencing leakage through joints, pinholes or other pipe defects.
Smart Sewer Assessment Systems, Purdue Ect Team
Smart Sewer Assessment Systems, Purdue Ect Team
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The need for accurate preventive assessment of sewer conditions is increasing world wide. The new method utilizes qualified inspection systems that are automated and that utilize artificial intelligence to assess whether or not a crack in the surface of the pipe exists. The KARO system is one example. Developed by the German Federal Ministry of Education, Science, Research, and Technology (BMBF) and four partners from both industry and research institutions. This system is composed of a mobile control and surveillance station, and a mobile robot.
Builder Supplynet - Online Trading Community, Purdue Ect Team
Builder Supplynet - Online Trading Community, Purdue Ect Team
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The online, virtual trade community can simplify constructions firms’ business processes by providing enhanced marketing, bidding, communication and commerce. Builder SupplyNet is hosted at UUNET™, providing services with a direct connection to the UUNET backbone capacity network. Builder SupplyNet's technology was developed by Microstate, Inc. The Hamilton Software interfaces with SQL databases and enables real-time editing of members' pages and data.
Isqft Agc Network, Purdue Ect Team
Isqft Agc Network, Purdue Ect Team
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The plan room services that AGC (Associated General Contractors) chapters provide to their membership can be time consuming and costly due to traveling to a physical plan room. iSqFt enables AGC members to conveniently view plan room projects 24 hours a day, seven days a week from the member’s home or office location via the internet.
Polycom.Viavideo - Video Conferencing, Purdue Ect Team
Polycom.Viavideo - Video Conferencing, Purdue Ect Team
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As the construction industry is more globalized and competitive than other industry, it needs faster interaction to enable real-time collaboration, application sharing between the headquarter and construction sites. USB based video system, the ViaVideo video communications appliance combines the power of a high-quality camera and multimedia processor for improved video communications.
Ecosystem™ Elevators, Purdue Ect Team
Ecosystem™ Elevators, Purdue Ect Team
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Two types of elevators, which are hydraulic and traction, have been widely used as vertical transportation equipment. EcoSystemTM is a family of AC gearless elevators developed by Montgomery KONE. The compact EcoDiscTM hoisting machine is an AC gearless motor of axial synchronous design with an integrated traction sheave, break flange, and rotor. Compact and light weight, EcoDisc, requires no penthouse or large machine room.
Bid Express - Online Bidding With Digital Sign, Purdue Ect Team
Bid Express - Online Bidding With Digital Sign, Purdue Ect Team
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Bidx.com offers a solution to the government agencies’ need for a more efficient and more accurate bidding process. The Bid Express service saves bidders the time needed for preparing bids on paper, and the travel time and expense involved in attending bid meetings and submitting bids in person. This valuable service allows bidders to quickly scan all current bid opportunities to find exactly what they are seeking.
Evoke Communications, Purdue Ect Team
Evoke Communications, Purdue Ect Team
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Using Evoke Webconferencing technology, users can avoid expensive long distance rates by having participants listen in over the Web - using only their standard Internet connection and browser.
Starbandsm - Satellite Internet Service, Purdue Ect Team
Starbandsm - Satellite Internet Service, Purdue Ect Team
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The Internet has become one of the most important communication systems in the present. However people across the continental United States have not been able to get broadband Internet service. StarBand service, with no special phone lines or cable modems required is a feasible solution. StarBand is America’s first consumer two-way, always-on, high-speed satellite Internet service.
Virtualstep: 4d Simulation, Purdue Ect Team
Virtualstep: 4d Simulation, Purdue Ect Team
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The main value from 4D is derived from using it proactively to visualize the construction sequence. Another benefit is the ability to run what-if scenarios to determine optimum scheduling and resource management. Also, by linking 3D drawings to a project schedule, all project stakeholders, from the owner to the tiling subcontractor, can see how the project is supposed to progress. VirtualSTEP Products include 4D Project Navigator, Conflict Coordinator, Project Reporter, and Project Analyzer. All these products are web-based.
Placeware: Web Conferencing, Purdue Ect Team
Placeware: Web Conferencing, Purdue Ect Team
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Proper training of employees, partners and customers is critical to gaining a competitive edge in the marketplace. But most traditional training methods require an in-person meeting. PlaceWare Web conference is simply the combination of a phone call with live web-based visuals and interaction. Web conferencing enables presenter to communicate more effectively, decreasing the amount of time spent traveling and ultimately leading the audience to understanding.
Mimio - Digital Technology For White Boards, Purdue Ect Team
Mimio - Digital Technology For White Boards, Purdue Ect Team
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mimio is a unique collaboration tool that captures everything user write or draw on a whiteboard, in color and real time -- and then transmits the information directly into user's computer. User can then revise, print, share, export to HTML, or drag-and-drop user's whiteboard notes into any Windows application.
Akamai Streaming, Purdue Ect Team
Akamai Streaming, Purdue Ect Team
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Akamai offers world-class streaming media services that enable Internet content providers and enterprises to succeed in today's Web-centric marketplace. They deliver live event Webcasts (complete with video production, encoding, and signal acquisition services), streaming media on demand, 24/7 Webcasts and a variety of streaming application services based upon their EdgeAdvantage.
Agc's Online Institute, Purdue Ect Team
Agc's Online Institute, Purdue Ect Team
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Increasing construction volume and maintaining quality and profits are difficult tasks when qualified new employees are expensive and hard to find. The Associated General Contractors of America (AGC) understands that demand for the information far exceeded the ability to offer personal instruction of the course material. After extensive testing of various distance learning techniques, it was concluded that an Internet-based program offered the ideal solution.
Blueline Online's Projectnet, Purdue Ect Team
Blueline Online's Projectnet, Purdue Ect Team
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With the Internet acting as the ultimate communications medium, ProjectNet provides an instant, on-demand, secure online solution for all team members to communicate, share documents and collaborate using a standard Web browser.
[email protected], Purdue Ect Team
[email protected], Purdue Ect Team
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Unlike document management, bid solicitation, or messaging systems alone, Constructw@re reduces the inherent risks associated with complex projects by merging the most project- essential elements into a single solution that helps organizations manage the entire life cycle of construction projects, from pre-bid to completion.
Projectcenter, Purdue Ect Team
Projectcenter, Purdue Ect Team
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As a subscription based service, ProjectCenter provides an entire project team with point and click access to all relevant project information, without having to purchase additional software or learn complex systems. Shared information includes directory, specification, correspondence, sketches, meeting notes, shop drawing logs and field reports, RFIs, CCDs and CAD drawings.
Features Of Internet-Based Services For Construction, Purdue Ect Team
Features Of Internet-Based Services For Construction, Purdue Ect Team
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When a construction company commits to adopt a Web-based project management system, there are two possible strategies that the company can choose in developing the system: in-house development or outsourcing this activity to a professional consultant. Regarding the first option, construction firms that decide on in-house development should keep in mind the substantial financial, technical and human resources necessary to develop and to maintain the system. The second option, useful for companies with limited resources to develop their own Web-based project management systems, outsourcing strategies provide a variety of options.
Vizstream: Streaming 3d Technology, Purdue Ect Team
Vizstream: Streaming 3d Technology, Purdue Ect Team
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Traditional technologies representing 3D information over Internet, such as Virtual Reality Modeling Language (VRML), encounter numerous bandwidth, hardware and software limitations. VizStream streaming 3D technologies incrementally deliver the 3D data. Users can immediately interact with the 3D model or environment without waiting for it to download. As the user continues to interact, more detail 'streams' to the user's computer. Streaming 3D drastically reduces the bandwidth required to effectively use 3D content. VizStream even works over a 28.8 kbps modem.
Prolog Website, Purdue Ect Team
Prolog Website, Purdue Ect Team
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Communicating and distributing the right information at the right time is extremely important in today’s marketplace. What better way to do this then with the latest technology available to construction industry via the internet. Prolog WebSite, from Meridian Project Systems Inc., is a software package that allows contractors, architects, owners, engineers, and subcontractors working on a construction project to communicate faster and more efficiently, therefore creating a fast track project.
Updater™: Mobile Schedule Tracking Software, Purdue Ect Team
Updater™: Mobile Schedule Tracking Software, Purdue Ect Team
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Virginia Tech and Primavera Systems, Inc. have developed a software interface, called Updater, to enable automatic electronic transport of schedule information between the desktop (DT) schedule and a portable palm-held (PH) computer. The Updater aims at simplifying the process of updating construction schedules, and ultimately improving the consistency and quality of updates. The system employs palm-held computers to eliminate reliance on potentially incomplete or unreliable mental or field notes.
Design Review & Checking System (Drchecks), Purdue Ect Team
Design Review & Checking System (Drchecks), Purdue Ect Team
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The U.S. Army Construction Engineering Research Laboratories (CERL) has developed a prototype computer system that supports the capture and use of organizational experience in the context of the design review process. The world wide web provides the communications backbone of the Design Review and Checking System (DrChecks). Users access DrChecks using commercially developed, free web browser software.
Smart Pigs, Purdue Ect Team
Smart Pigs, Purdue Ect Team
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Smart Pigs are inspection vehicles that move inside a pipe line pushed along by the flowing material. Smart Pigs use different technologies to locate problems along the pipelines. Magnets have been used to detect corrosion where the most common technology is the Magnetic Flux Leakage (MFL) that detects corrosion on thinning walls. Another detection technology uses ultrasonic sensors to detect coating disbondment, cracks, dents and gouges. The Global Positioning System (GPS) technology is being adapted to smart pigs to obtain the exact location of any problem in the pipe or to map the pipe itself. Some of these new Smart …
Lokring Tube Connection, Purdue Ect Team
Lokring Tube Connection, Purdue Ect Team
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A fast and solderless system for connecting air-conditioning and refrigeration tubing of the same or different metals (aluminum, copper, steel) and between the same or different sizes. The system provides a hermetically sealed metal-to-metal connection that intrinsically safe. It can be used in areas where flammable or explosive conditions may exist.
Pneumatic Capsule Pipeline, Purdue Ect Team
Pneumatic Capsule Pipeline, Purdue Ect Team
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Pneumatic capsule pipeline (PCP) uses wheeled capsules (vehicles) to carry cargoes through a pipeline filled with air. Modern large diameter PCP systems utilize through flow booster pumps, also known as jet pump injectors. These create the pressure differentials required to propel multiple capsules through a pipeline, while allowing both terminals at atmospheric pressure. This is done by placing a booster pump midway along the pipeline, and designing it in such a way that capsules can bypass the pump.
The Pressfit Piping System, Purdue Ect Team
The Pressfit Piping System, Purdue Ect Team
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In the piping installation industry, it is generally accepted that the tradeoff between the installation efficiency or productivity and the reliability of the installed system is very significant. The new piping installation system, called "The Pressfit System" (patented), comprises an innovative concept from Victaulic. It offers economy, speed, and reliability for joining small diameter pipes for fire protection, heating/air conditioning, process piping, plant utilities and many other services.
Mobile Inspection Assistance, Purdue Ect Team
Mobile Inspection Assistance, Purdue Ect Team
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While advanced bridge management systems are being created, deployed and used to collect data for inventories of bridges and support the systematic identification and prioritization of needs, the bridge inspectors in the field are using paper-based to support, and record the result of their inspection process. MIA which is a wearable computer system, helps bridge inspectors collect multimedia information in the field and produce the inspection report. This system allows the inspector to fill out the inspection form, access previous inspection reports, make sketches of bridge elements, take photographs and produce the inspection report via voice or pen interface.
Friction Stir Welding Technology: Adapting Nasa's Retractable Pin Tool, Purdue Ect Team
Friction Stir Welding Technology: Adapting Nasa's Retractable Pin Tool, Purdue Ect Team
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In late 1991, The Welding Institute (TWI), a British research and technology organization, invented and patented a welding process named Friction Stir Welding (FSW). Friction Stir Welding is a highly significant advancement in aluminum welding technology that can produce stronger, lighter, and more efficient welds than any previous process.