SeeBridge as next generation bridge inspection: Overview, Information Delivery Manual and Model View Definition

Rafael Sacks, Amir Kedar, André Borrmann, Ling Ma, Ioannis Brilakis, Philipp Hüthwohl, Simon Daum, Uri Kattel, Raz Yosef, Thomas Liebich, Burcu Esen Barutcu, Sergej Muhic

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Abstract

Innovative solutions for rapid and intelligent survey and assessment methods are required in maintenance, repair, retrofit and rebuild of enormous numbers of bridges in service throughout the world. Motivated by this need, a next-generation integrated bridge inspection system, called SeeBridge, has been proposed. An Information Delivery Manual (IDM) was compiled to specify the technical components, activities and information exchanges in the SeeBridge process, and a Model View Definition (MVD) was prepared to specify the data exchange schema to serve the IDM. The MVD was bound to the IFC4 Add2 data schema standard. The IDM and MVD support research and development of the system by rigorously defining the information and data that structure bridge engineers' knowledge. The SeeBridge process is mapped, parts of the data repositories are presented, and the future use of the IDM is discussed. The development underlines the real potential for automated inspection of infrastructure at large, because it demonstrates that the hurdles in the way of automated acquisition of detailed and semantically rich models of existing infrastructure are computational in nature, not instrumental, and are surmountable with existing technologies.

Original languageEnglish
Pages (from-to)134-145
Number of pages12
JournalAutomation in Construction
Volume90
Early online date24 Feb 2018
DOIs
Publication statusPublished - 1 Jun 2018

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