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Knowledge‐based Expert systme for Judgement of Structural Stablity by Foam Feature Analysis
Author(s) -
Kato S.,
Mutioh I.,
Sugiyama T.
Publication year - 1992
Publication title -
computer‐aided civil and infrastructure engineering
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 2.773
H-Index - 82
eISSN - 1467-8667
pISSN - 1093-9687
DOI - 10.1111/j.1467-8667.1992.tb00425.x
Subject(s) - computer science , frame (networking) , substructure , truss , feature (linguistics) , prolog , knowledge representation and reasoning , representation (politics) , structural system , artificial intelligence , expert system , engineering drawing , programming language , engineering , structural engineering , telecommunications , linguistics , philosophy , politics , law , political science
Abstract: This paper presents an elementary approach to artificial intelligence in structural engineering with the aid of the scheme of geometric modeling in computeraided design. In order to generate a specific form feature the structural shape information is explicitly represented, using a frame language developed in Prolog. Thus, reasoning stableness of structures in this system are interpreted as a sequential instantiation of a frame structure in which attributes stand for topological data and procedural knowledge, and as a candidate generation of a substructure of the stable form. Illustrative examples for a plane truss structure are described. Also, some comments on its applicability to an intelligent tutoring system for structural analysis and architectural design are provided, with reference to the interactive graphic representation.