CAREER: Developing the Infrastructure for the Widespread Use of Simulation in the Analysis of Construction Operations

摘要 提案：97-33267弗吉尼亚理工学院和州立大学PI -胡里奥C。Martinez“CAREER：为模拟在施工作业分析中的广泛应用开发基础设施” 该职业奖支持研究导致开发一个新的基础设施，需要广泛采用，接受和使用模拟作为建筑操作的分析和设计工具。 该项目涉及联邦研究和开发制造建筑设施的行业的国家优先事项。 这将使规划工作得到重大改进，大大减少建造这些设施的费用和时间。 因此，它将提高美国工业的国际竞争力，降低整个生命周期的成本。 首席研究员将建立在以前开发的先进的可编程工具和模拟编程语言的施工操作，创造一个全面的和示范性的专用模拟器的施工操作。 该语言还将用于创建不需要编程的高级通用模拟工具。 这些工具将补充现有的工具，以涵盖所有级别的模拟施工操作所需的工具复杂性和建模能力的整个范围。 所有工具的通用表示工具将巩固活动周期图的使用，使其成为描述施工操作的通用方法。 该项目的教育方面与研究密切相关，并依赖于研究。 它包括开发多媒体教程，主动学习游戏，教育工作者研讨会和本科建筑模拟课程。 它的目的是教育未来的建筑从业者在各个层面上，从受过教育的用户专用模拟器的复杂操作模型的建设者，以特殊用途的模拟器的建设者。 如果有足够数量的受过适当教育的人员达到每一个熟练程度，就有可能在一台计算机上建造所有设施，而不需要花费任何资源。 施工作业将计划得很好，他们将顺利进行，没有意外。 建设所需的日益稀缺的资源将尽可能有效地利用。

Abstract Proposal: 97-33267 Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University PI - Julio C. Martinez "CAREER: Developing the Infrastructure for the Widespread Use of Simulation in the Analysis of Construction Operations" This CAREER award supports research leading to the development of a new infrastructure needed for the widespread adoption, acceptance, and use of simulation as an analysis and design tool for construction operations. The project addresses a national priority for Federal research and development for industries that produce constructed facilities. It will allow for significant improvements in planning with substantial reductions in the cost and time spent building them. Consequently, it will enhance the international competitiveness of U.S. industry and reduce total life cycle costs. The Principal Investigator will build on the previously developed advanced programmable tool and simulation programming language for construction operations, to create a comprehensive and exemplary special-purpose simulator for earthwork operations. The language will also be used to create an advanced general-purpose simulation tool that does not require programming. These tools will complement existing ones to cover the entire spectrum of tool complexity and modeling power needed to simulate construction operations at all levels. The common representation vehicle across all tools will solidify the use of Activity Cycle Diagrams as the universal means of describing construction operations. The educational aspect of the project is intricately related to and dependent on the research. It includes the development of multimedia tutorials, active learning games, workshops for educators, and an undergraduate construction simulation course. Its aim is to educate future construction practitioners at various levels, from educated users of special-purpose simulators to builders of models for complex operations, to builders of special-purpose simulato rs. With adequate numbers of suitable educated personnel at each level of proficiency, it will be possible to construct all facilities in a computer without expending any resources. Construction operations will be planned so well that they will flow smoothly and with no surprises. The ever scarcer resources needed for construction will be used as efficiently as possible.