Developments and Applications of Neutrosophic Theory in Civil Engineering Fields:A Review

Neutrosophic theory can effectively and reasonably express indeterminate,inconsistent,and incomplete information.Since Smarandache proposed the neutrosophic theory in 1998,neutrosophic theory and related research have been developed and applied to many important fields.Indeterminacy and fuzziness are one of the main research issues in the field of civil engineering.Therefore,the neutrosophic theory is very suitable for modeling and applications of civil engineering fields.This review paper mainly describes the recent developments and applications of neutrosophic theory in four important research areas of civil engineering:the neutrosophic decision-making theory and applied methods,the neutrosophic evaluation methods and applications of slope stability,the neutrosophic expressions and analyses of rock joint roughness coefficient,and the neutrosophic structural optimization methods and applications.In terms of these research achievements in the four areas of civil engineering,the neutrosophic theory demonstrates its advantages in dealing with the indeterminate and inconsistent issues in civil engineering and the effectiveness and practicability of existing applied methods.In the future work,the existing research results will be further improved and extended in civil engineering problems.In addition,the neutrosophic theory will also have better application prospects in other fields of civil engineering.

Construction Technology of Deep Foundation Pit Support in Municipal Civil Engineering Foundation Construction

Municipal civil engineering is the key content of municipal construction,and the construction scale is usually large.The quality of the project plays an important role in the development of urban economy.Due to the rapid increase of high-rise buildings,skyscrapers and underground buildings,the construction technology of deep foundation pit support has gradually become an indispensable construction technology.Therefore,the selection of foundation pit support construction technology is crucial in ensuring that whether the foundation is firm and stable,and whether the subsequent construction activities can be carried out smoothly.In view of this,the article discusses the application of deep foundation pit support construction technology in municipal civil engineering,aiming to provide reference for subsequent projects.

On civil engineering disasters and their mitigation

Civil engineering works such as buildings and infrastructure are the carriers of human civilization. They are, however, also the origins of various types of disasters, which are referred to in this paper as civil engineering disasters. This paper presents the concept of civil engineering disasters, their characteristics, classification, causes, and mitigation technologies. Civil engineering disasters are caused primarily by civil engineering defects, which are usually attributed to improper selection of construction site, hazard assessment, design and construction, occupancy, and maintenance. From this viewpoint, many so-called natural disasters such as earthquakes, strong winds, floods, landslides, and debris flows are substantially due to civil engineering defects rather than the actual natural hazards. Civil engineering disasters occur frequently and globally and are the most closely related to human beings among all disasters. This paper emphasizes that such disasters can be mitigated mainly through civil engineering measures, and outlines the related objectives and scientific and technological challenges.

Review on Application of Artificial Intelligence in Civil Engineering

In last few years,big data and deep learning technologies have been successfully applied in various fields of civil engineering with the great progress of machine learning techniques.However,until now,there has been no comprehensive review on its applications in civil engineering.To fill this gap,this paper reviews the application and development of artificial intelligence in civil engineering in recent years,including intelligent algorithms,big data and deep learning.Through the work of this paper,the research direction and difficulties of artificial intelligence in civil engineering for the past few years can be known.It is shown that the studies of artificial intelligence in civil engineering mainly focus on structural maintenance and management,and the design optimization.

ADVANCED NICKEL-BASED AND NICKEL-IRON-BASED SUPERALLOYS FOR CIVIL ENGINEERING APPLICATIONS

The use of high-temperature materials is especially important in power station construction, heating systems engineering, furnace industry, chemical and petrochemical industry, waste incineration plants, coal gasification plants and for flying gas turbines in civil and military aircrafts and helicopters. Particularly in recent years, the development of new processes and the drive to improve the economics of existing processes have increased the requirements significantly so that it is necessary to change from well-proven materials to new alloys. Hitherto, heat resistant ferritic steels sufficed in conventional power station constructions for temperatures up to 550℃ newly developed ferritic/martensitic steels provide sufficient strength up to about 600 - 620℃. In new processes, e.g. fluidized-bed combustion of coal, process temperatures up to 900℃ occur. However, this is not the upper limit, since in combustion engines, e.g. gas turbines. Material temperatures up to 1100℃ are reached locally. Similar development trends can also be identified in the petrochemical industry and in the heat treatment and furnace engineering. The advance to ever higher material temperatures now not only has the consequence of having to use materials with enhanced high-strength properties, considerable attention now also has to be given to their chemical stability in corrosive media. Therefore not only examples of the use of high-temperature alloys for practical applications will be given but also be contributed to some general rules for material selection with regard to their high-temperature strength and corrosion resistance.

BIM Technology Application in Civil Engineering

With the development of the times and science and technology,China has entered the era of digital information.Under the background of information technology,the civil engineering industry must develop standards and industry norms that are in line with the times and the development of technology so that the civil engineering industry can develop continuously,steadily and with high quality in the era of digital information technology.BIM technology,as a digital technology in the field of civil engineering,realizes the online,digital and intelligent of all elements,processes and participants in the whole life cycle of the project.This paper starts with the specific application of BIM technology to provide guidance for the smooth implementation of civil engineering projects.

Buildings and civil engineering works-Sealants-Determination of changes in cohesion and appearance of elastic weatherproofing sealants after exposure of statically cured specimens to artificial weathering and mechanical cycling

Foreword ISO(the International Organization for Standardization)is a worldwide federation of national standards bodies(ISO member bodies).The work of preparing International Standards is normally carried out through ISO technical committees.Each member body interested in a subject for which a technical committee has been established has the right to be represented on that committee.

Research on BIM 5D in the Cultivation of Civil Engineering Professionals in Applied Undergraduate Colleges

Informatization is one of the main characteristics of the modern construction industry.As an important part of the construction industry,the application of BIM 5D has greatly promoted the transformation of the production mode in the construction field.The development of the construction industry is inseparable from the training of professional talents by universities.More and more universities are actively exploring the role of BIM 5D in the process of talent training.Based on the research on BIM 5D in the training of civil engineering professionals in applied undergraduate colleges in combination with examples,this research proposes that the teaching reform path should be guided by BIM 5D training courses to drive a series of main courses teaching reforms.With BIM as the characteristic of running a school,it provides ideas for the training of civil engineering professionals.

Analysis on Construction Technology of Concrete Structure in Civil Engineering

The rapid development of science and technology puts forward higher requirements for new building construction,especially in civil engineering construction.The construction quality of construction engineering is the core management and the testing link.The Concrete structure is an important safety and quality guarantee in the project and is the top priority in the civil engineering.In civil engineering,the concrete structure has an important social impact on the continuous research and development,and application of construction technology.This paper,discuss the advantage and disadvantage of using concrete in building construction.

对“一带一路”来华留学生进行双语教学的实践与启示--以《Civil Engineering Drawing》为例

疫情期间,笔者对“一带一路”来华留学生进行了《Civil Engineering Drawing》课程的双语教学,在这个过程中发现了一些问题并进行了反思。

Analysis on Technological Innovation of Civil Engineering Construction

As an important means of human to change their living environment, building creates important wellbeing for people’s production and life, while as an important means of building construction, civil engineering plays an absolutely important role in the architectural construction. The fruitful innovation in the construction of civil engineering undoubtedly has a very important meaning and value for the development of civil engineering discipline and for the realization of human wellbeing. This paper makes analysis on several means of technological innovation of civil engineering construction, purposed to promote the practical development of civil engineering through helpful discussion and exploration.

Reform and Practice of the Core Curriculum of Civil Engineering and Architecture Based on the “1+X” System

The“1+X”system has a great impact on the development of vocational education.Based on this system,it is imperative to carry out the reform and practice of the core curriculum of Civil Engineering and Architecture.Several vocational colleges have made attempts in the reform and practice of the curriculum,but the effect is not ideal.Under the influence of various factors,such as the lack of experience,there are also several problems in the reform and practice of the curriculum.Among them,the most apparent problems are as follows:the curriculum reform is not synchronized with the development of teaching materials,the pertinence of practical teaching is lacking,and the guidance provided for professional certificate examinations is not well-established.This paper specifically analyzes the problems existing in the reform and practice of the core curriculum of Civil Engineering and Architecture under the“1+X”system,and then puts forward effective strategies for these problems.

EFFECTS OF ROCK BEHAVIOR ON DEFORMATION AND CIVIL ENGINEERING

Rock behavior is usually run into in study on geological deformation, teetono-mineralization and civil engineering.Rock behavior contains its texture,structure and composition,rock property,and its occurrence background or situation. That is to say, temperature, compression,content of water and other liquid in rocks, boundary condition of rock block,straining rate etc.,which are closely related to the depth of occurrence of rock, influence on the rock behavior and deformation effects.

Work-Related Accidents on a Hospital Construction Site in Benin

Introduction: Work-related accidents are frequent and serious in the construction sector. The aim of the study was to determine the frequency and factors associated with occupational accidents on the construction site of a referral hospital in Benin. Methods: A cross-sectional study was carried out. The sample size was calculated using the Schwartz form adjusted for the number of workers on site and was 129 workers. Random sampling was used. The dependent variable was work-related accidents. The other variables were socio-demographic and occupational characteristics. Data were collected through a questionnaire survey. Medians and proportions were calculated. An association was sought using Chi-square and Fisher tests with a threshold of p Results: A total of 132 workers were included. Their median age was 30 years with an ITQ of [27 - 38];men were the most represented 126 (95.45%) with a level of education higher than or equal to high school in 101 (76.52%) and in the majority with a permanent status 85 (64.39%). Seniority of more than 5 years was observed in 92 (69.7%). Workers working more than 8 hours of overtime per week numbered 57 (43.18%). Exposure to vibrating objects was 49 (37.12%). In terms of psychosocial constraints, 82.58% had high psychological demands;79.53% low decision-making latitude;50.76% low social support. The frequency of work-related accidents was 6.82%, and the only associated factor was the type of worker (p = 0.016). On the other hand, there were 10.2% accidents among workers handling vibrating objects versus 4.98% among those not using them. With regard to psychosocial constraints, the following frequencies were recorded respectively: 6.42% among those with high psychological demand versus 8.7% among those with low psychological demand;7.62% among those with low decision-making latitude versus 3.7% among those with high decision-making latitude;8.96% among those with low social support versus 4.62% among those with high support. Conclusion: Work-related accidents on construction sites must be avoided by all possible means including the management of psychosocial constraints.

Construction and Practice of First-Class Courses on Virtual Simulation Experimental Teaching of Urban Overpasses

Virtual simulation experiment,as a new way to promote the digital transformation of education,has a broad development prospect and application value.The civil engineering experimental volume and space are huge,it has a long construction period,is highly dangerous,and is difficult to experiment with.In order to solve the contradiction between the traditional theory teaching of civil engineering and the engineering training of students,the construction of virtual simulation experimental teaching courses with a high degree of realism,intuition,and accuracy can be used as a useful supplement and innovation of experimental and practical teaching.This paper takes the virtual simulation experimental teaching course of urban overpasses as an example,introduces the necessity and practicability of the course construction,and describes the experimental principle structure of the course,the simulation scene design,the experimental teaching process,the experimental method,etc.The course has achieved good application results,and it has been recognized as the first-class virtual simulation teaching course of the Chongqing Municipal Government,which provides certain references to the construction of the same type of courses in the civil engineering profession.

Environmental standards and beneficial uses of waste-to-energy(WTE)residues in civil engineering applications

The waste-to-energy(WTE)technologies are now recovering energy and materials from over 300 million tonnes of municipal solid wastes worldwide.Extensive studies have investigated substituting natural construction materials with WTE residues to relieve the environmental cost of natural resource depletion.This study examined the beneficial uses of WTE residues in civil engineering applications and the corresponding environmental standards in Europe,the U.S.,and China.This review presents the opportunities and challenges for current technical approaches and the environmental standards to be met to stabilize WTE residues.The principal characteristics of WTE residues(bottom ash and fly ash)and the possible solutions for their beneficial use in developed and developing countries are summarized.The leaching procedures and environmental standards for pH,heavy metals,and polychlorinated dibenzo-p-dioxins/furans(PCDD/Fs)are compared.The current practice and engineering properties of materials using WTE residues,including mixtures with stone aggregate or sand,cement-based or hot-mix asphalt concrete(pavement),fill material in the embankments,substitute of Portland cement or clinker production,and ceramic-based materials(bricks and lightweight aggregate)are comprehensively reviewed.

Automated Pavement Crack Detection Using Deep Feature Selection and Whale Optimization Algorithm

Pavement crack detection plays a crucial role in ensuring road safety and reducing maintenance expenses.Recent advancements in deep learning(DL)techniques have shown promising results in detecting pavement cracks;however,the selection of relevant features for classification remains challenging.In this study,we propose a new approach for pavement crack detection that integrates deep learning for feature extraction,the whale optimization algorithm(WOA)for feature selection,and random forest(RF)for classification.The performance of the models was evaluated using accuracy,recall,precision,F1 score,and area under the receiver operating characteristic curve(AUC).Our findings reveal that Model 2,which incorporates RF into the ResNet-18 architecture,outperforms baseline Model 1 across all evaluation metrics.Nevertheless,our proposed model,which combines ResNet-18 with both WOA and RF,achieves significantly higher accuracy,recall,precision,and F1 score compared to the other two models.These results underscore the effectiveness of integrating RF and WOA into ResNet-18 for pavement crack detection applications.We applied the proposed approach to a dataset of pavement images,achieving an accuracy of 97.16%and an AUC of 0.984.Our results demonstrate that the proposed approach surpasses existing methods for pavement crack detection,offering a promising solution for the automatic identification of pavement cracks.By leveraging this approach,potential safety hazards can be identified more effectively,enabling timely repairs and maintenance measures.Lastly,the findings of this study also emphasize the potential of integrating RF and WOA with deep learning for pavement crack detection,providing road authorities with the necessary tools to make informed decisions regarding road infrastructure maintenance.

A Novel Motor Fault Diagnosis Method Based on Generative Adversarial Learning with Distribution Fusion of Discrete Working Conditions

Many kinds of electrical equipment are used in civil and building engineering.The motor is one of the main power components of this electrical equipment,which can provide stable power output.During the long-term use of motors,various motor faults may occur,which affects the normal use of electrical equipment and even causes accidents.It is significant to apply fault diagnosis for the motors at the construction site.Aiming at the problem that signal data of faulty motor lack diversity,this research designs a multi-layer perceptron Wasserstein generative adversarial network,which is used to enhance training data through distribution fusion.A discrete wavelet decomposition algorithm is employed to extract the low-frequency wavelet coefficients from the original motor current signals.These are used to train themulti-layer perceptron Wasserstein generative adversarial model.Then,the trainedmodel is applied to generate fake current wavelet coefficients with the fused distribution.A motor fault classification model consisting of a feature extractor and pattern recognizer is built based on perceptron.The data augmentation experiment shows that the fake dataset has a larger distribution than the real dataset.The classification model trained on a real dataset,fake dataset and combined dataset achieves 21.5%,87.2%,and 90.1%prediction accuracy on the unseen real data,respectively.The results indicate that the proposed data augmentation method can effectively generate fake data with the fused distribution.The motor fault classification model trained on a fake dataset has better generalization performance than that trained on a real dataset.

Analysis of Concrete Crack Treatment Technologies in Buildings

With the continuous development of civil engineering,concrete crack treatment technology has become an important research field.This paper proposes treatment techniques for different types of cracks,including the prevention and repair of surface cracks,the reinforcement and grouting of structural cracks,and the design and construction of controlled cracks through the analysis of the causes and classification of concrete cracks.The methods and suggestions proposed in this paper are practical and can improve the quality and safety of buildings.

Green Construction and Sustainable Development

The past decade has seen the rapid development of green construction in many civil engineering. Green construction of civil engineering can play an important role in addressing the issue of reducing contamination. A common strategy used to study green construction of civil engineering to decrease contamination, decrease waste of energy, and increase utilization ratio of resource. Evidence suggests that green construction of civil engineering is among the most important factors for saving energy. Along with this growth in development of green construction, however there is increasing concern over sustainable development. While green construction of civil engineering presents a promising direction, some of the essential prerequisites can be cumbersome to acquire and can restrict decrease contamination. Therefore the primary goal of this article is through rational use of green construction technology, decrease contamination of water resource, enhance manipulation of electric energy consumption.