Automation in Construction toward Resilience

Dr. Ehsan Noroozinejad Farsangi is currently a senior researcher at UBC Smart Structures, Canada. Concurrently, he is a tenured faculty member at the Graduate University of Advanced Technology, Iran. He is also an adjunct associate professor at Southeast University, China. Dr. Noroozinejad is the director of the Resilient Structures Research Group consisting of tens of top-ranked international researchers. Besides, he is the founder and chief editor of the International Journal of Earthquake and Impact Engineering, the associate editor of the ASCE Practice Periodical on Structural Design and Construction, the associate editor of the IET Journal of Engineering, the associate editor of Frontiers in Built Environment: Earthquake Engineering Section, the editor of the Journal of Reliability Engineering and Resilience, and the engineering editor of ASCE Natural Hazards Review. He has published over 120 high-impact journal papers in indexed journals and five books with reputed publishers in his field of expertise. His main research interests include smart structures, resilience-based design, reliability analysis, artificial intelligence, construction robotics, intelligent infrastructure, and digital twins in construction. Dr. Noroozinejad is also the recipient of many national and international awards, including the prestigious Associate Editor Award in 2022 by the American Society of Civil Engineers (ASCE), because of his consistent and exemplary service to enhance ASCE's publication activities.

This book presents all aspects of automation in construction pertaining to the use of information technologies in design, engineering, construction technologies, and maintenance and management of constructed facilities.

1. Autonomous Inspection and Construction of Civil Infrastructure Using Robots. 2. Robotics in 3D Concrete Printing: Current Progress & Challenges. 3. Reinforcement Learning-Based Robotic Motion Planning for Conducting Multiple Tasks in Virtual Construction Environments. 4. The Impact of Smart Materials on Structural Vibration Control. 5. Green Construction Workforce Training using Virtual Reality. 6. Building Information Modeling (BIM) in Geotechnics and Infrastructures. 7. Building Information Modeling Implementation in the UK Construction Industry: A Commercial Perspective. 8. Towards Automated Quality Assurance: Generating Synthetic Images of Building Components for Vision-based Semantic Segmentation. 9. Truss Bridge Construction Using Self-Propelled Modular Transporters Compared to Traditional Bridge Building Methods. 10. Bacteria-Based Self-Healing Concretes for Sustainable Structures.11. Structural Health Monitoring as a Tool toward More Resilient Societies. 12. Toward More Seismic Resilient Construction via Risk-Based Application of Smart Vibration Control Systems. 13. Decision Systems to Support Cost-Benefit Analysis Toward Railway Infrastructures Sustainable Rehabilitation. 14. Adaptive System Supervising the Response Control for Smart Structures. 15. SiDMACIB: A Digital Tool for Automated Structurally-Informed Design of Interlocking Masonry Assemblages. . 16. Parametric Study of Low-Rise Buildings Using a Smart Hybrid Rocking Structural System with Vertical Dampers. 17. Review of the Use of Waste Resources in Sustainable Concrete: Aggregate Types, Recycling Procedures, Fresh and Hardened Properties, Structural Characteristics, and Numerical Formulation. 18. Seismic Multi-Hazard Risk and Resilience Modeling of Networked Infrastructure Systems. 19. A Novel Design Method of Single TMD Exposed to Seismic Effects. 20. Intelligent Controller Optimizing Structural Performance and Control Devices. 21. Rapid Discrete Optimal Design of High-Damping Rubber Dampers for Elastic-Plastic Moment Frames Under Critical Double Impulse. 22. Damage Detection in Reinforced Concrete Structures using Advanced Automatic Systems: An Overview. 23. Efficient Representation of Random Fields for Training the Kriging Predictor in Adaptive Kriging Reliability Assessment of Civil Structures. 24. Intelligent Systems in Construction: Applications, Opportunities and Challenges in AR & VR. 25. Smart Control of Flutter of Suspension Bridges Using Optimized Passive Tuned Mass Damper. 26. A Chronological Review of Construction Progress Monitoring Using Various Sensors and Remote Sensing Techniques. 27. Review of Novel Seismic Energy Dissipating Techniques Toward Resilient Construction. 28. Application of Machine Learning in Design of Steel Plate Shear Walls. 29. Blast Mitigation of Irregular Buildings Equipped with Resilient Passive Control Systems. 30. Fragility, Resilience, Development and Investment: Two Decision-Making Tools to Advance Economic and Social Development in Border Towns.