UKJWERK@VAX1.CC.LEHIGH.EDU (10/01/87)
From: "Keith J. Werkman (KJW1 @ LEHIGH) ATLSS Project B1" <KJW1@LEHIGH>
I would like to be added to your mailing list. I am interested in
Expert Systems related to the Engineering field....Civil Engineering
to be exact. My PhD research area is in the Design and Fabrication of
Steel Structures. The project, sponsored by NSF, is part of Lehigh
University's Engineering Research Center called ATLSS for Advanced
Technology in Large Structural Systems. My assigned project is called
the Designer/Fabricator Interface or interpreter (DFI). We are
looking into developing a system to help structural steel designers
better understand the steel fabricator's points of view and, at the
same time, allow the fabricator better understand how/why the designer
has ordered the specific fabrication in his drawings.
Thus, the system needs to present points of view. Current approach
includes a frame based system in Quintus Prolog on a Sun 3/160C. The
system includes such things as graphics (sunGKS) for input and display
of shop drawings in an effort to better describe events as preceived
by various parties involved.
Hopefully, the result will be a system that will help the mom-and-pop
design and fabrication firms throughout our country, hence (and this
is the NSF main point) make the US construction industry more
competative in the US marketplace. Thus, an interesting topic area
with some real potential goals.
If you know of any net messages/listing/notices/wispers of ES areas
any AI/ES related to CE, structural design, fabrication, welding,
erection, connection design, I would be most interested. Since I am
the only CS grad student currently involved with network SIGS in the
ATLSS center, I feel that any info I can get on current ES in CE might
be useful to others research projects such as connection design ,
material research, business related topics to ES in CE, etc...
Keith J Werkman
Lehigh University
CSEE Department
Packard Laboratory, #19
Bethlehem, PA 18015
(215)785-4508
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