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 BITNET: KJW1%LEHIGH.BITNET@WISCVM.WISC.EDU Nets: ihnp4!c11ux!lehi3b15!scarecrow!keithw kjw1@lehigh.BITNET keith@lehigh.EDU -------