Expert Systems as Applied to Bridges: Knowledge Acquisition Phase: Final Report

Report No: 88-R6

Published in 1987

About the report:

Presented in this report is a detailed description of the procedure to be followed to develop a knowledge-based computerized expert system for determining whether to rehabilitate, improve, replace, abandon, or just to routinely maintain an old highway bridge in the VDOT road system. Based on extensive interviews with bridge engineering experts, the type of data needed, the rules to be used and interference procedures are described, along with an example for the expert system called DOB (for Disposition of Old Bridges). Future studies are expected to program this information into a format suitable for use in a personal computer.

Documents

88-R6

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Authors

William Zuk

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