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Topology-informed deep learning for pavement crack detection: Preserving consistent crack structure and connectivity

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Automation in Construction Pub Date : 2025-03-20 DOI: 10.1016/j.autcon.2025.106120

Jiayv Jing , Ling Ding , Xu Yang , Xu Feng , Jinchao Guan , Hong Han , Hainian Wang

{"title":"Topology-informed deep learning for pavement crack detection: Preserving consistent crack structure and connectivity","authors":"Jiayv Jing , Ling Ding , Xu Yang , Xu Feng , Jinchao Guan , Hong Han , Hainian Wang","doi":"10.1016/j.autcon.2025.106120","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.autcon.2025.106120","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>This paper addresses the challenge of crack detection, where incorrect connections often distort crack topology. By leveraging topology theory, which focuses on properties that remain invariant under continuous transformations, the goal is to preserve key geometric features like connectivity and loops. For future-oriented road maintenance, fine segmentation that preserves the topological integrity of crack structures is essential for efficient automated repairs and crack characterization. To this end, the research combines persistent homology (pH) with the U-Net architecture enhanced by the Vmamba model, forming TopoM-CrackNet. TopoM-CrackNet outperforms other topology-preserving methods, such as Topoloss, with a Betti number of 4.032. It also achieves a mean Intersection over Union (mIoU) of 0.727, surpassing traditional methods like nnUnet and Segformer, and is nearly twice as fast. Overall, the key contribution is its ability to significantly improve crack topology preservation during segmentation, offering technical support for crack detection and automatic repair.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":8660,"journal":{"name":"Automation in Construction","volume":"174 ","pages":"Article 106120"},"PeriodicalIF":9.6,"publicationDate":"2025-03-20","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143672845","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"工程技术","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

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Tunnel location optimization for railway alignment design in complex mountainous regions

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Automation in Construction Pub Date : 2025-03-19 DOI: 10.1016/j.autcon.2025.106132

Xinjie Wan , Hao Pu , Paul Schonfeld , Yang Ran , Taoran Song , Wei Li , Jianping Hu

{"title":"Tunnel location optimization for railway alignment design in complex mountainous regions","authors":"Xinjie Wan , Hao Pu , Paul Schonfeld , Yang Ran , Taoran Song , Wei Li , Jianping Hu","doi":"10.1016/j.autcon.2025.106132","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.autcon.2025.106132","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>In complex mountainous regions, optimizing continuous tunnel locations for railways presents significant challenges. To address this, a tunnel location optimization model is developed, incorporating key factors such as construction cost, structural stability, and alignment coherence. In this model, specific design variables and constraints for tunnel portals and bodies are also formulated. Then, a three-stage optimization method is designed: (1) Potential tunnel portal (PTP) locations are identified through a geospatial analysis. (2) Potential tunnel and non-tunnel paths are constructed using a graph structure. (3) Based on the graph, a multi-objective shortest-path algorithm and a fine-tuning process are adopted for determining the final optimized railway alignment. Ultimately, the proposed model and method are tested on two real-world railway cases in undulating terrain. Experimental results show that the method outperforms a conventional particle swarm optimization method in both execution efficiency and solution quality across all optimized objectives.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":8660,"journal":{"name":"Automation in Construction","volume":"174 ","pages":"Article 106132"},"PeriodicalIF":9.6,"publicationDate":"2025-03-19","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143672850","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"工程技术","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

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Automated residential layout generation and editing using natural language and images

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Automation in Construction Pub Date : 2025-03-19 DOI: 10.1016/j.autcon.2025.106133

Pengyu Zeng , Wen Gao , Jizhizi Li , Jun Yin , Jiling Chen , Shuai Lu

{"title":"Automated residential layout generation and editing using natural language and images","authors":"Pengyu Zeng , Wen Gao , Jizhizi Li , Jun Yin , Jiling Chen , Shuai Lu","doi":"10.1016/j.autcon.2025.106133","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.autcon.2025.106133","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>Architectural design, including for the most common residential buildings, is a complex process that typically requires iterative revisions by skilled architects. This paper addresses how to automate the generation and modification of residential layouts, to lower the design threshold and enable cost-effective, user-driven generation and editing. This paper proposes Text2FloorEdit, a framework that decomposes the design task into three components: Residential Layout Generation (RL-Net) for flexible residential layout generation; Window, Door, and Wall Generation (WD-Net) for detailed floor plan generation with lower training costs; and a 3D rendering system for visualisation. The proposed approach enables the efficient generation and modification of residential layouts using flexible inputs like natural language and images, without the need for multimodal datasets. This solution is particularly valuable for architects and non-professionals seeking cost-effective, user-friendly tools for automated residential design. This paper opens new directions in cross-modal generative models, with the potential to enhance architectural design automation.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":8660,"journal":{"name":"Automation in Construction","volume":"174 ","pages":"Article 106133"},"PeriodicalIF":9.6,"publicationDate":"2025-03-19","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143644474","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"工程技术","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

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Automating inspection data from bridge management system into bridge information model

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Automation in Construction Pub Date : 2025-03-18 DOI: 10.1016/j.autcon.2025.106128

Carlos Santos , Furkan Luleci , João Amado , José C. Matos , F. Necati Catbas

{"title":"Automating inspection data from bridge management system into bridge information model","authors":"Carlos Santos , Furkan Luleci , João Amado , José C. Matos , F. Necati Catbas","doi":"10.1016/j.autcon.2025.106128","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.autcon.2025.106128","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>This paper presents an approach to enhance the implementation of the Bridge Information Modeling (BrIM) methodology during the operational stage by automating the integration of inspection data from Bridge Management Systems (BMS) into BrIM models. While the data from BMS is available and retrievable from spreadsheets, the 3D bridge model is represented according to the Industry Foundation Classes (IFC) data model. Then, this paper introduces an algorithm that ensures seamless interoperability between the spreadsheets and the IFC data model. The semantically enriched BrIM models are achieved through a set of rules and procedures that are established to simplify the matching of the modeled objects with the components that characterize the bridge in the BMS. The openness of the IFC data model allows the identification of appropriate entities to store the corresponding information that comes from the BMS. This automated process removes the need for manual attachment of inspection data into IFC files, which is prone to errors, reduces the complexity of moving towards BrIM-based bridge management practices, and increases the efficiency of creating BrIM models for existing bridges. Finally, the proposed approach is a scalable and transferable solution that transportation agencies worldwide can adopt to manage bridge assets.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":8660,"journal":{"name":"Automation in Construction","volume":"174 ","pages":"Article 106128"},"PeriodicalIF":9.6,"publicationDate":"2025-03-18","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143644473","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"工程技术","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

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Monitoring concrete pouring progress using knowledge graph-enhanced computer vision

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Automation in Construction Pub Date : 2025-03-18 DOI: 10.1016/j.autcon.2025.106117

Fabian Pfitzner , Songbo Hu , Alexander Braun , André Borrmann , Yihai Fang

{"title":"Monitoring concrete pouring progress using knowledge graph-enhanced computer vision","authors":"Fabian Pfitzner , Songbo Hu , Alexander Braun , André Borrmann , Yihai Fang","doi":"10.1016/j.autcon.2025.106117","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.autcon.2025.106117","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>Accurate progress measurement in concrete pouring is essential to prevent project delays and material waste. This paper introduces a knowledge graph (KG)-enhanced computer vision (CV) method to improve the accuracy and generalizability of traditional methods used in concrete pouring monitoring, which often struggle to integrate contextual data. By combining object detection and extracting information from BIM models, the method creates a KG to represent spatial–temporal relationships among building components and pouring-related resources (<em>e.g</em>., concrete mixer, bucket, hose, workers). Rule-based interpretation and Graph Neural Networks (GNN) classify pouring states and cycles, achieving 80.3% accuracy with the rule-based system and 89.2% with GNN in conducted experiments on ten samples across two construction sites. These findings demonstrate that the KG-enhanced CV method provides generalizability, offering data-driven support for site managers to efficiently coordinate processes. This approach lays the foundation for detailed process-oriented digital twinning of construction projects, enabling deeper insights and better decision-making.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":8660,"journal":{"name":"Automation in Construction","volume":"174 ","pages":"Article 106117"},"PeriodicalIF":9.6,"publicationDate":"2025-03-18","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143644470","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"工程技术","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

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Performance-based payment mechanism for common data environment (CDE) adoption in construction projects

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Automation in Construction Pub Date : 2025-03-15 DOI: 10.1016/j.autcon.2025.106089

Ron C.W. Ng, Jack C.P. Cheng, George C.W. Cheng, Ka Hang Fung, Chun Wai Fong

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Reference architecture and ontology framework for digital twin construction

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Automation in Construction Pub Date : 2025-03-15 DOI: 10.1016/j.autcon.2025.106111

Jonas Schlenger , Kacper Pluta , Alwyn Mathew , Timson Yeung , Rafael Sacks , André Borrmann

{"title":"Reference architecture and ontology framework for digital twin construction","authors":"Jonas Schlenger , Kacper Pluta , Alwyn Mathew , Timson Yeung , Rafael Sacks , André Borrmann","doi":"10.1016/j.autcon.2025.106111","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.autcon.2025.106111","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>The application of digital twins in building construction faces challenges due to limited guidance on the necessary data management layers. This paper addresses this gap by investigating how the reference architecture for Digital Twin Construction (DTC) should be structured to manage planning information, raw monitoring data, and derived knowledge, as well as its data schema to compare project plans with status. By defining platform requirements and using Design Science Research Methodology, a solution was implemented and validated using a case study based on the ConSLAM dataset. A plugin-based DTC reference architecture employing multiple RDF graphs linked to specialized databases and the DTC Ontology as the internal data schema are introduced. This architecture guides construction companies in data-driven decision-making during execution. It establishes a foundation for managing digital twins and fosters the development of domain-specific services that benefit from clear data structures, supporting a holistic digital twin adaptable to project-specific needs.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":8660,"journal":{"name":"Automation in Construction","volume":"174 ","pages":"Article 106111"},"PeriodicalIF":9.6,"publicationDate":"2025-03-15","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143629442","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"工程技术","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

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Machine learning applications in designing cementitious materials

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Automation in Construction Pub Date : 2025-03-14 DOI: 10.1016/j.autcon.2025.106125

Shichen Dang , Hu Fang , Yao Yao

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Text-to-structure interpretation of user requests in BIM interaction

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Automation in Construction Pub Date : 2025-03-14 DOI: 10.1016/j.autcon.2025.106119

Yinyi Wei , Xiao Li , Frank Petzold

{"title":"Text-to-structure interpretation of user requests in BIM interaction","authors":"Yinyi Wei , Xiao Li , Frank Petzold","doi":"10.1016/j.autcon.2025.106119","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.autcon.2025.106119","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>Numerous efforts have been devoted to utilizing a natural language-based interface for BIM interaction. These interfaces require extracting user's intent (i.e., the operation type) and slots (i.e., the targeted elements and properties). However, there is a lack of a fine-grained approach for extracting intent and slot information simultaneously. This paper introduces a text-to-structure approach based on language models to interpret user requests for BIM interaction (T2S4BIM). It proposed a synthetic data generation method and a curated dataset as data support. Employing Transformer-based models, T2S4BIM converts unstructured user requests into a structured format with intent and slot information. Experiments demonstrated that T2S4BIM outperformed existing approaches, with encoder-decoder models like T5 and FLAN-T5 achieving performance comparable to larger, decoder-only models such as Llama3.1-8B and Qwen2.5-7B, while improving efficiency. The practical applicability of T2S4BIM was illustrated through a Revit plug-in that interprets user requests and executes corresponding actions (e.g., manipulating object properties).</div></div>","PeriodicalId":8660,"journal":{"name":"Automation in Construction","volume":"174 ","pages":"Article 106119"},"PeriodicalIF":9.6,"publicationDate":"2025-03-14","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143621394","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"工程技术","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

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Graph-based change detection of pavement cracks

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Automation in Construction Pub Date : 2025-03-14 DOI: 10.1016/j.autcon.2025.106110

Yibo Zhou , Yuchun Huang , Qi Chen , Dongchen Yang

{"title":"Graph-based change detection of pavement cracks","authors":"Yibo Zhou , Yuchun Huang , Qi Chen , Dongchen Yang","doi":"10.1016/j.autcon.2025.106110","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.autcon.2025.106110","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>Pavement crack deterioration threatens road safety, but current maintenance strategies rely on composite indicators that lack crack location and attribute changes, failing to accurately track deterioration. Traditional feature-point-based methods struggle with temporal crack correspondence due to noise and shape variability. However, local structural features like intersections and inflection points are significant and extractable, providing a reliable basis for crack correspondence. This paper proposes an unsupervised graph-based framework for crack change detection. First, a curvature-first distance-optimized algorithm extracts stable keypoints to construct crack graphs, representing structural information. Second, a graph matching strategy combines Bezier curve similarity and Monte Carlo Tree Search to resolve structural correspondences, enabling accurate change detection. To address data scarcity, a Voronoi-based simulator models crack propagation through controlled stress fields. Experiments on synthetic and real-world datasets achieved crack change detection accuracies of 97.95% and 90.18%, respectively, demonstrating high accuracy without relying on learning-based components.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":8660,"journal":{"name":"Automation in Construction","volume":"174 ","pages":"Article 106110"},"PeriodicalIF":9.6,"publicationDate":"2025-03-14","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143621395","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"工程技术","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

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