A step-based product model of building structures for the implementation of schematic-to-detailed design process

The Product Model of the STEP expected to be the most popular means for representing and exchanging engineering information between computer applications, makes engineers' intentions more clearable and exchangeable than simple conventional graphical representations like drawings. In structural engineering areas of AEC industry, AP 230 presented as a working draft needs to implement some special characteristics of building structures and a schematic-to-detailed design approach with problem decomposition which many architects and structural engineers in practice take in their design process of buildings. This paper presents a methodology for supporting the structural design process in details for the implementation of these special issues of building structures.