Automated generation of nodal representations for complex building geometries in the SEMPER environment

Automation in construction

Volumn 10, Issue 1, 2000, Pages 141-153

  Wong, Nyuk Hien ^a   Mahdavi, Ardeshir ^b  

^a Faculty of Architecture   (Singapore)

^b CARNEGIE MELLON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AUTOMATION; BUILDINGS; COMPUTER SIMULATION;

BUILDING DESIGN REPRESENTATIONS (BDR); SIMULATION DOMAIN REPRESENTATION (SDR); SIMULATION ENVIRONMENT FOR MODELING PERFORMANCES (SEMPER);

COMPUTER AIDED DESIGN;

EID: 0034325096     PISSN: 09265805     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0926-5805(00)00043-1     Document Type: Article

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