Continuous and combined event-process models for simulating pipeline construction

Construction Management and Economics

Volumn 16, Issue 4, 1998, Pages 489-498

  Shi, Jingsheng ^a   Abourizk, Simaan ^b  

^a CITY UNIVERSITY OF HONG KONG   (Hong Kong)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ALBERTA   (Canada)

Author keywords

Computer simulation; Linear construction; Modelling; Pipeline construction; Planning; Slam II; Slamsystem

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER SIMULATION; COMPUTER SIMULATION LANGUAGES; CONSTRUCTION; MODELS; PLANNING;

COMPLEX CONSTRUCTION; CONSTRUCTION PROCESS; CONTINUOUS MODELING; DISCRETE MODELING; OPERATIONAL LEVEL; PIPELINE CONSTRUCTION; SLAM II; SLAMSYSTEM;

PIPELINE LAYING;

EID: 0344178320     PISSN: 01446193     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/014461998372268     Document Type: Article

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