Using immersive virtual environments to develop and visualize construction schedules for advanced nuclear power plants

2003 International Congress on Advances in Nuclear Power Plants - Proceedings of ICAPP 2003

Volumn , Issue , 2003, Pages

  Whisker, V E ^a   Baratta, A J ^a   Yerrapathruni, S ^a   Messner, J I ^a   Shaw, T S ^a   Warren, M E ^a   Rotthoff, E S ^a   Winters, J W ^b   Clelland, J A ^b   Johnson, F T ^b  

^a PENNSYLVANIA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b WESTINGHOUSE ELECTRIC COMPANY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER SOFTWARE; EQUIPMENT TESTING; EXPERIMENTS; MAINTENANCE; MOCKUPS; NUCLEAR ENERGY; NUCLEAR POWER PLANTS; SCHEDULING;

ADVANCED NUCLEAR POWER PLANTS; ASSOCIATED SOFTWARES; CONSTRUCTION MANAGEMENT; CONSTRUCTION SCHEDULES; CONSTRUCTION SEQUENCE; CONSTRUCTION TIME; IMMERSIVE VIRTUAL ENVIRONMENTS; VIRTUAL CONSTRUCTION;

VIRTUAL REALITY;

EID: 84933177519     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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