Innovative 3D-modelling for selecting and locating mobile cranes

Engineering, Construction and Architectural Management

Volumn 11, Issue 5, 2004, Pages 373-380

  Moselhi, Osama ^a   Alkass, Sabah ^a   Al Hussein, Mohamed ^b  

^a Gina Cody School of Engineering and Computer Science   (Canada)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ALBERTA   (Canada)

Author keywords

Computer aided design; Database management systems; Optimization techniques

Indexed keywords

ACCIDENT PREVENTION; ANIMATION; COMPUTER AIDED DESIGN; COMPUTER GRAPHICS; CONSTRAINT THEORY; CONSTRUCTION INDUSTRY; DATABASE SYSTEMS; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; OPTIMIZATION; THREE DIMENSIONAL;

CONSTRUCTION SITES; MOBILE CRANES; OPTIMIZATION TECHNIQUES; THREE DIMENSIONAL (3D) MODELING;

CRANES;

EID: 9444220205     PISSN: 09699988     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1108/09699980410558575     Document Type: Review

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