Year: 1990
Type: report
Abstract: The establishment of an automated system for assessing the exterior condition of structures can provide facility managers with an important tool for making decisions.The integration of different forms of knowledge into a coherent system provides the fundamental basis for an expert system.This system can reduce the time required to analyze and interpret information, and provides a historical record of the rate of failure for building structures.This report discusses the feasibility of establishing an automated maintenance management program for making maintenance decisions using computer image processing to obtain quantitative results from field sites and information describing the characteristics of the structure.Relevant database technologies and the design and structure of the database for condition assessment are discussed.Image acquisition, processing, storage, and retrieval of images of a water tower are presented as a case study.
Authors: Lawrence J Kaetzel, Jonathan W Martin, Michael M Hocker
Institution: National Institute of Standards and Technology
Language: English
Subfield: Civil and Structural Engineering
Field: Engineering
Domain: Physical Sciences
Open Access status: gold
OpenAlex ID: W2792191480