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ISSN 1759-3433 CCP: 12
ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE AND CIVIL ENGINEERING Edited by: B.H.V. Topping
Paper V.2
DEX: An Expert System for the Design of Durable Concrete A.J. Wilkins and J. Elgy
Department of Civil Engineering, The University of Aston in Birmingham, Birmingham, England Full Bibliographic Reference for this paper
A.J. Wilkins, J. Elgy, "DEX: An Expert System for the Design of Durable Concrete", in B.H.V. Topping, (Editor), "Artificial Intelligence and Civil Engineering", Civil-Comp Press, Edinburgh, UK, pp 159-167, 1991. doi:10.4203/ccp.12.5.2
Abstract
The design of durable concrete has been the focus of some recent work as a potential domain for an expert system. Extensive experimentation with alternative knowledge representations and user interface methods for the domain resulted in a prototype system that considers sulphate attack. This prototype has been used as the basis for other modules for alkali-aggregate reaction (AAR) and steel reinforcement corrosion. The modules have been combined into a system, DEX, that can perform both passive checking and active design of durable concrete. The DEX system makes extensive use of hypertext as both a development methodology and user interface.
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