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CIVIL ENGINEERING
APPLICATIONS OF
AUGMENTED REALITY
GUIDE : VIDHYA KANAKARAJ ATHUL VASNIK RAHMAN
ASSISTANT PROFESSOR, ROLL NO. :11
CIVIL ENGINEERING DEPARTMENT S8 CE
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OUTLINE
INTRODUCTION
AUGMENTED REALITY
APPLICATIONS
ADVANTAGES
DISADVANTAGES
APPLICATION OF AUGMENTED REALITY IN CIVIL ENGINEERING
CONCLUSION
REFERENCE
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INTRODUCTION
The outputs of construction information processes (designs, plans and schedules) provide
the control information for the material processes in construction.
The media to bring the information from the digital models to construction site are 2D
documents such as floor plans, cross sections, sketches, etc.
Situating information and establishing the relation between the real world of the
construction site and design information is relied on the spatial awareness of engineers .
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Continued…
Augmented reality (AR) can be used to form a synthetic environment that enables the
integration of 4D building information models into the live picture of real world.
Augmented reality (AR) is a field of computer research which deals with the
combination of real-world and computer-generated data.
AR uses live video imagery which is digitally processed and "augmented" by the
addition of computer-generated graphics.
Advances includes the use of motion-tracking data, fiducial marker recognition using
machine vision, and the construction of controlled environments containing any number
of sensors and actuators.
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Trackers: Black and white fiducial markers, GPS/INS, marker less technology (MLT),
sensors.
Computing Devices: PCs, Mobile phones, etc. to process real world and virtual data.
Display devices : Head mounted displays, mobile phones, laptops etc. to display the
augmented view.
Education:
• Interactive learning
• Engineering graphics
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APPLICATIONS
Industrial design:
Medical :
Military:
Assisting consumers.
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APPLICATIONS
Construction management.
Training.
Inspections.
Damage assessments.
BIM integration.
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SUBSURFACE VISUALIZATION
Features include
GPS/INS INTEGRATION
Modular nature of system enables switching between high and low accuracy applications
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The possible applications of a subsurface visualization system are listed below
Mobile Mapping
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Attention allocation,
Memory,
Interdependency
collisions arising during the construction process due to the change orders or
errors can be addressed by retrieving and visualising data from BIM.
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Link digital to physical
Project control
Being able to visualize the difference between ‘as-planned and as-built’ progress
enables ‘current and future’ progress to be monitored and therefore facilitates
appropriate decision-making.
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Procurement: material flow tracking and management
The information propagated from an ERP system in the production factory to BIM and
can then be visualized on-site with AR.
This real-time evaluation will provide a site manager with a real-time dynamic planning
environment.
BIM and AR can provide a full 3D interactive solid model of the design,
providing subcontractors with visual understanding of details.
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Reinforcing bar arrangement and checking are very important as they are directly
related to the strength of a structure.
Inspectors often find it difficult to check whether reinforcing bars are arranged
correctly.
They grab and move markers, each of which is linked to 3D model data of reinforcing
bars.
By using an AR tool called AR Toolkit, users can view the virtual reinforcing bars
represented by computer graphics on their HMDs.
They can discuss how to arrange reinforcing bars by moving the markers in a virtual
3D world.
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Cooperative Reinforcing Bar Arrangement
Support
A collaborative system where multiple users can move tangible markers each of which
represents single or a set of reinforcing bars in an augmented reality environment.
Two graduate students majoring in civil engineering, simulating workmen X and Y, wore
HMDs with video cameras.
The two workers discussed sequence of arranging the five reinforcing bars.
They looked at the same 3D virtual reinforcing bars from different angles and discussed
many possible sequences, moving the markers intuitively.
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The marker is placed in front of the reinforcing bars at its designated location, and a user
wearing a HMD with a video camera looked at the marker and the reinforcing bars.
The user can check whether the reinforcing bars are correctly arranged or not by
checking the overlapped computer graphics image over the actual reinforcing bar image
on the HMD monitors.
Experiment 2 : Indoor test 38
Two small wood frames were crafted.
One was made just as designed while the other was made poorly with errors.
A part of a prestressed concrete bridge girder was selected and was represented by IFC-
BRIDGE product model.
Inspector wore the HMD with a video camera and looked at the marker attached to the
reinforcing bars.
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Experiment 2 : The good craft model was overlapped properly with the computer graphics
image, while the poor model was not overlapped with the virtual reinforcing bar image.
Experiment 3: There was not big difference between the virtual computer graphics and the
real reinforcing bar images. Hence the actual reinforcing bars could be judged as properly
constructed
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RAPID ASSESSMENT OF EARTHQUAKE-
INDUCED BUILDING DAMAGE
Accurate evaluation of damage sustained by buildings during catastrophic events is
critical to determine the buildings’ safety.
Current practices of evaluating damage to buildings after catastrophic events are labour
intensive, time consuming and error prone.
The residual IDR is a measure of how far each building floor has moved permanently
relative to the one beneath divided by the story height.
The residual IDR at each floor of a building can be measured using a computing scheme
based on AR by comparing a baseline image to the actual shape of a structure after a
seismic event.
A wireframe CAD image of the wall was registered against and augmented over the real
specimen.
Experiment
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Camera captures video of specimen before and after loading.
The camera was located 4,207 mm above the floor and 4,876 mm away from the wall.
The camera clearly focus on the point along the wall’s edge where horizontal drift
measurements were to be taken.
The position and orientation of the camera was constant at each step throughout the
duration of the experiment.
Augmented graphics is placed over the video and the drift is measured by correlating
number of pixels in an image with horizontal distance.
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Observations were made at the beginning and end of ten actuator loading strokes to
study the performance of the proposed AR technique at different drift levels
Drifts Measured Using User Position and Orientation- 47
Based Tracking
This corresponded to an actual displacement of 214 mm. The AR method thus under
predicted the drift by 2.1%.
The worst observation, i.e., highest % error occurred for Loading Stroke 1 where the drift
was computed to be 83 mm in AR corresponding to an actual displacement of 89 mm.
In all observations, the AR method under predicted the actual sustained displacements.
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AR can be used for reasoning the interdependences of tasks, spatial site layout of the
to-be-built, project progress monitoring, linking digital to physical, material flow
tracking and management, visualizing design during production.
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CONCLUSION
Sebastjan Meža, Žiga Turk, Matevž Dolenc (2015), “Measuring the potential of augmented
reality in civil engineering”, Advances in Engineering Software, 90 (1-10)
Hung-Lin Chi, Shih-Chung Kang, Xiang yu Wang (2013), “Research trends and
opportunities of augmented reality applications in architecture, engineering, and
construction”, Automation in Construction, 33 (116-122)
Xiangyu Wang, Mi Jeong Kim, Peter E.D. Love, Shih-Chung Kang (2013), “Augmented
Reality in built environment: Classification and implications for future research”,
Automation in Construction, 32 (1-13)
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REFERENCES
Vineet R. Kamat and Sherif El-Tawil (2007), “Evaluation of Augmented Reality for
Rapid Assessment of Earthquake-Induced Building Damage”, Journal of computing in
civil engineering, ASCE.
www.wikipedia.org
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