Application of IFC in automated code checking system against RC column members

Autor: Cheng-Yu Chou, 周承禹
Rok vydání: 2008
Druh dokumentu: 學位論文 ; thesis
Popis: 97
Standards in International Organization for Standard (ISO) cover in several domains. Establishing and following standards implies leading of technology and competition of market. Therefore, creating standards to lead engineers or companies follow is an essential task in industry. International organization IAI also develops information standard about domain of engineering application primarily. Following corresponding standards for design results in cost saving of information exchange during the life cycle of a building. In engineering construction industry, IFC (Industrial Foundation Classes) is one of most frequently applied standard formats. BIM (Building Information Model) is a novel CAD concept, developed with the basis of IFC standard format. In BIM, any member for a building is viewed as an object including conventional drawing geometry data with material, analyzed results, etc. information and stored as attributes in the object. The objective of this research is to develop an on-line automated code checking system with Taiwan's building regulation by using property of BIM and IFC standard format. Herein, freeware IFCEngine OCX&DLL program is employed as APIs platform (Application Programming Interface) to develop the system. Due to time constraints, this work only focuses on code checking of RC column members for a given building. Therefore, the corresponding building regulations about RC column members are re-coded in a data base. Although the entity of IFCReforcingBar had been defined and released in IFC, it is rarely applied in CAD system. Therefore, a program was developed for design an IFC-supported RC column member model with corresponding reinforcing bar in order to cover the drawback of the current CAD software. Reveal from study cases, the system demonstrated the feasibility of code checking for column members for a given building with IFC supported format.
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