Automated Generation of

'as-damaged' BIM Model for

Earthquake Search & Rescure

Prof. Rafael Sacks

Dr. Ling Ma

Reem Zeibak-Shini

Planning of Post-earthquake operations

- Pre-event information

- Seismic response

- Outer appearance

As-built BIM model

Seismic Simulation

Remote Sensing

© 2016, Dr. Ling Ma 

© 2016, Dr. Ling Ma 

Structure morphing

  • Mapping structural cells
  • Locating the building elements in the scan
  • Compilation of as-damaged BIM model

© 2016, Dr. Ling Ma 

© 2015, Ling Ma 

Virtual Construction Lab 

Synthetic experiments

SeeBridge: an Automated Bridge Inspection System

Prof. Rafael Sacks

Dr. Ling Ma

Uri Kattel

Raz Yosef

© 2016, Ling Ma 

Bridge Inspection

14,700 bridges in Georgia

42 Inspectors in GDOT

Descriptive Inspection Report

Mobile Laser Scanner

Point Cloud Data

Semantically Rich Bridge Model

Consortium

Technion – Israel Institute of Technology 

University of Cambridge

Technische Universität München 

Georgia Institute of Technology 

Georgia DOT 

Trimble Navigation Inc.

Kedmor Engineers Ltd.

Pointivo

Infravation - SeeBridge

FP7 ERA-NET projects

Oct 1st, 2015 ~ Mar 31st, 2017

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Information Delivery Manual

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System Components

Workflow

Information Exchange

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Georgia

Data Collection

Cambridge

Haifa

3D Reconstruction

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Semantic Enrichment

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Damage Detection

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Thanks!

Ministry of Defense Presentation

By Ling Ma (Lorin)

Ministry of Defense Presentation

Research Sharing - Ling Ma

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