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A metro construction project has to meet the requirements of related standards and regulations. This is usually achieved through compliance checking. However, nowadays, as a manual and highly labour-intensive task, the construction quality compliance checking leads to excessive work for inspectors. Therefore, this paper proposes an ontological methodology to support automatic construction quality compliance checking, in which knowledge of regulation constraints is formalized in OWL (Web Ontology Language) and SWRL (Semantic Web Rule Language) and the construction quality inspection data are represented as instances of OWL ontology. The proposed methodology is illustrated with a regulation example taken from “Acceptance Codes for Construction Quality of Building Foundation (GB50202-2002)”.
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Zhong, B.T., Luo, H.B., Hu, Y.Z., Sun, J. (2012). Ontology-Based Approach for Automated Quality Compliance Checking against Regulation in Metro Construction Project. In: Ni, YQ., Ye, XW. (eds) Proceedings of the 1st International Workshop on High-Speed and Intercity Railways. Lecture Notes in Electrical Engineering, vol 148. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-27963-8_35
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