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Bruno, Silvia
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- PublicationOpen AccessKSBT: A Knowledge-based Systems Building Tool(IABSE, 1995-03-16)
; ; ; ; ;Bruno, Silvia; Dip. di Ingegneria Strutturale "La Sapienza" ;Gavarini, Carlo; Dip. di Ingegneria Strutturale "La Sapienza" ;Padula, Antonio; Istituto Nazionale di Geofisica e Vulcanologia, Sezione CNT, Roma, Italia ;Vittori, Federico; Dip. di Ingegneria Strutturale "La Sapienza"; ; ; The increasing interest in AI as a powerful aid in solving civil engineering problems has suggested the realization of a domain-independent tool for knowledge-based systems construction. The paper provides the description of a fuzzy inference engine, which has appropriately been developed in order to both build knowledge bases and to perform evaluations. Knowledge acquisition issues and approximate reasoning techniques are also illustrated and discussed.300 166 - PublicationOpen AccessAn AI Approach to the Management of Uncertainty in Post-Earthquake usability of Buildings Assessment(University of Strathclyde, 1996-08-14)
; ; ; ;Bruno, Silvia; Dip. di Ingegneria Strutturale "La Sapienza" ;Gavarini, Carlo; Dip. di Ingegneria Strutturale "La Sapienza" ;Padula, Antonio; Istituto Nazionale di Geofisica e Vulcanologia, Sezione CNT, Roma, Italia; ; The present paper provides a description of the last release of a Knowledge Based System, AMADEUS 4.0, appropriately realized in order to support the operators in carrying out a set of procedures related to the postearthquake safety evaluation of buildings. The System encodes a methodological proposal due to one of the Authors, and validated in occasion of the 1990 South-Eastern Sicily Earthquake. Such a methodology had formerly been translated in a series of written guidelines accompanying a questionnaire, appositely developed so as to perform the various phases leading to the assessment. While these latter conventional tools display a rigid and unfriendly platform to the inspectors’ task, particularly when considering the hard conditions that usually follow an earthquake, AMADEUS 4.0 captures and structures the knowledge of recognized experts in the field of seismic engineering, thus providing a flexible and transparent environment to the transfer of the encoded expertise to the operators.109 110 - PublicationOpen AccessAn expert system for the seismic protection of architectural building heritage(Wit Press, 1999)
; ; ; ; ;Bruno, S.; Dip. di Ingegneria Strutturale "La Sapienza" ;Di Stefano, A.; Dip. di Ingegneria Strutturale "La Sapienza" ;Gavarini, C.; Dip. di Ingegneria Strutturale "La Sapienza" ;Padula, A.; Istituto Nazionale di Geofisica e Vulcanologia, Sezione CNT, Roma, Italia; ; ; ; ; ;Brebbia, C.A.; Wessex Institute of Technology, United Kingdom ;Oliveto, G.; Università di Catania; The definition of a form for the seismic protection of Architectural Building Heritage, a work carried out for the Italian Research Council, has led to the implementation of a knowledge system, that presently consents to partially analyse the walls of historical buildings. Among other things the system uses geometrical reasoning techniques that permit to survey the building by means of articulation and composition of elementary items, “built”, case by case, with a specific geometric, material and constructive entity. Such items can represent an elementary section of the building, for instance a pillar, an arch, a brick etc., and starting from their position and characteristics the walls and all the used masonry and finishing types can be individuated in detail without the necessity of applying to approximate formulations or to formal and typological evaluations that, with their rigid terminologies, can oversimplify the complex of historical buildings and their importance in the context.89 131