Applications of Artificial Intelligence in Civil Engineering

Abstract

Artificial intelligence (AI) has made inroads into many facets of human engagements and has been used to solve problems in diverse fields of science and technology. Every AI instrument is a product of engineering that involves data computation and, often, construction of the hard devices by which the instructions inputted into the system are given operational expression. Civil engineering, being the application of scientific and physical principles required to construct and maintain physical structures like roads, bridges, dams, structural aspects of buildings, etc, requires artificial intelligence facilitation in project execution. This paper outlines some of the contributions of artificial intelligence to civil engineering operations, covering areas such as bridge construction risk assessment, predicting of building energy performance, and artificial intelligence approach to asphalt pavement pothole detection, among others.
Keywords: civil engineering, artificial intelligence, roads, bridges, houses, ANN