Visualization in tunnelling-new developments

Author

Opriessnig, G. ; Beer, G.

Author_Institution

Inst. for Struct. Anal., Tech. Univ. Graz, Austria

fYear

1999

fDate

1999

Firstpage

458

Lastpage

463

Abstract

Within the Visualization project of the Austrian Joint Research Initiative (JRI) Numerical Simulation in Tunnelling (SiTu), the Tunnelling Visualization System (TVS) is being developed, to display information in tunnelling. The aim of the Project is to implement a user friendly visualization system, where the data can be displayed in a way that tunnelling engineers can understand. Virtual reality techniques are new in tunnelling and offer a lot of new possibilities. 3D scalar fields are visualised in a novel way. The data to be visualised are either results from numerical simulation or ones describing geological features. Such data have special properties, which have to be considered by the visualization system. The paper presents innovative techniques for this purpose

Keywords

data visualisation; structural engineering computing; user interfaces; virtual reality; 3D scalar fields; Austrian Joint Research Initiative; Tunnelling Visualization System; Visualization project; data display; geological features; innovative techniques; numerical simulation; tunnelling engineers; tunnelling visualization; user friendly visualization system; virtual reality techniques; visualization system; Compressive stress; Computer displays; Data visualization; Geology; Geometry; Large screen displays; Numerical simulation; Software tools; Tunneling; Virtual reality;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Information Visualization, 1999. Proceedings. 1999 IEEE International Conference on

Conference_Location

London

ISSN

1093-9547

Print_ISBN

0-7695-0210-5

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/IV.1999.781596

Filename

781596