Construction of a dam embankment with nonstationary queues

Author

Ioannou, Photios G.

Author_Institution

Dept. of Civil & Environ. Eng., Michigan Univ., Ann Arbor, MI, USA

Volume

2

fYear

1999

fDate

1999

Firstpage

921

Abstract

The paper presents the simulation model for a project involving the haulage and placement of rip-rap for the construction of a dam to illustrate how traffic-related queues are created at locations determined dynamically at simulation runtime. This example also investigates the formation of moving queues of equipment that cannot pass each other and travel together like a procession or a convoy. The solution to this problem is outlined conceptually using the activity-scanning modeling paradigm and is described in detail using a simulation model developed in STROBOSCOPE

Keywords

building; civil engineering computing; dams; digital simulation; queueing theory; simulation languages; STROBOSCOPE; State and Resource Based Simulation of Construction Processes; activity-scanning modeling paradigm; construction operations; convoy; dam embankment construction; moving queues; nonstationary queues; rip-rap; simulation language; simulation model; simulation runtime; traffic-related queues; Building materials; Civil engineering; Contracts; Levee; Load modeling; Production; Road transportation; Road vehicles; Runtime; Traffic control;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Simulation Conference Proceedings, 1999 Winter

Conference_Location

Phoenix, AZ

Print_ISBN

0-7803-5780-9

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/WSC.1999.816800

Filename

816800