Abstract
The emergence of BIM technology has provided powerful technical means for realizing informatization and digitization in the field of engineering construction, which remarkably promotes the transformation and advance of production and management modes in engineering construction. Presently, the application and development of BIM technology in the field of engineering construction has become increasingly mature, yet in the field of tunnel engineering, the application of BIM technology is still in its infancy. Under such a circumstance, this paper first puts forward the basic hardware and software configuration requirements for BIM technology in tunnel engineering, and elaborates the basic structure of the BIM technology implementation team from eight respects. Second, this paper elaborates the general principles and the basic process of BIM technology application in tunnel engineering. Third, the paper proposes the initial construction scheme of the tunnel engineering collaborative management platform based on BIM technology, and analyzes the feasibility of platform development deeply. Last, the BIM technology is applied to two projects including Tunnel 1 in Yinxi Railway Huanxian County and Tianjin Metro Line 6, which provides auxiliary technical means for solving practical engineering problems, and provides some reference for subsequent application researches of BIM-like technologies in tunnel engineering.
Highlights
BIM (Building Information Modeling) originated in the United States in the 1970s
Informatization and digitization will become an important topic in the future development of tunnel engineering, and BIM technology will become an important technical foundation for realizing this theme
It is of great significance to carry out related research on the application of BIM technology in tunnel engineering
Summary
BIM (Building Information Modeling) originated in the United States in the 1970s. Charles Eastman, Jerry Laiserin and some other scholars have redefined its concepts successively and made a comprehensive interpretation of its connotation (Yalcinkaya & Singh, 2015; Zhang, Pan, Wang, Sun, & Wang, 2017). The development of BIM technology in the field of tunnel engineering still has certain limitations, which are embodied in the inconsistency of standards, the inapplicability of software, and the imperfection of platforms. The article elaborates the key links involved in the application of BIM technology in tunnel engineering from the aspects of hardware and software configuration requirements, implementation team organization structure, BIM technology implementation principles, BIM technology implementation process and tunnel collaborative management platform based on BIM technology, providing some reference for the standardized application of BIM technology in the subsequent tunnel engineering field. The BIM technology application system and the initial framework of the tunnel collaborative management platform in tunnel engineering proposed in this paper are all proposed for the first time They have certain integrity and systematics, and are highly implementable, which is a relatively novel and unique point in this paper
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