Template-based knowledge reuse method for generating high-speed railway virtual construction scenes

Abstract

ABSTRACT Virtual construction has become an important approach to the high-quality development of high-speed railways, but existing methods have problems such as low efficiency in generating virtual construction scenes and the inability to reuse construction knowledge. To support the rapid visual representation of multiple types of construction processes and construction methods, a template-based knowledge reuse method is proposed. The method includes using a component-based modeling mode to build body structure models of a high-speed railway project and generate a 3D scene; decomposing the construction process and building a construction process knowledge base; establishing joint linkage models of construction machinery and forming a construction method knowledge template; and fusing multiple types of information according to a time sequence to visualize the construction process. Based on the template-based knowledge reuse method, a prototype system was developed, and virtual construction experiments were carried out. The results show that this method achieves the reuse of construction knowledge at different levels including construction machinery level, construction method level, and work site level. Compared with animation software for virtual construction, this method improves the production efficiency by 87%. Moreover, this method can provide a multilevel knowledge reuse scheme for diversified virtual construction.