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<\/a><\/figure>\n\n\n\nPurpose: Scope: Intended Users & Intended Use:<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n Users: Multidisciplinary design teams, including structural engineers, heritage consultants, and conservation specialists. Use: The ontology is used for automated consistency checking, structural defect prioritization, and as a reasoning engine to support complex decision-making in digital twin environments.<\/p>\n\n\n\n The hierarchy is decomposed into physical components (BuildingComponent), abstract results from inspections (Finding), constraints (HeritageConstraint), and remedial actions (ProposedIntervention).<\/p>\n\n\n\n The Ontograf view displays the visual ontology network, mapping the relationships between materials, components, and their specific defects or functions.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Table01:<\/strong> Table of Axioms<\/p>\n\n\n\n The report concludes that formalizing expert knowledge into a logical model transforms the ontology from a simple description into an active reasoning engine, forming the semantic core for a true digital twin in heritage engineering.<\/p>\n\n\n\n 1.P. A. Bullen and P. E. D. Love, “Adaptive reuse of heritage buildings: Sustaining the socio-economic and environmental benefits,” Structural Survey, vol. 29, no. 5, pp. 411-422, 2011.<\/p>\n\n\n\n 2.C. Dore and M. Murphy, “Historic Building Information Modelling (HBIM),” in Building Information Modeling: BIM in practice, John Wiley & Sons, 2015.<\/p>\n\n\n\n 3.Hartmann, T., & Fischer, M. (2007). “Supporting the constructability review process with 4D models.” Journal of Construction Engineering and Management, 133(10), 776-785.<\/p>\n\n\n\n 4.ASCE\/SEI, “Guideline for Structural Condition Assessment of Existing Buildings (ASCE\/SEI 11-99),” American Society of Civil Engineers, Reston, VA, 1999.<\/p>\n\n\n\n 5.J. Smith, Conservation of Historic Brick Structures. London, UK: Butterworth-Heinemann, 2018.<\/p>\n\n\n\n 6.N. Noy and D. L. McGuinness, “Ontology Development 101: A Guide to Creating Your First Ontology,” Stanford Knowledge Systems Laboratory, Stanford, CA, KSL-01-05, Mar. 2001.<\/p>\n\n\n\n 7.M. Kr\u00f6tzsch, F. Siman\u010d\u00edk, and I. Horrocks, “A Description of the Description Logic OWL 2,” in Reasoning Web. Semantic Technologies for the Web of Data, 2014, pp. 157-210.<\/p>\n\n\n\n 8.TRADA (Timber Research and Development Association). (2007). “Assessment of timber structures.” Wood Information Sheet WIS 2\/3-37.<\/p>\n\n\n\n 9.ACI Committee 440, “ACI 440.2R-17: Guide for the Design and Construction of Externally Bonded FRP Systems for Strengthening Concrete Structures,” American Concrete Institute, 2017.<\/p>\n\n\n\n 10.A. W. Skempton and D. H. MacDonald, “The allowable settlements of buildings,” Proceedings of the Institution of Civil Engineers, vol. 5, no. 6, pp. 727-768, 1956.<\/p>\n\n\n\n 11.Pauwels, P., Zhang, S., & Lee, Y. C. (2017). “Semantic web technologies in AEC industry: A literature overview.” Automation in Construction, 73, 145-165.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Parametric Model<\/a> ><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Introduction: Adaptive reuse of historic buildings is essential for sustainable urban development but requires a systematic way to balance structural viability with heritage constraints. This paper presents a formal ontology to address these complex engineeringContinue reading<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":300,"featured_media":0,"parent":24687,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-24689","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/141.23.68.248\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/24689","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/141.23.68.248\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/141.23.68.248\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/141.23.68.248\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/300"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/141.23.68.248\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=24689"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"http:\/\/141.23.68.248\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/24689\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":28759,"href":"http:\/\/141.23.68.248\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/24689\/revisions\/28759"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/141.23.68.248\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/24687"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/141.23.68.248\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=24689"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
<\/strong>The purpose is to provide a “logical source of truth” for multidisciplinary design teams, allowing for the validation of renovation plans against explicit engineering rules and heritage regulations within an HBIM (Historic Building Information Modelling) framework.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
<\/strong>The scope focuses on physical building components (Foundations, Masonry Walls), material conditions, observed defects (Findings), and proposed interventions (Strengthening, Moisture Mitigation).<\/p>\n\n\n\nClass Hierarchy:<\/h2>\n\n\n\n
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