%0 Journal Article
%T Development of Product Data Model for Maintenance in Concrete Highway Bridges
%A Satoshi Kubota
%A Ichizou Mikami
%J Applied Computational Intelligence and Soft Computing
%D 2013
%I Hindawi Publishing Corporation
%R 10.1155/2013/148785
%X The primary objective of this paper is to develop the product data models, in which systematic information is defined for accumulating, exchanging, and sharing in the maintenance of concrete highway bridges. The information requirement and existing issues and solutions were analyzed based on the life cycle and the standardization for sharing. The member data models and business data models that defined design and construction information and accumulated results information were developed. The maintenance business process in which project participants utilize the product data model was described as utilization scenario. The utilization frameworks which define information flow were developed. 1. Introduction Concrete highway bridges undertake important roles in civil infrastructures and should be used in safety and kept in good condition. For maintaining, repairing, and rehabilitating the concrete highway bridges, maintenance management should be carried out effectively [1, 2]. In maintenance process of concrete highway bridges, it is important that the maintenance process is effective and the quality of inspection is secured. The cost-effective and quality maintenance is dependent on reliable inspection and condition assessment information [3]. The reliable maintenance information influences bridge management system (BMS) [4, 5]. BMS does not use the standardized information and cannot exchange, share, and reutilize the information. The maintenance information should be standardized and is needed for cost-effective business process model. Modeling standardizes the information. The process model for utilizing the standardized information should be constructed. The primary objective of this paper is to develop product data models as a framework for exchanging, sharing, and utilizing the maintenance information in concrete highway bridges maintenance. This paper targets concrete highway bridge and does not target railroad and pedestrian bridge. Product data models for maintenance are developed for standardizing the various maintenance data. Business process model for maintenance is constructed for maintaining the concrete highway bridges. For developing the product data models and process model, the existing maintenance processes and information [6¨C9] are analyzed. The analyzed results are used for modeling the as-built process and product data. The required functions are analyzed and described for product and process models by use-case diagram in Unified Modeling Language (UML). The product data models consisted of member and business data models and
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