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Access Type
WSU Access
Date of Award
January 2020
Degree Type
Thesis
Degree Name
M.S.
Department
Civil and Environmental Engineering
First Advisor
Mumtaz A. Usmen
Second Advisor
Emrah Kazan
Abstract
ABSTRACT
TOWARDS THE DEVELOPMENT OF SMART UNDERGROUND INFRASTRUCTURES
By
ERONMONSELE ESEKHAIGBE
August 2020
Advisors: Dr. Mumtaz Usmen and Dr. Emrah Kazan
Major: Civil Engineering
Degree: Master of Science
Imagine a smart city were all overhead and underground infrastructures are connected. In order to fully achieve this smart city concept, it is important to have the digital twin of the above ground and below ground space. There are over 35 million miles of buried service utilities in the US and this number keeps growing every year due to increasing urbanization and industrialization. Digitalization of the ground surface is made easy with cameras and other digital equipment, but challenges exist for 3D mapping beneath the ground surface due to inconsistency and uncertainty. Accidents leading to worker injury and fatality and underground utility damages caused by the inaccuracy of 2D as-built drawings have been on the rise, and this is a call for the development of smart underground infrastructure.
The proposed study is an in-depth review of general underground utility management practices focusing on how underground assets can be accurately digitalized in 3D BIM models. The critical review of existing information from literature sources is supplemented by survey questionnaires sent to the utility industry firms and one call centers. Besides documenting current underground asset management practices, information is derived on the future outlook in the digitalization of underground utilities. Based on the findings of this study, underground utility asset management practices are classified into 3 groups and suggestions for digitalization are presented.
Recommended Citation
Esekhaigbe, Eronmonsele, "Towards The Development Of Smart Underground Infrastructures" (2020). Wayne State University Theses. 838.
https://digitalcommons.wayne.edu/oa_theses/838