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AI-Enabled Performance-Based Procurement and Life-Cycle Maintenance of Highway Bridges: Integrating Single-Bid Risk Analytics and PPP Payment Optimization

Model-based life-cycle evaluation indicates that AI-optimized PPP contracts reduce bridges reaching emergency condition by 30%–40% over a 30-year horizon while lowering life-cycle costs by 8%–12% compared with rule-based policies, providing infrastructure agencies and private concessionaires with an integrated AI-drive...

Ali Shehadeh, Odey Alshboul · 0 citations

Sample-Efficient Robot Skill Learning for Construction Tasks: Benchmarking Hierarchical Reinforcement Learning and Vision-Language-Action Model

Overall, the findings indicate that VLA offers practical advantages for changing tasks by reducing programming effort and enabling useful performance with minimal data, while DQN provides a viable baseline when sufficient tuning effort is acceptable.

Zhaofeng Hu, Hongrui Yu, Vaidhyanathan Chandramouli et al. · 0 citations

Physics-Informed Hybrid Machine Learning Model for Carbonation Depth Prediction in Concrete through Residual Correction and Variogram Analysis of Response Surfaces

A hybrid residual correction framework that integrates a physics-based carbonation model with a stacked ensemble of machine learning algorithms: gradient boosted regression trees (GBRT), support vector regression (SVR), and Gaussian process regression (GPR), combined through an XGBoost metamodel, demonstrating that the...

Ankit Rai, Umesh Kumar Sharma, R. Ball · 0 citations

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