Advanced Manufacturing and Construction of Smart Building Modules

Lean and Green: How the Synergy Can Promote Sustainable Construction

Prangige Achini Peiris, Nilupa Herath, Tuan NGO, Colin Fraser Duffield, Kin Peng Hui

2023-08-01

Lean construction aims to improve efficiency through the reduction of wasteful activities. These waste reduction activities also i..

Production scheduling in modular construction: Metaheuristics and future directions

A Peiris, FKP Hui, C Duffield, T Ngo

2023-06-01

Modular construction (MC) is an increasingly important construction technique. However, it also requires the use of sophisticated ..

Digitalising modular construction: Enhancement of off-site manufacturing productivity via a manufacturing execution & control (MEC) system

Achini Peiris, Felix Kin Peng Hui, Colin Duffield, Jun Wang, Miguel Gil Garcia, Yifeng Chen, Tuan Ngo

2023-03-02

Modular construction facilities operate under tight deadlines making the monitoring of manufacturing progress and delivery for opt..

Automated simulation techniques for uncovering high-performance bioinspired cellular structures under blast loads

A Ghazlan, T Ngo, TS Le, TV Le

2022-01-01

Trabecular bone possesses a complex hierarchical structure of plate- and strut-like elements, which is analogous to structural sys..

Design for manufacturing and assembly for sustainable, quick and cost-effective prefabricated construction - a review

Muhammad Wasim, Paulo Vaz Serra, Tuan Duc Ngo

2022-01-01

Recently, researchers have reported that by the amalgamation of concepts of design for manufacturing and assembly (DfMA), construc..

A digital twin approach for geometric quality assessment of as-built prefabricated façades

H Tran, TN Nguyen, P Christopher, DK Bui, K Khoshelham, TD Ngo

2021-09-01

We develop a new framework for geometric quality assessment of as-built prefabricated façades during construction process using a ..

Performance of bio-mimetic cellular structures under impulsive loads

A Ghazlan, T Ngo, V Le, T Nguyen

2021-01-01

Re-entrant and honeycomb cellular structures have been extensively investigated by researchers in terms of mitigating the devastat..

Uncovering a high-performance bio-mimetic cellular structure from trabecular bone

Abdallah Ghazlan, Tuan Ngo, Tuan Nguyen, Steven Linforth, Tu Van Le

2020-12-01

The complex cellular structure of trabecular bone possesses lightweight and superior energy absorption capabilities. By mimicking ..

Behaviour and design calculations of rectangular CFST beam-columns with slender sections

Mohammadreza Zarringol, Huu-Tai Thai, Tuan Ngo, Vipulkumar Patel

2020-11-01

In this paper, design calculations of Concrete-Filled Steel Tubular (CFST) columns with slender sections subjected to combined axi..