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Record W4413882907 · doi:10.1016/j.autcon.2025.106496

AI applications for structural design automation

2025· article· en· W4413882907 on OpenAlexafffund
Hao Xie, Qipei Mei, Ying Hei Chui

Bibliographic record

VenueAutomation in Construction · 2025
Typearticle
Languageen
FieldEngineering
TopicBIM and Construction Integration
Canadian institutionsUniversity of Alberta
FundersNatural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of CanadaAlberta Innovates
KeywordsAutomationEngineeringSystems engineeringComputer scienceSoftware engineeringManufacturing engineeringEngineering drawingMechanical engineering

Abstract

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In recent years, there has been an increase in artificial intelligence (AI) applications in the field of structural engineering. With the rapid development of AI, new opportunities have emerged to use this technology to generate and check the structural design. Over the last few years, there has been a sharp increase in the number of publications relating to AI applications in structural design. This paper presents a systematic review of previous studies on the applications of AI in structural design. A total of 134 papers were analyzed. The review shows that AI techniques have benefited engineers in generating optimized structural design solutions that meet the requirements of building codes and design standards. Additionally, challenges and future opportunities are presented and discussed. This review will contribute to the body of knowledge by summarizing the state-of-the-art of using AI technologies in structural design and exploring future research opportunities in this area.

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How this classification was reachedexpand

Full frame machine prediction

Teacher imitation

Not calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. The Gemma side is a direct model label for every work in the frame, read from the title-only record. The Codex side is a classifier learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and calibrated to design-weighted sample rates; fields without enough sample support carry no Codex call. Candidate is the union of the two sides; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels.

metaresearch head score (Codex)0.003
metaresearch head score (Gemma)0.010
Version: metacan-v3-hybrid-931329e0061cValidation status: machine_predicted_unvalidated
Candidate categoriesnone
Consensus categoriesnone
DomainCandidate signal: none · Consensus signal: none
Study designCandidate signal: Theoretical or conceptual · Consensus signal: none
GenreCandidate signal: Empirical · Consensus signal: none
Teacher disagreement score0.015
Threshold uncertainty score0.050

Distilled classifier scores by category (both heads)

CategoryCodexGemma
Metaresearch0.0030.010
Meta-epidemiology (narrow)0.0010.001
Meta-epidemiology (broad)0.0010.001
Bibliometrics0.0050.006
Science and technology studies0.0010.001
Scholarly communication0.0030.003
Open science0.0010.002
Research integrity0.0020.001
Insufficient payload (model declined to judge)0.0150.004

Machine scores (provisional)

The two teacher heads of the student model, read on this work. A score orders the frame for review; it never asserts a category, and the validation status ships verbatim with every row.

Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.

Opus teacher head0.008
GPT teacher head0.252
Teacher spread0.243 · how far apart the two teachers sit on this one work
Validation statusscore_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from it

Classification

machine, unvalidated

Machine predicted; a candidate call from one source (direct Gemma or distilled Codex), not a consensus.

The models applied no category: nothing in the taxonomy fit this work.
Study designTheoretical or conceptual
Domainnot available
GenreEmpirical

How this classification was reached, model by model and score by score, is at the end of the page under "How this classification was reached".

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Published2025
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