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Article Citation - WoS: 30Citation - Scopus: 39A Transformative Solution for Construction Safety: Blockchain-Based System for Accident Information Management(Elsevier, 2023) Ahmadisheykhsarmast, Salar; Aminbakhsh, Saman; Sonmez, Rifat; Uysal, FurkanEffective management of accident information is a crucial component of safety management within the construction industry, as it reflects the safety performance of the company and allows them to identify the root causes of accidents and prevent similar accidents in the future. However, existing safety information systems provide self-owned, isolated, and centralized environments and fail to present a secure, transparent, and trustworthy platform for monitoring and management of accident information. To address these issues, this paper presents a novel decentralized blockchain-based system for accident/incident information management of construction projects. The proposed system leverages the benefits and advantages of blockchain, smart contracts, and decentralized IPFS storage to address the security transparency, tampering, and trustworthiness issues of the conventional approaches. The proposed system is simulated by using real-world construction accident data to demonstrate how blockchain technology can provide a novel solution to assure security, transparency, authenticity, availability, and immutability of the accident/incident data for improving safety management.Article Citation - WoS: 11Citation - Scopus: 12E-Constraint Guided Stochastic Search With Successive Seeding for Multi-Objective Optimization of Large-Scale Steel Double-Layer Grids(Elsevier, 2022) Azad, Saeid Kazemzadeh; Aminbakhsh, SamanThis paper proposes a design-driven structural optimization algorithm named e-constraint guided stochastic search (e-GSS) for multi-objective design optimization of large-scale steel double-layer grids having numerous discrete design variables. Based on the well-known e-constraint method, first, the multi-objective optimization problem is transformed into a set of single-objective optimization problems. Next, each single-objective optimization problem is tackled using an enhanced reformulation of the standard guided stochastic search algorithm proposed based on a stochastic maximum incremental/decremental step size approach. Moreover, a successive seeding strategy is employed in conjunction with the proposed e-GSS algorithm to improve its performance in multi-objective optimization of large-scale steel double-layer grids. The numerical results obtained through multi-objective optimization of three challenging test examples, namely a 1728-member double-layer compound barrel vault, a 2304-member double-layer scallop dome, and a 2400-member double-layer multi-radial dome, demonstrate the usefulness of the proposed e-GSS algorithm in generating Pareto fronts of the foregoing multi-objective structural optimization problems with up to 2400 distinct sizing variables.Article Citation - WoS: 3Citation - Scopus: 3Ε-Constraint Procedures for Pareto Front Optimization of Large Size Discrete Time/Cost Trade-Off Problem(Elsevier, 2025) Aminbakhsh, Saman; Sonmez, Rifat; Atan, TankutThe discrete time/cost trade-off problem (DTCTP) optimizes the project duration and/or cost while considering the trade-off between activity durations and their direct costs. The complete and non-dominated time-cost profile over the set of feasible project durations is achieved within the framework of Pareto front problem. Despite the importance of Pareto front optimization in project and portfolio management, exact procedures have achieved very limited success in solving the problem for large size instances. This study develops exact procedures based on combinations of mixed-integer linear programming (MILP), epsilon-constraint method, network and problem reduction techniques, and present new bounding strategies to solve the Pareto problem for large size instances. This study also provides new large size benchmark problem instances aiming to represent the size of real-life projects for the DTCTP. The new instances, therefore, are generated to include up to 990 activities and nine execution modes. Computational experiments reveal that the procedures presented herein can remarkably outperform the state-of-the-art exact methods. The new exact procedures enabled obtaining the optimal Pareto front for instances with serial networks that include more than 200 activities for the first time.
