Hyundai Engineering Develops AI-Based Automated Steel Structure Design System

[Asia Economy Reporter Yuri Kim] Hyundai Engineering announced on the 15th that it has completed the development of the country's first automatic design system for plant steel structures using artificial intelligence (AI) machine learning and has filed related patents.

The company explained that by utilizing the automatic design system for steel structures, the time required for design is reduced compared to the manual input method by engineers, thereby improving work efficiency. Using AI machine learning algorithms, the system can also propose the optimal shape of the structure. Based on this, constructability reviews are conducted during the design phase, enabling a reduction in construction volume.

Typically, structural design for a single steel building takes about 3 to 4 days, but the automatic design program for steel structures developed by Hyundai Engineering allows structural design within 10 minutes once the designer inputs basic design conditions such as building size, load, and shape. By utilizing the AI analysis system to predict the optimal structural form, construction volume can be optimized, and with minimal errors between design and construction, the construction period is shortened and design costs are estimated to be reduced by more than 20%. The company is broadly applying this system to bidding projects and ongoing projects.

Starting with the development of this automatic design system for steel structures, Hyundai Engineering is developing more than 10 design automation technologies including 'automatic conversion from 2D drawings to 3D modeling,' 'automatic design of piping and cable routes (Auto Routing),' and 'automatic design and quantity calculation for all trades.'

A Hyundai Engineering official stated, "In the increasingly competitive plant market, we will continuously secure technological competitiveness and cost competitiveness through synergy of convergence technologies utilizing IT technology."

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