Role of Database Management Systems in Structural Engineering

Abstract

Presented at International Association of Bridge and Structural Engineers Symposium on Informatics in Structural Engineering. (1982: Bergamo, Italy). The future integration of structural engineering application programs will depend critically on integrated databases which provide access to information in essentially arbitrary sequences, and which automatically perform a large portion of integrity checking on the data. One source of such design databases are the database management systems (DBMS) evolving from management applications. The paper surveys such systems and presents some extensions neede