Stone Paved Road Digital Reproduction: A Workflow

Abstract

The growing necessity to design and digitally represent historical pavements has led specialists to use different Building Information Modelling (BIM) tools to control the road design and construction phases. In this research paper, a Heritage BIM (H-BIM) approach was developed to recreate an archaeological road to accomplish the structural analysis of stone pavements. In detail, starting from the Digital Elevation Model (DEM) generated with Autodesk Infraworks, the road design process was performed. The corridor was modelled with Autodesk Civil 3D using a parametric road section created with the Subassembly composer tool. Subsequently, a visual programming application (Dynamo) based on Python language was adopted to extract corridor information (such as areas, volumes, subassembly parameters) and apply changes based on conditions established through code scripts. In detail, a workflow was developed to implements a disruption analysis of road stone pavements. As preliminary results, a tool is proposed to support the authorities and experts during the managing process.