Digital Twin Applications for Overcoming Construction Supply Chain Challenges

Date
2024-08-14
Authors
Bakhshi, S
Ghaffarianhoseini, A
Ghaffarianhoseini, A
Najafi, M
Rahimian, F
Park, C
Lee, D
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Elsevier BV
Abstract

Despite Digital Twins' (DTs) growing popularity in the Architecture, Engineering, Construction and Operations sector, currently, only a limited number of studies have focused on the applicability and potential offered by DT to deal with the whole Construction Supply Chain (CSC) challenges, justifying the significance of the present study. As a response to provide a holistic insight into DT's contribution to overcoming CSC challenges, this paper follows an extensive literature review approach. This review aims explicitly to identify the existing applications of DT in dealing with current CSC challenges and explore its possible contributions by investigating examples of other industries that adopted DT to tackle similar challenges. Firstly, it utilises Scopus as a database to collect CSC-related data. Subsequently, it employs VOSviewer to extract and visualise CSC hotspots. Finally, this review conducts extensive discussions to identify the CSC challenges around the identified hotspots and the DT-provided solutions.

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33 Built Environment and Design , 3302 Building , Generic health relevance , 09 Engineering , 12 Built Environment and Design , Building & Construction , 33 Built environment and design , 40 Engineering
Source
Automation in Construction, ISSN: 0926-5805 (Print), Elsevier BV, 167, 105679-105679. doi: 10.1016/j.autcon.2024.105679
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Copyright © 2024 Published by Elsevier B.V. This is an open access article under the CC BY license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/).