Literature review of digital twin technologies for civil infrastructure
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Currently, there are numerous drawbacks associated with infrastructure health monitoring and management, such as inefficiency, subpar real-time functionality, demanding data requirements, and high cost. Digital twin (DT), a hybrid of a computational simulation and an actual physical system, has been proposed to overcome these challenges and become increasingly popular for modeling civil infrastructure systems. This literature review summarized different methods to build digital twins in civil infrastructure. In addition, this review also introduced the current progress of digital twins in different infrastructure sectors, including smart cities and urban spaces, transport systems, and energy systems, along with detailed examples of their various applications. Finally, the current challenges in digital twin technologies for civil infrastructure are also highlighted.
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Liu et al. (2023) identified gaps in infrastructure health monitoring and digital twin integration.
“Identifies gaps in infrastructure health monitoring and digital twin integration”
From Advancing civil infrastructure with digital twins: a review of applications and challenges (2025) · cites this paper as Liu et al. (2023)
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- Authors
- Liu, C., Zhang, P., & Xu, X.
- Affiliations
- City University of Hong Kong (HK)
- Corresponding author
- Liu, Cheng
- Venue
- Journal of Infrastructure Intelligence and Resilience
- Publisher
- Elsevier BV
- Published
- 2023-09
- Volume
- 2
- Issue
- 3
- Pages
- 100050
- ISSN
- 2772-9915 (ISSN-L)
- OpenAlex
- W4383197099
- Cited by
- 98
- References
- 100
- Citations by year
- 2026: 30 · 2025: 31 · 2024: 31 · 2023: 6
- FWCI
- 13.01
- Type
- journal article
- Language
- en
- Open access
- gold
- doi.org
- Licence
- Locations
- Journal of Infrastructure Intelligence and Resilience (publishedVersion, cc-by-nc-nd)
- CityU Scholars (submittedVersion, cc-by-nc-nd)
- Funders
- City University of Hong Kong (9610612)
- Topics
- Physical Sciences › Engineering › Industrial and Manufacturing Engineering › Digital Transformation in Industry
- Physical Sciences › Engineering › Civil and Structural Engineering › Infrastructure Maintenance and Monitoring
- Physical Sciences › Engineering › Building and Construction › BIM and Construction Integration
- Keywords
- digital twin, civil infrastructure, infrastructure health monitoring, infrastructure management, smart cities, transport systems, energy systems, infrastructure modeling, real-time monitoring
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