In recent years, BIM has been applied to many building projects. However, IFC, which is the core technology of data exchange in BIM, has not been used widely. In particular, IFC has almost never been used to represent rebars in RC structures. This is because the lack of understanding and utilization strategy for data model of IFC on rebars. The purpose of this study is to store and manage the data on rebars using IFC at the schematic design stage. For this, we investigated the data to represent rebars for RC members, such as beam, column, wall, and slab at the schematic design stage. And, we analyzed the data model of IFC on rebars at the schematic design stage. Based on these investigation and analysis on data, we proposed the strategy for utilization of the data model of IFC on rebars. Finally, for verification, we generated a sample IFC file to represent the rebars of a simple RC structure according to the proposed strategy and imported the sample IFC file into the software, which we developed for this study. Based on the results of the import, we concluded that the data on rebars can be stored and managed using the proposed strategy for utilization of the data model of IFC on rebars.
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