Bridge Maintenance, Safety, Management, Life-cycle Performance and Cost: Proceedings of the Third International Conference on Bridge Maintenance, Safety and Management, Porto, Portual, 16-19 July 2006Paulo J. S. Cruz, Dan M. Frangopol, Luis C. Neves Advances in bridge maintenance, safety, management and life-cycle performance contains the papers presented at IABMAS'06, the Third International Conference of the International Association for Bridge Maintenance and Safety (IABMAS), held in Porto, Portugal from 16 to 19 July, 2006. All major aspects of bridge maintenance, management, safety, and cost are addressed including All major aspects of bridge maintenance, safety and management are addressed including advanced materials, ageing of bridges, assessment and evaluation, bridge codes, bridge diagnostics, bridge management systems, composites, design for durability, deterioration modelling, emerging technologies, fatigue, field testing, financial planning, health monitoring, high performance materials, innovations, inspection, load capacity assessment, loads, maintenance strategies, new technical and material concepts, non-destructive testing, optimization strategies, prediction of future traffic demands, rehabilitation, reliability and risk management, repair, replacement, residual service life, safety and serviceability, service life prediction, strengthening, sustainable materials for bridges, sustainable bridges, whole life costing, among others. This book is a major contribution to the state-of-the art in all aspects of bridge maintenance and safety, including contributions from leading experts in this area. It is a significant contribution to the process of decision making in bridge maintenance, safety, management and cost for the purpose of enhancing the welfare of society. |
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... Figure 4. Design variables . X ( 12 ) + ( 6 ) X annual cost ( dollar / m ) 480 340 life cycle cost 460 320 440 420 400 300 annual cost 280 260 60 65 68 70 72 75 service life ( year ) LCC ( hundred dollar / m ) Figure 5. Optimal annual ...
... Figure 1. When both mass and stiffness parameters were estimated , all mode shapes could be matched well . To investigate the influence of mass error on damage assessment , a frame structure as shown in Figure 2 has been studied . For ...
... Figure 2. Bending - type anchor bar have bi - linear load - displacement characteristics as shown on Figure 3. Design loads ( displacement = ± 75 mm ) obtained from the bending tests are plotted in Figure 4 , and these points agree well ...
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Bridge forms and aesthetics | 3 |
Protection of our bridge infrastructure against manmade and natural hazards 113 | 13 |
F Seible G Hegemier J Wolfson R Conway K Arnett J D Baum | 21 |
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