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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... columns compared to columns confined with conventional single spiral . Six of the columns ( 1000 mm high and 200 mm diameter ) were designed to study the flexural behavior , and the other six columns ( 500 mm high and 200 mm diameter ) ...
... columns with embedded H - shape steel beam and two columns with partially concrete filled steel tube were fabricated to investigate the static behavior of SRC columns . Main parameters were embedded steel member , loading condition ...
... columns , it is necessary to make the ductility of columns larger by covering RC columns with steel tubes or confining RC columns by arranging transverse reinforcement such as hoop ties closely . Using core steel composite columns is ...
Contents
Bridge forms and aesthetics | 3 |
Protection of our bridge infrastructure against manmade and natural hazards 13 | 13 |
F Seible G Hegemier J Wolfson R Conway K Arnett J D Baum | 21 |
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