Bridge Maintenance, Safety, Management, Life-cycle Performance and Cost: Proceedings of the Third International Conference on Bridge Maintenance, Safety and Management, Porto, Portugal, 16-19 July 2006Paulo J. S. Cruz, Dan M. Frangopol, Luis C. Neves With contributions from leading experts, this book addresses all major aspects of bridge maintenance, safety, and management and delineates the state of the art in bridge maintenance and safety. It offers advice for decision making in bridge maintenance, safety, management, and cost for the purpose of enhancing the welfare of society. Topics include deterioration modeling, emerging technologies, field testing, financial planning, health monitoring, high-performance materials, innovations, load capacity assessment, maintenance strategies, new technology and materials, nondestructive testing, future traffic demands, reliability and risk, sustainable materials, whole-life costing, and more. |
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... cost is performed for a bridge superstruc- ture consisting of steel box girders and concrete deck . Load carrying capacity curves for the steel girder and concrete deck are proposed to calculate life cycle cost . These curves are ...
... cost is performed for a bridge superstruc- ture consisting of steel box girders and concrete deck . Load carrying capacity curves for the steel girder and concrete deck are proposed to calculate life cycle cost . These curves are ...
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... cost ( dollar / m ) 480 460 440 420 400 340 life cycle cost 320 300 annual cost 280 60 65 68 70 72 75 service life ( year ) 260 LCC ( hundred dollar / m ) Figure 5. Optimal annual cost and life cycle cost for service lives . annual cost ...
... cost ( dollar / m ) 480 460 440 420 400 340 life cycle cost 320 300 annual cost 280 60 65 68 70 72 75 service life ( year ) 260 LCC ( hundred dollar / m ) Figure 5. Optimal annual cost and life cycle cost for service lives . annual cost ...
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... cost of a Bridge is the sum of the construction cost and the maintenance and repair costs during service life . Whole life cost analysis is a simple and most common way to deal with this problem . It is normal that the Net Present Value ...
... cost of a Bridge is the sum of the construction cost and the maintenance and repair costs during service life . Whole life cost analysis is a simple and most common way to deal with this problem . It is normal that the Net Present Value ...
Contents
Protection of our bridge infrastructure against manmade and natural hazards | 13 |
J R Casas | 31 |
Shinozuka Y Zhou S Banerjee Y Murachi | 47 |
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