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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... failure paths of a structure . It bases on methods of system and reliability theory . The gained knowledge about the structural system is used to formulate a probabilistic model with a fault tree , limit - state equations and ...
... failure paths of a structure . It bases on methods of system and reliability theory . The gained knowledge about the structural system is used to formulate a probabilistic model with a fault tree , limit - state equations and ...
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... Failure consequences Failure type I : ( d ) Nystedvej Bro Elevation ( Safety class ) Very serious : High safety class Ductile failure with remaining capacity Pr≤10-5 B≥4.26 Failure type II : Ductile failure without remaining capacity ...
... Failure consequences Failure type I : ( d ) Nystedvej Bro Elevation ( Safety class ) Very serious : High safety class Ductile failure with remaining capacity Pr≤10-5 B≥4.26 Failure type II : Ductile failure without remaining capacity ...
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... Failure Failure type I : Failure type II : Consequences Ductile failure with Ductile failure without Failure type III : ( Safety class ) remaining capacity remaining capacity Brittle failure Very Serious : Pf≤ 10-5 High safety class B ...
... Failure Failure type I : Failure type II : Consequences Ductile failure with Ductile failure without Failure type III : ( Safety class ) remaining capacity remaining capacity Brittle failure Very Serious : Pf≤ 10-5 High safety class B ...
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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