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This book presents the latest research findings in the field of maintenance and safety of aging infrastructure. The invited contributions provide an overview of the use of advanced computational and/or experimental techniques in damage and vulnerability assessment as well as maintenance and retrofitting of aging structures and infrastructures such as buildings, bridges, lifelines and ships. Cost-efficient maintenance and management of civil infrastructure requires balanced consideration of both structural performance and the total cost accrued over the entire life-cycle considering uncertainties.
In this context, major topics treated in this book include aging structures, climate adaptation, climate change, corrosion, cost, damage assessment, decision making, extreme events, fatigue life, hazards, hazard mitigation, inspection, life-cycle performance, maintenance, management, NDT methods, optimization, redundancy, reliability, repair, retrofit, risk, robustness, resilience, safety, stochastic control, structural health monitoring, sustainability, uncertainties and vulnerability. Applications include bridges, buildings, dams, marine structures, pavements, power distribution poles, offshore platforms, stadiums and transportation networks.
This up-to-date overview of the field of maintenance and safety of aging infrastructure makes this book a must-have reference work for those involved with structures and infrastructures, including students, researchers and practitioners.
Contents
1. Reliability-based durability design and service life assessment of concrete structures in a marine environment; 2. Designing bridges for inspectability and maintainability; 3. Structural vulnerability measures for assessment of deteriorating bridges in seismic prone areas; 4. Design knowledge gain by structural health monitoring; 5. Emerging concepts and approaches for efficient and realistic uncertainty quantification; 6. Time-variant robustness of aging structures; 7. Extending fatigue life of bridges beyond 100 years by using monitored data; 8. Management and safety of existing concrete structures via optical fiber distributed sensing; 9. Experimental dynamic assessment of civil infrastructures; 10. Two approaches for the risk assessment of aging infrastructure with applications; 11. Risk-based maintenance of ageing ship structures; 12. Investigating pavement structure deterioration with a relative evaluation model; 13. Constructs for quantifying the long-term effectiveness of civil infrastructure interventions; 14. Risk assessment and wind hazard mitigation of power distribution poles; 15. A comparison between MDP-based optimization approaches for pavement management systems; 16. Corrosion and safety of structures in marine environments; 17. Retrofitting and refurbishment of existing road bridges; 18. Stochastic control approaches for structural maintenance; 19. Modeling inspection uncertainties for on-site condition assessment using NDT tools; 20. The meaning of condition description and inspection data quality in engineering structure management; 21. Climate adaptation engineering and risk-based design and management of infrastructure; 22. Comparing bridge condition evaluations with life-cycle expenditures; 23. Redundancy-based design of non-deterministic systems
