This book presents the latest scientific research and application practice findings in the engineering field of “maintenance and safety of aging infrastructure”. The selected invited contributions will 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 (buildings, bridges, lifelines, etc) for minimization of losses and life-cycle-cost. Cost-competent maintenance and management of civil infrastructure requires balanced consideration of both the structure performance and the total cost accrued over the entire life-cycle. Another major problem is that the structure performance is usually reduced during its functioning due to environmental and other factors. Thus, current structural condition state is usually assessed by visual inspection or more advanced automatic structural health monitoring techniques. Furthermore, maintenance managers often require a list of prioritized maintenance interventions for civil infrastructure on an annual and/or long-term basis. Various unavoidable uncertainties associated with both randomness (i.e., aleatory uncertainty) and imperfect knowledge (i.e., epistemic uncertainty) also play a crucial role in management and maintenance of engineering systems. Taking into account the aforementioned issues, this volume aims to present the recent developments of life-cycle maintenance and management planning for deteriorating civil infrastructure considering simultaneously multiple and often competing criteria in terms of condition, safety and life-cycle cost.
Preface
Chapter 1 : Reliability-Based Durability Design and Service Life Assessment of Concrete Structures in a Marine Environment
Chapter 2 : Designing Bridges for Inspectability and Maintainability
Chapter 3 : Structural Vulnerability Measures for Assessment of Deteriorating Bridges in Seismic Prone Areas
Chapter 4 : Design Knowledge Gain by Structural Health Monitoring
Chapter 5 : Emerging Concepts and Approaches for Efficient and Realistic Uncertainty Quantification
Chapter 6 : Time-Variant Robustness of Aging Structures
Chapter 7 : Extending Fatigue Life of Bridges Beyond 100 Years by Using Monitored Data
Chapter 8 : Management and Safety of Existing Concrete Structures Via Optical Fiber Distributed Sensing
Chapter 9 : Experimental Dynamic Assessment of Civil Infrastructures
Chapter 10 : Two Approaches for The Risk Assessment of Aging Infrastructure with Applications
Chapter 11 : Risk-Based Maintenance of Ageing Ship Structures
Chapter 12 : Investigating Pavement Structure Deterioration with a Relative Evaluation Model
Chapter 13 : Constructs for Quantifying The Long-Term Effectiveness of Civil Infrastructure Interventions
Chapter 14 : Risk Assessment and Wind Hazard Mitigation of Power Distribution Poles
Chapter 15 : A Comparison Between MDP-Based Optimization Approaches for Pavement Management Systems
Chapter 16 : Corrosion and Safety of Structures in Marine Environments
Chapter 17 : Retrofitting and Refurbishment of Existing Road Bridges
Chapter 18 : Stochastic Control Approaches for Structural Maintenance
Chapter 19 : Modeling Inspection Uncertainties for On-Site Condition Assessment Using NDT Tools
Chapter 20 : The Meaning of Condition Description and Inspection Data Quality in Engineering Structure Management
Chapter 21 : Climate Adaptation Engineering and Risk-Based Design and Management of Infrastructure
Chapter 22 : Comparing Bridge Condition Evaluations with Life-Cycle Expenditures
Chapter 23 : Redundancy-Based Design of Non-Deterministic Systems
Index
