Advances in Bridge Maintenance, Safety, Management, and Life Cycle Performance Book + CD addresses all major aspects of bridge maintenance, safety, and management and delineates the state-of-the art in bridge maintenance and safety.

Features:

• Offers advice for decision making in bridge maintenance, safety, management and cost for the purpose of enhancing the welfare of society
• Includes deterioration modelling, emerging technologies, field testing, financial planning, health monitoring, high performance materials, and innovations
• Details load capacity assessment, maintenance strategies, new technology and materials, non-destructive testing, future traffic demands, reliability and risk, sustainable materials, whole life costing, and more

Contents

1. Bridge management systems
2. Design, operation and maintenance of high speed railway bridges
3. Application of structural system identification methods
4. Long-term signal analysis for the existing bridge health monitoring systems
5. Damage assessment – strength and durability
6. Assessment, monitoring and control of bridge vibrations
7. Seismic and dynamic analysis
8. Assessment of bridge repair and strengthening
9. Handling uncertainty in analysis design
10. Probabilistic characterization and analysis of the properties of materials used in bridges
11. Politics and perception in life-cycle decisions
12. Safety of medium and long span bridge superstructures during the erection phases
13. Status and findings of current BHM applications in the world
14. Inspection and prediction of structural performance
15. Bridge inspection and monitoring
16. Fatigue analysis
17. Bridge owners benefits from probability-based assessment and maintenance management
18. Reliability and risk management
19. Seismic design and retroffiting strategies for bridges
20. Bridge testing and assessment
21. Research needs for BHM systems of the future and benchmark studies
22. Integration of bridge management and bridge monitoring
23. Innovative developments towards improving bridge seismic safety
24. Soft computing in bridge engineering
25. Loads and testing
26. Smart bridge technology
27. Intelligent use of cathodic protection on bridges
28. Bridge evaluation using field testing
29. Business intelligence and asset management
30. Load and resistance assessment of railway bridges
31. Design and analysis
32. Measurement and monitoring
33. Bridge condition assessment using combined non-destructive testing methods
34. Durability performance of bridges in severe environments
35. Civil structural health monitoring
36. Repair and strengthening

Index

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