A comprehensive, up-to-the-minute account of bridge management developments for researchers, designers, builders, administrators, and owners.

Bridge Management draws on Bojidar Yanev's thirty years of research, teaching, and consulting as well as his management of 800 of New York City's 2,200 bridges. It offers an insider's view of the problems to be resolved in bridge management by civil and transportation engineers, budget and asset managers, abstract analysts, and hands-on field workers.

Bridge Management uniquely integrates the priorities, constraints, objectives, and tastes governing the domains of structural mechanics, economics, public administration, and field operations at both the project and network levels.

Features:

• A review of current bridge management vulnerabilities, objectives, tools, and products
• Dozens of case studies illustrating the application of analytic models, and practical developments currently shaping the field
• Unique chapters exploring the evolution of bridge design, construction, and maintenance, from the origins of deliberate planning to the current integrated lifecycle asset management models

Contents

1. Engineering and Management: The Dynamic Equilibrium

Part I: Demand: From Structure to System

2. Objectives, Constraints, Needs, and Priorities
3. Failures
4. Vulnerabilities in Product and Process
5. Probability of Failure

Part II: Assessments: Bridge Management Support Systems

6. System and Structure
7. Data Management
8. Inventory
9. Assessments: Conditions, Needs, and Resources
10. Structural Conditions
11. Needs
12. Decision Making

Part III: Execution: From System to Structures

1. Tasks and Operations
2. Structural Inspection and Evaluation
3. New Technologies and BMS
4. Conclusion

Appendices

1. "The Deacon’s Masterpiece or the Wonderful One-Hoss Shay" by Oliver Wendell Holmes
2. Bayesian Statistical Decision Theory and Reliability-Based Design
3. "The Machine That Won the War" by I. Asimov
4. Conditional Probability
5. Uncertainty
6. Quantitative Management Techniques
7. Structural Reliability
8. Optimization
9. Probability
10. Upper and Lower Bound Theorems of Plastic Frame Analysis
11. Highlights of History of U.S. National Bridge Inventory (NBI)
12. First Costs A
13. Network and Project Bridge Management
14. U.S. National Bridge Inventory (NBI) and Proposed NBI Specifications
15. Analytical Tools for Asset Management
16. Bridge Management System (BMS)
17. Bridge Reliability Accounting for Redundancy
18. Data Integration
19. Privatization
20. State Highway Letting Program Management
21. Warranty, Multiparameter, and Best-Value Contracting
22. Emergency Management
23. Linkages between Transportation Investments and Economic Performance
24. System Development
25. Loading Combinations and Limit States
26. Structural Stability
27. Effective Slab Width for Composite Action
28. Live-Load Distribution Factors
29. Superstructure Deflections
30. AASHTO Design Live Loads
31. Impact Factors
32. Seismic Design Criteria for Bridges and Other Highway Structures
33. Prioritization of Seismic Vulnerabilities
34. Bridge Life-Cycle Cost Analysis (BLCCA)
35. Hambly’s Paradox
36. Optimization Models
37. Numerical Optimization
38. Minimizing Life-Cycle Costs of Catastrophic Structural Failures
39. General Categories of Performance Indicators for Decision Making
40. Condition Rating Systems
41. Bridge Condition Ratings
42. Expert Systems (ESs) and Artificial Intelligence (AI)
43. Simulated Annealing (SA) and Genetic Algorithms (GAs)
44. Condition Deterioration Models
45. AASHTO Load Rating
46. Flags
47. Expert Systems for Bridge Management
48. Preventive Maintenance (PM)/Maintainability
49. User Cost Estimates
50. Glossary of Highway Quality Assurance Terms
51. Design Exception Practices
52. Maintenance Implementation
53. NBIS Qualifications of Personnel

Index

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