Bridge Maintenance, Safety, Management and Life Extension

Airong Chen, Dan Frangopol, Xin Ruan

• Publisher: CRC Press
• Year: 2014
• Print ISBN: 9781138001039
• eBook ISBN: 9781317642930
• Topic: Technology & Engineering
• Subtopic: Civil Engineering
• Index: Technology & Engineering

Bridge Maintenance, Safety, Management and Life Extension contains the lectures and papers presented at IABMAS 2014, the Seventh International Conference on Bridge Maintenance, Safety and Management (IABMAS 2014), held in Shanghai, China, July 7-11, 2014. This set consists of a book of abstracts and a DVD containing the full papers of 396 contributions presented at IABMAS 2014, including the T.Y. Lin Lecture, nine Keynote Lectures, and 386 technical papers from about 40 countries.

All major aspects of bridge maintenance, safety, management and life extension are addressed including advanced materials, aging of bridges, assessment and evaluation, bridge codes, bridge diagnostics, bridge management systems, damage identification, design for durability, deterioration modeling, earthquake and accidental loadings, fatigue, field testing, health monitoring, load models, life-cycle assessment, maintenance strategies, non-destructive testing, prediction of future traffic demands, repair and replacement, residual service life, safety and serviceability, service life prediction, and sustainable bridges, among others.

This set provides an up-to-date overview of the field of bridge engineering, as well as the recent significant contributions to the process of making rational decisions in bridge maintenance, safety, management, sustainability, monitoring, long life strategy and resources optimization deployment for the purpose of enhancing the welfare of society. It will serve as a valuable reference to all concerned with bridge structure and infrastructure systems, including students, researchers, engineers, consultants and contractors from all areas of bridge engineering.

Table of contents

• Cover
• Half Title
• Title Page
• Copyright Page
• Table of Contents
• Preface
• Conference organization
• Acknowledgements
• T.Y. Lin Lecture
• Conceptual design of bridges
• Keynote Lectures
• Bridge “Examineering” or How Monitoring and Uhpfrc Improve The Performance of Structures
• Assessment of existing structures in France: Standard and advanced practices
• Life-cycle performance monitoring and evaluation of long-span bridges
• Four decades of inspecting a suspension bridge cable
• Performance Enhancement of Bridges and Other Structures Through The Use of Fibre-Reinforced Polymer (Frp) Composites: Some Recent Hong Kong Research
• Life cycle management of steel-concrete composite bridges
• The future of ageing metallic bridges
• Durability of steel orthotropic bridge decks
• The outstanding legacy of Edgar Cardoso: An audacious and visionary Portuguese bridge engineer
• Mini-Symposia
• Simplified method of bridge durability determination
• 3-D visualization for better bridge asset management
• A structure’s fatigue evaluation through fluctuating stress measurement during service and effective plan of maintenance
• Real-time fatigue life evaluation of steel suspension bridge
• Basic principles of global bridge monitoring, testing and analyzing system
• Practical application of a health monitoring system for short- and medium-span bridges based on public bus vibration
• Data management and damage criteria for a health monitoring system based on public bus vibration
• Proposal for prediction of fatigue crack propagation in steel bridges using K-gages
• Evaluation methods of thermal movements in cable-supported bridges based on monitoring data
• Development of a health monitoring system for short- and medium-span bridges based on public bus vibration
• Life-cycle assessment of bridge performance in an aggressive environment
• Safety assessment and life-circle management of large-span steel suspension bridges in its design lifetime
• A method for life circle fatigue assessment of suspension bridge hangers based on in-situ traffic investigation
• Life-Cycle Reliability of Rc Jetties In a Marine Environment Using Markov Model and Sequential Monte Carlo Simulation
• Time-Dependent Reliability Analysis of Cfst Arches For In-Plane Stability Considering Concrete Creep
• Life-Cycle Vehicle Carrying Safety Assessment For Highway Rc Grillage Narrow Bridge Considering Carbonation and Corrosion
• Experimental study on the bond strength of corroded reinforced concrete
• Seismic performance of reinforced corroded concrete bridge piers
• Numerical simulation of corroded reinforced concrete bridge piers under cyclic loading
• Analysis of the performance of the concrete specimens subjected to cyclic loading and aggressive environment
• Time-variant risk of aging bridges under seismic mainshock followed by aftershocks
• Sustainability-based pre-earthquake probabilistic retrofit optimization of highway bridges considering risk attitudes
• Risk assessment of bridges with partially or fully closed lanes
• Stochastic deterioration modelling and residual performance assessment of concrete bridges affected by corrosion
• Bridge loading – Measurement and modelling
• Simplified probabilistic model for maximum traffic load from weigh-in-motion data
• Field-Calibrated Influence Line For The Application of Bwim Technology On Wide Bridge
• Experimental study on load capacity variation with pier scour depth
• Continuous prestressed concrete bridge: Loss of full continuity
• Evaluation and modeling of wrought iron bridge in Bahia
• Are current bridge load modelling techniques realistic for existing road bridges?
• Dynamic simulation analysis for vehicle-bridge interaction on a simply supported multi-T-girder bridge
• Finite element analysis of ultimate load-carrying capacity for double-deck and three main trusses steel bridge with rigid cable
• From innovative investigations in a prestressed concrete bridge to repair project
• Characteristics of pedestrian crowd flow demand for vibration serviceability of footbridges
• Vehicle Load Statistical Distribution Characteristics For Highway Bridges Based On Wim System
• Adjusting Aashto Lrfd Design Live Load Using Recent Weigh-In-Motion Data
• Static-dynamic load testing of the Nanpanjiang suspension bridge
• Statistical Traffic Load Model Based On Wim Measurements For Bridge Fatigue Assessment
• Visual evaluation and remaining service life assessment of a reinforced concrete arch bridge: Çayirhan bridge
• Traffic Loading Model For Long Span Multi-Pylon Suspension Bridge: Using Wim Data and Performance Design Concepts
• Bridge performance assessment and prediction using monitoring
• Detecting the limits of accuracy of lifetime predictions by structural monitoring
• Reliability Prediction of Bridge Structures Based On Bayesian Dynamic Nonlinear Models and Mcmc Simulation
• Risk assessment of bridge schemes comparison in ecological landscape zone at the preliminary design stage
• Early damage warning of railway bridge in time-domain based on statistical learning theory
• Modal parameters identification of combined cable-stayed suspension bridge in time-frequency domain
• On the evaluation of a ductility criterion for shear failure based on the crack widening velocity
• A wireless sensor node for vibration measurement of large civil infrastructure
• Load Bearing Capacity Assessment of Existing Concrete Bridges Supported By Results From Ndt
• Enhancement of the Chong Qi bridge project girder sections to reduce vortex shedding induced oscillations by applying passive tuned mass damper systems
• Structural health monitoring of a steel girder bridge rehabilitated with full depth full width precast deck panels over the red river near the town of Morris, Manitoba
• Smartphones and mass market microcontrollers for bridge monitoring applications
• Future Maximum Load Effect Based On Wim Data and Its Application
• Vibration based structural model updating and damage identification of bridges
• Investigations on the correlation-based determination of damping in engineering structures
• Resistant-wear road expansion joints
• Design and management of highway and railway Brazilian bridges
• Assessment of the structural conditions of the bridge “Fazenda Modelo”
• Estimating concrete strength using field testing data
• Structural health monitoring and numerical analysis of a steel railway bridge on the river Santa Maria
• A bridge management system for Brazil
• Bridges maintenance - the Brazilian experience
• Research and applications in bridge health monitoring
• Quantifying deterioration or damage levels with novel bridge monitoring concepts
• Fatigue crack growth monitoring of welded tubular structures using piezoelectric film acoustic emission sensor
• Continous monitoring of bearing forces and displacements in the High Coast Bridge
• Analysis of safety assessment based bridge management system in Korea
• Vibration-based damage detection and damage-induced stress redistribution of a real steel truss bridge
• Data summarization for heterogeneous infrastructure using spike-based monitoring technique
• Bridge field testing by using wireless and laser Doppler sensing technologies - Case studies
• Application of contemporary programming techniques in health monitoring software of suspension spanning structure
• Joint Distribution of Wind Speed and Direction of Sutong Bridge Based On Shms
• A wavelet based drive-by bridge inspection system
• Quantitative non-destructive evaluation of damages in a steel plate bonding method
• Wavelet Domain Analysis For Identification of Vehicle Axles In The Application of Bwim Technology
• Mode shape-informed tension force estimation of stay cables
• Damage Quantification and Localization Algorithms For Indirect Shm of Bridges
• On the impact of prior perception on bridge health diagnosis
• Application of a novel time series based method for damage detection, localization and quantification using output only acceleration data
• Visual Inspection Strategies For Large Bridges Using Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (Uav)
• Non-target displacement measurement of structures using vision based approaches
• Operational performance monitoring of the critical mechanical components of a movable bridge
• Experimental study on the extant pre-stressed force to a 20-year old concrete simply-supported beam
• Application of the Acoustic Emission Method of identification and location of destructive processes to the monitoring concrete bridges
• Monitoring of traffic induced vibrations on concrete bridges: a case study
• Wind vibration characteristic of Bogazici suspension bridge using structural health monitoring data
• Vulnerability modeling and risk assessment of bridges subjected to multiple threats
• Multi-hazard reliability analysis of bridges based upon damage indices
• Influence of live loads on component and system level highway bridge seismic fragility
• Tsunami Risk Assessment of Bridges Based On An Ahp-Fuzzy Algorithm
• Risk-based combination of earthquake and scour hazards for the design of reinforced concrete bridges
• A framework for risk-based optimum cable replacement strategies for cable-stayed bridges
• Terrorism risks for bridges in a multi-hazard environment
• The Seismic, Blast and Fire Resilience of Concrete-Filled Frp Tube (Cfft) Bridge Columns
• The influence of the different bridge pier reinforcement arrangements on the performance under vehicle impact
• Strategies for safety assurance of bridges exposed to multiple climate-related threats
• Displacement-Based Fragility Analysis of Typical Multi-Span Rc Bridges
• Fatigue cracks in orthotropic plates - a case study
• Hazard analysis of cable-stayed bridges with cable-sliding friction aseismic bearing
• Seismic fragility analysis of multi-span deep water bridges
• Management and strengthening of bridges – An Australian perspective
• A Study of The Bond of Frp-Concrete Using Shear-Lap Tests In Australia
• From independent span viaduct to statically indeterminate bridge thanks to longitudinal external prestressing tendons
• Deterioration modeling using condition inspection data and engineering judgment
• Deterioration forecasting of concrete bridge elements in Victoria, Australia using a Markov Chain
• The Strengthening of The Westgate Bridge Using Frp Composites and Innovate Anchorage Systems
• Rehabilitation of Alkali-Aggregate Reaction Damaged Bridge Columns Using Cfrp Composites
• Strengthening of Fire-Damaged Bridge Columns Using Cfrp Fabrics
• Preliminary Study On Modular Assembly of Gfrp Sandwiches For Potential Bridge Superstructures
• Innovative Frp Space Frame Structure For Pedestrian Bridge Application
• Experimental study on repair of steel plate with different damage degrees subject to fatigue loading
• Fatigue Design of Cfrp Strengthened Welded Steel Connections
• Research on strengthening effect of the prestressing technology on the deteriorating trussed combination arch bridge
• West Gate Bridge – fatigue cracking treatment works
• Assessment and strengthening of urban toll-way viaducts at Southern Link, Melbourne: Part 1 Assessment
• Assessment and strengthening of urban toll-way viaducts at Southern Link, Melbourne: Part 2 Strengthening
• Dangerous bridge details
• Experiment study on pier-girder joint in long-span high-pier continuous rigid-frame bridge
• Riveted steel elements deformed by the swelling of interstitial rust. a study on a residual bearing capacity
• Structural safety of segmental concrete bridges during construction
• Life-time perspective for design and maintenance of short, medium, and long-span bridges
• Early age cracking in high performance concrete decks of a curved steel girder bridge
• Application of live load model for design of long span cable bridges
• Investigation of deflection and vibration criteria for bridges
• Vision-based monitoring system for estimating cable tensile forces of cable-stayed bridge
• Effect of support rotational stiffness on tension estimation of short hanger ropes
• Application of vibration control devices for bridge design and maintenance
• Application of elasto-magnetic based stress sensors for measurements of cable tension force in cable-stayed bridge
• Understanding of engineering significance of heritage bridges
• Reliability-based safety assessment of bridges
• Long span suspension bridges – bridge information modeling
• Reliability analysis of wind load for long-span bridges
• Evaluation of existing railway bridges using structural health monitoring and finite element modeling
• Employment of probabilistic concept in development of design manual for long-span cable-supported bridge
• Modeling of train-bridge dynamic interaction system for bridges with stepped-beam cross-sections
• Fusion of Multisensor Data for Bridge Deflection Estimation
• Mainline – Maintenance and Management of Railway Bridges
• Influence of Advanced Assessment Methods On The Lca of Elderly Bridges
• Challenges Within Life Cycle Cost (Lcc) Studies and Life Cycle Assessment (Lca)
• Mainline - Maintenance, Renewal and Improvement of Rail Transport Infrastructure to Reduce Economic and Environmental Impacts
• Life-cycle assessment tool for railway infrastructure
• Lifetime analysis of infrastructures
• Test to failure of a steel truss bridge – Calibration of assessment methods
• Extending the life of elderly rail bridges by strengthening
• Performance profiles of ageing steel railway bridges affected by atmospheric corrosion
• Life cycle management of infrastructures
• Developing a life-cycle based management system for bridge disaster prevention
• Smart carbon fiber reinforced concrete for structural health monitoring
• Seismic assessment, maintenance and management of Taiwan highway bridges
• Modeling on water and chloride transport in cracked unsaturated concrete
• Steel jacket repairing of reinforced concrete bridge columns under near-fault ground motion
• Reliability-Based Structural Performance Evaluation of Deteriorated Rc Bridges
• Involving the social costs in the Markov-based bridge maintenance optimization in Hong Kong
• Probability-Based Damage Evaluation For Rc Bridges Considering The Corrosive and Seismic Hazards In Taiwan
• Time-Dependent Reliability Analysis of Corroded Existing Rc Bridges
• Probabilistic shear strength models for reinforced concrete deep beams
• Performance-based detection, evaluation and strengthening of existing bridges
• Fatigue safety examination of riveted railway bridges using monitored data
• Technical research on the seamlessness and continuity transformation of existing multi-span simply-supported hollow slab bridge
• Criteria and indices systems for comprehensive evaluation on bridge substructure
• Effect of diaphragm on integrity of precast T-shape girder bridge based on inner force analysis
• Life-cycle bearing performance analysis of prestressed concrete continuous rigid frame bridge considering corrosion of steel strand
• Durability Evaluation For Service Rc Bridges Based On Ahp Method
• Fatigue crack detection and evaluation in a welded steel girder highway bridge
• Fatigue performance-based detection and monitoring of orthotropic steel decks
• Fatigue performance-based safety evaluation and maintenance of orthotopic steel bridge decks
• Member performance and distortion-induced fatigue damage at common bridge details
• Performance-based fatigue evaluation of concrete girder bridges
• Performance-based retrofitting methods for distortion-induced fatigue in steel girder bridges
• Performance-based safety evaluation of concrete beam bridge
• Research on performance-based reinforcement methods for orthotropic steel decks
• Development and challenge of bridge monitoring and maintenance in China
• Fatigue Damage Monitoring and Residual Life Evaluation For The Orthotropic Steel Deck of Hzmb Jianghai Navigation Bridge
• The function of bridge health monitoring system and the application examples in bridge operation
• Study on structural health monitoring system of Nanjing 4th Yangtze River Bridge
• Dynamic responses analysis of long-span suspension bridge with the action of both running vehicle and cross wind
• Research on dynamic behavior of cracked simply supported girder bridge under moving vehicular loads
• The precision research report of key detection index data of dynamic weighing system on Qingzhou Bridge
• The Spectrum Analysis of Gps Dynamic Deformation Monitoring On Qingzhou Bridge
• The present situation and experience of maintenance management of the long and huge bridge
• Null live load point identification method of live load for continuous rigid frame bridges based on monitoring data
• Safety Margins In Bridge’S Fatigue Design and a Structural Fatigue-Damage Evaluation Diagram (Sfed)
• Special Sessions
• Orthotropic steel deck design to extend the lifetime of plate and box girder bridge and viaducts
• Railroad bascule bridge load rating
• Fatigue damage test and analysis of U-ribs butt weld of steel orthotropic deck
• Evaluation for cable bands on suspension bridges at the stage of maintenance
• Durability of a new type of pot bearing for short span railway bridge
• Fatigue stress analysis of the U rib to deck weld connections in orthotropic steel deck
• Numerical simulation on fatigue crack growth of orthotropic steel highway bridge deck
• Fatigue strength improvement of out-of-plane gusset joints under plate bending by ultrasonic peening
• Large scale structure improvement for the purpose of the fatigue damages risk reduction
• The Finnish steel bridge program
• Clayhithe bridge strengthening
• Development of monitoring system for bridge collapse detection by energy harvest with solar cell
• Fatigue cracking in riveted cross-frame connection angles
• Maintenance and reinforcement technique of Tianjin Jiefang Bridge
• A lightweight composite bridge deck system
• Extending fatigue life for steel bridge by girder link method and its verification
• A study about the impact tests of a low noise railway bridge with the rubber-latex mortar coating
• Forensic engineering for bridges: State of the art and future trends
• Forensic information modeling in bridge renovation: Sherman Minton Bridge
• Bridge failure modes due to local scour
• Safety of bridges and breakwaters by the latest draft of Japanese load and resistance factor design for roadway bridges
• Extreme load performance and design of bridges for accelerated bridge construction
• Numerical simulation and analysis of composite steel-concrete bridges
• Seismic performance of two-column bridge piers with innovative precast members and pipe pin connections
• Blast Resilience of Concrete-Filled Frp Tube (Cfft) Bridge Columns
• Construction control simulation for cable-stayed bridges based on geometrically nonlinear analysis
• Bridge maintenance strategies towards enhanced serviceability
• A proposal for weighted optimization method on bridge health integrity through corroded steel bridge infrastructure
• Experimental Research On Mechanical Performance of Hooping Strengthening Rc Arch Rib
• Los Angeles International Airport (Lax) Second Level Roadway Rehabilitation
• Maintainability of the expansion joints: case study of the joint failure on the Tydings Bridge
• Seismic retrofitting provided enhanced serviceability with minimum maintenance
• Fast assessment method of arch-girder composite bridges
• Accelerated Bridge Construction (Abc) – a Paradigm Shift In Bridge Engineering
• Rational Support Platform For Analyzing Bridge Replacement Options-Miabcd
• Innovative Designs For Rapid Replacement of Bridges In The Usa
• Prefabricated bridge element connections - comprehensive review and design
• Incremental launching scheme and mechanical safety demonstration of a three-span basket handle arch
• Accelerated bridge construction using precast segmental bridge piers
• Bridges for high-speed railways
• Evaluating the degradation of ballasted track at bridges for high-speed railways
• Efficient methodology for the safety assessment of a short span railway bridge under high-speed traffic
• Equivalent linear analysis of high-speed railway seismic-isolated bridge subjected to forward rupture directivity type near-fault ground motions
• Dynamic interaction between high-speed trains and curved railway bridges
• Rating techniques research on operation performance of bridge with common span in China high speed railway
• Simulation Analysis of The Vehicle-Bridge Interaction For a Railway Simply Supported Beam Bridge Based On Simpack
• Effects of resonance and vibration cancellation for simple beams under high-speed train load
• Pseudo-Dynamic Test On Round-Ended High-Speed Railway Bridge Pier Reinforced With Hrbf500 Bars
• Dynamic and static load testing of high-speed rail bridges
• A modified Gauss precise method and its application to dynamic interaction of train-bridge system
• Dynamic analysis of a long span cable-stayed bridge combined with train and turbulent wind
• Outstanding composite (steel and concrete) high speed railway bridges in Spain. Design aspects focused on sustainability
• On the fatigue behavior of precast concrete bridge decks in high-speed railway lines
• Structural redundancy, robustness and resilience of bridges
• Condition rating of concrete bridges based on structural robustness
• Robustness issues and hybridization of a Tuned Mass Damper system on a suspension bridge model under variable wind buffeting
• Robustness of passive and semi-active control schemes on a cable stayed bridge under extreme loading conditions
• Lifetime resilience of aging concrete bridges under corrosion
• Lifetime Robustness of a Rc Bridge Pier Under Corrosion Considering Bridge Importance
• System reliability-based bridge design using redundancy factors
• Risk and bridge management
• Natural hazards and impacts on Florida bridges and sign structures
• Use of advanced bridge management system analytical tools in Prince Edward Island Department of Transportation and Infrastructure Renewal
• Incorporating fatigue risk in a bridge management system
• Management of overweight traffic risk on road bridges
• Management of railway culverts in Finland
• Optimal intervention strategies for multiple object types affects by both manifest and latent processes using a Markov model
• Assessment and management of risks at bridge and network levels
• Research Update of a Typical Bridge Management System Applied to a Uk Local Authority
• Nondestructive condition assessment of highway bridges for safety enhancement
• Exploring the economic consequences of the risk induced by earthquakes
• Cable vibration mitigation, inspection and monitoring
• Analyses and study of local inflexibility of pipes containing straight non-penetrative cracks under bending moment
• Prediction of Inclined Cable Galloping Using a 2Dof Aeroelastic Model
• Recommendations for the shear assessment of reinforced concrete solid slab bridges
• Bridge life cycle design - Approach and practice application
• A rational method for determining design life of bridge components
• Method of deterioration analysis of bridge components under dominant environmental attack considering the influence of secondary environmental attacks
• Analysis on safety risks during operation of Chinese highway bridges
• Performance analysis for vessel collision on pile foundation with cap under soil surface
• Research on mix proportion design and properties of internal curing concrete in bridges
• Design concept and approach on sustainable development of bridge engineering
• Mechanical Properties and Influence Factors of Reactive Powder Concrete (Rpc)
• Hse Assessment In Operation Period and Hse Facility Design of a Bridge
• Research on initial gap of transverse restrainer device for simply-supported bridge under earthquake
• Latest achievements in integral abutment bridges
• Italian National Road Authority Iabs Strategy
• Optimization of Calatrava Bridge in Venice
• Equivalent linearization of bridges with bilinear isolation systems
• General Session
• Preventive maintenance for an old steel railway bridge in Japan: Experimental and numerical study
• Longitudinal web stiffening in steel girders: Fracture propagation and life cycle design
• Steel bridges: Codes, design specifications and construction issues
• Steel bridge coatings and corrosion protection
• Effects of soil-structure interaction on the seismic response of integral bridges
• Risk assessment of steel bridge piers under unthinkable seismic loading
• Research on refined calculation method considering all the space effects of box-girder bridges
• Latest applications of structural health monitoring - case studies from cable supported bridges in China, Canada and India
• Application of seismic isolation using friction pendulum isolators to a new iconic landmark in the city of Athens, Greece
• Study on improvement of hinged joint in assembly voided slab bridge
• Concrete bridge corrosion protection with embedded galvanic anodes
• Emergency weld repairs to M4 Boston Manor Viaduct, London, UK
• Post-tensioned tendon corrosion evaluation and mitigation
• Rehabilitation of the viaduct over Stan’s Valley in România
• Maintenance system for a shuttle-shape bridge tower
• Inspection times for concrete bridges under corrosion in Mexico including their economic impact
• A degradation and maintenance model: Application to Portuguese context
• Non-linear stability analysis of critical gusset plate connections in steel bridges
• A novel formulation for finite element model-based damage detection
• New bridge “in pérgola” for the new railway of high speed trains to the northwest of Spain
• Analysis of trough-deck fatigue in orthotropic steel bridge decks
• Seismic behavior of Fatih Sultan Mehmet Suspension Bridge under spatially variation ground motion
• Estimating bridge consumption costs for oversize-overweight permitted trucks
• Seismic evaluation of the aged high-pier and long-span bridges subjected to extremely halobiotic condition
• Influence of membrane action on robustness indicators and a global resistance factor design
• Development of a new pliable material protecting concrete surface
• Analysis and strengthening of superstructure diseases of concrete bridges in China
• Analysis and strengthening of substructure diseases of concrete bridges in China
• Safety Protective Effect of a Novel Frp Floating Pontoon For Piers Against Ship-Collision
• Optimal inspection planning using polynomial chaos crack propagation models
• Bridge Management System Implementation For Italian Highways: From Pontis® Towards Sios (Sistema Ispettivo Opere Sineco) and New Generation Systems
• Bridge performance measures: a fresh perspective
• A sustainable pedestrian bridge made of textile-reinforced concrete
• Numerical Analysis of Soil-Steel Bridge With Rc Slab
• Experimental study on the corrosion protection for steel materials embedded in salt contained concrete
• Implementing the next generation of bridge inspection and management systems
• Dynamic analysis of cable loss of a rigid-frame tied through concrete-filled steel tubular arch bridge
• Calibration of Strength IV Limit State In The Aashto Lrfd Bridge Design Specifications
• Approach For Developing Calibrated Service Limit States For The Aashto Lrfd Bridge Design Specifications
• Study of horizontally curved bridge girders with tubular top flanges
• Selection of Deterioration Factors In Rc Slab Using Markov Deterioration Hazard Model
• Temperature effect analysis of viscoelastic damper and magnetorheological damper for vibration control of stayed-cable
• Ultra high performance fiber reinforced concrete for strengthening and protecting bridge deck slabs
• Investigation on applicability of high strength strand for posttensioned prestressed concrete members
• Vehicle carrying safety assessment for highway grillage narrow bridge considering lumped plasticity and engineering uncertainty
• Research On Intelligent Computing Web Platform of Bhm Based On Java Ee and Scientific Computing Library
• M25 Later Upgraded Section (Lus) - Bridge Assessments
• Pso Based Intelligent Model Updating and Parameters Identification of Cable-Damper System
• Comparative analysis on seismic-isolation design methods for ridge frame bridge
• The Gatteo integral highway overpass
• Study of computer aided design for cable-stayed bridges
• Fatigue vulnerability analysis of a historical railway steel bridge
• About of seismic capacity of bridge piers: a simplified approach
• Simplified Assessment of Seismic Retrofitting Interventions On Rc Circular Piers In Multi-Span Simply Supported Bridges
• Determination of optimally bundled intervention strategies for bridge elements: a joint replenishment model
• Bridge management in Portugal: The past, the present, and the future
• A numerical model including bridge vehicle interaction effects for probabilistic assessment of stress spectrum in highway bridges
• Through service life inspection of the expansion joints and bearings
• Interferometric radar application for dynamic testing of bridge structures
• Influence of relevant parameters on seismic vulnerability assessment of bridges
• Deflection monitoring system making use of inclinometers and cubic spline curves
• Partial Safety Factors In Strengthening of Bridge Piers With Cfrp
• Strengthening of the cable-stayed bridge over Danube at Agigea
• Technical study on long-term strategic maintenance and large-scale renewal by Hanshin Expressway
• On safety provisions against buckling of steel structures in Japanese specifications for roadway bridges
• A new composite structure with aluminum alloy bridge deck and steel girder
• Precautions Against Excessive Deflection of Long-Span Pc Rigid-Frame Bridges
• Modal damping and frequency of a simple cable-network-damper system
• Experimental research and analysis on prestress loss of the double tension prestressing steel strands anchorage system
• Load-bearing assessment of bridges by internet-based tools
• Dynamic analyses for fatigue assessment of existing steel bridges
• Formulation of a new cost model for reinforced concrete structures under several degradation processes
• Management optimization of multiple structures under capital rationing constraints
• Time-efficient paperless visual inspection of Zonguldak-Irmak railroad bridges
• Probabilistic load modelling for long span bridges
• A Preliminary Design Aid For Prestressed Concrete Bridge Girders Using Lrfd
• Uni and Bi-Directional Quasi-Static Cyclic Testing of Emulative Precast Segmental Bridge Piers (E-Psbp) In Moderate to High Seismic Regions
• Minimally invasive maintenance, refurbishment and replacement options for bridge expansion joints
• Life-cycle and total cost analysis of bridge expansion joints
• Remaining strength test of riveted joint of a bridge used for about 100 years
• Time-inhomogenous Markov chains in the bridge management
• Probabilistic Framework For Seismic Assessment of Common Existing Rc Bridge Typologies
• Behaviour of integral bridges under vertical and horizontal earthquake ground motion
• Modelling of Fatigue Behaviour of Bridge Deck Slab Elements Strengthened With Reinforced Uhpfrc
• Operational modal analysis of a truss bridge under different excitation cases
• Development of partially earth anchored system for multiple span cable stayed bridge
• Current situation of research and application of silicone water repellent for protecting reinforced concrete
• Parametric study of highway bridges with irregular substructures and superstructures
• Dynamic loading of bridges due to people running
• Cost-analysis-based decision-making methods and processes for bridges
• Effect of cross-tie solution on the modal frequency and modal damping of cable networks
• Study of local dynamic impact factor on prestressed concrete box-girder bridges
• Stochastic durability assessment of concrete pylon for long-span cable stayed bridge
• Simplified evaluation approach for corrosion of reinforced concrete structures based on numerical simulation
• Study on the bucket group effect of composite multi-bucket structure in sand
• A method to increase the redundancy of the structure with topology optimization
• Fire-resistance analysis of a three-pylon cable-stayed bridge exposed to tank fire
• Quantitative analysis of variability in modal frequencies of a kilometer-scale cable-stayed bridge during operating phase
• Structural evaluation and sustainability assessment of Sivas Kesikkopru Bridge against flood and earthquakes
• Hidden Damage Quantification For Main Cables of Suspension Bridges Incorporating Dc Magnetization With a Search Coil-Based Total Flux Measurement
• On-site application of innovative bridge inspection methods using image processing and infrared technology
• The system of Internet of Things to monitor bridge health based on private cloud computing architecture
• Auto Monitoring of Cable-Stayed Tension On Bridge By a Novel Rs485 Acceleration Sensor
• Maintenance and management of Zhoushan Trans-sea Bridge
• Advanced material systems for the maintenance and sustainability of rigid and flexible pavements
• The reconstruction of the Manhattan Bridge in New York City
• Management of the M4 Elevated Section substructures
• Management of the Severn Bridge Suspension Bridge
• Fatigue management of the Midland Links steel box girder decks
• Risk mitigation of transport structures susceptible to premature degradation in aggressive environments
• Structural health monitoring of signature bridge in Delhi – the bridge-structural-health-monitoring-system for the Wazirabad Bridge project
• Shrinkage and durability of concrete bridge decks using different cements
• Comparison between concrete bridge design specifications
• Damage detection using the position of neutral axis
• High-resolution sensing sheet for damage detection based on large area electronics
• System reliability assessment method for traveler on bridge construction stage
• Seismic Performance and Maintenance Management Strategy of Rc Bridge Piers In Consideration of Unexpected Events
• Twin river bridges – Dongshuimen Bridge and Qiansimen Bridge
• Maintenance intervention optimisation for existing railway bridges
• Analysis of the degree of deterioration in reinforced concrete bridge girders damaged by chloride induced deterioration, and application of various non-destructive inspections
• Investigation, major repair, monitoring, and subsequent risk mitigation of the Diefenbaker bridge fracture
• Maintenance and management system for Harbin Songhua River cable-stayed bridge
• Mesoscopic simulation of steel corrosion process in concrete and its damage to concrete cover
• Inspection and expert evaluation based comprehensive model for condition assessment of existing concrete bridges
• Optimizational design of coastal landscape bridge considering wave load effects
• Seismic response of bridges including soil-structure interaction
• Monitoring and inspection of steel cable-stayed bridges
• The risk assessment and management of a long span cable stayed bridge under construction stage
• Durability design method and application for concrete bridge based on carbonation numerical simulation
• Simplified analysis method for rockfall impact load
• Study of the temperature statistical properties of Sutong Bridge
• Cost-effective connection details for enhanced life cycle performance of steel orthotropic bridge decks
• Champlain bridge in Montreal – life-cycle assessment and demolition scenarios
• Evaluation of traffic load on bridges based on extreme load effect analysis
• Preliminary Study On Anchor Properties of Pre-Stressed Cfrp Plate At High Temperature
• Classification of inventory data suit for managing Australian railway bridges
• Vehicle characteristics and load effects of four-lane highway