Bridge Maintenance, Safety, Management, Resilience and Sustainability

Proceedings of the Sixth International IABMAS Conference, Stresa, Lake Maggiore, Italy, 8-12 July 2012

Fabio Biondini, Dan M. Frangopol

• Publisher: CRC Press
• Year: 2012
• Print ISBN:
  9780415621243
• eBook ISBN:
  9781136244438
• Topic: Technology & Engineering
• Subtopic: Civil Engineering
• Index: Technology & Engineering

Bridge Maintenance, Safety, Management, Resilience and Sustainability contains the lectures and papers presented at The Sixth International Conference on Bridge Maintenance, Safety and Management (IABMAS 2012), held in Stresa, Lake Maggiore, Italy, 8-12 July, 2012. This volume consists of a book of extended abstracts (800 pp) Extensive collection of revised expert papers on recent advances in bridge maintenance, safety, management and life-cycle performance, representing a major contribution to the knowledge base of all areas of the field.

Table of contents

• Cover
• Half Title
• Title Page
• Copyright Page
• Table of Contents
• Conference organization
• Preface
• Acknowledgments
• T.Y. Lin Lecture
• Keynote Lectures
• Mini-Symposia
• Smarten Itn – Smart Management For Sustainable Built Environment Including Bridges And Structural Systems
• Research and applications in bridge health monitoring
• Risk based bridge management
• Reliability analysis of bridge structures
• Smart Shm And Application To Bridge Condition Assessment And Maintenance
• Monitoring and assessment of bridges using novel techniques
• Life-cycle design and assessment of bridges exposed to corrosion and other hazards
• Brick and stone masonry bridge safety and durability
• Lifetime design, assessment, and maintenance of super long-span bridges
• Strengthening Of Existing Bridges With Frp Composites
• Steel bridge rehabilitation
• Special Sessions
• Team: A Marie Curie Training Network On Bridge Management
• Energy harvesting in bridges and transportation infrastructure networks
• Vulnerability of bridges to fire and explosion
• Advances on structural robustness and redundancy of bridges
• Light rail bridges in Chongqing, China
• Advances in nondestructive evaluation and monitoring of concrete bridge decks
• Bridges for high-speed railways
• Artificial intelligence methods in bridge analysis and design
• Sustainability assessment of bridges
• Numerical simulation of durability of concrete bridges
• Analysis, design and testing of road timber bridges
• Risk-based and disaster resilience analysis of bridge systems and networked infrastructures under multiple hazards
• Advanced technologies in standard bridge structures - from research to implementation
• Design and seismic analysis of long span bridges - Case studies
• Advances in modeling and analysis for the performance-based design of bridge structures subjected to multiple hazards
• Advances in engineering structure management in Finland
• Operation and maintenance of major landmark bridges
• Recent advances in bridge health monitoring
• Optical monitoring techniques for bridge maintenance and safety
• New developments on the bridge safety, maintenance and management in Mexico
• Non deterministic schemes for structural safety and reliability of bridges
• Structural control of bridges and footbridges: Extreme and every-day events
• Integral bridges: Design and technological issues
• Management and preservation of long span historic bridges
• Many bridges aren’t straight - Investigations of curved and skewed structures
• Lessons learnt from the Canterbury earthquakes: Assessment, testing and analysis of New Zealand bridges
• Corrosion detection in cables and concrete bridges by magnetic methods
• Hybrid composite bridge system
• Understanding and enhancing bridge performance
• Extending bridge life through industry academic partnerships
• Extreme events of long span bridges: Design, assessment and management
• General Sessions
• Author index