Bridge Design, Assessment and Monitoring

ISBN-13: 9780815382287 / Angielski / Twarda / 2018 / 124 str.

Airong Chen; Dan M. Frangopol; Xin Ruan

Opis

This book provides an up-to-date overview of the field of bridge engineering, and the recent significant contributions to the process of making rational decisions in bridge design, assessment and monitoring and resources optimization deployment for the purpose of enhancing the welfare of society. The chapters originally published as a special issue in Structure and Infrastructure Engineering.

Spis treści

Introduction: Bridge design, assessment and monitoring Airong Chen, Dan M. Frangopol and Xin Ruan 1. Conceptual design of bridges Man-Chung Tang 2. Standard and advanced practices in the assessment of existing bridges Christian Cremona and Benoit Poulin 3. Performance profiles of metallic bridges subject to coating degradation and atmospheric corrosion Alexandros N. Kallias, Boulent Imam and Marios K. Chryssanthopoulos 4. Simplified probabilistic model for maximum traffic load from weigh-in-motion data Miriam Soriano, Joan R. Casas and Michel Ghosn 5. Reliability-based durability design and service life assessment of reinforced concrete deck slab of jetty structures Mitsuyoshi Akiyama, Dan M. Frangopol and Koshin Takenaka 6. Mesoscopic simulation of steel rebar corrosion process in concrete and its damage to concrete cover Airong Chen, Zichao Pan and Rujin Ma 7. A site-specific traffic load model for long-span multi-pylon cable-stayed bridges Xin Ruan, Junyong Zhou, Xuefei Shi and Colin C. Caprani 8. Computer vision-based displacement and vibration monitoring without using physical target on structures Tung Khuc and F. Necati Catbas 9. Edgar Cardoso: a tribute to a brilliant bridge engineer Paulo J. S. Cruz

O autorze

Airong Chen is Professor in the Department of Bridge Engineering, at Tongji University, China.

Dan M. Frangopol is the inaugural holder of the Fazlur R. Khan Endowed Chair of Structural Engineering and Architecture at Lehigh University, USA. His research, teaching and service have garnered numerous awards from ASCE, IASSAR, IABSE, SAE and other professional organizations. Professor Frangopol is the Founding Editor of Structure and Infrastructure Engineering and the founder of the Computational Laboratory for Life-cycle Structural Engineering at Lehigh University.

Xin Ruan is in the Department of Bridge Engineering, at Tongji University, China.