Risk-Based Strategies for Bridge Maintenance

ISBN-13: 9781032638232 / Angielski / Twarda / 2023 / 350 str.

Opis

Effective maintenance of bridge structures comprises a broad spectrum of plans for repairs and services implemented to enable bridges to perform their intended function. These include in-depth inspection, fatigue analysis, design of mitigation measures and construction to avert component deterioration. Several incidents of in-service and under construction bridge failures have recently taken place. These dramatic failures emphasize the importance of risk-based inspections and analysis of real-life data to evaluate reliability of bridges. To effectuate benefits of reliability analysis in bridge maintenance, work on theoretical reliability must be equipped with practical analytical tools. Such an approach must underscore risk elements and identify processes to manage risk and avoid unexpected outcomes of failures and service disruption of bridges.

The devastating earthquakes of February 6, 2023, in the southern region of Turkey near the northern border of Syria, which claimed tens of thousands of lives, caused enormous structural damage and staggering economic losses. These seismic events brought to focus on the vitality of instilling infrastructure routes that must accommodate emergency management plans to integrate the influx of medical and rescue response teams. The safe operation of bridges along these routes is indispensable for mobilization and deployment of rescue teams, medical personnel, humanitarian assistance, and the supply of food and water. The reliability of access routes and bridges is defined by their ability to adequately function as planned to effectuate emergency management plans, in the event of a similar seismic event, anywhere in the world.

Risk-Based Strategies for Bridge Maintenance contains selected papers presented at the 11^th New York City Bridge Conference (New York City, USA, 21-22 August 2023), and discusses issues of reliability, risk assessment, management, maintenance, inspection, monitoring, design, preservation, and rehabilitation of bridges. The book is aimed at bridge engineers.

This book discusses issues of reliability, risk assessment, management, maintenance, inspection, monitoring, design, preservation, and rehabilitation of bridges, and is aimed at bridge engineers, operators, designers, researchers, and contractors.

Spis treści

Cable-supported bridges

Seismic analysis & retrofit of bridges

Bridge design & aerodynamics

Bridge monitoring & testing

Testing & assessment of bridge concrete deck

Maintenance of post-tensioned and prestressed concrete bridge

Bridge inspection, maintenance & rehabilitation

O autorze

Khaled Mahmoud is President of Bridge Technology Consulting in New York, USA. He holds a PhD in Engineering Mechanics from The City University of New York, USA. He has edited several volumes at CRC Press / Taylor & Francis and is editor-in-chief of the journal Bridge Structures.