Bridge Safety, Maintenance and Management in a Life-Cycle Context

Life-cycle bridge analysis is a systematic tool to address efficient and effective bridge management under uncertainty, improving allocation of resources, ensuring safety and functionality, and improving resistance and robustness to extreme events. This book discusses bridge safety, maintenance, and management in a life-cycle context, including performance and cost analysis, prediction, optimization, and decision making under uncertainty. It covers bridge safety and service life prediction, inspection and structural health monitoring, maintenance, life-cycle bridge and bridge network management, optimum life-cycle bridge management planning, resilience and sustainability of bridges and bridge networks under hazards, and bridge management considering climate change.

Format: Paperback / softback
Length: 284 pages
Publication date: 27 May 2024
Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd

Life-cycle bridge analysis has emerged as a systematic tool to address efficient and effective bridge management under uncertainty in the past two decades. It involves managing bridges and bridge networks based on resilience and sustainability to improve their resistance and robustness to extreme events such as earthquakes, tsunamis, floods, and hurricanes. Bridge management should consider the impact of environmental conditions and climate change, and this book addresses important concepts and approaches developed recently on bridge safety, maintenance, and management in a life-cycle context.

Bridge life-cycle performance and cost analysis, prediction, optimization, and decision making under uncertainty are discussed. The major topics include bridge safety and service life prediction, bridge inspection and structural health monitoring, bridge maintenance, life-cycle bridge and bridge network management, optimum life-cycle bridge management planning, resilience and sustainability of bridges and bridge networks under hazards, and bridge management considering climate change.

By providing practical applications of the presented concepts and approaches, this book can help students, researchers, practitioners, infrastructure owners and managers, and transportation officials build up their knowledge of life-cycle bridge performance and cost management at both project level and network level under various deteriorating mechanisms, hazards, and climate change effects.

Weight: 514g
Dimension: 233 x 157 x 16 (mm)
ISBN-13: 9781032052847