Maintenance and Safety of Aging Infrastructure - Structures and Infrastructures Book Series, Vol. 10 (Hardcover)

This book presents the latest scientific research and application practice findings in the engineering field of maintenance and safety of aging infrastructure . The selected invited contributions will provide an overview of the use of advanced computational and/or experimental techniques in damage and vulnerability assessment as well as maintenance and retrofitting of aging structures and infrastructures (buildings, bridges, lifelines, etc) for minimization of losses and life-cycle-cost. Cost-competent maintenance and management of civil infrastructure requires balanced consideration of both the structure performance and the total cost accrued over the entire life-cycle. Another major problem is that the structure performance is usually reduced during its functioning due to environmental and other factors. Thus, current structural condition state is usually assessed by visual inspection or more advanced automatic structural health monitoring techniques. Furthermore, maintenance managers often require a list of prioritized maintenance interventions for civil infrastructure on an annual and/or long-term basis. Various unavoidable uncertainties associated with both randomness (i.e., aleatory uncertainty) and imperfect knowledge (i.e., epistemic uncertainty) also play a crucial role in management and maintenance of engineering systems. Taking into account the aforementioned issues, this volume aims to present the recent developments of life-cycle maintenance and management planning for deteriorating civil infrastructure considering simultaneously multiple and often competing criteria in terms of condition, safety and life-cycle cost."

General

Imprint:	Crc Press
Country of origin:	United Kingdom
Series:	Structures and Infrastructures
Release date:	October 2014
First published:	2015
Editors:	Dan Frangopol • Yiannis Tsompanakis
Dimensions:	246 x 174 x 49mm (L x W x T)
Format:	Hardcover - Cloth over boards
Pages:	746
ISBN-13:	978-0-415-65942-0
Categories:	Books > Professional & Technical > Civil engineering, surveying & building > General
LSN:	0-415-65942-6
Barcode:	9780415659420

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