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Maintenance, Safety, Risk, Management and Life-Cycle Performance of Bridges - Proceedings of the Ninth International Conference on Bridge Maintenance, Safety and Management (IABMAS 2018), 9-13 July 2018, Melbourne, Australia (Hardcover)
Nigel Powers, Riadh Al-Mahaidi, Colin Caprani, Dan Frangopol
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Maintenance, Safety, Risk, Management and Life-Cycle Performance of
Bridges contains lectures and papers presented at the Ninth
International Conference on Bridge Maintenance, Safety and
Management (IABMAS 2018), held in Melbourne, Australia, 9-13 July
2018. This volume consists of a book of extended abstracts and a
USB card containing the full papers of 393 contributions presented
at IABMAS 2018, including the T.Y. Lin Lecture, 10 Keynote
Lectures, and 382 technical papers from 40 countries. The
contributions presented at IABMAS 2018 deal with the state of the
art as well as emerging concepts and innovative applications
related to the main aspects of bridge maintenance, safety, risk,
management and life-cycle performance. Major topics include: new
design methods, bridge codes, heavy vehicle and load models, bridge
management systems, prediction of future traffic models, service
life prediction, residual service life, sustainability and
life-cycle assessments, maintenance strategies, bridge diagnostics,
health monitoring, non-destructive testing, field testing, safety
and serviceability, assessment and evaluation, damage
identification, deterioration modelling, repair and retrofitting
strategies, bridge reliability, fatigue and corrosion, extreme
loads, advanced experimental simulations, and advanced computer
simulations, among others. This volume provides both an up-to-date
overview of the field of bridge engineering and significant
contributions to the process of more rational decision-making on
bridge maintenance, safety, risk, management and life-cycle
performance of bridges for the purpose of enhancing the welfare of
society. The Editors hope that these Proceedings will serve as a
valuable reference to all concerned with bridge structure and
infrastructure systems, including students, researchers and
engineers from all areas of bridge engineering.
There is considerable uncertainty about what level of traffic
loading bridges should be designed for. Codes specify notional load
models, generally to represent extreme levels of normal traffic,
but these are often crude and have inconsistent levels of safety
for different load effects. Over the past few decades, increasing
quantities of reliable truck weight data has become available and
it is now possible to calculate appropriate levels of bridge
traffic loading, both for specific bridges and for a road network.
Bridge Traffic Loading brings together experts from all over the
world to deliver not just the state-of-the-art of vertical loading,
but also to provide recommendations of best-practice for all the
major challenges in the field - short-span, single and multi-lane
bridge loading, dynamic allowance and long-span bridges. It reviews
issues that continue to be debated, such as which statistical
distribution is most appropriate, whether free-flowing or congested
traffic governs and dealing with future traffic growth. Specialist
consultants and bridge owners should find this invaluable, as will
regulators.
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