Given the great impacts associated with the construction and maintenance of infrastructures
in both the environmental, the economic and the social dimensions, a sustainable approach …

The increase in traffic congestion in urban areas as a result of more private transport
intensifies the importance of promoting public transport and rail transport in particular. The …

To indicate health status of bridges and help stakeholders make decision on maintenance, a
comprehensive framework has been proposed to evaluate structural efficiency of …

The present study provides a review of the most diffused technical and non-technical
performance indicators adopted worldwide by infrastructure owners. This work, developed …

Conventional methods for visual assessment of civil infrastructures have certain limitations,
such as subjectivity of the collected data, long inspection time, and high cost of labor …

Fatigue is a form of fracture failure that results from crack initiation and propagation to final
failure of metallic elements subjected to cyclic loading (Schijve, 2009, Callister, 2007) …

Problems attributed to the bridge deck and road approaches are often the most obvious to
the inspecting engineer because they are easily identifiable and apparent. The extensive …

Sustainability has gained relevant presence in our society since its first definition in 1987 by
the Brundtland Commission. Ever since, the scientific community has put significant efforts in …