Bridge deterioration models are used for prioritization and maintenance of bridges. These
models can be broadly classified as deterministic and stochastic models. There are …

Decision-making for engineering systems management can be efficiently formulated using
Markov Decision Processes (MDPs) or Partially Observable MDPs (POMDPs). Typical …

The New York State Department of Transportation (NYSDOT) maintains an inventory of over
17,000 highway bridges across the state. These bridges are inspected biennially or more …

The paper presents a model for chloride ingress into concrete. The model accounts for two
mechanisms which control the chloride ingress—diffusion and convection. Using one …

With the development of the Chinese transportation industry, the number of bridges has
increased significantly, but this results in high pressure of structural maintenance and …

Bridges play an important role in the highway transportation network. There is an increasing
concern that highway bridges have been suffering from structural degradation and …

Pavement management systems employ pavement performance models to plan the most
effective allocation of public funds. The most used models are the deterministic and the …

Existing nonlinear optimization-based algorithms for estimating Markov transition probability
matrix (TPM) in bridge deterioration modeling sometimes fail to find optimum TPM values …

A numerical approach, named TransChlor, is proposed to simulate transport phenomena of
various substances in concrete. This approach is a theoretical model based on finite …

A novel method is proposed to rank bridges for maintenance priorities based on the risk
posed by structural deterioration. The proposed method integrates structural reliability …