Damage detection and safety assessment play a prominent role in the integrity management
of bridge structures. Environmental and operational variability are the leading factors that …

Deterioration due to corrosion is a key issue affecting the durability, safety, and sustainability
of buildings and structures. Most cities are located in coastal areas and many reinforced …

Accurate prediction of bridge responses plays an essential role in health monitoring and
safety assessment of bridges subjected to dynamic loads such as earthquakes. To this end …

Bridges are one of the fundamental infrastructure assets that are vital for economic growth
and public welfare. Over the past few decades, the numbers of deteriorating bridges have …

Building maintenance has been considered a crucial part of the life cycle of a building as the
number of aged buildings is increasing globally. A number of maintenance-related problems …

This paper aims to minimize the expected daily inspection cost of a k-out-of-n load-sharing
system with identical components. We consider a hybrid mixed-redundancy strategy for the …

Climate change significantly affects existing infrastructure by enhancing the deterioration of
concrete structures. As the number of repairs and strengthening increases during the service …

To minimize agency and user costs in a bridge repair project, a bridge maintenance
manager should develop an appropriate project schedule considering real-world constraints …

Facing the aging building stock, challenging times can be expected with a sharp increase of
reinforced concrete buildings requiring maintenance, repair and/or replacement which …

This paper introduces a comprehensive framework for the development of optimal multi-year
maintenance plans for a large number of bridges. A maintenance plan is said to be optimal …