Hierarchical reinforcement learning for transportation infrastructure maintenance planning

Z Hamida, JA Goulet - Reliability Engineering & System Safety, 2023 - Elsevier
Maintenance planning on bridges commonly faces multiple challenges, mainly related to
complexity and scale. Those challenges stem from the large number of structural elements …

A unifying review of NDE models towards optimal decision support

E Bismut, D Straub - Structural Safety, 2022 - Elsevier
Non-destructive evaluation (NDE) inspections are an integral part of asset integrity
management. The relationship between the condition of interest and the quantity measured …

Resilience in multilayer transportation infrastructure networks: a review and conceptual framework for equity-based assessment

M Arabi, S Gerasimidis, C Barchers… - Sustainable and Resilient …, 2024 - Taylor & Francis
This paper presents a comprehensive review of resilience concepts, methodologies, metrics,
and modeling techniques, and identifies key research gaps. These include the lack of …

[HTML][HTML] On robust risk-based active-learning algorithms for enhanced decision support

AJ Hughes, LA Bull, P Gardner, N Dervilis… - Mechanical Systems and …, 2022 - Elsevier
Classification models are a fundamental component of physical-asset management
technologies such as structural health monitoring (SHM) systems and digital twins. Previous …

Optimizing facility maintenance planning under uncertainty

T Betz, K El-Rayes, M Grussing, L Bartels - Journal of Building Engineering, 2023 - Elsevier
Maintenance of civil infrastructure is necessary to ensure assets perform as intended over
their service life. As these elements age and degrade, appropriate repair planning helps …

Quantifying the Relative Change in Maintenance Costs due to Delayed Maintenance Actions in Transportation Infrastructure

Z Hamida, JA Goulet - Journal of Performance of Constructed …, 2024 - ascelibrary.org
Identifying optimal maintenance policies for transportation infrastructure such as bridges, is
a challenging task that requires taking into account many aspects relating to budget …

[HTML][HTML] Scalable probabilistic deterioration model based on visual inspections and structural attributes from large networks of bridges

SAK Fakhri, Z Hamida, JA Goulet - Advanced Engineering Informatics, 2025 - Elsevier
Visual inspections of large networks of bridges yield millions of data points scattered across
thousands of structural elements. Alongside visual inspections, structural attributes such as …

Enhancing bridge performance assessment with a hybrid attention-based long short-term memory and hidden Markov model using sparse inspection data

P Miao, C Zhou, Y Wu, W Hu, D Luo, S Ma, W Wang… - Structures, 2025 - Elsevier
Existing bridges typically undergo inspections every few years, generating a considerable
amount of inspection data and posing challenges for assessing their condition. This study …

A stochastic model for estimating the network‐scale deterioration and effect of interventions on bridges

Z Hamida, JA Goulet - Structural Control and Health Monitoring, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
Visual inspections provide direct information about the deterioration states of each structural
element within a bridge. However, when managing a network of bridges, it becomes …

Network-scale deterioration modelling of bridges based on visual inspections and structural attributes

Z Hamida, JA Goulet - Structural Safety, 2021 - Elsevier
Managing and maintaining bridges on a network-scale is directly associated with the
capacity to monitor and forecast the deterioration state of these bridges. Data-driven models …