Using detailing concept to assess railway functional safety

I Bondarenko, T Campisi, G Tesoriere, L Neduzha - Sustainability, 2022 - mdpi.com
The ability to assess the risks of the functional safety of railway tracks allows harmonizing
characteristics of track elements under certain operating conditions under certain …

Resilience of Road Transportation Networks under Hydrological Hazards: A Review of Recent Studies

W Xiong, X Ma, D Zhang, CS Cai - Journal of Infrastructure Systems, 2024 - ascelibrary.org
Road transportation networks are highly vulnerable to natural hazards, especially
hydrological hazards. Damages to transportation networks due to hydrological hazards have …

Fragility of bridge decks exposed to hydraulic and driftwood actions

A Pucci, HS Sousa, L Giresini, JC Matos… - Structure and …, 2023 - Taylor & Francis
A resilient bridge network is vital to a community recovery after natural disasters. Floods are
the main cause of bridge collapses, but there is little research on the combined fragility of …

[HTML][HTML] Uncertainty in flood risk assessment of linear structures: Why correlation matters

EB Storrøsten, L Piciullo, F Nadim, U Eidsvig - Journal of Hydrology, 2024 - Elsevier
Estimation of the risk posed by inland fluvial floods to critical linear transportation
infrastructures requires quantifying the damage inflicted by flooding on roads and railways …

In-plane fragility and parametric analyses of masonry arch bridges exposed to flood hazard using surrogate modeling techniques

C Mendoza Cabanzo, M Santamaría, HS Sousa… - Applied Sciences, 2022 - mdpi.com
Natural disasters are unavoidable and can cause serious damage to bridges, which may
lead to catastrophic losses, both human and economic. Therefore, the assessment of …

Preliminary fast assessment of bridge risk by neural network

L Principi, M Morici, A Natali, W Salvatore… - International Journal of …, 2025 - Elsevier
The conservation, maintenance, and monitoring of bridges have received growing attention
worldwide over the past decade. Recent approaches to this problem highlight the lack of …

Regional-scale bridge health monitoring: survey of current methods and roadmap for future opportunities under changing climate

S Quqa, O Lasri, G Delo, PF Giordano… - Structural Health …, 2025 - journals.sagepub.com
Climate-related extreme events are becoming increasingly frequent, posing significant
threats to bridges, which are critical components of transportation infrastructure. This paper …

Influence of Stud Shear Connectors Fatigue on the Entire Reliability of Composite Bridge Superstructure

N Kozak, JC Matos, H Sousa, A Syrkov… - International …, 2024 - Springer
Based on multiple bridge inspections results, it was noticed that some composite steel–
concrete bridges showed signs of a decrease in stiffness of their superstructures (in …

Understanding the response of masonry arch bridges under different scour scenarios

F Scozzese, E Tubaldi, A Dall'Asta - Procedia Structural Integrity, 2024 - Elsevier
In the last decades, several flood-induced bridge collapses have been registered all over
the world, in particular related to local scour phenomenon. Masonry bridges, which …

Transport infrastructure risk management in the context of climate change: policies, challenges, and opportunities

A Tarazona, M Coelho, S Fernandes, J Matos - Transportation Research …, 2023 - Elsevier
Climatic events and their effects reinforce concern about global warming. Since climate
change influences the frequency and intensity of natural hazards, resilience and risk …