A state-of-the-art review of bridge inspection planning: Current situation and future needs

AM Abdallah, RA Atadero, ME Ozbek - Journal of Bridge …, 2022 - ascelibrary.org
Inspections are important to ensuring adequate safety and performance of a bridge
throughout its service life. Bridge inspections are highly connected with maintenance …

[HTML][HTML] Past, current and future trends and challenges in non-deterministic fracture mechanics: A review

Y Feng, D Wu, MG Stewart, W Gao - Computer Methods in Applied …, 2023 - Elsevier
Structural systems are consistently encountering the variabilities in material properties,
undesirable defects and loading environments, which may potentially shorten their designed …

Climate change impact and risks of concrete infrastructure deterioration

MG Stewart, X Wang, MN Nguyen - Engineering Structures, 2011 - Elsevier
Atmospheric CO2 is a major cause of reinforcement corrosion in bridges, buildings,
wharves, and other concrete infrastructure in Australia, United States, United Kingdom and …

[책][B] Bridge engineering handbook: construction and maintenance

WF Chen, L Duan - 2014 - books.google.com
Over 140 experts, 14 countries, and 89 chapters are represented in the second edition of the
Bridge Engineering Handbook. This extensive collection highlights bridge engineering …

Service life prediction of concrete wharves with early-aged crack: Probabilistic approach for chloride diffusion

SJ Kwon, UJ Na, SS Park, SH Jung - Structural Safety, 2009 - Elsevier
Early-aged cracks due to hydration heat and drying shrinkage occur unavoidably in
reinforced concrete (RC) structures. These cracks may be the main routes through which …

Pitting corrosion and structural reliability of corroding RC structures: Experimental data and probabilistic analysis

MG Stewart, A Al-Harthy - Reliability engineering & system safety, 2008 - Elsevier
A stochastic analysis is developed to assess the temporal and spatial variability of pitting
corrosion on the reliability of corroding reinforced concrete (RC) structures. The structure …

Mechanical behaviour of pitting corrosion of flexural and shear reinforcement and its effect on structural reliability of corroding RC beams

MG Stewart - Structural safety, 2009 - Elsevier
A spatial time-dependent reliability model is developed for a RC beam subject to corrosion-
induced pitting corrosion, for shear and flexural limit states. The analysis considers the …

Assessment of the structural performance of corrosion-affected RC members based on experimental study and probabilistic modeling

S Lim, M Akiyama, DM Frangopol - Engineering Structures, 2016 - Elsevier
The severity of damage due to corrosion on reinforced concrete (RC) structures primarily
depends on the magnitude and location of the steel corrosion. A finite element (FE) method …

Effects of SSI and lining corrosion on the seismic vulnerability of shallow circular tunnels

S Argyroudis, G Tsinidis, F Gatti, K Pitilakis - Soil Dynamics and Earthquake …, 2017 - Elsevier
The paper presents a numerical approach for the construction of seismic fragility curves for
shallow metro tunnels considering the soil-structure-interaction (SSI) and the aging effects …

Seismic fragility analysis of deteriorating RC bridge substructures subject to marine chloride-induced corrosion

F Cui, H Zhang, M Ghosn, Y Xu - Engineering Structures, 2018 - Elsevier
This paper presents an improved reinforced concrete steel bar deterioration model that
incorporates pitting corrosion and considers the change in after-cracking corrosion rate to …