Bridges are designed to withstand different types of loads, including dead, live,
environmental, and occasional loads during their service period. Moving vehicles are the …

Load testing of bridges is a practice that is as old as their construction. In the past, load
testing gave the traveling public a feeling that a newly opened bridge is safe. Nowadays, the …

A structural deterioration reliability (probabilistic) model has been used herein to calculate
probabilities of structural failure. New reinforced concrete corrosion initiation, corrosion rate …

Corrosion is a major deterioration mechanism of carbon steel bridges. Multiple maintenance
actions have been proposed to meet the safety requirements for bridges subjected to …

Information about present and anticipated bridge reliabilities, in conjunction with decision
models, provides a rational and powerful decision-making tool for the structural assessment …

Bridge deterioration with time and ever increasing traffic loads raise concerns about
reliability of aging bridges. One of the ways to check reliability of aging bridges is proof load …

Chloride-induced corrosion of tensile rebars in reinforced concrete (RC) structures causes
cracking in the concrete surface along corroded rebars. The width of these cracks could …

An efficient approach to reliability analysis of deteriorating structural systems is presented,
which considers stochastic dependence among element deterioration. Information on a …

Storm-related power outages cause approximately $270 million per year in repair costs in
the United States. As a result of increasing sea surface temperatures caused by the …

Maintaining and operating civil infrastructure systems has been recognized as a critical
issue worldwide. Among all possible causes of safety reduction during the structural lifetime …