Abstract: Infrastructure facilities management is a civil engineering task that will grow in significance throughout the next century. Many of the tools and techniques that currently support design and new construction do not apply ...

Abstract: Inventory, condition, and performance data describing facilities and components is a primary information source supporting maintenance and rehabilitation (M and R) decisions. At present, this data, which serves as the basis ...

Abstract: Ground-penetrating radar (GPR) technology has been applied to the evaluation of pavements, bridge decks, abutments, piers, and other constructed facilities to assess as-built conditions and to evaluate damage and deterioration ...

Abstract: A concept for automating the interpretation of sensor signals used to characterize in situ conditions is proposed, developed, implemented, and applied. The concept, called AISD, automates the application of encoded knowledge ...

Abstract: This research investigates and develops the seismic boundary wave concept for leak detection in large soil‐supported storage tanks. Mathematical models are developed for the propagation of seismic boundary waves (i.e., ...

Abstract: Traditional methods of bridge deck condition assessment are slow, labor‐intensive, intrusive to traffic, and unreliable. Two new technologies, radar and infrared thermography, which have recently been introduced, show ...