Abstract: Due to limited resources, structural health monitoring (SHM) of highway bridges has to be integrated in structural performance assessment in a cost-effective manner. The instrumentation and the long-term SHM procedures are ...

Abstract: Maintenance and repair activities are crucial to prevent the deterioration of highway bridges and ensure users’ safety. In 2006, the French Ministry of Transportation initiated a survey to improve the maintenance strategies ...

Abstract: A model using lifetime functions is used to evaluate the probability of survival of bridge components. The possible outcomes associated with nondestructive inspections (NDIs) are incorporated in an event-tree model. Each ...

Abstract: There is a huge interest in developing new performance metrics, based on monitoring information and considering uncertainties in the resistance and loading effects, to be used by stakeholders when determining maintenance ...

Abstract: Computing the cumulative failure probability for a given period of time is the main goal of a time-dependent reliability analysis. Estimating this probability is challenging for problems with nonmonotonic performance ...

Abstract: Structural health monitoring (SHM) based on global navigation satellite systems (GNSS) is an interesting solution to provide absolute positions at different locations of a structure in a global reference frame. In particular, ...