Abstract: A large portion of the railway bridge stock in many countries is comprised of masonry arch bridges. During recent years, more attention has been paid to the maintenance of such structures. Rehabilitation and retrofitting ...

Abstract: Insulated rail joints (IRJs) are widely used in signaling and broken rail identification systems. Track deterioration adjacent to IRJ is frequent due to excessive dynamic forces generated at IRJs by the repetitive passage ...

Abstract: This paper proposes a multiobjective optimization approach for a preventive maintenance scheduling problem. To model this problem, an optimization model was developed by considering two objective functions: minimizing ...