Abstract: Business interruption ratio (BIR), the ratio of reduced production or service level of a business to the predisaster level when it reopens in the aftermath of a disaster event, is a significant indicator of the overall ...

Abstract: This study presented a Bayesian logistic model to evaluate the failure probability of asphalt pavement preventive treatments. The Markov Chain Monte Carlo (MCMC) simulation using Metropolis-Hasting sampling was adopted for ...

Abstract: Asphalt material is generally characterized by the modulus, whose change and decay under the same condition could be considered an indicator of pavement performance deterioration. A nondestructive seismic method, the ...

Abstract: The structural health-monitoring system for a large bridge is a huge intelligent and integrated information system. Thus, conferring it with a self-checking function through a remote control is an important and difficult ...