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This book presents state-of-the-art theoretical background and practical applications for bridge safety, maintenance and management in a life-cycle context. This book can help students, researchers and practitioners to build up knowledge on life-cycle bridge performance and cost management.

This book reviews the fundamentals of and the recent developments in life-cycle analysis and maintenance optimization for fatigue-sensitive structures. The book provides knowledge on life-cycle performance and cost analysis of civil and marine structures. It is aimed at students, researchers and practitioners.

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Comprises most of the papers presented at the joint event of the Third IABMAS Workshop on Life-Cycle Cost Analysis and Design of Civil Infrastructure Systems and the JCSS Workshop on Probabilistic Modeling of Deterioration Processes in Concrete Structures, held in Lausanne, Switzerland, March 24-26, 2003.

Comprises papers presented at the First US/Japan Workshop on Life-Cycle Cost Analysis and Design of Civil Infrastructure Systems, held in Honolulu, Hawaii, August 7-8, 2000. The 18 papers cover a range of studies on life-cycle cost analysis, design, maintenance and management of civil infrastructure systems.

A compilation of twenty papers, covering topics such as: optimal design using genetic algorithms, fuzzy set theory, artificial life approaches, and neural networks, reliability-based optimum design of buildings and bridges, optimal design based on minimum expected life-cycle cost, topology and shape optimization, and more.

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This volume contains thirty-one papers presented at the Twelfth Scientific Meeting of the IFIP Working Group on Reliability and Optimization of Structural Systems which took place in Aalborg, Denmark, from May 22-25, 2005. The Working Group Conference was organized by the IFIP (International Federation for Information Processing) Working Group 7.5 of the Technical Committee on Modelling and Optimization. The purpose of the Working Group is to ...

Covers applications of modern structural safety and reliability concepts and methods to highway bridge engineering practice. This work contains topics like: Bridge Reliability Concepts and Methods, Modeling of Bridge Loads, Bridge Strength, Reliability of Bridge Components and Systems, Bridge Evaluation, and Nondestructive Bridge Testing.