Contenido Design, Assessment, Monitoring and Maintenance of Bridges and Infrastructure Networks

Relevant advances have been accomplished by the scientific community and engineering profession in the design, assessment, monitoring, maintenance, and management of sustainable and resilient bridge structures and infrastructures. These advances have been presented and discussed at The Sixth International Conference on Bridge Maintenance, Safety And Management (IABMAS 2012), held in Stresa, Italy, from 8 to 11 July 2012 (http://www.iabmas2012.org). IABMAS 2012 has been organised on behalf of the International Association for Bridge Maintenance And Safety (IABMAS) under the auspices of Politecnico di Milano.

This book collects the extended versions of selected papers presented at IABMAS 2012 and invited papers originally published in a Special Issue of Structure and Infrastructure Engineering. These papers provide significant contributions to the process of making more rational decisions in bridge design, assessment, monitoring and maintenance. The editors would like to thank the authors for their contributions and hope that this collection of papers will represent a valuable reference for scientific research and engineering applications in the fields of design, assessment, monitoring, and maintenance of bridges and infrastructure networks.

Table of Contents

Introduction - Design, assessment, monitoring and maintenance of bridges and infrastructure networks

Fabio Biondini and Dan M. Frangopol

1. Reinforced concrete and masonry arch bridges in seismic areas: typical deficiencies and retrofitting strategies

Claudio Modena, Giovanni Tecchio, Carlo Pellegrino, Francesca da Porto, Marco Dona`, Paolo Zampieri and Mariano A. Zanini

2. The art of arches

Man-Chung Tang

3. Innovative steel bridge girders with tubular flanges

Richard Sause

4. Effects of post-failure material behaviour on redundancy factor for design of structural components in nondeterministic systems

Benjin Zhu and Dan M. Frangopol

5. Design and construction of two integral bridges for the runway of Milan Malpensa Airport

Pier Giorgio Malerba and Giacomo Comaita

6. Pathology, appraisal, repair and management of old prestressed concrete beam and slab bridges

Bruno Godart

7. Deteriorating beam finite element for nonlinear analysis of concrete structures under corrosion

Fabio Biondini and Matteo Vergani

8. Wind tunnel: a fundamental tool for long-span bridge design

Giorgio Diana, Daniele Rocchi and Marco Belloli

9. Operational deformations in long-span bridges

James M.W. Brownjohn, Ki-Young Koo, Andrew Scullion and David List

10. Structural health monitoring of a cable-stayed bridge with Bayesian neural networks

Stefania Arangio and Franco Bontempi

11. Real-time remote monitoring: the DuraMote platform and experiments towards future, advanced, large-scale SCADA systems

Masanobu Shinozuka, Konstantinos G. Papakonstantinou, Marco Torbol and Sehwan Kim