Life Cycle Analysis and Assessment in Civil Engineering: Towards an Integrated Vision

<p>This volume contains the papers presented at IALCCE2018, the Sixth International Symposium on Life-Cycle Civil Engineering (IALCCE2018), held in Ghent, Belgium, October 28-31, 2018. It consists of a book of extended abstracts and a USB device with full papers including the Fazlur R. Khan lecture, 8 keynote lectures, and 390 technical papers from all over the world.</p><p>Contributions relate to design, inspection, assessment, maintenance or optimization in the framework of life-cycle analysis of civil engineering structures and infrastructure systems. Life-cycle aspects that are developed and discussed range from structural safety and durability to sustainability, serviceability, robustness and resilience. Applications relate to buildings, bridges and viaducts, highways and runways, tunnels and underground structures, off-shore and marine structures, dams and hydraulic structures, prefabricated design, infrastructure systems, etc. During the IALCCE2018 conference a particular focus is put on the cross-fertilization between different sub-areas of expertise and the development of an overall vision for life-cycle analysis in civil engineering.</p><p>The aim of the editors is to provide a valuable source of cutting edge information for anyone interested in life-cycle analysis and assessment in civil engineering, including researchers, practising engineers, consultants, contractors, decision makers and representatives from local authorities.</p> <p><strong>Fazlur R. Khan Lecture</strong></p><p><strong>Keynote Lectures</strong></p><p><strong>Mini-Symposia</strong>MS1: Load testing of new and existing structures<br>MS2: Vibration-based Structural Health Monitoring, damage identification and residual lifetime estimation<br>MS3: Probabilistic assessment of existing structures<br>MS4: Risk and reliability acceptance criteria<br>MS5: Early BIM for Life-Cycle performance<br>MS6: Performance of concrete during Life-Cycle<br>MS7: Life-Cycle engineering for hydraulic structures, levees, and other water related infrastructure<br>MS8: IEA EBC Annex 72: Assessing Life-Cycle related environmental impacts caused by buildings<br>MS9: Multi-hazard resilience assessment in a Life-Cycle context<br>MS10: Next generation asset management of civil infrastructure systems<br>MS11: Life-Cycle performance of structure and infrastructure under uncertainty<br>MS12: Life-Cycle redundancy, robustness and resilience indicators for aging structural systems under multiple hazards<br>MS13: Advances in Structural Health Monitoring for real-world applications<br>MS14: Monitoring of structures for informed-decision making<br>MS15: Probability-based service life design of reinforced concrete structures exposed to reinforcement corrosion<br>MS16: Life-Cycle maintenance and management for urban infrastructures with big data<br>MS17: Life-Cycle management as focus area within asset management<br>MS18: Serviceability of underground structures<br>MS19: Circular economy to improve sustainability of infrastructure</p><p><strong>Special Sessions</strong>SS1: Structural Health Monitoring and decision making for infrastructures in multi-hazard environment<br>SS2: Climate adaptation engineering<br>SS3: Quality control procedures on the Life-Cycle management of existing bridges<br>SS4: Modeling time-dependent behavior and deterioration of concrete<br>SS6: TRUSS ITN - Reducing uncertainty in structural safety<br>SS7: Application of probabilistic methods in fire safety engineering<br>SS8: Bespoke models for marine structural management<br>SS9: Novel materials and systems for Life-Cycle Structural Health Monitoring<br>SS10: Value of Structural Health Monitoring information for the Life-Cycle management of civil structures<br>SS11: Design for robustness of steel and steel-concrete composite structures<br>SS12: Repair and self-repair of concrete<br>SS13: Life-Cycle of slope and river bank protection system considering soil bioengineering as well as conventional structures<br>SS14: Advanced NDT for visualization and quantification of concrete deterioration and repair effects<br>SS15: PROGRESS - Provisions for Greater Reuse of Steel Structures<br>SS16: Life-Cycle asset management for railway-structures (LeCIE)<br>SS17: INFRASTAR - Fatigue reliability analysis of wind turbine and bridge structures<br>SS18: The impact of BIM and web technologies in the life-cycle of our built environment</p><p><strong>General Sessions</strong>GS1: Probability theory & applied structural reliability methods<br>GS2: Durability<br>GS3: Concrete structures<br>GS4: Nonlinear analysis & structural optimization<br>GS5: Earthquake engineering<br>GS6: Traffic load modelling<br>GS7: Bridge engineering<br>GS8: Life-cycle assessment<br>GS9: Assessment of existing structures</p>