Maintenance and Safety of Aging Infrastructure

<p>This book presents the latest research findings in the field of maintenance and safety of aging infrastructure. The invited contributions provide an overview of the use of advanced computational and/or experimental techniques in damage and vulnerability assessment as well as maintenance and retrofitting of aging structures and infrastructures such as buildings bridges lifelines and ships. Cost-efficient maintenance and management of civil infrastructure requires balanced consideration of both structural performance and the total cost accrued over the entire life-cycle considering uncertainties.</p><p>In this context major topics treated in this book include aging structures climate adaptation climate change corrosion cost damage assessment decision making extreme events fatigue life hazards hazard mitigation inspection life-cycle performance maintenance management NDT methods optimization redundancy reliability repair retrofit risk robustness resilience safety stochastic control structural health monitoring sustainability uncertainties and vulnerability. Applications include bridges buildings dams marine structures pavements power distribution poles offshore platforms stadiums and transportation networks.</p><p>This up-to-date overview of the field of maintenance and safety of aging infrastructure makes this book a must-have reference work for those involved with structures and infrastructures including students researchers and practitioners.</p>