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Life-Cycle Cost Analysis and Design of Civil Infrastructure Systems
Author(s): Dan M. Frangopol (Editor), Hitoshi Furuta
- Publisher: Amer Society of Civil Engineers
- Publication Date: January 1, 2001
- Language: English
- Print length: 323 pages
- ISBN-10: 0784405719
- ISBN-13: 9780784405710
Book Description
Proceedings of the First U.S.-Japan Workshop on Life-Cycle Cost Analysis and Design of Civil Infrastructure Systems, held in Honolulu, Hawaii, August 7-8, 2000. Sponsored by the Structural Engineering Institute of ASCE.This collection contains 18 papers covering a wide range of studies on life-cycle cost analysis, design, maintenance and management of civil infrastructure systems. The contributors are internationally recognized researchers and practicing structural engineers from the United States, Japan, and Europe.Topics conceptual design of structural systems; time-variant reliability of structures; structural health monitoring and symptom-based reliability; monitoring and testing for fatigue prediction; lifetime reliability profiles for fatigue and corrosion; maintenance planning for road pavements and structures; maintenance planning of reinforced concrete decks; bridge management systems; optimized and conventional bridges; optimal planning of maintenance and inspection; life-cycle cost assessment for bridge maintenance; specifications to aid life-cycle cost analyses; maintenance cost of deteriorating civil infrastructures; probabilistic models of cost for management of existing structures; and user cost and its applications to bridge management systems. This book will be valuable to engineers and managers involved with life-cycle costing of civil infrastructure systems.
