Bridge Maintenance, Safety, Management and Life-Cycle Optimization : Proceedings of the Fifth International IABMAS Conference, Philadelphia, USA, 11-1 (Hardcover)

Part 1: T.Y. Lin Lecture  Part 2: Keynote Lectures  Part 3: Mini-Symposia  Futuristic bridge maintenance technologies.  Monitoring & assessment of bridges using novel techniques.  Present & future of bridge inspection & evaluation.  Research & applications in bridge health monitoring.  New procedures for bridge rehabilitation.  Measurement systems for bridge weigh-in-motion (B-WIM). Bridge management tools & research.  Uncertainty in bridge damageability modeling.  Performance-based asset & risk management of the highway infrastructure system.  Bridging the data gaps for effective management.  Computational prediction & in field validation of bridge performance.  Management & maintenance of long span bridges.  SmartEN Marie Curie ITN ? Smart management for sustainable human environment.  European approach on integrated infrastructure risk management (IRIS).  Safety & management of bridges in Mexico.  COWI Group mini-symposium ? Cable supported bridges.  Lifetime design of super long span bridges.  Use of health monitoring for life-cycle cost analysis & optimization.  Safety monitoring & maintenance strategy for long span bridges.  Bridge condition assessment.  Bridges for high speed railways.  Industrial smart material applications for civil infrastructure (ISMA).  Advances in structural robustness: dependability framework.  Nondeterministic schemes for structural safety & reliability of bridges.  Life cycle bridge engineering in Korea.  ARCHES: Assessment & rehabilitation of Central European highway structures.  Current advancements in bridge technology.  Using technology to manage, preserve, & renew landmark signature bridges.  Modeling of bridge seismic response.  Recent challenging bridge structures.  Life-cycle design of structural systems.  Optical monitoring techniques for bridge maintenance & safety.  Implementation of bridge management administration in Japan.  Challenges for enhancing bridge security.  Structural monitoring of bridges: Hong Kong’s experience.  Performance-based design for steel structures.  Steel bridge rehabilitation.  New developments in bridge design codes.  WIM-based live loads for bridges.  High performance concrete ? lessons of past decades.  Construction, architecture & testing of soil-steel bridges.  Lessons learned from instrumented bridges.  Chinese bridges.  General Sessions  Author Index