Infrastructure Health in Civil Engineering : Applications and Management

Taking appropriate timely actions requires good understanding of the infrastructure—its current and expected condition in the future. This book addresses practical applications, including retrofitting and rehabilitation due to earthquake damage, corrosion, and fatigue. It covers management and maintenance of different types of structures using prestressed and reinforced concrete, and fiber reinforced polymers (FRPs). It also examines the use of sensors in damage detection and load testing. The authors also stress the importance of integrating decision making or cost benefit ideas into all tasks to the success of a project.

Continually increasing demands on infrastructures mean that maintenance and renewal require timely, appropriate action that maximizes benefits while minimizing cost. To be as well informed as possible, decision-makers must have an optimal understanding of an infrastructure’s condition—what it is now, and what it is expected to be in the future.

Written by two highly respected engineers, the second volume, Infrastructure Health in Civil Engineering: Applications and Management, integrates the decision making concept into theoretical and practical issues.

It covers:

• State-of-the-art practice and future directions











• Use of probability and statistics in areas including structural modeling











• Specific practical applications, including retrofitting and rehabilitation in response to earthquake damage, corrosion, fatigue, and bridge security











• Use of IHCE for management and maintenance of different types of structures using pre-stressed and reinforced concrete, and fiber-reinforced polymers (FRPs)











• Numerous practical case studies, as well as coverage of the latest techniques in the use of sensors for damage detection and load testing

Built to correspond to the ideas presented in its companion volume, Theory and Components, this is an invaluable guide to optimized, cost-saving methods that will help readers meet safety specifications for new projects, as well as the aging infrastructure at great risk of failure.