@inproceedings{9b5ec48887784aecb8cd44e201f377af,
title = "Aging and Deterioration of Concrete Structures: Learning from the Past, Assessing the Present, and Predicting the Future; Science or Magic?",
abstract = "This paper deals with important issue of the aging and deterioration of concrete structures: a problem at the forefront of civil engrineering research that has profound impact on our society and our way of living. Despite the recognized importance of such issue, entrenched practice and remediation approaches are, for the most part, empirical and fundamentally related only to the lifetime experience of few capable professionals. We all need to thank the work of these people but this paper argues that such {"}modus operandi{"} is only slightly better than predicting the future of infrastructure by looking into a crystal ball - it is more magic than science. On the contrary, this paper presents a different vision in which {"}predictions{"} are based on a rigourous structural reliability framework equipped with physically-sound computational models that are rigorously validated and continually updated on the basis of reliable experimental data obtained from both destructuve and non-destructuve techniques.",
author = "G. Cusatis and M. Alnaggar and P. Gardoni and M. D'Ambrosia and J. Qu",
note = "Publisher Copyright: {\textcopyright} ASCE.; 10th International Conference on Mechanics and Physics of Creep, Shrinkage, and Durability of Concrete and Concrete Structures, CONCREEP 2015 ; Conference date: 21-09-2015 Through 23-09-2015",
year = "2015",
doi = "10.1061/9780784479346.004",
language = "English (US)",
series = "CONCREEP 2015: Mechanics and Physics of Creep, Shrinkage, and Durability of Concrete and Concrete Structures - Proceedings of the 10th International Conference on Mechanics and Physics of Creep, Shrinkage, and Durability of Concrete and Concrete Structures",
publisher = "American Society of Civil Engineers",
pages = "24--33",
editor = "Johann Kollegger and Christian Hellmich and Bernhard Pichler",
booktitle = "CONCREEP 2015",
}