TY - GEN
T1 - Optimal next inspection time for bridges based on corrosion deterioration
AU - De León, D.
AU - González-Pérez, C.
AU - Bisadi, V.
AU - Gardoni, P.
AU - Head, M.
AU - Hurlebaus, S.
N1 - Copyright:
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PY - 2011
Y1 - 2011
N2 - As the traffic demands grow constantly, and some vehicle bridges deteriorate due to corrosion, bridge agencies require non expensive procedures to schedule cost-effective maintenance programs. In this paper a reliability-based formulation is proposed for prediction of the next inspection time including the epistemic uncertainty on the corrosion initiation time. For the identification of the bridge integrity state where little or no follow up has been previously made, the prediction of damage state contains a great deal of epistemic uncertainty. The impact of this epistemic uncertainty on the prediction of corrosion initiation time is appraised for the purpose of weighting, later on, the cost/benefit of further and more detailed studies. The bridge reliability is calculated in terms of a damage index that depends on the bridge corrosion deterioration and the corrosion impact is calculated in terms of the moment capacity reduction and the evolution of the bridge failure probability. As the acceptable failure probability is used as the safety threshold, this failure probability is calculated from the minimization of the annual expected life-cycle cost including replacement.
AB - As the traffic demands grow constantly, and some vehicle bridges deteriorate due to corrosion, bridge agencies require non expensive procedures to schedule cost-effective maintenance programs. In this paper a reliability-based formulation is proposed for prediction of the next inspection time including the epistemic uncertainty on the corrosion initiation time. For the identification of the bridge integrity state where little or no follow up has been previously made, the prediction of damage state contains a great deal of epistemic uncertainty. The impact of this epistemic uncertainty on the prediction of corrosion initiation time is appraised for the purpose of weighting, later on, the cost/benefit of further and more detailed studies. The bridge reliability is calculated in terms of a damage index that depends on the bridge corrosion deterioration and the corrosion impact is calculated in terms of the moment capacity reduction and the evolution of the bridge failure probability. As the acceptable failure probability is used as the safety threshold, this failure probability is calculated from the minimization of the annual expected life-cycle cost including replacement.
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U2 - 10.1201/b11332-82
DO - 10.1201/b11332-82
M3 - Conference contribution
AN - SCOPUS:84856711514
SN - 9780415669863
T3 - Applications of Statistics and Probability in Civil Engineering -Proceedings of the 11th International Conference on Applications of Statistics and Probability in Civil Engineering
SP - 543
EP - 548
BT - Applications of Statistics and Probability in Civil Engineering -Proceedings of the 11th International Conference on Applications of Statistics and Probability in Civil Engineering
PB - Taylor and Francis Inc.
T2 - 11th International Conference on Applications of Statistics and Probability in Civil Engineering, ICASP
Y2 - 1 August 2011 through 4 August 2011
ER -