Maintenance Strategy for Bridge Components on the Basis of Performance
Publication: Journal of Performance of Constructed Facilities
Volume 23, Issue 4
Abstract
Usually the status of a bridge is determined by its structural capability and material strength. Consequently a lot of researchers have studied the failure, the fatigue, and the deterioration of the structure in terms of the structural function of a bridge. However, the safety of a bridge may be affected simply by the damage of one of its components. Therefore this paper utilized a systematic classification and statistical analysis based on the thousands of sets of existing bridge inspection data collected in Taiwan to reach the following goals: (1) assess the deterioration rate for each component of a bridge; (2) determine the lifetime of each component based on the performance index; and (3) find out the preventive and essential maintenance strategy for each bridge component with an empirical method.
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Acknowledgments
The writers would like to acknowledge the National Science Council (NSC) of Taiwan, R.O.C. for financially supporting this work under Contract No. NSCTNSC-94-2211-E-002-064. They also wish to express their appreciation to the officials of the Ministry of Communications and Transportation (MOCT) of the Taiwan government for providing the valuable data on the Bridge Management System for these four counties.
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Journal of Performance of Constructed Facilities
Volume 23 • Issue 4 • August 2009
Pages: 234 - 243
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© 2009 ASCE.
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Received: Mar 26, 2007
Accepted: Mar 31, 2009
Published online: Jul 15, 2009
Published in print: Aug 2009
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