Bridge Construction: Optimizing Through Monitoring and Inspection

The book emphasizes the importance of monitoring and inspection in optimizing bridge construction and maintenance and covers various methods and techniques used for bridge monitoring, optimization, and management. Provides an overview of the importance of monitoring bridge structural conditions. It discusses various methods and techniques used for bridge monitoring, including visual inspection, non-destructive testing, and structural health monitoring. Focuses on the use of computational intelligence techniques for uncertainty-based design optimization of bridges. It covers various methods, such as genetic algorithms, artificial neural networks, and fuzzy logic, and how they can be used for optimizing bridge design. Discusses the use of portable X-ray sources for on-site bridge inspection. It explains how this technology can be used to detect defects and damage in bridges, such as corrosion, fatigue, and cracks. It focuses on the fatigue assessment of highway bridges under traffic loading and discusses how microscopic traffic simulation can be used to estimate the traffic loading on bridges and how the fatigue damage can be predicted using a probabilistic approach. The book serves as a valuable reference to all concerned with and/or involved in bridge structure and infrastructure systems, including students, researchers and practitioners from all areas of bridge engineering.