ABSTRACT
ABSTRACT: The prediction of a realistic life cycle and the prolongation of the service life is an important task to reduce costs of civil engineering structures in the future. The precise assessment of the life cycle will become an important challenge. This paper gives at first an overview about the possibilities of assessing the state of the structure (the anamnesis) which must precede every life cycle determination. Subsequently, new ways and possibilities of precise life cycle determination are presented. The methods are developed at the Collaborative-Research-Center “Monitoring of Structures” at the Technical University at Braunschweig (Germany).
