ABSTRACT
Collection of revised expert papers dealing with emerging concepts and innovative applications in life-cycle civil engineering. Topics covered include: life-cycle damage processes, life-cycle assessment and design, life-cycle maintenance and rehabilitation, life-cycle performance of special structures, life-cycle costs, and life cycle and integrated planning of buildings. Intended for researchers, engineers and advanced students working on life-cycle performance in civil engineering. Set comprises a book of extended abstracts (466 pp.) and a searchable DVD-ROM containing full papers (2332 pp.).
TABLE OF CONTENTS
part |17 pages
Fazlur R. Khan Lecture
part |96 pages
Keynote Lectures
part |1046 pages
Mini-Symposia
part MS1|61 pages
Vibration-based health monitoring, damage identification and residual lifetime estimation for civil engineering structures Organizers:
part MS2|47 pages
Integrative monitoring for the life-cycle performance of engineering structures Organizers:
part MS3|105 pages
Seismic performance evaluation on structures considering aged deterioration Organizers:
part MS4|95 pages
Challenges in real-world applications of structural health monitoring
part MS5|87 pages
Modeling time-dependent behavior and deterioration of concrete
part MS6|104 pages
Life-cycle performance of structural systems Organizers
part |72 pages
MS7: Tunnel life-cycle management and engineering including required performance of structures and facilities, prediction method in remaining life, risk management, maintenance technology and inspection techniques
part |108 pages
MS8: Rehabilitation, retrofitting and redundancy of aged steel bridges
part |77 pages
MS9: Probabilistic modeling for the assessment, maintenance and rehabilitation of aging infrastructures
part MS10|58 pages
New trends in infrastructure management systems Organizers:
part |44 pages
MS11: Life-cycle effects of surface penetrants on concrete structures
part |62 pages
MS12: Life-cycle performance based infrastructures maintenance
part MS13|120 pages
Infrastructure system identification and monitoring
part |585 pages
Special Sessions
part |74 pages
Special Sessions SS1: Evaluation of cover concrete quality for ensuring durability of concrete structures
part SS2|46 pages
Life-cycle assessment of performance in concrete bridge decks under severe conditions Organizers:
part SS4|48 pages
Performance assessment of concrete structures strengthened with externally bonded FRP composites under combined mechanical and environmental actions Organizers:
part |76 pages
SS5: LCC and risk evaluation on geotechnical and geo-environmental problems
part |45 pages
SS6: Sustainable bridge technologies in structure, design and construction
part SS7|93 pages
Structures in marine environments
part SS8|41 pages
Life cycle management as focus area within asset management
part SS9|10 pages
Building Information Models (BIM) for the lifecycle
part SS10|44 pages
Life-cycle maintenance strategies and performance evaluation for reinforced concrete structures located in the multi-hazardous environment Organizers
part |59 pages
SS11: Chemical degradation of concrete structure
part |16 pages
SS12: Application base assessment of fiber reinforced cement composites - challenges to durability
part |29 pages
SS13: Environmental performance of civil infrastructures via life cycle assessment
part |548 pages
General Sessions