题名: |
Condition Improvement Measurement Using the Condition Evaluation Criteria of Concrete Bridge Decks |
正文语种: |
英文 |
作者: |
West Virginia Univ;Purdue Univ |
作者单位: |
Yoojung Yoon;Makarand Hastak |
关键词: |
Condition improvement; Concrete bridge decks; Maintenance, repair, and rehabilitation (MR&R) strategies; Maintenance, repair, and rehabilitation (MR&R) effectiveness |
摘要: |
Maintenance, repair, and rehabilitation (MR&R) are cost-effective activities for maintaining good serviceability of concrete bridge decks during their lifetimes. Many past studies were conducted to provide public agencies with optimal MR&R strategies for selecting the correct treatment types at the appropriate application times. While researchers did establish and confirm that the annual deterioration rate and the effectiveness of the MR&R activities are the key input factors that affect the outcomes of MR&R strategy models, they did not spend nearly as much time on engineering inquiry to measure the effectiveness of MR&R activities as they did on projecting the deterioration patterns of bridge systems. The issues of selection bias, empirical data reliability, and overstatement of the effectiveness of MR&R activities continue to compromise the present methods. Therefore, this paper presents a new method that addresses these issues by utilizing the bridge condition evaluation criteria commonly applied among state DOTs in the United States. The new method's model was tested using a case study that verified its usefulness for a state DOT to establish reliable, practical MR&R strategies. |
出版年: |
2016 |
期刊名称: |
Journal of Transportation Engineering |
卷: |
Vol.142 |
期: |
No.11 |
页码: |
04016054 |