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JournalISSN: 1573-2479

Structure and Infrastructure Engineering 

Taylor & Francis
About: Structure and Infrastructure Engineering is an academic journal published by Taylor & Francis. The journal publishes majorly in the area(s): Bridge (interpersonal) & Structural engineering. It has an ISSN identifier of 1573-2479. Over the lifetime, 1727 publications have been published receiving 34165 citations. The journal is also known as: Structure and infrastructure engineering (Online).


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TL;DR: In this paper, a comprehensive model to quantify disaster resilience of systems that is defined as the capability to sustain functionality and recover from losses generated by extreme events is presented. And the model combines loss estimation and recovery models and can be applied to critical facilities (e.g. hospitals, military buildings, etc.).
Abstract: This paper presents a comprehensive model to quantify disaster resilience of systems that is defined as the capability to sustain functionality and recover from losses generated by extreme events. The model combines loss estimation and recovery models and can be applied to critical facilities (e.g. hospitals, military buildings, etc.), as well as utility lifelines (e.g. electric power systems, transportation networks, water systems etc.) that are crucial to the response of recovery processes, decisions and policies. Current research trend leads toward the definition of complex recovery models that are able to describe the process over time and the spatial definition of recovery (e.g. meta-models for the case of health care facilities). The model has been applied to a network of hospitals in Memphis, Tennessee. The resilience framework can be used as a decision support tool to increase the resilience index of systems, such as health care facilities, and reduce disaster vulnerability and consequences.

453 citations

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TL;DR: In this paper, the authors review the recent development of life-cycle maintenance and management planning for deteriorating civil infrastructure with emphasis on bridges using optimization techniques and considering simultaneously multiple and often competing criteria in terms of condition, safety and life cycle.
Abstract: Cost-competent maintenance and management of civil infrastructure requires balanced consideration of both the structure performance and the total cost accrued over the entire life-cycle. Most existing maintenance and management systems are developed on the basis of life-cycle cost minimization only. The single maintenance and management solution thus obtained, however, does not necessarily result in satisfactory long-term structure performance. Another concern is that the structure performance is usually described by the visual inspection-based structure condition states. The actual structure safety level, however, has not been explicitly or adequately considered in determining maintenance management decisions. This paper reviews the recent development of life-cycle maintenance and management planning for deteriorating civil infrastructure with emphasis on bridges using optimization techniques and considering simultaneously multiple and often competing criteria in terms of condition, safety and life-cycle...

406 citations

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TL;DR: In this paper, the authors highlight recent accomplishments in the life-cycle performance assessment, maintenance, monitoring, management and optimisation of structural systems under uncertainty, and identify challenges in this area.
Abstract: Our knowledge to model, analyse, design, maintain, monitor, manage, predict and optimise the life-cycle performance of structures and infrastructures under uncertainty is continually growing. However, in many countries, including the United States, the civil infrastructure is no longer within desired levels of performance and safety. Decisions regarding civil infrastructure systems should be supported by an integrated reliability-based life-cycle multi-objective optimisation framework by considering, among other factors, the likelihood of successful performance and the total expected cost accrued over the entire life-cycle. The primary objective of this paper is to highlight recent accomplishments in the life-cycle performance assessment, maintenance, monitoring, management and optimisation of structural systems under uncertainty. Challenges are also identified.

379 citations

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TL;DR: A comprehensive review on the application of multi-criteria decision-making (MCDM) literature in the field of infrastructure management is presented in this paper, which identifies trends and new developments in MCDM methods.
Abstract: In infrastructure management, multi-criteria decision-making (MCDM) has emerged as a decision support tool to integrate various technical information and stakeholder values. Different MCDM techniques and tools have been developed. This paper presents a comprehensive review on the application of MCDM literature in the field of infrastructure management. Approximately 300 published papers were identified that report MCDM applications in the field of infrastructure management during 1980–2012. The reviewed papers are classified into application to the type of infrastructure (e.g. bridges and pipes), and prevalent decision or intervention (e.g. repair and rehabilitate). In addition, the papers were also classified according to MCDM methods used in the analysis. The paper provides taxonomy of those articles and identifies trends and new developments in MCDM methods. The results suggest that there is a significant growth in MCDM applications in infrastructure management applications of MCDM over the last decade...

309 citations

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TL;DR: In this article, the authors provide guidance for the proper evaluation of existing facilities for continued service, since their focus is on new construction, since current codes of practice provide little guidance for proper evaluation for existing facilities.
Abstract: Civil infrastructure in the United States is at risk from aging, leading to structural deterioration of bridges, buildings, and other facilities from aggressive chemical attack, corrosion, and other physical mechanisms. Decisions regarding maintenance, rehabilitation and other requirements for continued utilization of a facility should be supported by quantitative evidence that aging has not caused structural strength or stiffness to deteriorate to the point where the capacity of the system to withstand or mitigate future extreme events is impaired. Current codes of practice provide little guidance for the proper evaluation of existing facilities for continued service, since their focus is on new construction. Rehabilitation investments should be aimed at maximizing the likelihood of successful future performance at minimum costs. Probabilistic risk analysis methods can provide quantitative tools for the management of uncertainty in condition assessment and are an essential ingredient of risk-informed man...

246 citations

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No. of papers from the Journal in previous years
YearPapers
202366
2022150
2021200
2020168
2019115
2018116