Reinforced concrete bridge deck reliability model incorporating temporal and spatial variations of probabilistic corrosion rate sensor data

Reliability Engineering and System Safety

Volumn 93, Issue 3, 2008, Pages 394-409

  Marsh, Philip S ^a   Frangopol, Dan M ^b  

^a UCB 450   (United States)

^b Lehigh University   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BRIDGE DECKS; CONCRETE BRIDGES; CORROSION; PROBABILITY; RELIABILITY ANALYSIS; STRUCTURAL HEALTH MONITORING;

COMPUTATIONAL RELIABILITY MODEL; ENVIRONMENTAL CONDITIONS; MULTIPLE CORROSION; RC BRIDGE DECK;

REINFORCED CONCRETE;

EID: 35349028402     PISSN: 09518320     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ress.2006.12.011     Document Type: Article

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