Reliability-based system-level optimization of bridge maintenance and replacement decisions

Transportation Science

Volumn 42, Issue 4, 2008, Pages 508-513

  Robelin, Charles Antoine ^a   Madanat, Samer M ^b  

^a Amadeus sas   (France)

^b 109 McLaughlin Hall   (United States)

Author keywords

Infrastructure management; Optimization; Reliability

Indexed keywords

COMPUTATIONAL EFFICIENCY; OPTIMIZATION; RELIABILITY;

BRIDGE MAINTENANCE; FINITE PLANNING HORIZON; HETEROGENEOUS SYSTEMS; INFRASTRUCTURE MANAGEMENTS; PARAMETRIC STUDY; RELIABILITY-BASED; SYSTEM LEVEL OPTIMIZATION; SYSTEM LEVELS;

BRIDGES;

EID: 70449674943     PISSN: 00411655     EISSN: 15265447     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1287/trsc.1080.0241     Document Type: Article

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