Bridge fatigue assessment and management using reliability-based crack growth and probability of detection models

Probabilistic Engineering Mechanics

Volumn 26, Issue 3, 2011, Pages 471-480

  Kwon, Kihyon ^a   Frangopol, Dan M ^a  

^a Lehigh University   (United States)

Author keywords

Bridges; Crack growth; Fatigue assessment; Probability of detection; Reliability; Time dependent performance

Indexed keywords

CRACK GROWTH MODEL; CRACK SIZES; DETECTION CAPABILITY; EXISTING BRIDGE; FATIGUE ASSESSMENT; FATIGUE ASSESSMENTS; FATIGUE CRACKS; FATIGUE PERFORMANCE; FATIGUE RELIABILITY; FIELD MONITORING; NON DESTRUCTIVE EVALUATION; NUMBER OF CYCLES; PERFORMANCE ASSESSMENT; PREDICTION MODEL; PROBABILITY OF DETECTION; SENSITIVE STRUCTURE; THREE MODELS; TIME-DEPENDENT; TIME-DEPENDENT PERFORMANCE; TWO PARAMETER;

C (PROGRAMMING LANGUAGE); CRACKS; FATIGUE OF MATERIALS; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; PROBABILITY; RATING; RELIABILITY;

CRACK DETECTION;

EID: 79952985521     PISSN: 02668920     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.probengmech.2011.02.001     Document Type: Article

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