An infrastructure management system for railway bridges: overview and application to a case study

• Tipo: Artigo em Livro de Atas de Conferência Internacional
• Data: 2019-03

Autores

António Abel Henriques (Autor) FEUP; João Fernandes (Autor) Outra; Monica Santamaria (Autor) Outra; José C. Matos (Autor) Outra; Daniel V. Oliveira (Autor) Outra; Lino Costa (Autor) Outra

Ata de Conferência Internacional

Título: IABSE Symposium 2019. Towards a Resilient Built Environment - Risk and Asset Management

Páginas: 168-175

Classificação Científica

CORDIS: Ciências Tecnológicas > Engenharia > Engenharia civil ; Ciências Tecnológicas > Engenharia > Engenharia civil > Engenharia estrutural

FOS: Ciências da engenharia e tecnologias > Engenharia civil

Outras Informações

Abstract (EN): A management system is a decision-making tool that uses mathematical models to predict the future condition of the infrastructures as well as to make recommendations to the project managers. Generally, an infrastructure management system shall include a system for processing and analysing data, predicting deterioration, proposing maintenance actions, forecasting costs, obtaining optimal solutions and defining strategies that considers the political and economic constraints. The focus on this paper will be the module regarding the definition of cost-models. During its life cycle, bridges are exposed to several issues that can compromise their functionality. In this way, performing maintenance and rehabilitation actions and establishing cost models are very important tasks to keep the bridge functions according to the demands of the society. In the field of bridge engineering, the cost models can be used for different purposes such as the definition of optimum maintenance policies and project investment alternatives. Also, they are very important for the decision-making process once they cover several aspects related to the decisions about the system’s performance and decisions that are influenced by social-economic aspects. Hence, the idea of this paper is to discuss different approaches of how the cost-models are evaluated over a life cycle of a bridge due different scenarios of maintenance and rehabilitation with an application to a case study.

Idioma: Inglês

Tipo (Avaliação Docente): Científica

Nº de páginas: 8