1st Edition
Structures and Infrastructure Systems Life‐Cycle Performance, Management, and Optimization
Preface State-of-the-art: 1. Life-cycle performance, management, and optimization of structural systems under uncertainty: Accomplishments and challenges 2. Bridge network performance, maintenance, and optimization under uncertainty: Accomplishments and challenges 3. Life-cycle of structural systems: recent achievements and future directions, 4. Bridge life-cycle performance and cost: Analysis, prediction, optimization, and decision-making General Methodology: 5. Optimal bridge maintenance planning using improved multi-objective genetic algorithm 6. Maintenance and management of civil infrastructure based on condition, safety, optimization, and life-cycle cost 7. Life-cycle utility-informed maintenance planning based on lifetime functions: Optimum balancing of cost, failure consequences, and performance benefit 8. Efficient multi-objective optimization of probabilistic service life management Life-cycle Performance under Corrosion and Fatigue 9. Probabilistic limit analysis and lifetime prediction of concrete structures 10. Integration of the effects of airborne chlorides into reliability-based durability design of reinforced concrete structures in a marine environment 11. Fatigue system reliability analysis of riveted railway bridge connections, 12. Fatigue performance assessment and service life prediction of high-speed ship structures
Biography
Professor Dan M. Frangopol is the inaugural holder of the Fazlur R. Khan Endowed Chair of Structural Engineering and Architecture at Lehigh University. He has authored/co-authored over 350 articles in archival journals including 9 prize winning papers. He is the Founding Editor of Structure and Infrastructure Engineering and of the Book Series Structures and Infrastructures. He is a foreign member of the Academia Europaea and of the Royal Academy of Belgium, an Honorary Member of the Romanian Academy, and a Distinguished Member of ASCE.
