Risk based Performance Prediction and Lifetime Assessment of Concrete Structures

MOTIVATION: Active management of aging civil infrastructure is a 21st century problem that must be urgently solved as the condition and safety of existing structures deteriorate. This problem will challenge our thinking, methodologies, and ability to incorporate new technologies into existing approaches across a spectrum of interested parties; scientists, infrastructure managers, public officials, and users. Although great progress in the fields of civil infrastructure management, construction, and structural health monitoring has been made, integration of the milestones in each field remains an area in need of research. OBJECTIVES: The project is structured in three main parts (a) the extension of probabilistic advanced analysis methods of concrete structures, (b) optimization and adaptation of structural health monitoring (SHM) systems associated with probabilistic concepts as treated in (a), and (c) the development of cost risk tree based decision module for the efficient cost optimized reliability-assessment and lifetime planning of engineering structures.