Bridge Maintenance, Safety Management, Health Monitoring And Informatics - Iabmas '08: Proceedings Of The Fourth International Iabmas Conference, Seoul, Korea, July 13-17 2008

BRIDGE MAINTENANCE, SAFETY, MANAGEMENT, HEALTH MONITORING AND INFORMATICS PROCEEDINGS OF THE FOURTH INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON BRIDGE MAINTENANCE, SAFETY AND MANAGEMENT, SEOUL, KOREA, 13–17 JULY 2008 Bridge Maintenance, Safety, Management, Health Monitoring and Informatics Edited by Hyun-Moo Koh Seoul National University, Seoul, Korea Dan M. Frangopol Lehigh University, Bethlehem, PA, USA CRC Press/Balkema is an imprint of the Taylor & Francis Group, an informa business © 2008 Taylor & Francis Group, London, UK Typeset by Charon Tec Ltd (A Macmillan Company), Chennai, India Printed and bound in Great Britain by Antony Rowe (A CPI-group Company), Chippenham, Wiltshire All rights reserved. No part of this publication or the information contained herein may be reproduced, stored in a retrieval system, or transmitted in any form or by any means, electronic, mechanical, by photocopying, recording or otherwise, without written prior permission from the publishers. Although all care is taken to ensure integrity and the quality of this publication and the information herein, no responsibility is assumed by the publishers nor the author for any damage to the property or persons as a result of operation or use of this publication and/or the information contained herein. Published by: CRC Press/Balkema P.O. Box 447, 2300 AK Leiden, The Netherlands e-mail: [email protected] www.crcpress.com – www.taylorandfrancis.co.uk – www.balkema.nl ISBN 13: 978-0-415-46844-2 Bridge Maintenance, Safety, Management, Health Monitoring and Informatics – Koh & Frangopol (eds) © 2008 Taylor & Francis Group, London, ISBN 978-0-415-46844-2 Table of Contents Preface XXXV Conference organization XXXVII T. Y. Lin Lecture Fatigue of steel bridge infrastructure J.W. Fisher & S. Roy 3 Keynote Lectures Managing seismic performance of highway bridges – Evolution in experimental research M. Saiidi 13 Cost-effective and durable cable-stayed bridges H. Svensson 17 A new concept of orthotropic steel bridge deck M.-C. Tang 25 Health monitoring of structures & related education and training needs of civil engineers A.A. Mufti & J.P. Newhook 33 Practical implementation of probability based assessment methods for bridges I. Enevoldsen 41 Bridge monitoring in Japan: The needs and strategies Y. Fujino & D.M. Siringoringo 49 Bridging capacity innovations on cable-supported bridges Y.J. Ge & H.F. Xiang 53 Overcoming technological challenges to create new values for bridges S.P. Chang 63 Technical Contributions Advanced and high performance materials Durability of bridges made of advanced composite materials J.R. Correia, F.A. Branco, J.G. Ferreira, S. Cabral-Fonseca, M.I. Eusébio & M.P. Rodrigues V 83 Analytical study on the performance of reinforced high-strength concrete bridge columns D.J. Seong, H.M. Lee, H.M. Shin, J.H. Choi & M.S. Oh 85 Use of steel fibre concrete to eliminate shear reinforcement in pretensioned concrete beams P. De Pauw, L. Taerwe, N. Van den Buverie & W. Moerman 87 Durability of Structural Comp