About the Book: Maintenance and Safety of Aging Infrastructure
This book presents the latest scientific research and application practice
findings in the engineering field of "maintenance and safety of aging
infrastructure." The selected invited contributions will provide an overview of
the use of advanced computational and/or experimental techniques in damage and
vulnerability assessment as well as maintenance and retrofitting of aging
structures and infrastructures for minimization of losses and life-cycle-cost.
Cost-competent maintenance and management of civil infrastructure requires
balanced consideration of both the structure performance and the total cost
accrued over the entire life-cycle. Another major problem is that the structure
performance is usually reduced during its functioning