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Bridges & Special Structures Design
Bridges & Special Structures Design
Accelerated Bridge Preservation
Project Number: SPR-1687
Contract Number: 2018-0074
Status: Complete
Start Date: 01/29/2018
End Date 01/30/2020
Summary:
The work described here represents an attempt to develop a comprehensive risk management framework for the asset management of retaining wall structures. The work presented includes the development of a sensing strategy that can be used by structural inspectors to assess the coupled performance of the wall structure and the geotechnical system it supports. A reliability framework was developed using first-order reliability methods (FORM) to assess the reliability factor (β) for wall components and incorporates the consequences of failure with the estimated structural reliability factors to provide a basis for risk assessment of retaining walls. A new inspection manual was developed to reflect the instrumentation strategies and risk analyses developed.
Publications:
Research Manager | Project Manager | Performing Organization |
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Michael Townley | Eric Burns | Michigan State University |