Bridge Maintenance, Safety, Management and Life-Cycle Optimization: Proceedings of the Fifth International IABMAS Conference on Bridge Maintenance, Safety and Management, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA, July 2010 (A Balkema Book)

Oversized hardcover, xliii + 700 pages, CD-Rom in back pocket, NOT ex-library. Weight 1465g. Interior is clean and bright with unmarked text, free of inscriptions and stamps, firmly bound. Boards show short creases to edges, a deep scratch on the front panel. Issued without a dust jacket. -- Contents divided into the following sections: T.Y. Lin Lecture; Keynote Lectures; Mini-Symposia: -- MS1: Futuristic bridge maintenance technologies; MS2: Monitoring & assessment of bridges using novel techniques; MS3: Present & future of bridge inspection & evaluation; MS4: Research & applications in bridge health monitoring; MS5: New procedures for bridge rehabilitation; MS6: Measurement systems for bridge weigh-in-motion (B-WIM); MS7: Bridge management tools & research; MS8: Uncertainty in bridge damageability modelling; MS9: Performance-based asset & risk management of the highway infrastructure system; MS10: Bridging the data gaps for effective management; MS12: Computational prediction & in field validation of bridge performance; MS12: Computational prediction & in field validation of bridge performance; MS13: Management & maintenance of long span bridges; MS14: SmartEN Marie Curie ITN: Smart management for sustainable human environment; MS15: European approach on integrated infrastructure risk management (IRIS); MS16: Safety & management of bridges in Mexico; MS17: COWI Group mini-symposium: Cable supported bridges; MS18: Lifetime design of super long span bridges]; Special Sessions [SS1: Use of health monitoring for life-cycle cost analysis & optimization; SS2: Safety monitoring & maintenance strategy for long span bridges; SS3: Bridge condition assessment; SS4: Bridges for high speed railways; SS5: Industrial smart material applications for civil infrastructure (ISMA); SS6: Advances in structural robustness: dependability framework; SS8: Nondeterministic schemes for structural safety & reliability of bridges; SS10: Life cycle bridge engineering in Korea; SS11: ARCHES: Assessment & rehabilitation of Central European highway structures; SS13: Current advancements in bridge technology; SS14: Using technology to manage, preserve, & renew landmark signature bridges; SS15: Modeling of bridge seismic response; SS16: Recent challenging bridge structures; SS17: Life-cycle design of structural systems; SS18: Optical monitoring techniques for bridge maintenance & safety; SS19: Implementation of bridge management administration in Japan; SS20: Challenges for enhancing bridge security; SS21: Structural monitoring of bridges: Hong Kong's experience SS23: Performance-based design for steel structures; SS24: Steel bridge rehabilitation; SS25: New developments in bridge design codes; SS26:WIM-based live loads for bridges; SS27: High performance concrete: lessons of past decades; SS28: Construction, architecture & testing of soil-steel bridges; SS29: Lessons learned from instrumented bridges; SS30: Chinese bridges]; General Sessions; Author Index.…