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Supporting Life Cycle Management of Bridges Through Multi-Hazard Reliability and Risk Assessment

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Bridge infrastructure is susceptible to damage from a large host of threats including natural hazards, aging and deterioration, and demands that increase with population growth and urbanization. Life cycle management of bridge infrastructure requires an understanding of the relative contribution of these threats to the risk of damage or impending consequences, such as life cycle costs. Traditionally, limited attention has been given to understanding the hazard risk profile to bridge infrastructure, defined as the relative risks posed by multiple hazards and the synergies or trade-offs in protecting for different hazards. Furthermore, effective strategies are needed to jointly consider cumulative damage (e.g., from aging) and punctuated damage (e.g., from natural hazards) when assessing the influence of design or upgrade decisions that may mitigate risks from multiple potentially competing hazards. This chapter utilizes metamodels as an efficient strategy for developing parameterized time-dependent bridge fragilities for multiple hazards, thereby facilitating multi-hazard risk assessment and life cycle management. Threats considered in the case studies include earthquakes, hurricanes, aging and deterioration, and live loads. The applications illustrate the relative contribution of earthquake and hurricane hazards to the risk of losses given variation in bridge parameters, the influence of considering aging when assessing the hazard risk profile, and the impact of concurrent threats (e.g., truck and earthquake) on the life cycle risk.

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The authors would like to gratefully acknowledge the support of this research by the National Science Foundation (NSF) under Grant No. CMMI-1055301. Any opinions, findings, and conclusions or recommendations expressed in this material are those of the authors and do not necessarily reflect the views of the National Science Foundation. The authors would also like to acknowledge computational facilities provided by the Data Analysis and Visualization Cyberinfrastructure (NSF grant OCI-0959097).

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Padgett, J.E., Kameshwar, S. (2016). Supporting Life Cycle Management of Bridges Through Multi-Hazard Reliability and Risk Assessment. In: Gardoni, P., LaFave, J. (eds) Multi-hazard Approaches to Civil Infrastructure Engineering. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-29713-2_3

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