This TechBrief defines bridge performance and discusses the importance of measuring performance and current practices for doing so. It identifies key issues to improving performance measures and the role the Long-Term Bridge Performance (LTBP) Program plays in this effort. This document is a technical summary of the published Federal Highway Administration (FHWA) report FHWA-HRT-13-051, LTBP Bridge Performance Primer, which is available at http://www.fhwa.dot.gov/research/tfhrc/programs/infrastructure/structures/ltbp/pubs.cfm.
This TechBrief summarizes Long-Term Bridge Performance (LTBP) Industry Day, held July 16, 2012, a public meeting sponsored by the Federal Highway Admi...
Structural Health Monitoring (SHM) aims to analyze civil, mechanical and aerospace systems in order to assess incipient damage occurrence. In this pro...
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