Nowadays, with the aging of the bridges and the advancements in technology, load testing
has emerged as an effective method to assess existing concrete bridges with missing …

Bridges enable communications and transportation of goods nationally and internationally,
underpinning economic and social activities, and thus they are pylons of our prosperity and …

The steel corrosion induced by chloride penetration is a great threaten to concrete
structures, in particular exposed to marine environments. Super absorbent polymer (SAP) …

Reinforcement corrosion and induced cracking of concrete is the major durability problem
for concrete structures in the marine environment. And the evolution of expansion stress …

This paper deals with the integrated use of distributed fiber-optic sensors and digital image
correlation techniques to develop a two-stage monitoring method for damage detection …

Due to the aging global civil infrastructure (eg bridges), there is a critical need for monitoring
and assessing structural integrity of large scale structures. According to the ASCE, in 2008 …

In the recent years, Digital Image Correlation (DIC) was applied with very promising results
to monitor cracks in reinforced concrete structures. However, current DIC measurements …

This paper presents an experimental program aimed at providing reliable and
comprehensive experimental data for assessing the available models of predicting the shear …

Despite more than a century of continuous effort, shear still remains one of the few areas of
research into fundamentals of the behavior of concrete structures where dispute remains …

A finite element (FE) model was calibrated using the data obtained from a full-scale test to
failure of a 50 year old reinforced concrete (RC) railway bridge. The model was then used to …