Infrastructure health in civil engineering : theory and components. Volume 1 /

Continually increasing demands on infrastructures mean that maintenance and renewal require timely, appropriate action that maximizes benefits while minimizing cost. To be as well informed as possible, decision-makers must have an optimal understanding of an infrastructure's condition-what it i...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author:	Ettouney, Mohammed
Corporate Author:	Taylor & Francis
Other Authors:	Alampalli, Sreenivas
Format:	eBook
Language:	English
Published:	Boca Raton : Taylor & Francis, ©2012.
Subjects:	Infrastructure (Economics) Reliability (Engineering) Structural failures > Prevention. Structural health monitoring. Fiabilité. Surveillance de l'état des structures. TECHNOLOGY & ENGINEERING > Structural. Structural health monitoring Electronic books.
Online Access:	Connect to the full text of this electronic book

Table of Contents:

Front Cover; Contents; Preface; Authors; Chapter 1: Introduction; Chapter 2: Elements of Structural Health in Civil Engineering (SHCE); Chapter 3: Lives and Deaths of Infrastructure; Chapter 4: Theories and Principles of IHCE; Chapter 5: Sensors and Infrastructure Health; Chapter 6: Structural Identification (STRID); Chapter 7: Damage Identification (DMID); Chapter 8: Decision Making in IHCE; Appendix Unit Conversion; Back Cover.