Incorporating the effects of climate change into bridge deterioration modeling: the case of slab-on-girder highway bridge deck designs across Canada
| Autor: | Geoffrey Guest, Jieying Zhang, Hamidreza Shirkhani, Rebecca A. Atadero |
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| Jazyk: | angličtina |
| Rok vydání: | 2020 |
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corrosion
Climate change Building and Construction adaptation Infrastructure design Bridge (interpersonal) Bridge deck climate change Mechanics of Materials Effects of global warming Girder Slab Forensic engineering Environmental science concrete General Materials Science bridge deck Civil and Structural Engineering |
| DOI: | 10.1061/(asce)mt.1943-5533.0003245 |
| Popis: | Climate change is expected to impact both the operational and structural performance of infrastructure such as buildings, roads, and bridges. However, infrastructure design guides widely rely on historical climate data, if any, for informing design requirements. The goal of this research was to explore a methodology for modeling bridge deck design against corrosion attack in a changing climate. Three deterioration stages were simulated to understand the time to deck failure. Corrosion initiation of reinforcing steel was considered by utilizing a deterministic diffusion-based model predicting the time to reinforcement corrosion initiation. Crack initiation and crack growth were also simulated using mechanistic approaches to illustrate the sensitivity of bridge deck deterioration and design service life to changes in bridge deck design and a changing climate across major cities in Canada. The findings indicate that a changing climate has the potential to significantly alter the service life of a bridge deck, but the effect is strongly dependent on the durability design of the bridge deck. It is recommended that bridge designers strive to utilize mechanistic-empirical models that incorporate high-resolution climate data as inputs for better understanding changes in deterioration as a consequence of a nonstationary climate. |
| Databáze: | OpenAIRE |
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