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Jiawei Liu, Hailong Yin, Yixin Zhang, Xiufeng Li, Yongquan Li, Xueru Gong and Wei Wu
Safety barriers (SBs) are important means of reducing failure risks of process systems. As barriers vary in type and function, their effectiveness needs to be evaluated in order to find a more reasonable configuration strategy. However, in practice, ther...
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Abdelrahman M. Abdallah, Mehmet E. Ozbek and Rebecca A. Atadero
Over the last two decades, many researchers have focused on providing new ideas and frameworks to help improve conventional bridge inspection planning approaches, however, little guidance is provided for implementing these new ideas in practice, resultin...
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Zhiqiang Han, Gang Xie, Yongjun Zhou, Yajuan Zhuo, Yelu Wang and Lin Shen
To overcome the limitations of using time interval division to calculate the bridge impact coefficient (IM), a sieving method has been proposed. This method employs multiple sieves on bridge time?history curve samples to ultimately obtain the bridge impa...
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Jonas Aust, Antonija Mitrovic and Dirk Pons
Background?In aircraft engine maintenance, the majority of parts, including engine blades, are inspected visually for any damage to ensure a safe operation. While this process is called visual inspection, there are other human senses encompassed in this ...
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Abdelrahman M. Abdallah, Rebecca A. Atadero and Mehmet E. Ozbek
Bridge inspection standards in the United States require routine visual inspections to be conducted on most bridges at a maximum interval of two years regardless of the bridge condition. Limitations of this uniform calendar-based approach have been repor...
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Mohammad Ilbeigi and Bhushan Pawar
The US Department of Transportation and Federal Highway Administration require routine inspections to monitor bridge deterioration. Typically, bridge inspections are conducted every 24 months. This timeframe was determined solely based on engineering jud...
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Cláudia Ferreira, Ana Silva, Jorge de Brito, Ilídio S. Dias and Inês Flores-Colen
In condition-based maintenance plans, the schedule of inspections is an important step. Condition-based actions are performed according to prescribed condition criteria (i.e., condition, cost, availability, among other factors), and the main purpose of i...
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Rebecca A. Atadero, Gaofeng Jia, Abdelrahman Abdallah and Mehmet E. Ozbek
The limitations of the standard two-year interval for the visual inspection of bridges required by the U.S. National Bridge Inspection Standards have been well documented, and alternative approaches to bridge inspection planning have been presented in re...
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