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Ujwal Sharma, Uma Shankar Medasetti, Taher Deemyad, Mustafa Mashal and Vaibhav Yadav
This review paper addresses the escalating operation and maintenance costs of nuclear power plants, primarily attributed to rising labor costs and intensified competition from renewable energy sources. The paper proposes a paradigm shift towards a techno...
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Jiawei Zhang, Fenglei Han, Duanfeng Han, Jianfeng Yang, Wangyuan Zhao and Hansheng Li
In the realm of ocean engineering and maintenance of subsea structures, accurate underwater distance quantification plays a crucial role. However, the precision of such measurements is often compromised in underwater environments due to backward scatteri...
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Giuseppe Cantisani, Chiara Caterina Borrelli, Giulia Del Serrone and Paolo Peluso
Road safety depends on a complex balance between all the factors that compose the road system: user, vehicle, environment, and infrastructure. Directive 2008/96/EC introduces procedures to improve the European Transport Network (TEN-T) safety, recognizin...
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Boutros El Hajj, Bruno Castanier, Franck Schoefs and Emilio Bastidas-Arteaga
The objective of this paper is to propose tools for the lifecycle management of infrastructure by showing the slow degradation processes for which inspection data are accessible, especially the data obtained from non-destructive testing (NDT) and structu...
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Andrea Miano, Annalisa Mele, Irene Della Ragione, Antimo Fiorillo, Marco Di Ludovico and Andrea Prota
The Italian infrastructure network of roads and bridges is one of the most complex in the world due to the territory orography. Italy is strongly interested in seismic and hydrogeological hazards, and, in addition, degradation and obsolescence phenomena ...
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Roman Trach
Recently, the bridge infrastructure in Ukraine has faced the problem of having a significant number of damaged bridges. It is obvious that the repair and restoration of bridges should be preceded by a procedure consisting of visual inspection and evaluat...
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Abdullah As Sami, Saadman Sakib, Kaushik Deb and Iqbal H. Sarker
Deep learning has enabled a straightforward, convenient method of road pavement infrastructure management that facilitates a secure, cost-effective, and efficient transportation network. Manual road pavement inspection is time-consuming and dangerous, ma...
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Enrique Aldao, Higinio González-Jorge, Luis Miguel González-deSantos, Gabriel Fontenla-Carrera and Joaquin Martínez-Sánchez
The inspection and maintenance of track ballast are fundamental tasks for the preservation of the condition of railway networks. This work presents an application based on a low-cost solid-state LiDAR system, which allows the user to accurately measure t...
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Wei Chen, Xianglin Fu, Wanqing Chen and Zijun Peng
For the development of reinforced concrete structures and infrastructure construction, traditional rebar checking and acceptance methods have shortcomings in terms of efficiency. The use of digital image processing technology cannot easily identify a reb...
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José Matos, Sérgio Fernandes, Minh Q. Tran, Quyen T. Nguyen, Edward Baron and Son N. Dang
Transportation infrastructures, especially roadway bridges, play a pivotal role in socioeconomic development. Recently, bridge engineers are increasingly facing the challenge in terms of shifting their strategy from building new facilities to maintaining...
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