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ISSN 1759-3433
CCP: 102
PROCEEDINGS OF THE FOURTEENTH INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON CIVIL, STRUCTURAL AND ENVIRONMENTAL ENGINEERING COMPUTING
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Paper 136

A Bridge Management System (J-BMS) in Japan

A. Miyamoto

Graduate School of Science & Engineering
Yamaguchi University, Ube, Japan

Full Bibliographic Reference for this paper
A. Miyamoto, "A Bridge Management System (J-BMS) in Japan", in , (Editors), "Proceedings of the Fourteenth International Conference on Civil, Structural and Environmental Engineering Computing", Civil-Comp Press, Stirlingshire, UK, Paper 136, 2013. doi:10.4203/ccp.102.136
Keywords: integrated lifetime management, information technology, reinforced concrete
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Summary

This paper presents a new bridge management system (J-BMS) integrated with a concrete bridge rating expert system that can be used to evaluate the serviceability of existing concrete bridges. The proposed J-BMS not only evaluates the performance of bridges but also offers the rehabilitation strategy based on a combination of maintenance cost minimization and quality maximization. In this system, the genetic algorithm (GA) technique was used to search for an approximation of the optimal maintenance plan, and was constructed by using Visual Basic and the C language. Furthermore, a comparison of the results of applying this system to some in-service bridges with the results of questionnaire surveys to experts shows that optimal maintenance planning as well as bridge rating can be predicted accurately using this system.

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