TY - GEN
T1 - Aging and Deterioration of Concrete Structures
T2 - 10th International Conference on Mechanics and Physics of Creep, Shrinkage, and Durability of Concrete and Concrete Structures, CONCREEP 2015
AU - Cusatis, G.
AU - Alnaggar, M.
AU - Gardoni, P.
AU - D'Ambrosia, M.
AU - Qu, J.
N1 - Publisher Copyright:
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PY - 2015
Y1 - 2015
N2 - This paper deals with important issue of the aging and deterioration of concrete structures: a problem at the forefront of civil engrineering research that has profound impact on our society and our way of living. Despite the recognized importance of such issue, entrenched practice and remediation approaches are, for the most part, empirical and fundamentally related only to the lifetime experience of few capable professionals. We all need to thank the work of these people but this paper argues that such "modus operandi" is only slightly better than predicting the future of infrastructure by looking into a crystal ball - it is more magic than science. On the contrary, this paper presents a different vision in which "predictions" are based on a rigourous structural reliability framework equipped with physically-sound computational models that are rigorously validated and continually updated on the basis of reliable experimental data obtained from both destructuve and non-destructuve techniques.
AB - This paper deals with important issue of the aging and deterioration of concrete structures: a problem at the forefront of civil engrineering research that has profound impact on our society and our way of living. Despite the recognized importance of such issue, entrenched practice and remediation approaches are, for the most part, empirical and fundamentally related only to the lifetime experience of few capable professionals. We all need to thank the work of these people but this paper argues that such "modus operandi" is only slightly better than predicting the future of infrastructure by looking into a crystal ball - it is more magic than science. On the contrary, this paper presents a different vision in which "predictions" are based on a rigourous structural reliability framework equipped with physically-sound computational models that are rigorously validated and continually updated on the basis of reliable experimental data obtained from both destructuve and non-destructuve techniques.
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U2 - 10.1061/9780784479346.004
DO - 10.1061/9780784479346.004
M3 - Conference contribution
AN - SCOPUS:84945342398
T3 - CONCREEP 2015: Mechanics and Physics of Creep, Shrinkage, and Durability of Concrete and Concrete Structures - Proceedings of the 10th International Conference on Mechanics and Physics of Creep, Shrinkage, and Durability of Concrete and Concrete Structures
SP - 24
EP - 33
BT - CONCREEP 2015
A2 - Kollegger, Johann
A2 - Hellmich, Christian
A2 - Pichler, Bernhard
Y2 - 21 September 2015 through 23 September 2015
ER -