Abstract An optimal maintenance program is the key to making appropriate decisions to minimize cost and maintain an appropriate lev- el of safety. In this paper, the strategy on repairing and strengthening of existing...Abstract An optimal maintenance program is the key to making appropriate decisions to minimize cost and maintain an appropriate lev- el of safety. In this paper, the strategy on repairing and strengthening of existing bridges based on time-dependent reliability was analyzed with the maximum expected benefit as the objective function. Risk ranking and lifecycle cost analysis were considered in the reliability-based bridge assessment. A practical application of risk-ranking decision was illustrated herein based on updated inspection informarion with the bridge at survival age 35. The effects of improvement of live load and difference of repair methods on time-dependent reliability of existing bridges were studied. The decision method can be used in real projects, with the cost of failure consequence and the risk of failure considered.展开更多
In this paper, the authors will study the estimation of maintenance efficiency in Arithmetic Reduction of Intensity （ARI） and Arithmetic Reduction of Age （ARA） models with a memory m. These models have been propos...In this paper, the authors will study the estimation of maintenance efficiency in Arithmetic Reduction of Intensity （ARI） and Arithmetic Reduction of Age （ARA） models with a memory m. These models have been proposed by Doyen （2005）, the failure process is simply Non Homogeneous Poisson Process （NHPP）. Our models are defined by reformulation of ARI and ARA ones using bathtub failure intensity. This form is presented like a superposition of two NHPP and Homogeneous Poisson Process （HPP）. Moreover, the particularity of this model allows taking account of system state improvement in time course. The maintenance effect is characterized by the change induced on the failure intensity before and after failure during degradation period. To simplify study, the asymptotic properties of failure process are derived. Then, the asymptotic normality of several maintenance efficiency estimators can be proved in the case where the failure process without maintenance is known. Practically, the coverage rate of the asymptotic confidence intervals issued from those estimators is studied.展开更多
文摘Abstract An optimal maintenance program is the key to making appropriate decisions to minimize cost and maintain an appropriate lev- el of safety. In this paper, the strategy on repairing and strengthening of existing bridges based on time-dependent reliability was analyzed with the maximum expected benefit as the objective function. Risk ranking and lifecycle cost analysis were considered in the reliability-based bridge assessment. A practical application of risk-ranking decision was illustrated herein based on updated inspection informarion with the bridge at survival age 35. The effects of improvement of live load and difference of repair methods on time-dependent reliability of existing bridges were studied. The decision method can be used in real projects, with the cost of failure consequence and the risk of failure considered.
文摘In this paper, the authors will study the estimation of maintenance efficiency in Arithmetic Reduction of Intensity （ARI） and Arithmetic Reduction of Age （ARA） models with a memory m. These models have been proposed by Doyen （2005）, the failure process is simply Non Homogeneous Poisson Process （NHPP）. Our models are defined by reformulation of ARI and ARA ones using bathtub failure intensity. This form is presented like a superposition of two NHPP and Homogeneous Poisson Process （HPP）. Moreover, the particularity of this model allows taking account of system state improvement in time course. The maintenance effect is characterized by the change induced on the failure intensity before and after failure during degradation period. To simplify study, the asymptotic properties of failure process are derived. Then, the asymptotic normality of several maintenance efficiency estimators can be proved in the case where the failure process without maintenance is known. Practically, the coverage rate of the asymptotic confidence intervals issued from those estimators is studied.
