Background: Distal tibia fractures are among the most common bony injuries, with a significant rate of nonunion anddelayed union. There are multiple methods for the management of distal tibia fractures. Among the plating methods,there are bridge plating and compression plating techniques. There is still a lack of evidence about whether one methodhas a higher rate of union than...

Consider a connected undirected graph G =< N , E >, where N is the set of n nodes, and E is the set of e edges. Without loss of generality, I assume N to be {1, 2, . . . , n}. An edge (i, j) ∈ E is a bridge of G if the removal of (i, j) disconnects G. Clearly, the removal of a bridge increases the number of connected components of a graph by one. The bridge-connected components problem consists...

Developing a bridge management strategy at the network level with efficient use of capital is very important for optimal infrastructure remediation. This paper introduces novel decision support system that considers many aspects and successfully implements investigated methodology in web-based platform. The proposed uses advanced prediction models, trees, incremental machine learning algorithms...

This study describes the performance assessment of the Huangpu Bridge in Guangzhou, China based on long-term monitoring in real-time by the kinematic global positioning system (RTK-GPS) technique. Wavelet transformde-noising is applied to filter the GPS measurements, while the adaptive neuro-fuzzy inference system (ANFIS) time series output-only model is used to predict the deformations of GPS-...

In recent years, multi-vendor interaction and information integration was made possible by automatic discovery and secure communication features. An effective support for the surgeon also depends on machine-readable information about the actual surgical procedure. In the present work a concept for integration of modern OR bus systems and process management is described. Process management in th...

Although structural monitoring has been recognized as a powerful information tool, bridge managers often make decisions based on their experience or on common sense, somehow regardless of the action suggested by instrumental damage detection algorithms. In fact, managers weight differently the outcomes of the detection based on his/her prior perception of the state of the structure and decide k...

Notice: Changes introduced as a result of publishing processes such as copy-editing and formatting may not be reflected in this document. For a definitive version of this work, please refer to the published source: The availability of bridges is crucial to people's daily life and national economy. Bridge health predication plays an important role in bridge management because maintenance optimiz...

Hanshin Expressway Public Corporation had been privatized in 2005 and has responsibility for maintaining service level of civil structures at sound condition and completely paying off its debt within 45 years after privatization. Therefore, it is an important issue to establish maintenance and rehabilitation plan considering the payment of the debt. This study addresses on Hanshin Expressway as...

This paper describes a cloud-based cyberinfrastructure framework for the management of the diverse data involved in bridge monitoring. Bridge monitoring involves various hardware systems, software tools and laborious activities that include, for examples, a structural health monitoring (SHM), sensor network, engineering analysis programs and visual inspection. Very often, these monitoring syste...