The Junshan Yangtze River Bridge, built in Wuhan, China 2001, is a steel box girder cable-stayed bridge with main span of 460m. Due to decades service, the suffered gradual degradation and some damage. Structural health monitoring has attracted worldwide attention due its capacity structural damage, assisting maintenance management, ensuring safe operation bridges. To monitor performance status...

A design-based theory seeded methodology was used in a pilot study that undertook to develop a 3D multi-user virtual environment (MUVE) for temporary traffic management education. This methodology is a synthesis of educational design-based research and software development practices. However, learning affordances in 3D MUVEs have yet to be considered. Simulation and social communication are tre...

This position paper describes an automatic component bridge generator for embedding COM components in the Eclipse rich client platform. While embedding of ActiveX controls (graphical COM components) is in principle possible in Eclipse, the data model of the control is not easily accessible, and if done anyway, the task is quite tedious and error-prone. Therefore an automated component bridge ge...

High speed trains are an indispensable part of rapid transportation systems in many countries. As the fastest means of transport on the ground, these trains are extremely sensitive to the terrain and track conditions. Geometrical irregularities and mechanical characteristics of the track, together with inconsistencies in the lane (including bridges that support the track) are considered importa...

This paper presents an application for the development of stochastic models to predict the deterioration of infrastructure facilities. The main objective is to demonstrate the capabilities and limitations of two types of models, namely state-based and time-based models, which will guide decision makers in selecting the most appropriate model type according to management needs and data availabil...

This technical note presents and evaluates a simple approach for estimating the degradation of bridge decks caused by chlorideinduced corrosion degradation. This approach uses the Monte Carlo method and combines a local deterministic mechanics-based model for predicting surface cracking time and a global probabilistic model for predicting a degradation curve by using random variables. The predi...

The Brownian bridge has been suggested as an effective method for reducing the quasi-Monte Carlo error for problems in finance. We give an example of a digital option where the Brownian bridge performs worse than the standard discretization. Hence, the Brownian bridge does not offer a consistent advantage in quasi-Monte Carlo integration. We consider integrals of functions of d variables with G...

We provide two approaches for explaining inconsistency in multi-context systems, where decentralized and heterogeneous system parts interact via nonmonotonic bridge rules. Inconsistencies arise easily in such scenarios, and nonmonotonicity calls for specific methods of inconsistency analysis. Both our approaches characterize inconsistency in terms of involved bridge rules: either by pointing ou...

Interoperability between ontologies is currently enabled by abstractions that standardize or bridge their compositional elements. This paper describes how geometric form will beions that standardize or bridge their compositional elements. This paper describes how geometric form will be used as a more flexible ontological abstraction, one that is capable of not only tolerating heterogeneity, but...

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...