Recently, the rehabilitation of bridges has become a major social concern because the number of damaged bridges has increased in Japan. Thus the necessity of developing a practical bridge management system points out. The present study is an attempt to develop a new bridge management system (J-BMS) for damaged concrete bridges. The J-BMS not only evaluates the performance of bridges but also offers a rehabilitation strategy based on a combination of maintenance cost minimization and quality maximization.Furthermore, application to existing concrete bridges is presented so as to demonstrate the validity of the system.
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