Bøger af Dirk Proske

This monograph provides a comparative study between failure probabilities and collapse frequencies in structural bridge engineering. The book includes available data and case studies and thus presents patterns to identify potential weaknesses and challenges in bridge maintenance.

This monograph provides a comparative study between failure probabilities and collapse frequencies in structural bridge engineering. The book includes available data and case studies and thus presents patterns to identify potential weaknesses and challenges in bridge maintenance.

Historical stone arch bridges are still key to the infrastructure of many countries. This book describes the history of these bridges and discusses various methods to mend and strengthen them, focusing on the probabilistic safety assessment.

Terms such as risk, disaster, indeterminacy and uncertainty are discussed in this book. Furthermore, disasters and risks are categorized and then major disasters in these categories are listed. The book clearly shows the interdependence of risk measures.