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PROCEEDINGS OF THE FOURTEENTH INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON CIVIL, STRUCTURAL AND ENVIRONMENTAL ENGINEERING COMPUTING
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Paper 131

A New Method for Quantifying the Contribution of Different Critical Agents to Railway Bridge Deterioration

M. Aflatooni, T.H.T. Chan and D.P. Thambiratnam

School of Civil Engineering and Built Environment, Science and Engineering Faculty
Queensland University of Technology, Brisbane, Australia

Full Bibliographic Reference for this paper
M. Aflatooni, T.H.T. Chan, D.P. Thambiratnam, "A New Method for Quantifying the Contribution of Different Critical Agents to Railway Bridge Deterioration", in , (Editors), "Proceedings of the Fourteenth International Conference on Civil, Structural and Environmental Engineering Computing", Civil-Comp Press, Stirlingshire, UK, Paper 131, 2013. doi:10.4203/ccp.102.131
Keywords: bridge rating, flood, collision, earthquake, wind, criticality, vulnerability, bridge management system.

Summary
Railway bridges deteriorate over time due to different critical factors including, flood, wind, earthquake, collision, and environment factors, such as corrosion, wear, termite attack, etc. In current practice, the contributions of the critical factors, towards the deterioration of railway bridges, which show their criticalities, are not appropriately taken into account. In this paper, a new method for quantifying the criticality of these factors will be introduced. The available knowledge as well as risk analyses conducted for different Australian standards and developed for bridge-design will be adopted. The analytic hierarchy process (AHP) is utilized for prioritising the factors. The method is used for synthetic rating of railway bridges developed by the authors of this paper. Enhancing the reliability of predicting the vulnerability of railway bridges to the critical factors, will be the significant achievement of this research.

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