Bridge Maintenance, Safety, Management, Life-Cycle Sustainability and Innovations

Dr. Hiroshi Yokota is a Professor at Division of Engineering and Policy for Sustainable Environment, Faculty of Engineering, Hokkaido University. He obtained his Doctor of Engineering degree from Tokyo Institute of Technology in 1993. Before he joined Hokkaido University, he worked for Ministry of Transport and Port and Airport Research Institute, Japan for 29 years. His research interests include life cycle management of infrastructure and sustainability design of concrete structures. As parts of the life cycle management, performance evaluation, deterioration prediction, effectiveness of repair are main considerations for research. He has published over 200 peer-reviewed papers and over 200 papers at international conferences and symposia. He is currently President of Asian Concrete Federation, Executive Council Member of JCI, and Convener of ISO/TC71/WG1 (Life cycle management of concrete structures). Dr. Dan Frangopol is the inaugural holder of the Fazlur R. Khan Endowed Chair of Structural Engineering and Architecture at Lehigh University. Before joining Lehigh University in 2006, he was Professor of Civil Engineering at the University of Colorado at Boulder, where he is now Professor Emeritus. He is recognized as a leader in the field of life-cycle engineering of civil and marine structures. Dr. Frangopol is the Founding President of the International Association for Bridge Maintenance and Safety (IABMAS) and International Association for Life-Cycle Civil Engineering (IALCCE). He has authored/co-authored 3 books, 64 book chapters, and over 420 articles in archival journals including 11 prize winning papers. He is the Founding Editor of Structure and Infrastructure Engineering and of the Book Series Structures and Infrastructures. Dr. Frangopol is the recipient of several medals, awards, and prizes, from ASCE, IABSE, IASSAR, SAE and other professional organizations, such as the Newmark, Freudenthal, Housner, Lin, Khan and Croes Medals, the Ang, Howard, and Moisseiff Awards, the Munro, Noble, Reese and Wellington Prizes, and the Lifetime Achievement Award in Education (OPAL), to name a few. Dr. Frangopol delivered many plenary lectures at international conferences and several named lectures including the T.Y. Lin, F.R. Khan, K.C. Kavanagh, Warren, and the Wenyuan Lectures. He has served as a consultant or advisor to numerous companies. He holds 4 honorary doctorates and 14 honorary professorships from major universities. He is a member of the US National Academy of Construction, a Foreign Member of the Academy of Europe (London), a Foreign Associate of the Engineering Academy of Japan, a Foreign Member of the Royal Academy of Belgium, an Honorary Member of the Romanian Academy, an Honorary Member of the Romanian Academy of Technical Sciences, and a Distinguished Member of ASCE.

T.Y. Lin Lecture. Keynote Lectures. MINI-SYMPOSIA. MS01: Novel techniques regarding the assessment and monitoring of Bridges. MS02: Recent trends in AI/IoT technologies for bridge maintenance and Safety. MS03: Bridge health monitoring conjunction with smart cities. MS05: Electro-chemical corrosion protection to extend the service life. of concrete bridges. MS06: Bridge loading – Measurement and modelling. MS07: Prolonging the life of steel and steel composite bridges. MS08: Bridge safety, maintenance and management under natural hazards and climate change. MS09: Value of information in bridge monitoring and management. MS10: Centenary bridges - An insight into construction and technology History. MS11: Research progress on submerged floating tunnels. MS12: International expansion of bridge asset management technologies. MS13: Bridge-Vehicle interaction and their applications. MS14: Structural health monitoring of bridges based on modern sensor technologies and novel methodologies. MS15: Life-cycle performance assessment of existing bridges in an aggressive environment. MS16: Multi-hazard vulnerability assessment of bridges in a changing Climate. MS17: Design, construction, maintenance, and management to realize highly-durable concrete structures under harsh environments. MS18: Advances in experimental and computational simulation for extreme load performance assessment of bridges. MS19: Suitable maintenance for road bridge of municipality. MS20: Design expectations and actual field performance of existing bridges. MS21: Bridge safety evaluation and risk assessment: Code requirements vs. practical considerations (2020). MS22: FRP Strengthening of metallic structures. MS23: Innovative methods in strengthening of concrete bridges. MS24: Novel multi-scale methods applied in bridge assessment and Maintenance. MS25: Technical risk assessment in recent bridge accidents and disasters. MS26: New NDE and monitoring technique for evaluating discrete damage in unhealthy structures. MS27: Recent trends in monitoring and analysis of wind effects on long-span bridges. SPECIAL SESSIONS. SS01: Vibration-Based monitoring and damage identification for bridges. SS02: Cracking simulation and measurement of concrete structures. SS03: Steel bridge rehabilitation. SS04: Bridge design-maintenance and monitoring practices around the world. SS05: Soil-steel composite bridges and culverts: Testing and numerical Analysis. SS06: Developments and trends in hybrid structures. SS07: Numerical simulation technique in life-cycle design and maintenance of bridges. SS08: Approaches to bridge management / Bridge management systems from around the world. SS09: Standardization of quality specifications for highway bridges. SS11: Sustainable marine structures. SS12: Life-cycle redundancy, robustness and resilience of bridges and infrastructure networks under multiple hazards. SS13: Application of vehicle-bridge interaction to bridge maintenance and safety. SS14: Deterioration modelling and structural reliability analysis of bridges. SS15: Constructability difficulties of bridges and solutions. SS16: Bridge structural health monitoring for infrastructure management. SS17: Surrogate modeling and machine-learning applications for bridge vulnerability assessment and uncertainty quantification. SS18: Monitoring techniques and their interpretation for the integrity assessment of bridges. SS19: Application of UHPC for bridge structures. SS20: Innovations and advances of composite techniques in bridge maintenance and rehabilitation. SS21: Advances in SHM of bridges and critical infrastructures. SS22: Bridges and footbridges in changing environment: Control schemes and devices. SS23: Sustainability considerations for bridge management. SS24: Mechanisms of internal swelling reactions and those effects on structural performances. SS25: Analysis of fatigue members. SS26: Advances in NDE/NDT for the bridge assessment. SS27: Life-cycle analysis: Probabilistic modeling of the deterioration and recovery of bridges and transportation infrastructure, and the optimal allocation of resources. SS28: Rehabilitation and strengthening of concrete and steel structures with UHPFRC. SS29: Protective surface treatment for durability enhancement and service life extension of concrete bridges. SS31: Advances in assessment, simulation, and retrofit of corroded bridges. SS32: ICT and 3D technology for maintenance and management of large-scale structures. SS33: Risk control, smart operation and effective maintenance of long-span bridges: In conjunction with TC-18, ACECC. SS34: Data informatics for SHM of bridges. SS35: Latest developments on seismic response of integral abutment Bridges. SS36: Degradation factors of a metal spraying system for steel bridges. SS37: Fatigue linked retrofitting, life extension and advanced assessment in metallic bridges. SS38: Performance-based earthquake engineering: seismic resilience for bridges. SS39: Data-driven asset management – The Scandinavian way. SS40: Design, construction and evaluation of pedestrian bridges. SS41: Monitoring strategies for enhancing transport infrastructure Resilience. SS42: Machine Learning-based SHM data analysis and condition assessment for bridges. SS43: Strengthening infrastructure risk assessment in the Atlantic area. SS44: BRIDGE|50 research project: Experimental testing on a 50-year-old Bridge. GENERAL SESSIONS. Author index