Abstract
ABSTRACT Inspection based maintenance strategies can provide an efficient alternative for civil engineering components subjected to ageing and degradation. The technical and/or economic efficiency of such strategies depends on many factors such as the availability, cost and efficiency of inspection techniques, the mechanisms involved in the loss of performance, the relation between what can be measured through inspections and the level of performance of the structure, the level of required serviceability of the structure, and the direct and indirect economic losses due to a reduction in the performance of a structure. On this basis, this paper studies, using Monte Carlo simulations, the benefits and limitations of an inspection based maintenance strategy.
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