A conceptual framework for a bridge management system for the United Arab Emirates

Yehia, Sherif; Abdelfatah, Akmal; Dabous, Saleh Abu

doi:10.3233/brs-2012-0039

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“…From that perspective, the Federal Highway Administration (FHWA) introduced the National Bridge Inventory (NBI), where all the states are required to report all inspection data, which eventually became the inventory of all BMS in the USA [3]. The BMS helps in maintaining the health and well-being of the bridges [4][5][6].…”

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Identifying the Factors Impacting Bridge Deterioration in the Gulf Cooperation Council

Al-Rashed,

Abdelfatah,

Yehia

2023

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The deterioration module (DM) is one of the four major modules necessary for any bridge management system (BMS). Environmental conditions, structural systems, bridge configuration, geographic location, and traffic data are some of the major factors that affect the development of deterioration modules. This emphasizes the need for the development of deterioration models that reflect the local conditions. In this article, some of the most important factors that could help in developing deterioration models in the Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC) were identified. The research was conducted in three phases; in the first phase, an extensive literature search was conducted to identify factors adopted in different deterioration models, and in phase two, the most relevant factors to the GCC environment were selected and these factors were further reduced based on input from local bridge experts. The result from the second phase is a list of factors identified by the experts. The identified list was utilized in phase three, which was focused on conducting a survey targeting bridge engineers to help identify the final selection and rank the factors according to their importance level. The results indicate that steel reinforcement protection, design load, chloride attack, type of defect, and age are the most important factors impacting bridge deterioration in the GCC. In addition, the time of rehabilitation; average daily truck traffic, ADTT; and average daily traffic, ADT, are the second most important factors. Factors with medium importance level are deck protection, services under the bridge, and inspection gap. The least important set of factors include temperature and wind load.

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“…In addition, it discusses the historical development of each system. Development of BMSs is discussed in detail in several previous studies [1,[5][6][7]9].…”

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Identifying the Factors Impacting Bridge Deterioration in the Gulf Cooperation Council

Al-Rashed,

Abdelfatah,

Yehia

2023

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Research orientations towards the ‘management’ of infrastructure assets: an intellectual structure approach

Schraven

Hartmann

Dewulf

2013

Structure and Infrastructure Engineering

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In recent decades, research on the management of infrastructure assets has increased steadily. However, there are concerns raised about the contribution of studies to a coherent body of knowledge. There is a call for a more structured understanding of the knowledge that is emerging around the management of infrastructure assets. This paper attempts to answer this call through an empirical study based on the reference lists of over 8200 articles that present their study relevant to the management of infrastructure assets. In so doing, we apply recognised techniques from bibliometric and social network analyses to visualise and identify major and minor topics, where researchers have oriented and contributed. We find that managing infrastructure assets traditionally was object-oriented, such as pavements, bridges, water and utility networks, and that attention is only now emerging on the life-cycle decision-making and organisational aspects, although the latter remains weakly linked with technical aspects. We conclude with shared research orientations in 'managing' infrastructure assets.

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Bridge Management System for UAE: Database Development for Bridge Inventory

Abdelfatah¹,

Shanableh²,

Yehia³

et al. 2013

IABSE Conference, Rotterdam 2013: Assessment, Upgrading and Refurbishment of Infrastructures

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<p>The size and complexity of managing bridges infrastructure created a movement to develop and use country-specific Bridge Management Systems (BMS) in many countries around the world. Therefore, two of the authors have contributed to the development of a framework for a bridge management system in the United Arab Emirates. The proposed BMS consists of eight main modules, which include inventory, inspection, condition assessment, deterioration models, repair strategy, maintenance, research and development, and decision-making. Each module has inputs, outputs, and inter-relationship with other modules.</p> <p>In this paper, inventory and inspection modules of the proposed BMS framework were discussed. In addition, the Entity-Relationship (E-R) information modelling technique that is used to create the conceptual information model for the inventory database were presented and discussed.</p>

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A conceptual framework for a bridge management system for the United Arab Emirates

Cited by 3 publications

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Identifying the Factors Impacting Bridge Deterioration in the Gulf Cooperation Council

Identifying the Factors Impacting Bridge Deterioration in the Gulf Cooperation Council

Research orientations towards the ‘management’ of infrastructure assets: an intellectual structure approach

Bridge Management System for UAE: Database Development for Bridge Inventory

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