Evaluation and Rehabilitation of Bridge and Building Infrastructure: Mechanics, Reliability and Design

下一代加拿大结构工程师的使命将是评估、管理和修复加拿大大量不断恶化的桥梁和建筑基础设施。例如，消除未来50年出现的所有桥梁缺陷的当前价值约为850亿美元。拟议的研究计划将教育高素质的人才，通过密集的研究计划，涉及数值分析和大规模的样本测试，以提高设计规范标准的评估和公路桥梁和建筑物的修复，以应对这一挑战。首要的主题是开发合理的评估和修复设计实践，基于结构力学和可靠性原则的坚实基础，可以很容易地转移到实践工程师。

The calling of the next generation of Canadian structural engineers will be to evaluate, manage, and rehabilitate Canada's huge inventory of deteriorating bridge and building infrastructure. For example, the current value of eliminating all bridge deficiencies as they arise over the next 50 years is in the order of $85 Billion. The proposed research program will educate Highly Qualified Personnel to address this challenge through an intensive research program, involving numerical analysis and large-scale specimen testing, to enhance design code criteria for the evaluation and rehabilitation of highway bridges and buildings. The overarching theme is to develop rational evaluation and rehabilitation design practices, based on a firm foundation of structural mechanics and reliability principles, that can be readily transferred to practicing engineers.