Modeling Damage Information for the Operation Phase of Bridges

Zusammenfassung

Bridges are prone to a high level of deterioration because of their frequent and heavy load. To ensure traffic and structural safety as well as durability, bridges are inspected frequently. Registering condition states, performing assessment, and preparing data for maintenance tasks are time consuming and error prone because of primarily paper-based workflows and manual copy-pasting. An improvement in digitizing bridge condition data could decrease the demand of manual work and helps to lower financial efforts for these tasks; therefore, makes inspection, maintenance, and repair more attractive. This dissertation aims to provide a data model that extends the known principle of Building Information Modeling to the operations phase of bridges. Damage information, such as geometries or photos, may be included in existing building models with this approach. Based on that, engineers are enabled to assess bridges based on comprehensive building models instead of analog reports. Contents Glossary VII Acronyms X Abstract XII 1 Introduction 1 2 State of Practice and State of the Art 5 2.1 Building Information Modeling and Digital Twin . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6 2.2 Bridge Cond...