Reconstruction as Deterioration Indicator for Operational Structural Performances of Bridge Materials

This article presents analysis of deterioration indicators for a comparative quantification of the operational structural performances of bridge inventories. The analysis considers the various kinds of material in the entire database of the US National Bridge Inventory. The multi-criteria approach integrates the indicators of deterioration, considering diagnostic condition and life cycle to determine the equivalent operational structural performances. This study also uses reconstruction data to determine an additional deterioration indicator for performance. The proportional effort for reconstruction reflects the practical need to counter deterioration and preserve a required level of structural performance, under all circumstances. The presented addition of reconstruction performance provides a more comprehensive assessment of bridge performance. The results reveal the continuous efforts to maintain a relatively balanced performance adequacy at the national level within the prevailing funding constraints. Reconstruction performances are generally higher than deterioration trends (rate and pattern) performances, revealing that the constrained reconstruction efforts have difficulty to keep pace with the actual deterioration.

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