TY - GEN
T1 - Estimating bridge characteristics with only situation characteristics using Bayesian networks
AU - Panopoulos, V.
AU - Bougas, A.
AU - de Soto, B. Garcia
AU - Adey, B. T.
N1 - Publisher Copyright:
© 2021 Taylor & Francis Group, London
PY - 2021
Y1 - 2021
N2 - When deciding where a new road or rail line should be built, it is useful to have some idea as to the characteristics of the bridges to be built. One way to do this is to have engineers develop preliminary designs for the bridges that would likely be included in each route. The developed preliminary design, then, stands as a basis for cost estimation and the detailed design of the structure. This would, of course, require a significant amount of time and effort. Another way to do this would be to exploit existing data on the types of bridges built in different situations using Bayesian networks. In this article, it is shown how this can be done using the information in existing databases to estimate bridge characteristics, knowing only the values of a number of situational characteristics, e.g., span to be covered, what the bridge carries, and what the bridge traverses.
AB - When deciding where a new road or rail line should be built, it is useful to have some idea as to the characteristics of the bridges to be built. One way to do this is to have engineers develop preliminary designs for the bridges that would likely be included in each route. The developed preliminary design, then, stands as a basis for cost estimation and the detailed design of the structure. This would, of course, require a significant amount of time and effort. Another way to do this would be to exploit existing data on the types of bridges built in different situations using Bayesian networks. In this article, it is shown how this can be done using the information in existing databases to estimate bridge characteristics, knowing only the values of a number of situational characteristics, e.g., span to be covered, what the bridge carries, and what the bridge traverses.
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U2 - 10.1201/9780429279119-36
DO - 10.1201/9780429279119-36
M3 - Conference contribution
AN - SCOPUS:85117618624
SN - 9780367232788
T3 - Bridge Maintenance, Safety, Management, Life-Cycle Sustainability and Innovations - Proceedings of the 10th International Conference on Bridge Maintenance, Safety and Management, IABMAS 2020
SP - 292
EP - 298
BT - Bridge Maintenance, Safety, Management, Life-Cycle Sustainability and Innovations - Proceedings of the 10th International Conference on Bridge Maintenance, Safety and Management, IABMAS 2020
A2 - Yokota, Hiroshi
A2 - Frangopol, Dan M.
PB - CRC Press/Balkema
T2 - 10th International Conference on Bridge Maintenance, Safety and Management, IABMAS 2020
Y2 - 11 April 2021 through 15 April 2021
ER -