This study proposes a corrosion fatigue system reliability-based life cycle cost analysis model of high-speed railway steel bridge. As it recently appears that Life Cycle Cost Analysis may be considered as new methodology for economic valuation of inf...
This study proposes a corrosion fatigue system reliability-based life cycle cost analysis model of high-speed railway steel bridge. As it recently appears that Life Cycle Cost Analysis may be considered as new methodology for economic valuation of infrastructure many researches have been made to assess LCC(Life Cycle Cost) of each facility based on a reasonable methods. In general, LCC is composed of construction cost and expected maintenance repair cost. And especially, maintenance repair cost must be estimated to enhance the reliability through systematic and reasonable methods. However in Korea, because high speed railway steel bridges are recently constructed no direct statistical data are available for the account of the maintenance cost and then their maintenance characteristics are not linear yet. It is important to estimate fatigue and corrosion of result in the effect of stress concentrations on fatigue resistance. Hence the stress-based Approach (S-N Curve) and the LEFM approach is used for corrosion fatigue reliability analysis based on Rahgozar et al.(2006)'s model on fatigue notch factor considering into the corrosion to incorporate the corrosion effect into the fatigue strength reduction. And the corrosion fatigue system reliability model based on S-N curve approach is proposed to compute the life cycle cost under construction.
Finally, this paper reviews the proposed LCC model in oder to confirm the applicability and feasibility by appling it to measured data of high speed railway steel bridges.