Application of Life-cycle Cost Analysis in Civil Engineering Webinar
- Application of Life-cycle Cost Analysis in Civil Engineering
- 04/27/2017
Presenter(s)
Qindan Huang
- Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering
- University of Akron, Ohio
Abstract
Life-cycle cost analysis has been recognized as an effective tool to measure economic performance of civil engineering infrastructure. Generally speaking, it consists of three components: initial/construction cost, operation/maintenance cost, and life-cycle loss, where the last two cost components involve time-dependent performance predictions. Thus, long-term serviceability and integrity and associated prevailing uncertainties are appropriately considered in the life-cycle cost assessment, which in turn, provides useful decision making information. In this presentation, two application projects will be presented. (1) First, life-cycle cost analysis is applied to determine the optimum repair materials for patch repair of RC structures considering corrosion. Three repair materials are considered: normal strength concrete without pozzolan, high performance concrete with silica fume, and high performance concrete with fly ash. (2) Second, life-cycle cost analysis is used to examine the vulnerability of the winter maintenance salt supply to depletion and the associated risk costs in Ohio using Ohio Department of Transportation (ODOT)-specific data pertaining to the amount of salt storage, number of trucks, and lane kilometers maintained by each county.
Speaker Bio(s)
Dr. Qindan Huang is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Civil Engineering at The University of Akron, OH, USA. She acquired her Ph.D. in Civil Engineering from Texas A&M University, College Station. Several areas of special interest to Dr. Huang are risk analysis, structural reliability, performance assessment of deteriorating structures, and damage detection methods.
