Development of Inspection Software for Deteriorated Concrete
Structures
By T. Shimizu, K. Matsuyama, H. Kanada and T. Uomoto
Concrete Jornal, Vol.43, No.2, Feb. 2005
- Synopsis
- This paper presents a summary of the system and the user interface of the inspection software developed for maintenance of the concrete bridges. This system was developed with the concept that inexperienced engineers can easily diagnose and point out the neccessity for the detailed inspections from a visual check. The software should also enable user to refer to many sample of deterioration patterns and to the structure type when clear diagnosis cannot be made. The causes and levels of deterioration are determined by the software, based on the data collected during the visual inspection. In this process, the inspection methods related to the causes already listed in the database are deduced automatically. Finally, the current condition and the result of diagnosis are stored part-by-part for each inspected structure so the history of inspection can also be traced.
- Keywords:
- Inspection software, deteriorated concrete structures, visual inspection, diagnosis, database
