Meet the editors

Dr. Resat Oyguc is an Associate Professor in the Department of Earthquake Engineering at the Institute of Disaster Management at Istanbul Technical University. He received his M.Sc. and Ph.D. degrees from Yıldız Technical University in Structural Engineering, and Istanbul Technical University in Structural and Earthquake Engineering, respectively. His research doctorate was on the seismic capacity assessment of irregular structures using

adaptive pushover procedures. He investigates the response of complex networks and structures under extreme loading conditions. He has also undertaken many studies on the safety assessment of structures and evaluation of post-earthquake failures. Specifically, he works on nonlinear inelastic dynamic response simulation for infrastructures. His recent research includes seismic performance assessment of a nuclear reactor building under multiple earthquake excitations considering the degradation effects.

Faham Tahmasebinia holds ME and ME-Research degrees in Civil/Structural Engineering from the University of Wollongong – Australia. He has also completed two Ph.D. degrees in the field of Structural Engineering at the University of Sydney and in the field of Rock Mechanics at the University of New South Wales – Sydney. Currently, he is an academic at the University of Sydney – Australia. His research areas are numerical and analytical simu-

lations in both ductile and brittle materials.

Contents

**Section 1**

Defects

*by Mersida Manjgo and Meri Burzic*

*by Evrim Oyguc, Abdul Hayır and Resat Oyguc*

Risk Assessment in the Monitoring of Works

*by M. Rosário Oliveira*

**Section 2**

Composite Plate *by Louay S. Yousuf*

*and Carl T. Haas*

*by Ganga Kasi V. Prakhya*

Corrosion Effect on Bond Loss between Steel and Concrete

*by Charis Apostolopoulos and Konstantinos Koulouris*

**Preface XI**

Structural Integrity and Failure **1**

**Chapter 1 3**

**Chapter 2 19**

**Chapter 3 39**

**Chapter 4 57**

Bridge Engineering **75**

**Chapter 5 77**

**Chapter 6 89**

**Chapter 7 117**

Analytic and Numerical Results of Bending Deflection of Rectangular

Temporary Works in Construction of Bridges Near Third Party Assets

Geometric Accuracy of Digital Twins for Structural Health Monitoring

*by Ruodan Lu, Chris Rausch, Marzia Bolpagni, Ioannis Brilakis* 

Treatment Analysis of Welding Structure in the Presence of a Crack Type

Structural Modeling and Dynamic Analysis of a Nuclear Reactor Building

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Safety Evaluation of Stay Cables of Cable-Stayed and Extradosed Bridges via Deterministic and Non-deterministic Methods *by Khawaja Ali and Aleena Saleem*

Preface

Structural integrity and failure assessment have been considered by many fields of engineers in the literature as it is a multi-disciplinary concept. The assessment procedure vitally ensures that structural elements will remain functional throughout their service lives. Structural failure refers to the loss of structural integrity by means of loss at the component- or system-level elements. The main concern of integrity assessment as an aspect of engineering is that a structural failure may be avoided at the service level by designing the structure to withstand its designated loads. Hence, for satisfactory structural performance, structural safety, failure, and interaction between them should

This book is a collection of chapters to provide the researcher with a comprehensive perspective on structural integrity and its sub-disciplines. Topics of interest include: structural integrity, sustainable structural design and analysis, failure analysis and case studies, damage, fatigue, and fracture of materials and structures, durability, safety and

The book is organized into two sections: Structural Integrity and Failure; and Bridge Engineering. Both sections include four chapters. In the first section, Chapter I discusses a procedure for monitoring fatigue crack growth. Chapter II assesses the seismic behavior of a sample third-generation nuclear reactor building and observes the stress distributions and crack propagations of the prestressed outer containment. Chapter III covers the effects of steel corrosion on bond relationship between steel and concrete. Chapter IV presents a methodology for developing control, measurement and monitoring plans. In the second section, Chapter V studies the derivation of analytic formulation of bending deflection using the theory of classical laminate plate. Chapter VI focuses on the temporary works methods applied to enable the construction of bridges near third party assets by means of independent checks, monitoring, and back analysis. Chapter VII presents an exploratory analysis of the geometric accuracy of digital twins generated for existing infrastructure using point clouds. Chapter VIII describes the evaluation of safety factors of stay cables by employing the deterministic

reliability analysis of structural components, and structural health monitoring.

The editor thanks the authors of the chapters and all contributors. Without their participation this book would not have been possible. Further, the efforts of the staff

> **Dr. Resat A. Oyguc** Associate Professor,

**Faham Tahmasebinia** The University of Sydney,

Turkey

Australia

Istanbul Technical University,

at IntechOpen in bringing this book to fruition are highly appreciated.

be taken into account throughout the design and analysis stages.

and non-deterministic methods at limit states.
