Date of Award
January 2016
Degree Type
Dissertation
Degree Name
Doctor of Philosophy (PhD)
Department
Civil Engineering
First Advisor
Samuel Labi
Committee Member 1
Kumares C. Sinha
Committee Member 2
Jon D. Fricker
Committee Member 3
Fred L. Mannering
Committee Member 4
Thomas Morin
Abstract
In an era of increasing demand and loading, aging infrastructure, and funding shortfalls, infrastructure agencies continue to seek cost-effective solutions to persistent and pervasive questions regarding the upkeep of their physical assets. One such question is the appropriateness of the current fixed condition thresholds used at several agencies for rehabilitation timing purposes, whether there is the possibility of having flexible rather than fixed thresholds, and determining what these thresholds should be. A related question is how these flexible thresholds may vary, depending on the objectives of the decision maker, the relative weight of agency and user costs, and the form of expression of the life-cycle cost associated with the candidate rehabilitation schedules. Fortunately, a number of past researchers have developed inputs that are valuable for addressing this issue. Also, there exists data from in-service infrastructure that could be used to test the hypotheses regarding the sensitivity of the optimal schedules.
Recommended Citation
Murillo Hoyos, Jackeline Murillo Hoyos, "A Methodology to Determine Non-Fixed Performance Based Thresholds for Infrastructure Rehabilitation Scheduling" (2016). Open Access Dissertations. 1262.
https://docs.lib.purdue.edu/open_access_dissertations/1262