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Infrastructures, Volume 8, Issue 12

December 2023 - 19 articles

Cover Story: Dams and reservoirs have always been of interest to humans, playing a crucial role in social life. The current context of climate emergency and increased pressure from socio-environmental demands require the exploration of opportunities to improve dam safety practices. In this search, the historical review of these practices becomes relevant. Dividing historical periods into homogeneous periods in terms of dam safety paradigms allows us to structure an evolutionary narrative useful for the review of the fundamentals of the two conceptual frameworks applied nowadays. The conclusions of this review in the current context of exponential growth of technologies, such as data generation and processing, artificial intelligence and equivalent tools, open the debate towards new paradigms that provide alternative responses to the current and future demands. View this paper
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Articles (19)

  • Article
  • Open Access
1 Citations
2,899 Views
16 Pages

The success of regional bridge condition assessment, a crucial component of systematic maintenance strategies, relies heavily on comprehensive, well-structured regional bridge databases. This study proposes the data extraction, cleaning, and integrat...

  • Review
  • Open Access
10 Citations
4,999 Views
15 Pages

Demolition Waste Glass Usage in the Construction Industry

  • Pavels Tihomirovs,
  • Patricia Kara De Maeijer and
  • Aleksandrs Korjakins

Waste glass is an endless issue for the majority of the countries in the world with a linear economy of usage of materials. Demolition waste is counted as part of total construction and demolition waste (CDW). Even today, there are some statistical p...

  • Article
  • Open Access
2 Citations
3,159 Views
20 Pages

Indexing the Maintenance Priority of Road Safety Barriers in Urban and Peri-Urban Contexts: Application of a Ranking Methodology in Bologna, Italy

  • Alessandro Nalin,
  • Andrea Simone,
  • Claudio Lantieri,
  • Umberto Rosatella,
  • Giulio Dondi and
  • Valeria Vignali

The need for clear and updated information is pivotal when authorities plan and perform routinary, periodic and emergency maintenance of both road network and their roadside assets, e.g., curbs, signals, and barriers. With particular regard to road b...

  • Article
  • Open Access
3,978 Views
23 Pages

Urban rail transport has advantages that determine its particular usefulness. However, despite decades of technical development, it is still difficult to speak about satisfactory solutions. Safe, independent access to this transport and public infras...

  • Article
  • Open Access
2 Citations
2,572 Views
18 Pages

Predicting Trajectories of Plate-Type Wind-Borne Debris in Turbulent Wind Flow with Uncertainties

  • Feng Wang,
  • Peng Huang,
  • Rongxin Zhao,
  • Huayong Wu,
  • Mengjin Sun,
  • Zijie Zhou and
  • Yun Xing

Debris poses multifaceted risks and jeopardizes various aspects of the environment, human health, safety, and infrastructure. The debris trajectory in turbulent wind flow is more dispersed due to the inherent randomness of the turbulent winds. This p...

  • Article
  • Open Access
13 Citations
5,136 Views
16 Pages

Battery Electric Buses or Fuel Cell Electric Buses? A Decarbonization Case Study in the City of Brescia, Italy

  • Fabio Borghetti,
  • Michela Longo,
  • Michela Bonera,
  • Marco Libretti,
  • Claudio Somaschini,
  • Valentina Martinelli,
  • Marco Medeghini and
  • Renato Mazzoncini

Nowadays, designing and adopting sustainable and greener transport systems is of upmost interest. The European Commission and different EU countries are developing plans and programs—but also delivering resources—aimed at the decarbonizat...

  • Article
  • Open Access
11 Citations
3,378 Views
21 Pages

Currently, it is necessary to support not only public passenger transport at the expense of individual car transport but also to ensure the modal split of goods from road transport to railway transport. Moreover, it is important to modernize the rail...

  • Article
  • Open Access
2 Citations
2,541 Views
15 Pages

Subjected to complex loadings from the wheel–rail interaction, turnout rail is prone to crack damage. This paper aims to develop a condition evaluation method for crack-alike damage detection of in-service turnout rail. A covariance-based struc...

  • Article
  • Open Access
3,158 Views
19 Pages

During bridge deck construction, the deck finishing machine and the fresh concrete often produce large vertical loads and torsional moments acting on the bridge girder system. In some cases, these loads can cause excessive vertical deflection and tra...

  • Review
  • Open Access
6 Citations
4,876 Views
18 Pages

The railway industry has shown a strong interest in utilizing sustainable materials, including recycled materials and composites, in construction. Bamboo, as a highly renewable natural resource, has been proposed as a construction material for the ra...

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