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Methodology for Assessing the Technical Condition and Durability of Bridge Structures

  • Kostiantyn Medvediev,
  • Anna Kharchenko,
  • Anzhelika Stakhova,
  • Yurii Yevseichyk,
  • Vitalii Tsybulskyi and
  • Adrián Bekö

The proposed methodology aims to determine and forecast the technical condition of bridge elements, which could serve as an advanced engineering tool for assessing reliability and durability. It is developed based on fundamental studies that synthesi...

  • Article
  • Open Access
7 Citations
3,415 Views
24 Pages

4 June 2020

Introduced by the Civil Code, the rules of road safety are introducing continuously increasingly strict requirements on motor vehicles. These requirements relate to various aspects of the technical condition of vehicles, both those that determine tra...

(This article belongs to the Section A1: Smart Grids and Microgrids)
  • Article
  • Open Access
17 Citations
4,025 Views
26 Pages

27 January 2021

The key challenge for sustainable water management is to carry out a proper assessment of the technical condition of hydrotechnical constructions. Maintaining them in a good state is a prerequisite for ensuring the safety of objects, as well as adjac...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Advances and Challenges in the Sustainable Water Management)
  • Article
  • Open Access
7 Citations
2,569 Views
17 Pages

10 March 2021

This article presents a research approach that enables the assessment of the technical condition of complex technical objects. The main emphasis is placed on the load-carrying structures of these objects. The procedure applying experimental research...

(This article belongs to the Section Mechanical Engineering)
  • Article
  • Open Access
3 Citations
3,036 Views
16 Pages

12 January 2024

(1) Background: Ensuring road user safety relies on the optimal technical condition of cars, addressing both active and passive safety measures. In Poland, vehicle regulations, articulated in the Minister of Infrastructure’s decree of 31 Decemb...

  • Article
  • Open Access
8 Citations
2,365 Views
18 Pages

State-Based Technical Condition Assessment and Prediction of Concrete Box Girder Bridges

  • Zewen Zhu,
  • Kuai Ye,
  • Xinhua Yu,
  • Zefang Lin,
  • Gangzong Xu,
  • Zhenyou Guo,
  • Shoushan Lu,
  • Biao Nie and
  • Huapeng Chen

18 February 2024

The technical condition of bridges has become a crucial issue for organizing the maintenance and repairs in bridge management systems. It is of great practical engineering significance to construct an effective model for predicting the technical cond...

(This article belongs to the Section Building Structures)
  • Article
  • Open Access
12 Citations
2,638 Views
20 Pages

Method for Maintaining Technical Condition of Marine Diesel Engine Bearings

  • Sergii Sagin,
  • Arsenii Sagin,
  • Yurii Zablotskyi,
  • Oleksij Fomin,
  • Václav Píštěk and
  • Pavel Kučera

The aim of the research was to determine the impact of antifriction coatings on the technical condition of marine diesel engine bearings. Various epilams were used as antifriction coatings, with a thin layer applied to the surfaces of the bearings of...

  • Article
  • Open Access
5 Citations
3,347 Views
19 Pages

To the Issue of Assessment of the Technical Condition of Underground Structures of Buildings

  • Oleksandr Semko,
  • Yuriy Vynnykov,
  • Olena Filonenko,
  • Oleg Yurin,
  • Tetiana Ilchenko,
  • Olena Hranko,
  • Volodymyr Semko,
  • Adriana Salles,
  • Ricardo Mateus and
  • Nataliia Mahas
  • + 2 authors

5 March 2025

A survey and assessment of the technical condition of basement and semi-basement structures in public buildings aged 60 to 130 years were conducted to evaluate their suitability for use as basic shelters. Based on the survey results, the most adverse...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Advances in Sustainable Geotechnical Engineering and Civil Engineering)
  • Article
  • Open Access
836 Views
24 Pages

Research on Technical Condition of Concrete Bridges Based on FastText+CNN

  • Shiwen Li,
  • Zhihai Deng,
  • Junguang Wang,
  • Xiaoguang Wu and
  • Qingyuan Feng

21 November 2025

Addressing the challenges of scarce measured data for Class 3–4 bridges and strong subjectivity in manual assessments in bridge technical-condition evaluation, this study innovatively proposes a FastText+CNN evaluation model that integrates sem...

  • Article
  • Open Access
308 Views
15 Pages

27 August 2026

The degradation of building elements progresses with the age of a building as a result of natural ageing processes. The lack of regular maintenance, repair, and renovation works during the operational phase accelerates degradation processes, leading...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Current Technological, Methodological, and Organizational Research Trends in the Construction Industry, Third Edition)
  • Article
  • Open Access
6 Citations
3,997 Views
19 Pages

Using AI-Based Tools to Quantify the Technical Condition of Bridge Structural Components

  • Roman Trach,
  • Volodymyr Tyvoniuk,
  • Tomasz Wierzbicki,
  • Yuliia Trach,
  • Jan Kowalski,
  • Sylwia Szymanek,
  • Justyna Dzięcioł,
  • Ihor Statnyk and
  • Andrii Podvornyi

6 February 2025

The main task of the operation of engineering structures is to ensure the stability of structures with aggressive external influences, which have a complex probabilistic nature. The reliable functioning of bridge structures requires the development a...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Inspection and Monitoring Techniques for Bridges and Civil Structures, 2nd Edition)
  • Article
  • Open Access
1,030 Views
37 Pages

7 January 2026

Road technical condition assessment and maintenance decision-making rely heavily on technical standards whose clauses, computational formulas, and decision logic are often expressed in unstructured formats, leading to fragmented knowledge representat...

(This article belongs to the Section Civil Engineering)
  • Article
  • Open Access
17 Citations
2,819 Views
17 Pages

Sustainable Energy Safety Management Utilizing an Industry-Relative Assessment of Enterprise Equipment Technical Condition

  • Hanna Hrinchenko,
  • Olha Prokopenko,
  • Nadiia Shmygol,
  • Viktor Koval,
  • Liliya Filipishyna,
  • Svitlana Palii and
  • Lucian-Ionel Cioca

16 January 2024

The study considers approaches to ensuring energy management for the safe operation of facilities and their equipment and ways to improve it. It has been established that to ensure effective safety management of industrial enterprises, one of the cri...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Safety and Risk Analysis of Industrial Processes from the Perspective of Sustainability)
  • Review
  • Open Access
2 Citations
1,286 Views
22 Pages

Modern Approaches to Assessing the Technical Condition of Traction Lithium-Ion Batteries: Review Article

  • Yuri Katsuba,
  • Mikhail Kochegarov,
  • Andrey Zalyubovsky,
  • Alexander Sivov and
  • Alexander Bazhenov

In the context of the rapid growth of the electric and hybrid vehicle fleet, ensuring the reliability, safety, and durability of traction lithium-ion battery packs has become a key scientific and engineering challenge. The technical condition of batt...

(This article belongs to the Collection Feature Papers in Propulsion Systems and Components in Electric Vehicle)
  • Article
  • Open Access
1,400 Views
23 Pages

10 January 2026

In modern construction, natural materials with a low carbon footprint and full recyclability are becoming increasingly important. A typical group here is products made from solid wood, including glued wood, plywood, and wood-based composites. With th...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Low-Impact Materials and Construction Strategies for Sustainable and Resilient Buildings)
  • Review
  • Open Access
25 Citations
3,299 Views
40 Pages

5 November 2025

In the context of increasing demands for the reliability and efficiency of electrical complexes and systems, the problem of assessing and monitoring the technical condition (TC) of electrical equipment is becoming particularly relevant. This review i...

  • Review
  • Open Access
3 Citations
791 Views
23 Pages

Reliability Assessment Methods for Power Supply Systems Considering the Technical Condition of Electrical Equipment: A Critical Review

  • Iliya Iliev,
  • Alexander Nazarychev,
  • Sergei Solovev,
  • Ivan Beloev,
  • Konstantin Suslov and
  • Hristo Beloev

19 May 2026

The reliability assessment of power supply systems is complicated by the branched network topology, redundancy, switching operations, post-failure restoration, operating constraints, and uneven equipment degradation. Additional difficulties arise bec...

  • Article
  • Open Access
1,085 Views
20 Pages

1 October 2025

Current methods for assessing the technical condition of aircraft hydrostatic drives require disassembly of the hydraulic components and their testing on test stands. These methods are expensive and do not provide a quick assessment of their technica...

(This article belongs to the Section Sensors Development)
  • Article
  • Open Access
5 Citations
5,385 Views
32 Pages

19 January 2024

Steel automotive wheel rims are subject to wear and tear, down to the end of their service life. Manufacturers use standard destructive tests to determine the probable lifetime of the car wheel rim. With this approach, to predict the remaining use ti...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Dynamic Behavior of Advanced Materials and Structures)
  • Article
  • Open Access
4 Citations
3,026 Views
15 Pages

Assessment of the Technical Condition of High-Voltage Insulators during Operation

  • Dmitry Ivanov,
  • Aleksandr Golenishchev-Kutuzov,
  • Marat Sadykov,
  • Danil Yaroslavsky and
  • Tatyana Galieva

11 November 2022

During the operation process of high-voltage insulators, the characteristics of assessing their technical state are evaluated by using remote contactless monitoring and by subsequent forecasting of their residual life based on the developed set of di...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Advances in Automation, Industrial and Power Engineering)
  • Article
  • Open Access
4 Citations
2,439 Views
20 Pages

10 September 2023

The technical assessment of wooden elements is the primary step in their repair and reinforcement design. Normative requirements currently mandate additional tests, including semi-destructive ones, beyond traditional visual assessment. Despite the gr...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue New Advances in Strengthening of Structural Timber)
  • Article
  • Open Access
2 Citations
1,739 Views
9 Pages

Evaluation of the Technical Condition of Pipes during the Transportation of Hydrogen Mixtures According to the Energy Approach

  • Yaroslav Ivanytskyi,
  • Yaroslav Blikharskyy,
  • Jarosław Sęp,
  • Zinoviy Blikharskyy,
  • Jacek Selejdak and
  • Oleh Holiian

10 June 2024

In this study, a theoretical–experimental methodology for determining the stress–strain state in pipeline systems, taking into account the hydrogen environment, was developed. A complex of theoretical and experimental studies was conducte...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Fatigue Strength of Machines and Systems)
  • Article
  • Open Access
5 Citations
2,389 Views
20 Pages

11 March 2021

The purpose of the research presented in the article is to identify the impact of the processes associated with the broadly understood maintenance of old residential buildings with a traditional construction on the size and intensity of the wear of t...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Probabilistic and Fuzzy Approaches for Estimating the Life Cycle Costs of Buildings)
  • Article
  • Open Access
16 Citations
4,361 Views
22 Pages

Application of Multi-Criteria Analytic Methods in the Assessment of the Technical Conditions of Small Hydraulic Structures

  • Mateusz Hämmerling,
  • Tomasz Kałuża,
  • Paweł Zawadzki,
  • Stanisław Zaborowski,
  • Mariusz Sojka,
  • Daniel Liberacki and
  • Mariusz Ptak

25 January 2022

Increasing water demand, combined with unfavourable climate change, creates a need for well-thought-out water management. Such goals are realised thanks to appropriate hydrotechnical infrastructure, the efficiency and functionality of which depend on...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Sustainable Hydraulic Structures: Design, Monitoring, and Management)
  • Article
  • Open Access
1,597 Views
13 Pages

7 October 2024

This research aims to develop principles for assessing the impact of mega-cyclic vibrodynamic loads on the reliability of construction structures. The relevance of the reasons for the development and improvement of algorithms for numerical modeling o...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Safety and Optimization of Building Structures—2nd Edition)
  • Article
  • Open Access
1 Citations
1,900 Views
22 Pages

A Variable-Weight Model for Evaluating the Technical Condition of Urban Viaducts

  • Li Li,
  • Huihui Rao,
  • Minghao Wang,
  • Weisheng Mao and
  • Changzhe Jin

26 March 2024

Urban viaducts play a crucial role in transportation infrastructure and are closely linked to urban resilience. Accurate evaluation of their structural technical condition forms the basis for the scientific maintenance of urban viaducts. Currently, t...

  • Article
  • Open Access
2 Citations
1,611 Views
20 Pages

10 December 2023

Research on existing wooden structures relies on non-destructive and semi-destructive techniques. One of the methods enabling the estimation of the physico-mechanical characteristics of wood in building structures based on established correlational r...

(This article belongs to the Section Construction and Building Materials)
  • Article
  • Open Access
12 Citations
2,952 Views
13 Pages

Development of a Method for Evaluating the Technical Condition of a Car’s Hybrid Powertrain

  • Oleksiy Bazhinov,
  • Juraj Gerlici,
  • Oleksandr Kravchenko,
  • Yevhen Haiek,
  • Tetiana Bazhynova,
  • Ruslan Zaverukha and
  • Kateryna Kravchenko

7 December 2021

The article presents the results of a study performed and substantiated based on the principles of a new method of diagnostics of technical conditions of a hybrid powertrain regardless of the structural diagram and design features of a hybrid vehicle...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Symmetry and Asymmetry Principles in Latest Advances and Prospects of the Materials Science and Engineering)
  • Article
  • Open Access
6 Citations
2,422 Views
23 Pages

10 April 2024

Assessing the technical condition of a railway track throughout its service life is crucial to ensuring functional safety. However, it is important to note that current approaches have theoretical and practical gaps that require attention. The purpos...

(This article belongs to the Section Sustainable Transportation)
  • Article
  • Open Access
604 Views
12 Pages

Modernity emerges as an era in which the correlation between intelligence and technical mastery becomes the central axis of social and cultural development. These two concepts function as the leitmotif of the modern age, shaping the way human beings...

  • Article
  • Open Access
9 Citations
6,619 Views
18 Pages

6 April 2022

The article presents a comprehensive asset management method. Here presented method aims to bridge the economic approach to asset management with the technical approach to road infrastructure life cycle, namely its resilience and performance. The pre...

(This article belongs to the Section Sustainable Transportation)
  • Article
  • Open Access
11 Citations
2,732 Views
21 Pages

23 June 2024

The aim of the research presented in the article is to use the Metalog family of probability distributions to assess the technical condition of traction battery packs from electric and hybrid vehicles. The description of the research object, which is...

(This article belongs to the Section D2: Electrochem: Batteries, Fuel Cells, Capacitors)
  • Article
  • Open Access
3 Citations
2,457 Views
18 Pages

18 October 2022

The paper presents the issues related to the design and assessment of the technical condition as well as determination of the residual durability of pressure equipment. Based on a real a example, a liquid nitrogen spherical tank, we present the devel...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Advances in Structural Analysis of Materials: Finite Element Modeling)
  • Article
  • Open Access
2 Citations
1,105 Views
30 Pages

Multiplicative Method for Assessing the Technical Condition of Switching Bay Devices in a Substation Using Maintenance Priorities

  • Janez Ribič,
  • Gorazd Štumberger,
  • Marko Vodenik,
  • Uroš Kerin,
  • Miha Bečan,
  • Anja Šketa,
  • Peter Kitak and
  • Drago Bokal

20 June 2025

This paper presents a novel method for assessing the technical condition of devices in the high-voltage (HV) switching bay of a substation, focusing on circuit breakers, disconnectors, and instrument transformers. These devices are typically maintain...

(This article belongs to the Section Electrical, Electronics and Communications Engineering)
  • Article
  • Open Access
1 Citations
2,934 Views
15 Pages

Analysis of the Technical Condition of a Late 19th Century Public Building in Łódź

  • Wioletta Grzmil,
  • Justyna Zapała-Sławeta and
  • Jagoda Juruś

28 February 2023

Heritage building structures in many situations contribute unique value to national cultural heritage. In engineering practice, monitoring of historic structures includes visual assessment. This article assesses the condition of the concrete in one o...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Advanced Construction Materials and Processes in Poland)
  • Review
  • Open Access
17 Citations
7,154 Views
21 Pages

Motion Magnification of Vibration Image in Estimation of Technical Object Condition-Review

  • Michał Śmieja,
  • Jarosław Mamala,
  • Krzysztof Prażnowski,
  • Tomasz Ciepliński and
  • Łukasz Szumilas

30 September 2021

One of the most important features of the proper operation of technical objects is monitoring the vibrations of their mechanical components. The currently significant proportion of the research methods in this regard includes a group of research meth...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Sensing Technology and Data Interpretation in Machine Diagnosis and Systems Condition Monitoring: Volume 2)
  • Article
  • Open Access
15 Citations
2,676 Views
23 Pages

14 October 2021

The paper discusses the method of identifying the technical condition of induction motors by classifying the energy data coming from the main common power bus. The work shows the simulation results of induction motor operation. The correlation betwee...

(This article belongs to the Section F: Electrical Engineering)
  • Article
  • Open Access
32 Citations
6,068 Views
19 Pages

18 December 2019

The social cost, as one of the factors determining sustainability of socio-economic development, is strongly dependent upon a number of casualties and mortality in road accidents. The condition of car tires appears to be one of the important factors...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Smart Mobility and Energy Transitions)
  • Article
  • Open Access
2 Citations
3,113 Views
14 Pages

24 September 2022

Successively conducted monitoring and inspections allow for the detection of emerging issues and their elimination. The objective of this study is the analysis of the administrative procedures related to the monitoring of the technical condition of s...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Sustainable Hydraulic Structures: Design, Monitoring, and Management)
  • Article
  • Open Access
20 Citations
8,334 Views
11 Pages

12 December 2022

The paper presents issues related to the operation of hydraulic shock absorbers. The primary objective was to determine the influence of temperature and the technical condition on the damping properties of a twin-tube hydraulic shock absorber. Three...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Automotive Safety and Security Engineering: From Theories to Practices)
  • Feature Paper
  • Article
  • Open Access
6 Citations
2,128 Views
21 Pages

29 September 2023

The article presents the possibility of using machine learning (ML) in artificial intelligence to classify the technical state of marine engine injectors. The technical condition of the internal combustion engine and injection apparatus significantly...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue CO2 Emissions from Vehicles (Volume II))
  • Article
  • Open Access
3 Citations
2,339 Views
19 Pages

Non-Invasive Monitoring of the Technical Condition of Power Units Using the FAM-C and FDM-A Electrical Methods

  • Mariusz Zieja,
  • Andrzej Gębura,
  • Andrzej Szelmanowski and
  • Bartłomiej Główczyk

1 December 2021

This article presents the selected results of analytical and structural work conducted at the Air Force Institute of Technology (pl. ITWL) in the field of building a measuring apparatus for non-invasive monitoring of the technical condition of aircra...

  • Article
  • Open Access
8 Citations
2,406 Views
25 Pages

17 November 2023

In the field of transport, and more precisely in supply chains, if any of the vehicle components are damaged, it may cause delays in the delivery of goods. Eliminating undesirable damage to the means of transport through the possibility of predicting...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Artificial Intelligence for Sustainable Services, Applications and Education)
  • Case Report
  • Open Access
7 Citations
4,947 Views
18 Pages

18 January 2019

The study investigates the surface vibrations generated by a new generation, tri-band hydraulic compactor type V8 from Maschinentechnik Schrode AG (MTS), and a reversible plate compactor type DPU 6055 from Wacker Neuson in close proximity to a low-ri...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Structural Damage Detection and Health Monitoring)
  • Review
  • Open Access
31 Citations
9,462 Views
24 Pages

7 December 2022

Given the continuous improvement in the capabilities of road vehicles to detect obstacles, the road friction coefficient is closely related to vehicular braking control, thus the detection of road surface conditions (RSC), and the level is crucial fo...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue On-Board and Remote Sensors in Intelligent Vehicles)
  • Article
  • Open Access
837 Views
15 Pages

26 July 2026

This paper presents a study conducted with a view to analysing the sensitivity of measures determined based on the characteristics of the multifractal spectrum when detecting damage in rolling bearings. The research was conducted using vibration sign...

(This article belongs to the Section Transportation and Future Mobility)
  • Article
  • Open Access
6 Citations

Background: Basketball games involve numerous cognitive-motor dual-task (CMDT) situations, where athletes must execute technical skills while processing complex oncourt information. However, adolescent athletes often experience performance declines u...

  • Article
  • Open Access
21 Citations
5,216 Views
20 Pages

Renovation Management Method in Neglected Buildings

  • Beata Nowogońska and
  • Magdalena Mielczarek

18 January 2021

Renovation works to buildings are often not carried out or there are shifts in time, which causes degradation of the building. The article presents an analysis of the consequences of abandoning renovation works. The aim of this article is to present...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Technology, Organisation and Management in Sustainable Construction)
  • Article
  • Open Access
6 Citations
941 Views
21 Pages

Methodology for Developing a Maintenance Action Program for Power Units of Captive Power Plants Based on an Integrated Priority Indicator

  • Alexander Nazarychev,
  • Iliya Iliev,
  • Daniel Manukian,
  • Hristo Beloev,
  • Konstantin Suslov and
  • Ivan Beloev

23 March 2026

The study develops and implements a methodology for prioritizing power units (PUs) of captive power plants (CPPs) to support the development of maintenance and repair (M&R) programs considering their actual technical condition (TC) and reliabilit...

  • Article
  • Open Access
9 Citations
2,871 Views
20 Pages

14 October 2021

Failure of systems applied in machines comprising rolling and slewing bearings usually causes downtime of the entire heavy machine. The problem of failures can be aggravated by extremely difficult operating conditions, such as significant loads or a...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Fault Diagnosis of Electrical Machines and Drives)

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