The intention with this paper is to present a reliability-based procedure to evaluate the prestress level on the basis of data from in-service inspections.
This paper presents a faceted classification approach to organise the information collection that might enhance retrieval and also facilitate learning from in-service experiences.
This enables designers to learn from in-service product performance by informing subsequent designs with in-service knowledge, and consequently improving the through-life product performance.
Thereafter, it provides a comparison between simple and more refined procedures with each other and with the statistical distributions obtained from in-service experience and/or experimental tests.
All three staff improved their data-collection-accuracy from instruction to in-service, and then from in-service to in-service plus feedback.
This paper deals with a method to define Equivalent Fatigue Loads (EFL) from in-service load measurement in the case of a structure subjected to multiple variable fatigue loadings.
Transmission towers are a vital component and management needs to assess the reliability and safety of these towers to minimise the risk of disruption to power supply that may result from in-service tower failure.
A major finding was that the Extended Bending Beam Rheometer test; part of enhanced testing currently carried out on asphalt cement in Ontario, was more reliable at predicting pavement performance than the standard Superpave™ Bending Beam Rheometer test for both asphalt supplied to the contract and recovered from in-service pavements.
Apart from in-service training, workforce performance is particularly under-researched in the areas of performance-based incentives, management and supervision, work organisation and job design, and performance appraisal.
We will expect to see a move away from in-service as our most frequently utilized form of professional support and a move towards the more reflective professional supervision, peer group supervision and mentoring.
