The role of lifetime management of civil concrete structures is explored in this chapter with an emphasis on its increasing importance in view of the optimisation of ecological, economic and social needs.
Essential elements of lifetime management are the description of the durability and the prediction of service life by means of suitable models.
Besides the discussion of the condition-dependent strategies of lifetime management many results from large-scale round-robin testing concerning crack initiation parameters versus fracture toughness or J-integral or ray tracing in connection with defect sizing in a CAD-environment are shown.
Is it possible to truly leave an eating disorder and its "voice"—behind, or is it more a case of lifetime management?
Relegation to League One soon followed and, at that point, a return to the top-flight, where they last played in 2005 under the management of Harry Redknapp, seemed a lifetime away.
Pulmonary rehabilitation is considered essential throughout the lifetime management of patients with symptomatic chronic respiratory disease.
Lifetime management of underground pipelines is mandatory for safe hydrocarbon transmission and distribution systems.
The lifetime management of different engineering structures and structural elements is one of the important technical-economic problems nowadays.
Therefore, in the lifetime management of structures and infrastructures, the resistance to sudden local damage has to be considered together with the effect of progressive deterioration.
The role of the international research and co-operation environment affecting the lifetime management of WWER plants will also be presented.
