Framework for a National Database System for Maintenance Actions on Highway Bridges (2010) / Chapter Skim
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apps Directory The apps directory contains executable files and icons for four applications: NBMD, NBMD_XML, Keywords, and NBMD_Size. Shortcuts to Applications To create shortcuts to NBMD applications, do the following: Open two Explorer windows, and set one to the NBMD directory and the second to the apps directory.
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. Loading Bridge Maintenance Data To load bridge management data, click the Data Directory button, and use the browser window to select the Data directory.
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. The upper four selection boxes operate with NBMD keywords for maintenance actions.
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Tab Description Datasets Selection and loading of one or more NBMD datasets Actions Summary of maintenance action records in a dataset Elements Summary of bridge element records in a dataset Bridges Summary of bridge records in a dataset Resources Summary of resource records in a dataset Action Costs Summary of costs of maintenance actions Element Costs Summary of costs of element-level actions, and output of element cost table About Information on NCHRP Project 14-15 Table 46. NBMD viewer tabs.
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50 Figure 14. Data directory selection.
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Figure 16. Dataset selection.
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52 Figure 18. Actions tab.
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53 Figure 20. Activity selection box.
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Elements Tab The Elements tab provides summary reports of elements, bridges, and element quantities in a bridge maintenance dataset. Selection boxes are provided for NBMD element keywords for component, material, type, part and protection, and also for DOTs' designations of bridge elements.
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55 Figure 23. California compression joints.
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The Filter and Run functions are similar to other tables. An initial Run with all selection boxes set to Any yields median unit costs of $648 for actions with no units, $292 for actions with each units, and $4.23 for actions per square foot.
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Figure 27. Action costs tab.
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58 Figure 28. Element costs tab.
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Note that the Write Costs operation reports all element-level costs. Filtering operations, provided by selection boxes, are not recognized.
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be included in the XML document in the left-side listbox (Figure 32)
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61 Figure 32. XML data fields.
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. Data Directory is used to navigate to NBMD datasets.
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NBMD Keywords Application The Keywords application provides checking and updates of data fields for keywords and units in NBMD text tables. The Keywords application compares content in data files to standard keywords, and notes the nonstandard entries, if any.
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64 Figure 38. Keywords application.
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No changes will be made to the unit cost quantities displayed. Additional NBMD Software Software utilities Assembly, Build, Inspection_Cross_ Reference, NBI Reader, and PDI Reader are used for preparation of NBMD data tables.
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