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... 7   History of Bridge Element Data The aftermath of two dramatic and fatal bridge failures -- first the Silver Bridge in West Virginia in 1967 and later the Schoharie Creek Bridge in New York in 1983 (Swenson and Ingraffea 1991, Small et al.
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... 8 Bridge Element Data Collection and Use AASHTO published the CoRe Structural Elements Guide (AASHTO 1997) to define and standardize bridge element data inspection and collection.
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... Literature Review 9   Bridges and elements in different external environments deteriorate differently. For example, bridges subject to higher traffic volumes may deteriorate faster, and so may external girders exposed to more road salt or water.
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... 10 Bridge Element Data Collection and Use Outside of the United States, existing BMSs also typically utilize an element data framework. Shortly after development of the Pontis BMS in the United States, Stantec developed the first BMS in Canada for the Ontario Ministry of Transportation (Thompson et al.
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... Literature Review 11   inspection manuals that include at least the FHWA-required elements and the defect elements identified in the MBEI. At the time of the survey, the use of photographs to illustrate different CSs was limited in the inspection manuals.
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... 12 Bridge Element Data Collection and Use as a weighted average of the condition of the individual bridge elements (Shepard and Johnson 2001, Cambridge Systematics 2005b)
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... Literature Review 13   Hearn (2015) proposed measures of highway bridge performance based on bridge element data.
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... 14 Bridge Element Data Collection and Use Figure 2-6. Connecticut DOT BHI components (Connecticut DOT 2019)
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... Literature Review 15   rated (on a scale of 1 to 100) based on inert culvert elements.
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... 16 Bridge Element Data Collection and Use In the literature, studies on element cost models are typically deliverables for agency-led research projects (Adams and Barut 1998, Adams and Sianipar 1998, Sobanjo et  al.
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... Literature Review 17   Another category of bridge element models is mapping models, which predict NBI GCRs based on bridge element data. Since the 1990s, with the start of CoRe element data collection, an associated interest and need arose for a mapping method between the two.

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