Journal
RELIABILITY ENGINEERING & SYSTEM SAFETY
Volume 215, Issue -, Pages -Publisher
ELSEVIER SCI LTD
DOI: 10.1016/j.ress.2021.107891
Keywords
Inspection; Planning; Optimization; Structural reliability; Fatigue
Funding
- Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG), Germany [STR 1140/32]
- TUM International Graduate School of Science and Engineering (IGSSE), Germany
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This paper presents a heuristic-based approach using simple decision rules to optimize inspection and maintenance plans for large structures. The method involves adaptive planning to continuously adjust the initial I&M plan throughout the service life based on past inspection and monitoring results.
Optimizing inspection and maintenance (I&M) plans for a large deteriorating structure is a computationally challenging task, in particular if one considers interdependences among its components. This is due to the sheer number of possible decision alternatives over the lifetime of the structure and the uncertainty surrounding the deterioration processes, the structural performance and the outcomes of inspection and maintenance actions. To address this challenge, Luque and Straub (2019) proposed a heuristic approach in which I&M plans for structural systems are defined through a set of simple decision rules. Here, we formalize the optimization of these decision rules and extend the approach to enable adaptive planning. The initially optimal I&M plan is successively adapted throughout the service life, based on past inspection and monitoring results. The proposed methodology uses stochastic deterioration models and accounts for the interdependence among structural components. The heuristic-based adaptive planning is illustrated for a structural frame subjected to fatigue.
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