Title
Carbon Footprint Of Post-Earthquake Bridge Repair
Abstract
Previous performance-based earthquake engineering investigations on highway bridges focused on repair cost and repair time metrics. These are primarily related to economic life cycle-cost analysis decision-making strategies for evaluating the vulnerability of bridge infrastructure. However, equally important considerations for decision making are those associated with the complete life-cycle assessment of the same infrastructure. Quantifying the sustainability of bridge designs using carbon footprint as the performance metric is investigated in this paper. A set of multi-span reinforced concrete highway overpass bridges in California is used to illustrate the probabilistic carbon accounting methodology. The bridges were selected because repair cost and time data are already available, allowing comparison of the cost-based performance metrics with the derived sustainability metrics. The performance groups and material quantities that drive the major contributions to carbon footprint as compared to economic costs are presented.
Publication Date
1-1-2014
Publication Title
NCEE 2014 - 10th U.S. National Conference on Earthquake Engineering: Frontiers of Earthquake Engineering
Number of Pages
-
Document Type
Article; Proceedings Paper
Personal Identifier
scopus
DOI Link
https://doi.org/10.4231/D31J9782T
Copyright Status
Unknown
Socpus ID
84929012267 (Scopus)
Source API URL
https://api.elsevier.com/content/abstract/scopus_id/84929012267
STARS Citation
Mackie, K. R.; Kucukvar, M.; Tatari, O.; and Elgamal, A., "Carbon Footprint Of Post-Earthquake Bridge Repair" (2014). Scopus Export 2010-2014. 9103.
https://stars.library.ucf.edu/scopus2010/9103