Construction projects of SOC(Social Overhead Capital) have been rapidly increased since 1970s in Korea. So, it is expected that the infrastructures which have been used for more than 30 years will be increased in a few years. The maintenance of infrastructures is essential because the deterioration of infrastructures can greatly influence the national economy and people by its failure. The existing evaluation method of tunnels in Korea is mainly focused on the structural safety such as appearance defects or safety factors. So it has many limitaions which do not consider the tunnels’ various performances, e.g. durability, serviceability and so on. Thus, the new concept of evaluation method is needed to deal with the structure aging issues and to keep the tunnels performances continuously. In this study, the new concept of evaluation method for existing tunnels will be presented. The performance requirements are derived from Delphi-survey which is a structured communication technique. And the weight factors of evaluation indices are derived from AHP(Anlaysis Hierarchy Process) analysis. Finally the total performance evaluation was conduted by field application of target tunnels in Korea to verify the proposed method.

• Jai Wook An(Korea Infrastructure Safety & Technology Corp)
• Jae Bong Park(Korea Infrastructure Safety & Technology Corp)
• Hong Kyoon Kim(Korea Infrastructure Safety & Technology Corp)
• Cheol Shik Shin(Korea Infrastructure Safety & Technology Corp)