This study intends to suggest a methodology of normalization of inspected highway bridges damage. The noticeable point is to normalize the amount of the inspected accumulated damage on bridges according to a normalizing scale. The normalized damages represent such a characteristics of the bridges. With the normalized damage data, a future maintenance cost can be estimated that can be applicable for determining long-term maintenance strategy.

The present study reviews bridge management index and bridge management system (BMS) in China, Japan, Korea, and U.S. In Korea, BMS should include functions enable to quantify the risks, safety, and optimization models of cost/benefit associated with bridges. There are similarities in bridge management index of four countries.

This paper presents the definition of bridge life and the end-of-life criterion of bridge for bridge maintenance purpose. Bridge life can refer to the period of time in which the bridge meets all desired levels of its functions maintained by maintenances. The end-of-life criterion of bridge can defined when a damage score of an entire bridge reach 0.64, the bridge is assumed to be end of life.

Highway construction to the reinforced earth retaining wall which is under constant traffic load there is a possibility of generating the displacement at the top. In this study, it was conducted determine how to repair reinforcement method through examination of cause and stability analysis when occurs the displacement of reinforced earth retaining wall.

Risk Based Inspection(RBI) Period was proposed for highway bridges in Korea. Hazard factors affecting bridge condition deterioration were found by analyzing condition data from Highway Bridge Management System(HBMS). Certain level of correlations between those factors and condition deterioration were found. They are used to evaluate hazard score. Summarizing several hazard factors, final hazard is classified as three level;high, moderate, low. Vulnerability is assessed only by the current state of bridge. Then, risk matrix is suggested for inspection periods. Inspection periods of the bridges with grade C, D, and E are maintained the same as before. But, those of grade A and B with moderate and high hazard score are elongated to maximum 6 years while the maximum inspection period is three years at present. By adjusting inspection period according to risk assessment, it was shown that 27% of average inspection manpower can be saved.

In this study, We expected a performance for asphalt pavement in bridge decks using survival functions on reliability theory. The sample data were extracted in the Highway Bridge Management System(HBMS). It were 1,132 bridges that were calibrated by a construction report and filtering of inconsistent data. The average life of all the Asphalt Pavement in Bridge Decks was about 12years.

The highway bridges required the maintenance have been consistently increased over 8,000. For long term maintenance strategy, it should be focused on utilizing the systemic information from in-depth inspection data. From now, record-based inspection for highway bridges has been usually performed so that it is needed to investigate the in-depth inspection data for identifying the damage characteristics in detail. In this study, with respective to the performance measure of damage characteristic, damage normalization of highway bridges is researched by using the suggested bridge scales such as area, length, vertical distance, number of members. Based on this process, the standard cost for various damages for highway bridges can be estimated and utilized for long-term maintenance strategy.

This paper conducted comparison of the bridge maintenance index of South Korea, China and USA. In this paper summarized that The agency who take the maintenance activity, maintenance manual and characteristic of the bridge maintenance index. Also, based on summary and comparison, this study proposed sugesstions for improvements of bridge maintenance index.

Risk Based Inspection(RBI) Period was proposed for highway bridges in Korea. Hazard factors affecting bridge condition deterioration were found by analyzing condition data from Highway Bridge Management System(HBMS). Certain level of correlations between those factors and condition deterioration were found. They are used to evaluate hazard score. Summarizing several hazard factors, final hazard is classified as three level;high, moderate, low. Vulnerability is assessed only by the current state of bridge. Then, risk matrix is suggested for inspection periods. Inspection periods of the bridges with grade C, D, and E are maintained the same as before. But, those of grade A and B with moderate and high hazard score are elongated to maximum 6 years while the maximum inspection period is three years at present. By adjusting inspection period according to risk assessment, it was shown that 27% of average inspection manpower can be saved.

In this study, We estimated a life time of the expansion joint using survival functions on reliability theory. The sample data were extracted in the Highway Bridge Management System(HBMS). It were about six thousands of bridges from 1999 to 2013. the average life of all the expansion was 16~20years, type and figure type were superior in life.

The needs for consistent maintenance for highway bridge has been increased in nowadays. This study is to investigate fundamental database about in-depth inspection for publishing the repair and strengthening methodology. It is because the maintenance budget should be used effectively for optimal maintenance of infrastructures. In order to investigate the maintenance history of highway bridges, the database of in-depth inspection from 1996 to 2012 was analyzed. For the superstructure type, PSC box girder bridge which was the most common among the concrete bridges in the inspection database was investigated.

The lifetime of painting is shorter than the lifetime of the bridge. Thus, ongoing maintenance for the lifetime of the bridge is needed. In addition, determination of the repainting period in order to maintenance costs predict is very important. In previous studies were calculated repainting period using survey of experts and some field data. In this study, the properties of the repainting period were analyzed using repainting data of bridge maintenance system.

We have carried out the bridge inspections according to the laws not considering the characteristics of damages. Also the current condition based inspection cannot consider the rate of bridge deterioration. But it is reasonable to classify the inspection interval according to the risk of each bridge. This suggests the risk based inspection methodology.

In this paper, the maintenance characteristics for the abutment and pier in highway bridges are investigated. The repair and rehabilitation properties are integrated from the Highway Bridge Maintenance System until 2013. Whole numbers of the abutment and the pier in highway bridges are over 37,000. The repair and/or rehabilitation are carried out for the substructure of about 10,240. More than 35 billion won of budget for repair and rehabilitation were used until now. It can be known that during one year about 37,000 won of budget has been used to maintain and preserve each substructure.

As the service period of bridges becomes increased the maintenance and management of existing bridges become also more important. Korea Expressway Corporation has collected data on the maintenance for a long period but those obtained data has rarely been thoroughly analyzed for the maintenance purposes. This study investigated the service life of extension joint of bridge among various bridge members and this attempt should be very meaningful as using the data obtained from the field. The service life of the extension joints can be used for the development of maintenance strategy in the future.

The number of highway bridge has been doubled for last 10 years. It is because many new highway routes has been completed since 2000. As a result, the maintenance cost of highway bridge has been increased as well. Therefore, to predict the long-term maintenance costs, there is a need for a method. To solve this problem, various studies about the life cycle cost analysis was conducted. Maintenance costs for members of the highway bridge is quite different to each other. Therefore, all the elements that are managed by the same proportion is inefficient. In this study, the distribution characteristics of maintenance costs for members of the highway bridge were analyzed using research data and highway bridge maintenance system data.