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The aging and deterioration of highway bridges requires the development and implementation of technologies that provide enhanced resilience in short period of time. Fiber-reinforced polymers can be used as an effective resilience enhancement strategy for critical bridge components that provide rapid recovery of strength, ductility and minimize disruption of traffic. This paper introduces three measures of bridge resilience, namely load carrying capacity, ductility and rapid recovery of function, which can be used for the design and management of highway bridges.An example illustrates the modeling of the performance of corrosion-damaged reinforced concrete columns and how different rapid rehabilitation approaches can contribute to achieve resilient highway bridge structures., 6th International Symposium on Life-Cycle Civil Engineering, IALCCE 2018, October 28-31, 2018, Ghent, Belgium

This paper provides an approach based on the monitoring of life cycle performance of concrete bridges exposed to chlorides, and demonstrates its application in a case study. It is first shown that some of the data, which are commonly used by engineers as input values into service life prediction models, can be different from actual field values, because these parameters vary widely in space and time. It is then demonstrated that service life predictions can be improved by updating the models with field monitoring data., 6th International Conference on Concrete under Severe Conditions, Environment & Loading (CONSEC'10): 7-9 June 2010, Mérida, Yucatán, Mexico