Economic Life Prediction of Concrete Structure

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The decision to perform an extraordinary maintenance or a seismic retrofit of existing RC buildings should be based on rational criteria, which lead into account a number of factors that are able to define the cost-effectiveness of the investment. Among them the age of the concrete structure and its normal depreciation are key. The paper proposes value-time functions for the two main depreciation factors: age, and income decay. Empirical formulas have been developed to estimate the economic life of concrete structure on the basis of analysis of these depreciation functions.

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Advanced Materials Research (Volumes 919-921)

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1447-1450

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April 2014

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