Reliability of Visual Inspection for Highway Bridges, Volume II: Appendices

摘要

Visual inspection is the predominant nondestructive evaluation technique used inbridge inspections. However, since implementation of the national Bridge Inspection Standards in 1971, a comprehensive study of the reliability of visual inspection as it relates to highway bridge inspections has not been conducted. The goals of the study include: providing overall measures of the accuracy and reliability of routine and in-depth visual inspections, studying the influence of several key factors that affect routine and in-depth inspection, and studying the difference between state inspection procedures and reports. This volume the second in a series of two.