Editorial – Bridge Engineering June 2009

In this issue, Kevin So et al.1 continue previous themes of Bridge Management by looking at the process of concrete deterioration and linking it to life-cycle costs and performance-based management systems. With cracking a major factor in concrete durability, Thomas and Ramaswamy2 make reference to prediction in their report on the testing of fibre-reinforced concrete beams.

The paper by Yau and Penny3 reports a major interchange improvement project in Bahrain, which increases the capacity of the local infrastructure into the future. Finally, Qin et al. 4 compare approaches to predicting and improving the seismic performance of bridge...