Commentary: Fatigue in a testing environment Available to Purchase

Our transport infrastructure operates in an increasingly challenging environment, due to both climate change and more onerous mechanical loads. As an example of the latter for traffic bridges, during the 12 month period ending March 1997 the freight transported by British-registered lorries operating in the UK totalled 1·97 billion tonnes (Dft, 2017), exceeding the figure for the previous 12 month period by 17%. Such increases over time, coupled with the need to extract as much service life as possible from our ageing infrastructure, have created a growing requirement to reliably evaluate the performance and life-expectancy of infrastructure under...