Life Cycle Assessment of a Road Transverse Prestressed Wooden–Concrete Bridge

Comparison of life cycle assessment tools for road pavement infrastructure

Road pavements have considerable environmental burdens associated with their initial construction, maintenance and usage, which has led the pavement stakeholder community make congregate efforts to better understand and mitigate these negative effects. Life cycle assessment (LCA) is a versatile methodology to quantify the effect of decisions regarding the selection of resources and processes. H...

Integrated Life-Cycle Assessment and Life-Cycle Cost Analysis Model for Concrete Bridge Deck Applications

An integrated life-cycle assessment and life-cycle cost analysis model was developed and applied to enhance the sustainability of concrete bridge infrastructure. The objective of this model is to compare alternative bridge deck designs from a sustainability perspective that accounts for total life-cycle costs including agency, user, and environmental costs. A conventional concrete bridge deck a...

Life cycle assessment of a railway bridge: comparison of two superstructure designs

http://www.tandfonline.com/doi/pdf/10.1080/15732479.2012.670250 Abstract Railway bridges currently encounter the challenges of increasing the load capacity while the environmental sustainability should be achieved. However, it has been realized that the environmental assessment of railway bridges has not been integrated into the decision making process, the standard guideline and criterion is s...

Commentary: Fatigue Life Assessment Method for Prestressed Concrete Sleepers

Food Polymeric Packaging Life Cycle Assessment (LCA)

  Food packaging is used to maintain the safety and quality of food during distribution and storage and to protect them from adverse internal and external conditions, such as water vapor, spoilage due to microorganisms, moisture, light, and dust. In this regard, lots of research studies have been done to increase shelf life, safety, and quality to create suitable physico...