Term of Award
Summer 2018
Degree Name
Master of Science in Mathematics (M.S.)
Document Type and Release Option
Thesis (open access)
Copyright Statement / License for Reuse
This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 License.
Department
Department of Mathematical Sciences
Committee Chair
Stephen Carden
Committee Member 1
Ionut Iacob
Committee Member 2
Divine Wanduku
Abstract
Predicting how bridges will deteriorate is the key to budgeting financial and personnel resources. Deterioration models exist for specific components of a bridge, but no models exist for the sufficiency rating which is an overall measure of the condition and relevance of a bridge used for determining eligibility for federal funds.
We have 25 years worth of data collected by the Georgia Department of Transportation from 1992 to 2016 about all bridges in the State of Georgia. More precisely, each row in this data set includes the characteristics of each bridge along with the sufficiency rating of that bridge in a specific year which was inspected by engineers.
In this thesis we introduce two models (Mixed Logistics-Gamma model and Poisson model) that predict the change of sufficiency rating of each bridge and tell us how much a specific bridge deteriorates in a specific period of time. We then compare these two models.
Recommended Citation
Naderimoghaddam, Toktam, "A Comparison of Bridge Deterioration Models" (2018). Electronic Theses and Dissertations. 1788.
https://digitalcommons.georgiasouthern.edu/etd/1788
Research Data and Supplementary Material
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