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Social Infrastructure Maintenance Notebook
Social Infrastructure Maintenance Notebook
Atsushi Yashima Yu Huang •
Social Infrastructure Maintenance Notebook
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Atsushi Yashima Department of Civil Engineering Gifu University Gifu, Japan
Yu Huang Department of Geotechnical Engineering Tongji University Shanghai, China
ISBN 978-981-15-8827-3 ISBN 978-981-15-8828-0 https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-15-8828-0
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Preface
If we look around us, we can see various lifelines such as roads and railways created with bridges, tunnels, cuts and fills, waterworks and sewage and electricity laid out as a network. These lifelines make up social infrastructures that are essential to our comfortable lifestyles and vibrant economic activities. At the same time, various disaster prevention facilities protecting our lives and properties from earthquakes, cyclones (or typhoons) and rain storms are also extremely important. Do we not take these social infrastructures for granted, thinking “they will be always there, fully functioning”? Have we forgotten that talented engineers are supporting our social infrastructures through their constant efforts? In Japan where earthquakes, typhoons and rain storms often occur, aging of social infrastructure structures that have been built over the years has become a serious concern. You have probably seen a large-scale repair work being done on an aging structure such as a bridge. Yet because of the constant reduction of public investment and decreasi
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