Risk Assessment Framework for Bridge Integrity Management System in Malaysia (BIMs)

There is a huge number of highway bridges in most of the countries all around the
world and the number keeps increasing yearly. Due to the large number of bridges to
be monitored, it will contribute to the issue on the inspection and maintenance cost
which must be given priorities during the decision-making process of which action
should be taken. Furthermore, in most current practiced bridge management system
still applying the defect based method through visual assessment at the inspection level
with time-based inspection interval such between one-to-two-years gap. Thus,
enhancement of current system in managing the bridge performance assessment is
essential. Therefore, this study proposed the framework for risk-based inspection of
management system for reinforced concrete highway bridge, namely Bridge Integrity
Management Systems (BIMs) using risk based approach.