Estimating the (remaining) service life of timber bridges with the use of factor methods: And incorporating these methods in the calculation of the total costs of ownership

Timber bridges are much applied structures in the Dutch landscape. In contrast to the other two most common building materials, concrete and steel, the use of timber is however almost exclusively limited to bridges for lighter traffic, e.g. pedestrians and bicycles. Examples of timber traffic bridges in Germany, Scandinavia and even in the...