Bridge Corrosion

Developer Names: Cynthia Liu

Theory support: Mingsai Xu

Date of project start: January 19, 2024

This project is intended to investigate how climate, traffic might impact corrosion-induced damage for reinforced concrete bridges by influencing the chloride exposure.

The folders and files for this project are as follows:

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├── doc                   
│   ├── SRS                
│   ├── VnVPlan         
|   ├── Design
│   |   ├── SoftArchitecture
│   │   └── SoftDetailedDes 
│   └── VnVReport                
│── src          
|   ├── app         # code for user side of the software
│   │   └── test 
│   └── database    # code for generating the database
│        └── test
│── Makefile            
│── requirements.txt    # dependencies
└── datamodel.xlsx      # traffic model and climate model\

Set Up

Python

This project is based on Python. To install Python in windows, simply download the release from here and follow the install instructions.\ To install Python on mac, you can download the release from here.

Make

This project use make as an access for running the software.

To install make in windows, you can do winget install ezwinports.make in PowerShell. \ To install make in mac, do brew install make if you have Homebrew installed. It is also available in other package managers.\ After installation, restart PowerShell or Terminal to make it work.

How to Start

1. Download and unzip the zip file of this repo.
2. Open the command line terminal (for mac) or PowerShell (for windows).
3. Do make requirements in the root folder of this repo to install the libraries and dependencies.
4. Do make database to generate the chloride exposure database.
5. Do make app to run the software.
6. You should see the message from terminal saying that the software is running successfully in localhost. Usually it is http://127.0.0.1:5000 but it might differ from machines.

Alternative ways to run

If the above method does not work, you can try the following in the root folder of this repo:

python src/database/calculation.py
python src/user/main.py

Then the software should be running in localhost.

Notes: In some Python versions, you might need to do python3 instead of python to run the app. That is:

python3 src/database/calculation.py
python3 src/user/main.py

Quit

Press Command+ C in terminal and Ctrl + C in PowerShell to quit the software.