Sustainable Bridges

Final drafts of the main outputs and supporting reports from the Integrated Project "Sustainable Bridges - Assessment for Future Traffic Demands and Longer Lives" (TIP3-CT-2003-001653), which was carried out between 2003 and 2007 with financial support from the European Commision under its 6th Framework Programme. It is possible that these documents will be subject to ammendment as a result of feedback received during the project's final conference, which was held in Wroclaw in October 2007. The project website (www.sustainablebridges.net) should be checked to ensure that the most up-to-date version is used.

Forword

Foreword Jan Olofsson, Lennart Elfgren, Jan Bień (PDF File 105KB)

Chapter 1

Guideline for Inspection and Condition Assessment of Railway Bridges (PDF File 31.86MB)

Annexes to the guideline

Defect catalogue (PDF File 18.23MB)

NDT toolbox (PDF File 12.44MB)

Background documents to the guideline

Condition assessment and inspection of steel railway bridges, including stress measurements in riveted, bolted and welded structures (PDF File 13.52MB)

Evaluation program to combine radar data of different polarisation (PDF File 4.15MB)

Prototype of 2D-scanning system for automated measurements on concrete surfaces with impulse radar, ultrasonic echo and impact-echo (PDF File 7.48MB)

Report on impact-echo-techniques for crack depth measurement (PDF File 7.25MB)

Radar tomography (PDF File 2.87MB)

Electrochemical techniques to detect corrosion stage of reinforcement in concrete structures (PDF File 8.23MB)

Laboratory investigations of steel bar corrosions in concrete (PDF File 2.68MB)

Validation of nonlinear finite element modelling of reinforced concrete structures attacked by corrosion (PDF File 4.13MB)

Report on optimum set-up for a LIBS system for application on site: year 3 (final) version (PDF File 4.86MB)

Report on optimisation of NDT methods for existing foundations (PDF File 2.90MB)

Cross hole tomography of subsoil in transition zones at existing railway bridges (PDF File 12.04MB)

Demonstration of measurements using impulse-radar, ultrasonic echo and impact-echo on a pre-stressed concrete railway bridge in Duisburg, Germany (PDF File 6.02MB)

Chapter 2

Guideline for load and resistance assessments of existing European railway bridges (PDF File 6.59MB)

Background documents to the guideline

Loads and dynamic effects (PDF File 98KB)

Safety and probabilistic modelling (PDF File 57KB)

Non-linear analysis and remaining fatigue life of reinforced concrete bridges (PDF File 5.87MB)

Improved assessment methods for static and fatigue resistance of old steel railway bridges (PDF File 1.99MB)

Masonry arch bridges (PDF File 77KB)

Chapter 3

Guideline for monitoring of railway bridges (PDF File 1.20MB)

Background documents to the guideline

Guideline for monitoring of steel railway bridges (PDF File 807KB)

Guideline for the experimental estimation of structural damping of railway bridges (PDF File 369KB)

Guideline for corrosion monitoring systems for reinforced concrete bridges (PDF File 552KB)

Estimating reliability of monitoring systems for bridges (PDF File 317KB)

Evaluation of monitoring instrumentation and techniques (PDF File 7.18MB)

Reports on monitoring systems development

Crack sensor with embedded optical fibre (PDF File 3.33MB)

Final report on developing multiplexed fibre bragg grating monitoring systems for dynamic and static strain measurements: sensor system specification, design construction and evaluation (PDF File 928KB)

Technical report on wireless sensor networks using MEMS for acoustic emission analysis including other monitoring tasks (PDF File 1.14MB)

Prototype of exciter for vibration tests and concept of monitoring system (PDF File 2.96MB)

Prototype implementation of a wireless sensor network (PDF File 2.18MB)

Data analysis and reduction methodologies for wireless sensor networks (PDF File 3.23MB)

Prototype TOF (time of flight) fibre optic sensor (PDF File 1.39MB)

Chapter 4

Guideline for repair and strenghtening of railway bridges (PDF File 1.20MB)

Background documents to the guideline

Repair and strenghtening of railway bridges: extended summary (PDF File 5.33MB)

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Strengthening of the sub-soil test field: Vitmossen, Avesta, Sweden (PDF File 6.82MB)

Workmanship and quality control of CFRP strengthened structures (PDF File 1.01MB)

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