| Medium: |
conference paper |
| Language(s): |
English
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| Conference: |
IABSE Conference: Engineering the Past, to Meet the Needs of the Future, Copenhagen, Denmark, 25-27 June 2018 |
| Published in: |
IABSE Conference Copenhagen 2018 |
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Page(s):
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240-247
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Total no. of pages: |
8 |
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Page(s):
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240-247
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| Total no. of pages: |
8 |
| DOI: |
10.2749/copenhagen.2018.240 |
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Abstract:
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The current focus in Germany is more on strengthening and retrofitting of existing infrastructures
than on their renewal. This approach, which has been enforced by the government in the last
decades, leads to sustainable infrastructure and takes into account the limited natural and financial
resources. Consequently, many concepts for strengthening have been developed and applied in
many cases with great success. Because every existing structure is unique, an individual retrofitting
concept has to be developed for each and every case. However, well established strengthening and
retrofitting concepts can be applied by implementing modifications.
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Keywords:
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steel concrete bridges sustainability retrofitting
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