The 2007 Ravenel River Bridge Inspection
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Bibliographic Details
| Author(s): |
Benoitu Kroely
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| Medium: | conference paper | ||||
| Language(s): | English | ||||
| Conference: | 17th IABSE Congress: Creating and Renewing Urban Structures – Tall Buildings, Bridges and Infrastructure, Chicago, USA, 17-19 September 2008 | ||||
| Published in: | IABSE Congress Chicago 2008 | ||||
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| Page(s): | 480-481 | ||||
| Total no. of pages: | 7 | ||||
| Year: | 2008 | ||||
| DOI: | 10.2749/222137908796293433 | ||||
| Abstract: |
The Ravenel Bridge is a 4km cable stayed bridge which opened in July 2005. It connects downtown Charleston, SC to Mount Pleasant, SC. Freyssinet, supplied and installed the 128 parallel strand stay cables supporting the structure. As part of their warranty, Freyssinet is required to perform an inspection of the cable stays. Standard NBI forms don’t address particular issues associated with cable stay systems. Due to this, Freyssinet provided a specific inspection & maintenance manual as part of their contract with Palmetto Bridge Consortium. The first warranty inspection was performed in October 2007; Freyssinet contracted with Advitam to computerize the inspection manual with ScanPrint software. The software was then used during the inspection. The software package includes:
This paper will describe the methodology used to accurately define inspection methods and processes; as well as, the computerized system used to increase the quality of collected data. Finally, the paper will focus on the benefit of electronic inspection manual to efficiently record and manage data. |
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| Keywords: |
defects Cable-Stay Computerized Inspection Inspection Manual ScanPrint SCDOT Cooper
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