Assessment and Repair of a historic brickwork covering of River Scheldt
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Bibliographic Details
| Author(s): |
Philippe Van Bogaert
(Civil Engineering Department, Ghent University, Belgium)
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| Medium: | conference paper | ||||
| Language(s): | English | ||||
| Conference: | IABSE Congress: Challenges in Design and Construction of an Innovative and Sustainable Built Environment, Stockholm, Sweden, 21-23 September 2016 | ||||
| Published in: | IABSE Congress Stockholm, 2016 | ||||
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| Page(s): | 629-636 | ||||
| Total no. of pages: | 8 | ||||
| Year: | 2016 | ||||
| DOI: | 10.2749/stockholm.2016.0608 | ||||
| Abstract: |
The double brickwork vault covering the original course of River Scheldt, built in 1885, has been serving satisfactorily for 130 years. Recent inspections revealed that some areas at the intrados of the vaults show deterioration and may be pushed out. Careful analysis has been carried out, both by the rigid block method as by a conventional FE-code, simulating the cracks and defects found during inspection. Both methods confirmed that the load-carrying capacity of the covering is certainly sufficient for present effective loading. The analysis demonstrated that load paths may be diverted around damaged areas and the load-carrying capacity may be slightly reduced. This demonstrates that careful analysis may enable to preserve historic structures for many years to come |
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| Keywords: |
historic structure Brickwork arch rigid block method realistic load load path
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