European Guideline for Assessment of Existing Railway Bridges
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Bibliographic Details
| Author(s): |
Jens S. Jensen
(Head of Department, COWI A/S., Kongens Lyngby, Denmark)
Juan R. Casas (Professor, Technical University of Catalonia, Barcelona, Spain) Dawid F. Wisniewski (Civil Engineer, Ph.D., COWI A/S., Kongens Lyngby, Denmark) |
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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): | 122-123 | ||||
| Total no. of pages: | 8 | ||||
| Year: | 2008 | ||||
| DOI: | 10.2749/222137908796292001 | ||||
| Abstract: |
This paper gives a general overview of the "Guideline for Load and Resistance Assessment of Existing European Railway Bridges - advices on the use of advanced methods" that is providing guidance and recommendations for applying the state-of-the-art knowledge for assessing existing railway bridges. The Guideline has been recently developed within the European Project Sustainable Bridges. The paper highlights the most advanced solutions proposed in the Guideline, which are novel compared to the current practice. Moreover, it tries to gives some guidance to other recommendations recently developed in Europe regarding inspection, condition assessment and monitoring of existing railway bridges. |
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| Keywords: |
railroad bridges rail bridges concrete bridges safety assessment masonry bridges load capacity evaluation safety requirements assessment procedures metal bridges bridge loads
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