Evaluation Methods for the Existing Infrastructure in Germany
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Bibliographic Details
| Author(s): |
Ioannis Retzepis
(KREBS+KIEFER Ingenieure GmbH, Karlsruhe, GERMANY)
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| Medium: | conference paper | ||||
| Language(s): | English | ||||
| Conference: | IABSE Symposium: Challenges for Existing and Oncoming Structures, Prague, Czech Republic, 25-27 May 2022 | ||||
| Published in: | IABSE Symposium Prague 2022 | ||||
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| Page(s): | 876-883 | ||||
| Total no. of pages: | 8 | ||||
| DOI: | 10.2749/prague.2022.0876 | ||||
| Abstract: |
In the past decades much has been undertaken in Germany in the field of sustainable bridges in Germany. Every infrastructure has to be inspected regularly, so it can be classified according to its condition. Furthermore, the infrastructure has to be recalculated and evaluated. On the basis of these two criteria – the results of the inspection and the evaluation of the recalculation, as well as aspects of sustainability – the structure will be retrofitted or renewed. This strategy has been applied in Germany for many years with great success. This procedure is explained in the paper using two examples. |
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| Keywords: |
bridges sustainability inspection retrofitting recalculation
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| Copyright: | © 2022 International Association for Bridge and Structural Engineering (IABSE) | ||||
| License: | This creative work is copyrighted material and may not be used without explicit approval by the author and/or copyright owner. |
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