Safety and Serviceability Assessment of Existing Railway Bridges in Poland
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Bibliographic Details
| Author(s): |
Dawid Wisniewski
(ASECon (Advanced Structural Engineering Consultants), Poland)
Michal Majka (ASECon (Advanced Structural Engineering Consultants), Poland) Lukasz Topczewski (Road and Bridge Research Institute, Warsaw, Poland) Juliusz Ciesla (Road and Bridge Research Institute, Warsaw, Poland) |
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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): | 2562-2569 | ||||
| Total no. of pages: | 8 | ||||
| Year: | 2016 | ||||
| DOI: | 10.2749/stockholm.2016.2561 | ||||
| Abstract: |
This paper briefly describes the current state-of-the-art in the area of bridge assessment and summarizes the best practice that is aimed to be implemented in the new guideline for the assessment of existing bridges in Poland. It also advocates the use of advanced techniques for the safety and serviceability evaluations. It is expected that the development of a new bridge assessment guideline will help to improve the estimation of the service lives of Polish bridges and, in effect, improve the sustainability, reduce the environmental footprint and bring other monetary and non-monetary savings through the best-practice asset management approaches. |
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| Keywords: |
structural assessment railroad bridge rail bridge serviceability safety asset management
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