Strategies for saving 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: Construction’s Role for a World in Emergency, Manchester, United Kingdom, 10-14 April 2024 | ||||
| Published in: | IABSE Symposium Manchester 2024 | ||||
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| Page(s): | 972-979 | ||||
| Total no. of pages: | 8 | ||||
| DOI: | 10.2749/manchester.2024.0972 | ||||
| Abstract: |
In the past decades great efforts have been undertaken in Germany for saving the existing highway and railway infrastructure due to limited financial and natural resources. Sophisticated evaluation methods have been established, which take into account the current state of the structure as well as the results of the recalculation. Furthermore, many repair and strengthening strategies have been developed and applied successfully. In addition, experience with the structure plays an important role as well. The recent strategies which are applied in Germany for preserving the existing infrastructure are presented. |
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| Keywords: |
bridges sustainability retrofitting recalculation
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