Weathering Steel Bridges – the New European ECCS Design Guide
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Bibliographic Details
| Author(s): |
Dieter Ungermann
(TU Dortmund University, Institute of Steel Construction, Dortmund, Germany)
Peter Hatke (TU Dortmund University, Institute of Steel Construction, Dortmund, Germany) Dennis Rademacher (ArcelorMittal, Steligence, Esch-sur-Alzette, Luxembourg) |
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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): | 128-135 | ||||
| Total no. of pages: | 8 | ||||
| DOI: | 10.2749/prague.2022.0128 | ||||
| Abstract: |
Modern bridge structures should not only be efficient in terms of planning and construction, but require also low maintenance efforts. Weathering steel is therefore the ideal material for steel and composite bridges. It does not require any corrosion protection to permanently withstand the effects of the weather. The typical renewal measures for protective paintings can be omitted, which leads to significantly lower life cycle costs and interventions in the traffic flow. When designed and detailed correctly and used in the correct environment, weathering steel performs excellently. To gather the existing experiences and recommendations from different countries and make them available to all designers, the European ECCS design guide for weathering steel bridges has been renewed and supplemented with the latest research results to an efficient tool for a good design of weathering steel bridges. This article will present a selection of extracts from the document, which was recently published. |
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| Keywords: |
bridges sustainability weathering steel design guide corrosions protection EN 10025
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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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