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Extend the life of existing railway bridges – Results from EU FP7 project MAINLINE

 Extend the life of existing railway bridges – Results from EU FP7 project MAINLINE
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Présenté pendant IABSE Conference: Structural Engineering: Providing Solutions to Global Challenges, Geneva, Switzerland, September 2015, publié dans , pp. 1219-1226
DOI: 10.2749/222137815818358493
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There is a need to extend the life and capacity of many existing bridges. One of the objects of the EU FP7 Project MAINLINE, 2011-2014, was to facilitate this. Guidelines for assessment and strengt...
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Auteur(s): (Luleå University of Technology, Luleå, Sweden)
(Luleå University of Technology, Luleå, Sweden)
(Luleå University of Technology, Luleå, Sweden)
(Luleå University of Technology, Luleå, Sweden)
ORCID (Luleå University of Technology, Luleå, Sweden)
(Southeast University, Nanjing, PR China and Luleå University of Technology, Luleå, Sweden)
(Trafikverket, Luleå and Borlänge, Sweden)
(Trafikverket, Luleå and Borlänge, Sweden)
Médium: papier de conférence
Langue(s): anglais
Conférence: IABSE Conference: Structural Engineering: Providing Solutions to Global Challenges, Geneva, Switzerland, September 2015
Publié dans:
Page(s): 1219-1226 Nombre total de pages (du PDF): 8
Page(s): 1219-1226
Nombre total de pages (du PDF): 8
Année: 2015
DOI: 10.2749/222137815818358493
Abstrait:

There is a need to extend the life and capacity of many existing bridges. One of the objects of the EU FP7 Project MAINLINE, 2011-2014, was to facilitate this. Guidelines for assessment and strengthening methods are presented as well as case studies in which existing bridges are studied in order to extend their life length.

One example is the prestressing of the slab in a one-span concrete trough bridge in order to increase its load-carrying capacity. Horizontal holes were drilled trough the slab and in them steel bars were placed and post-tensioned. In this way a compressive stress was introduced into the concrete section so that it’s bending and shear capacity was increased.

In another study a metal truss bridge was monitored in order to check strain and stress ranges in critical connections to enable an enhanced evaluation of the remaining fatigue resistance. The studied bridge was then replaced and loaded to failure to study its robustness and the reliability of applied assessment methods. The results could then be applied to prolong the life of an identical twin bridge located in the northern part of Sweden.

A Life Cycle Assessment Tool (LCAT) has been developed to enable Infrastructure Managers to choose optimal maintenance strategies.

Mots-clé:
ponts renforcement

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