Publications related to Beam bridge

Reliability analysis of welded stud shear connectors on simply-supported bridge girders

This paper examines the reliability of welded stud shear connectors for steel-concrete composite bridge girders. A finite element model of a simply-supported bridge was created featuring link connector elements representing the shear studs between beam and ...

CANADIAN SCIENCE PUBLISHING2021

Study on Mechanical Performance of Prestressed UHPFRC U-Beam Bridges

Eugen Brühwiler

The forms of U-shaped UHPFRC beams have not been investigated for the highway footbridge. Compared with the traditional section forms, the U-shaped UHPFRC beams can reduce the material consumption under the condition of providing the same bearing capacity. ...

2021

Assessment of the Environmental Impacts of Bridge Designs Involving UHPFRC

Eugen Brühwiler, Numa Joy Bertola, Célia Marine Küpfer

Ultra-High-Performance Fibre-Reinforced Cementitious Composite (UHPFRC) has been developed to design lightweight structures and enhance existing designs. As the environmental footprint of the construction industry must be significantly reduced, the potenti ...

2021

Fatigue examination of reinforced-concrete bridge slabs using acoustic emission and strain monitoring data

Imane Bayane

The examination of bridges under service loading is key for understanding their condition and thus for their sustainable and efficient use. The need to extend the service duration of existing bridges is increasing, and therefore, efficient tools for examin ...

EPFL2021

Enhancement of riveted steel bridges by adding a trough in UHPFRC acting in composite action

Eugen Brühwiler

Riveted railway bridges are commonly considered as being “old”, having fatigue damage and are therefore replaced. While this practice should be by now obsolete by using novel engineering methods like structural monitoring, prolongation of the service durat ...

Taylor & Francis2021

Railway bridge damage detection using vehicle-based inertial measurements and apparent profile

Pablo Antolin Sanchez

The presence of damage in a railway bridge alters its stiffness and consequently, its static and dynamic response to loading. The dynamic response of a railway bridge to loading produces a dynamic response in the passing vehicle, potentially enabling detec ...

2017

Lateral Torsional Buckling of steel bridge girders

Jean-Paul Lebet, Raphaël Thiébaud

The Lateral Torsional Buckling (L.T.B.) design of beams in buildings has received considerable attention over the last decades, and relatively similar improved design rules are now implemented in major design standards. On the contrary, it may be shown tha ...

Structural Stability Research Council2016

Large scale fiber bridging in mode I intralaminar fracture. An embedded cell approach

John Botsis, Georgios Pappas, Luis Pablo Canal Casado

Fiber reinforced composites can develop large scale bridging upon mode I fracture. This toughening mechanism depends on the constituents and the geometry of the specimen, and is especially important in unidirectional laminates when fracture is parallel to ...

Elsevier2016

Static and Fatigue Shear Strength of Reinforced Concrete Slabs Under Concentrated Loads Near Linear Supports

Francisco Manuel Maciel Natário

Reinforced concrete slabs without shear reinforcement under concentrated loads near linear supports are typical cases of bridge deck slabs, transfer slabs or pile caps. Such members are often designed or assessed in shear/punching shear with code provision ...

EPFL2015

Shear strength evaluation of RC bridge deck slabs according to CSCT with multi – layered shell elements and PARC_CL Crack Model

Aurelio Muttoni, Raffaele Cantone, Beatrice Belletti

The shear resistance of RC slabs without shear reinforcement subjected to concentrated loads near linear support is usually calibrated on the base of tests on one – way slabs with rectangular cross section. However, the actual behavior of slabs subjected t ...

IABSE Conference Geneva 20152015

Modelling of fatigue behaviour of bridge deck slab elements strengthened with reinforced UHPFRC

Eugen Brühwiler, Tohru Makita

With the occurrence of higher and more frequent axle loads on roads, in particular bridge deck slabs are more severely solicitated by fatigue loading. To avoid heavy interventions for strengthening of deck slabs, an improved building material is used, name ...

Crc Press-Taylor & Francis Group2014

Résistance au déversement des poutres métalliques de pont

Raphaël Thiébaud

Steel and steel-concrete composite bridges made of plate girders represent an economical structural form and are largely used for short and medium spans. Two parallel plate girders connected by cross-beams define a twin-girder bridge. This type of bridge t ...

EPFL2014

Structural limits of FRP-balsa sandwich decks in bridge construction

Thomas Keller, Anastasios Vassilopoulos, Julia De Castro San Roman Fest, Michael Osei-Antwi

The span limits of two glass fiber-reinforced polymer (GFRP) bridge concepts involving GFRP-balsa sandwich plates are discussed. The sandwich plates were either used directly as slab bridges or as decks of a hybrid sandwich-steel girder bridges. In the lat ...

Elsevier2014

Structural limits of FRP-balsa sandwich decks in bridge construction

Thomas Keller, Julia De Castro San Roman Fest, Michael Osei-Antwi

The span limits of two glass fiber-reinforced polymer (GFRP) bridge concepts involving GFRP-balsa sandwich plates are discussed. The sandwich plates were either used directly as slab bridges or as decks of a hybrid sandwich-steel girder bridges. In the lat ...

International Association for Bridge and Structural Engineering2014

Ultra high performance fiber reinforced concrete for strengthening and protecting bridge deck slabs

Eugen Brühwiler, Maléna Bastien Masse

An original concept is presented for the durable rehabilitation of concrete bridge deck slabs. The main idea is to add a layer of Ultra-High Performance Fiber Reinforced Concrete (UHPFRC) with or without steel reinforcing bars over the concrete slab to cre ...

Crc Press-Taylor & Francis Group2014

Assessment of Shear Strength for Existing Bridges with Low Amounts of Shear Reinforcement

Aurelio Muttoni, Miguel Fernández Ruiz, Michael Markus Rupf

Design of concrete girder bridges has significantly evolved during the last decades. This has been particularly relevant with respect to shear design, motivated by changes in actions and design models. As a consequence, assessing the shear strength of exis ...

fib Symposium Tel-Aviv 20132013

Concrete bridge deck slabs strengthened with UHPFRC

Eugen Brühwiler, Maléna Bastien Masse

An original concept is presented for the durable rehabilitation of concrete bridge deck slabs. The main idea is to add a layer of Ultra-High Performance Fiber Reinforced Concrete (UHPFRC) with steel reinforcing bars over the concrete slab to create a compo ...

IABSE2013

Background to the fib Model Code 2010 shear provisions - part I: beams and slabs

Aurelio Muttoni, Miguel Fernández Ruiz

This paper examines the evidence for the one-way shear model developed for the fib Model Code for Concrete Structures 2010 and provides examples of its application. For the design and analysis for shear, for members with and without shear reinforcement, th ...

Thomas Telford2013

Load response due to local and global indeterminacies of FRP-deck bridges

Thomas Keller, Wendel Michael Sebastian

In a cellular FRP deck-on-beam bridge, the deck's load response is influenced by the cellular frame's local indeterminacy and by the global indeterminacy due to multiple beams at each support. Thus, the stiffness distributions for both levels of indetermin ...

2012

Fatigue behaviour of bridge deck slab elements strengthened with reinforced UHPFRC

Eugen Brühwiler, Tohru Makita

With the occurrence of higher and more frequent axle loads on roads, in particular bridge deck slabs are more severely solicitated by fatigue loading. To avoid heavy interventions for strengthening of bridge deck slabs, an improved building material is use ...

CRC Press/Balkema2012