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17TH World Congress on Road Winter Service, Resilience and Decarbonisation - Pre-proceedings of the Congress

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Resilience Session 01 - How can the resilience of aging bridges be improved in the context of climate change?

Tuesday, March 10 14:30 - 16:00
Chair: Yvonne Gunreben, WG3-Leader of TC 4.2 Bridges, Germany
Room: Room 3

This session will address the following two key issues:
1. Creating safer bridges by considering resilience issues also for ageing bridges
2. Approaches for the whole bridge stock

The session will present a wide range for improving resilience for the whole bridge stock. The presentations give input for the upcoming PIARC report "Road Bridges – Requirements and Evaluation Methods for Structural Redundancy". Thererfore the current status of work of WG3 will also be presented.

  1. Welcome and session introduction
  2. Presentations
  3. Questions and Answers
  4. Conclusion
  5. Organization

Welcome and session introduction

  • Introduction
    • Nicolas BARDOU (France) - Chair of TC 4.2 "Bridges"

Presentations

  • Climate Vulnerability Assessment of the Bridges in the Community of Madrid
    • David LÓPEZ OLIVER (INES Ingenieros Consultores SL, Spain)
    Individual paper Individual paper (pdf - 1.2MB)
  • Road Bridges – Requirements and Evaluation Methods for Structural Redundancy
    • Cécile HAREMZA (Belgium) - Team of WG3 of TC 4.2 "Bridges"
  • Strategies to Increase the Resilience of Road Bridge Infrastructure Against Natural or Anthropic Disasters
    • María Guadalupe LÓPEZ DOMÍNGUEZ (Instituto , Mexico)
    Individual paper Individual paper (pdf - 4.7MB)
  • Transforming bridges for redundancy and robustness. Elimination of Gerber hinges on swiss national road bridges.
    • Dimitrios PAPASTERGIOU (Federal Roads Office FEDRO, Switzerland)
    Individual paper Individual paper (pdf - 3.4MB)
  • Measures for increasing resilience of bridges using a GIS-based decision support tool
    • Kalliopi ANASTASSIADOU (Federal Highway and Transport Research Institute (BASt), Germany)
    Individual paper Individual paper (pdf - 242KB)

Questions and Answers

• Moderator: Yvonne Gunreben, WG3-Leader of TC 4.2 bridges, Germany

Conclusion

• Yvonne GUNREBEN (Germany) - WG3-Leader of TC 4.2 "Bridges"

Organization

  • Session Organiser: Yvonne Gunreben, WG3-Leader of TC 4.2 Bridges, Germany
  • Session Secretary: Cécile Haremza, Team of WG3, Belgium