European Bridge Conference, Imperial College London - Programme: V6
Sir Alexander Fleming Building, Imperial College Road, London SW7 2AZ (updated on 26th June 2014)
Day “0”: Monday 7th July 19.00 pm - Ice Breaker Reception (+ taste a wee dram…) – EXHIBITION HALL - ALL Delegates & Exhibitors Invited
Day 1: Tuesday 8th July 2014
08.30: Registration - Exhibition Hall
08.00 - 09.00 Coffee – Exhibition Hall
09.00: LT ‘A’ European Bridge Conference Opening: Prof MC Forde, FREng, FRSE, University of Edinburgh
Lecture Room 'A': Keynote Papers: European Bridge Conference
1. SUSPENSION BRIDGES – DESIGN, MAINTENANCE & INSPECTION OF MAIN CABLES, B Colford, Forth Road Bridge, Edinburgh, UK
2. EVALUATING SERVICE LIFE OF LONGSPAN BRIDGE CABLES, Dr K Mahmoud, Bridge Technology Consulting Inc, New York, NY, USA
3. MANAGEMENT OF M4 ELEVATED SECTION SUBSTRUCTURES, C Hendy & C Brock, Atkins, Epsom, UK
4. ‘FLEXIARCH’ – A VERSATILE & SUSTAINABLE ALTERNATIVE FOR BRIDGES, Prof AE Long S Nanukuttan, Queen’s Univ Belfast, A Gupta, D
Courtenay, Macrete, Antrim, UK
11.00 – 11.30 Coffee – Exhibition Hall
11.30 - 13.00: Parallel Sessions
European Bridge Session - Lecture Room 'A'
European Bridge Session - Lecture Room 'C'
European Bridge Session Lecture Room 'D'
Chairs:
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Chairs:
Long-Span Bridges
 ANALYSIS & FATIGUE TESTING OF FULL SIZE BRIDGE HANGER
CONNECTION TO DEVELOP INSTRUMENTATION SYSTEM &
DETECTION CRITERIA FOR IN-SERVICE MONITORING, P Plemic,
Wiss, Janney, Elstner Associates Inc, Northbrook, IL, USA
 LOAD TEST OF CABLE STAYED "ADA BRIDGE", BELGRADE, D
Kovacevic, Univ of Novi Sad, Serbia
 PRACTICAL STRUCTURAL MONITORING OF LONG-SPAN BRIDGES
- THE STRAINSTALL 2014 UPDATE, J St Leger, M Anderson, S Babin,
A Scullion, Strainstall UK Ltd, Royston, UK
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TESTS FOR STAY CABLE SYSTEMS & POST-TENSIONING
SYSTEMS, AW Gutsch, M Laube, T Nolte, TU Braunschweig, Germany
 INNOVATIVE ACCESS SOLUTIONS FOR BRIDGE PROJECTS, R
Burgess & J Mawson, C Spencer Ltd, Hull, UK
 BRIDGE WINDSHIELD DESIGN TO AVOID AEROELASTIC
PHENOMENA, M Ogueta-Gutierrez & S Franchini, Univ Poli de Madrid,
Spain
Concrete Bridge Investigation & Repair-1
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EMERGENCY FOUNDATION REPAIRS TO LEO FRIGO MEMORIAL
BRIDGE: QA/QC CHALLENGES & SOLUTIONS B Hertlein, GEI
Consultants Inc, Gurnee, IL, USA
SEISMIC VULNERABILITY OF BRIDGES OF ITALIAN MOTORWAY
NETWORK, G Pasqualato, C Bafaro, P Crespi, N Giordano, N
Longarini, Sineco S.p.A., Milan, Italy
EVALUATION OF AS-BUILT & RETROFITTED 2-COLUMN BRIDGE
BENTS UNDER VEHICULAR COLLISION AT BENT COLUMN, N
Wehbe, B Tigges, South Dakota State Univ, Brookings, SD, USA
REPAIR & STRUCTURAL STRENGTHENING OF OVERHEAD R.C.
BRIDGES FOR PETROLEUM PRODUCTS CONDUITS, Prof A Shilin
& Dr D Kartuzov, ZAO “Triada-Holding”, Moscow, Russia
SURVEY OF OLD CONCRETE RIVER BRIDGES, I Papayianni, P
Panetos, E Anastasiou & M Papachristoforou, Aristotle Univ of
Thessaloniki, Greece
13.00 – 14.00 Lunch – Exhibition Hall
NDT of Bridges-1
 IMAGE-BASED INSPECTION SYSTEM FOR ROUTINE VISUAL
INSPECTIONS OF UK HIGHWAYS BRIDGES, S McRobbie, A Wright,
TRL, Wokingham, UK
 USING STIFFNESS ADAPTATION TO ASSESS CAPACITY OF
EXISITNG CONCRETE BRIDGES, D Begg, Univ of Portsmouth, GMA
Schreppers, TNO DIANA BV, Delft, The Netherlands
 QUASI-STATIC TEMPERATURE EFFECTS ON CLEDDAU BRIDGE
FROM CONTINUOUS MONITORING, R Kromanis, P Kripakaran, Univ of
Exeter, W Harvey, Bill Harvey Assoc, Exeter, UK
 BRIDGE CRACK DETECTION WITH SUPER HIGH RESOLUTION
DIGITAL IMAGE & PROCESSING, T Yamamoto, Y Maeda, Y Fukunaga,
T Oshiro, West Nippon Expressway Co. Ltd, Osaka, Japan
Sustainable & Recycled Materials
• PROPERTIES OF GREEN ENGINEERED CEMENTITIOUS
COMPOSITES INCORPORATING VOLCANIC MATERIALS, K Hossain,
Ryerson Univ, Toronto, Ontario, Canada
14.00 - 15.30: Parallel Sessions
European Bridge Session
European Bridge Session
European Bridge Session
Lecture Room 'A'
Chairs:
Lecture Room 'C'
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Lecture Room 'D'
Chairs:
Steel & Iron Bridges - 1
 FATIGUE MANAGEMENT OF THE MIDLAND LINKS STEEL BOX
GIRDER DECKS, C Hendy, Atkins, Epsom & S Chakrabarti, Consultant
UK,
 USING CFRP SHEET FOR CORRODED STRUCTURAL STEEL
MEMBERS, M Nagai & T Miyashita, Nagaoka Univ of Tech, Niigata, D
Wakabayashi, Nippon Expressway, Y Okuyama, Nagano Nat Coll of
Tech, Y HIdekuma & A Kobayashi, Nippon Steel, N Koide, Kawasaki
Heavy Ind, W Horimoto, Kurabo Ind, Japan
 WARSAW GROT ROWECKI BRIDGE RENEWAL: WELDED
SUPERSTRUCTURE FATIGUE & STEEL GRADE SELECTION, G
Lagoda, Warsaw Tech Univ, T Wierzbicki & M Lagoda, Road & Bridge
Research Inst, Warsaw, Poland
 DYNAMIC INTERACTION BETWEEN RAILS AND STRUCTURE IN A
COMPOSITE BRIDGE OF 120 M LENGTH, Dr C J Cabanes, Univ Poli of
Madrid, Spain
Concrete Bridge Investigation & Repair-2
NDT of Bridges-2
 EVALUATION OF STRUCTURAL BEHAVIOR OF CORROSION
DAMAGED REINFORCEMENT CONCRETE BRIDGES, J Nepal, H P
Chen, Univ of Greenwich, Chatham, UK
• REDUCING THE RISK OF POTENTIAL FAILURES OF STRUCTURES,
Dr D Pearson-Kirk, M S Lever & I S Motyl, EM Highway Services Limited,
Exeter, UK
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Cathodic Protection
• CATHODIC PROTECTION OF CONCRETE BRIDGES, KJ Bennett,
Freyssinet Limited, Telford, UK
• HYBRID ELECTROCHEMICAL TREATMENT OF PASTON
INTERCHANGE BRIDGES, UK, A Higson, D Dudeney, M Burrows
Balvac, Sutton Weaver, N Davison, S Holmes, M Davison CP-Tech,
Nottingham, UK
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ASSESSMENT OF CONCRETE BEHAVIOUR IN BEAMS & A
VIADUCT WITH AE-MEASUREMENT, P van Hemert, SAAM Fennis,
DA Hordijk, TU Delft, The Netherlands
IMPACT ELASTIC-WAVE METHODS FOR DETECTION OF
GROUTING CONDITION OF POST TENSIONED TENDON DUCTS
USING ADAPTIVE NOISE CANCELLER, S Hattori, T Kamada, Osaka
Univ, S Uchida, Ritsumeikan Univ, Japan
BRIDGE WEIGH IN MOTION WEB AXLE DETECTOR FOR
INVESTIGATION OF BRIDGE COLLAPSE, E Salem, Al-Azhar Univ,
Cairo, Egypt
Masonry Arch Bridges + Bridge Scour
 MASONRY ARCH STRENGTHENING OF EDEN BRIDGE (LATRISK), P
McKenna, D Dunne, CH2M HILL, Glasgow, UK
 UPDATE OF MANUAL ON SCOUR AT BRIDGES & OTHER HYDRAULIC
STRUCTURES, A Kitchen, JBA Consulting, Skipton, A M Kirby, Mott
MacDonald, M Escarameia, HR Wallingford, UK
15.30 – 16.00 Tea – Exhibition Hall
16.00 – 17.30 Parallel Sessions
European Bridge Session - Lecture Room 'A'
Chairs:
Steel & Iron Bridges - 2
 REPAIR OF DISTORTION INDUCED FATIGUE DAMAGE IN STEEL
GIRDERS USING COMPOSITES, A Matamoros, E Bonet, SH Bun, C
Bennnett, RB Gonzalez, ST Rolfe, Univ of Kansas, Lawrence, KS, USA
 EFFECT OF SKEW ANGLE & CROSS-FRAME LAYOUT ON LATERAL
FLANGE BENDING STRESSES IN STEEL GIRDER BRIDGES, C
Bennett, J Zhou & A Matamoros, Univ of Kansas, Lawrence, KS, USA
 VIBRATION-BASED FE MODELING AND STRUCTURAL ANALYSIS OF
THE PADERNO IRON ARCH BRIDGE (1889), Dr C Gentile & Dr A Saisi,
Politecnico di Milano, Italy
 INCREASING WELD PENETRATION TO IMPROVE FATIGUE
STRENGTH OF RIB-TO-DECK JOINTS IN ORTHOTROPIC STEEL
DECKS, V Dung Cao, Tokyo Inst of Tech, Japan
 RESEARCH ON THE NEW CFRP PRESTRESSING SYSTEM FOR
METAL BRIDGE STRENGTHENING, TW Siwowski & P Pasko, Rzeszow
University of Technology, Poland
European Bridge Session - Lecture Room 'C'
Chairs:
Bridge Management
• 3R’S APPROACH TO BRIDGE MANAGEMENT: RETAIN, REPAIR &
REPLACE, D Dunne, P McKenna, CH2M Hill, Worcester, UK
• BALANCING SERVICE LIFE & SUSTAINABLE CONCRETE USAGE IN
MISSOURI BRIDGE A7957 JJ Myers, E. Hernandez & A Griffin, Missouri
Univ of Science & Technology, Rolla MO, USA
• OPTIMIZING A BRIDGE RESPONSE MODIFICATION APPARATUS
USING A REDUCED ORDER MODEL, A Schultz, Univ of Minnesota, AJ
Gastineau, KPFF, Seattle WA & SF Wojtkiewicz, Clarkson University,
Potsdam NY, USA
Rail Bridge Investigation & Repair
• BIG BRIDGE “IN PERGOLA” FOR HIGH SPEED TRAINS TO THE
NORTHWEST OF SPAIN, Dr C J Cabanes, Univ Poli of Madrid, Spain
European Bridge Session Lecture Room 'D'
Chairs:
Open Discussion Forum:
Durability & Resilience:
Bridges
Barry Colford, Forth Road Bridge, UK
Ken Ho, Highways Agency, UK
Dr Khaled Mahmoud, BTC, New York, NY USA
Dr Donald Pearson-Kirk, Mouchel Ltd, UK
17.30 pm Awards Ceremony and Reception (+ taste a wee dram…) – EXHIBITION HALL - ALL Delegates & Exhibitors Invited
Day 2: Wednesday 9th July 2014
08.30: Registration & Coffee - Exhibition Hall
09.00 – 10.30
European Bridge Session
European Bridge Session
Lecture Room 'B'
Lecture Room 'D'
Chairs:
Chairs:
Joint Details & Bearings
FRP Bridge Strengthening
• PERFORMANCE OF PRECAST CONCRETE BEARINGS ON STEEL STRINGERS, J Pearson, R Lindberg, Wiss,
Janney, Elstner Associates, Inc., Northbrook, Il, USA
• BEHAVIOUR OF ECC LINK SLABS FOR JOINT-FREE BRIDGE CONSTRUCTION, K Hossain, Ryerson Univ,
Toronto, ON, Canada
NDT & Repair of Bridge Decks-1
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EXPERIENCE WITH EVALUATING BRIDGE DECK DETERIORATION WITH GROUND PENETRATING
RADAR, Dr P Annan, Sensors & Software, Mississauga, Canada
USING 3D GPR, LASER SCANNER & HIGH PRECISION THERMAL CAMERA TECHNIQUES IN CONCRETE
BRIDGE DECK SURVEYS, A Leppala, Roadscanners Oy, Tampere, Finland
EVALUATION OF CONCRETE BRIDGE DECK REHAB BY METHOD OF HYDRODEMOLITION & LATEXMODIFIED OVERLAY, K Harries & M McCabe,Univ of Pittsburgh, PA, USA
• LONG-TERM DURABILITY ASSESSMENT OF PRESTRESSED CONCRETE GIRDERS WITH FRP
SHELL, M. Shafqat Ali & Saeed Mirza, McGill Univ, Montreal, Canada
• TESTS OF CRACKED, R.C. BEAMS STRENGTHENED WITH NEAR-SURFACE-MOUNTED FIBERREINFORCED POLYMER STRIPS, R Barnes, EA. Bertolotti, A K. Schindler, Auburn Univ, AL,USA
• SHEAR STRENGTHENING OF PRESTRESSED CONCRETE BEAMS UNDER CYCLIC LOADING WITH
TEXTILE REINFORCED CONCRETE, M Herbrand, J Hegger, RWTH Aachen Univ, Germany
• RETROFITTING OF BRIDGES FOR SEISMIC VULNERABILITY REDUCTION, Prof A. Kappos, City
University, London, UK
• EXPTL STUDY OF SEISMIC RETROFIT ON VIADUCT BRIDGE OF RAIL TRANSIT, J Kim, KRRI,
Gyenonggi-do, Korea
11.00 – 11.30 Coffee – Exhibition Hall
11.30 - 13.00: Parallel Session
European Bridge Session
Lecture Room 'B'
Chairs:
NDT & Repair of Bridge Decks-2
• GPR ANALYSIS OF BRIDGE DECK CONSTRUCTION & DELAMINATION, E Carrick Utsi, V Utsi, Utsi Electronics Ltd, Cambridge, A Birtwisle, Atlas Geophysical Ltd, Rugby, UK
• REPAIR & MAINTENANCE OF DELAMINATED R.C. DECKS CAUSED BY DEICING SALTS ON HOKURIKU EXPRESSWAY, Y Ishikawa, N Arima, E Iwasaki, M Nagai & M Moriyama, Central Nippon Highway Engineering
Nagoya Co Ltd, Kanazawa, Japan
• BRIDGE REHABILITATION AND STRENGTHENING WITH CONCRETE OVERLAYS, Jakob Kunz & Camiel de Smet, Hilti Corp, Liechtenstein + Norbert Randl, Hilti Development, D-86916 Kaufering, Germany
• EUROPEAN GPR ASSOCIATION: ITS PRESENT & FUTURE ROLES IN ENGINEERING, E Carrick Utsi, Utsi Electronics Ltd, Cambridge, UK
13.00 – 14.00 Lunch – Exhibition Hall
14.00 – 16.00: Parallel Sessions
European Bridge Session
Lecture Room 'B'
Chairs:
Composite Bridges
• USE OF INNOVATIVE "COMPOSITE DOWELS" IN PREFABRICATED COMPOSITE BRIDGES, J Gallwoszus, J Hegger, M Kopp, M Gundel, M Feldmann, RWTH Aachen, Germany
• HYBRID COMPOSITE BEAM (HCB) BRIDGE IMPLEMENTATION & FIELD MONITORING, JJ Myers, MA Abeol Seoud, Missouri Univ of Science & Technology, Rolla MO, USA
• A PEDESTRIAN BRIDGE MADE OF TEXTILE REINFORCED CONCRETE, S Rempel, J Hegger, RWTH Aachen Univ, C Kulas, Solidian GmbH, Germany
Post-Tensioned Concrete Bridges
• CABLE IMPREGNATION FOR POST-TENSION GROUTING PROBLEMS, D Whitmore, D Simpson, Vector Corrosion Technologies, Winnipeg, Canada, I Lasa, Florida DoT, USA
• INVESTIGATIONS OF P-T BRIDGES WITH CRITICAL PRESTRESSING STEEL REGARDING HYDROGEN-INDUCED CRACKING (HIC), A W Gutsch, M Walther, TU Braunschweig, Germany
• EFFECT OF FREQUENCY RANGE ON SIBIE FOR IDENTIFYING PARALLEL ARRAY OF PRE-STRESSING DUCTS, M Kira, M Yamada, T Tsutsumi, & M Ohtsu, Kumamoto Univ, Japan
• INVESTIGATIONS & REPAIR TO A P-T HIGH-WAY BRIDGE DECK AFTER A FIRE DUE TO AN TRAFFIC ACCIDENT UNDER THE BRIDGE, Dr AW Gutsch, TU Braunschweig, Germany
Closing Comments: Professor M C Forde, FREng, FRSE, FACI, University of Edinburgh
16.00 European Bridge Conference Closes
16.00 Tea – Exhibition Hall
Social Event - OPTIONAL - tickets may be purchased on the Registration Form
19.30 for 20.00: Conference Banquet
East India Club, St James’s Square, London
OPTIONAL - tickets may be purchased on the Registration Form: www.europeanbridgeconference.com