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Environmental and Life-Cycle Cost Evaluation of a Composite Timber-UHPFRC Bridge

Ultra-High-Performance Fibre Reinforced Cementitious Composite (UHPFRC) has recently been used to design lightweight structures and strengthen existing ones, with more than 300 applications in Switzerland. Several composite timber-UHPFRC bridges have been ...

2023

Fire performance evaluation of GFRP-balsa sandwich bridge decks

Niloufar Vahedi

Bridges are a critical component of national infrastructures and economies. A significant percentage of bridges built all around the world are made of reinforced concrete which according to building codes have a life span between 80-100 years. However, str ...

EPFL2022

Quantification of influence of monitoring duration on measured traffic action effects on fatigue of RC deck slabs of road bridges

Eugen Brühwiler, Bartlomiej Wojciech Sawicki

The safety of existing bridges may be assessed using data from monitoring. The fatigue damage induced during observation period is extrapolated to the total service duration of a structure, and the reserve capacity is estimated. However, due to the randomn ...

2022

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

Influence of monitoring duration on measured traffic action effects on road bridges

Eugen Brühwiler, Bartlomiej Wojciech Sawicki

This paper analyses the influence of monitoring duration on the obtained results using two long term (2.5 years) monitoring campaigns. Two road bridges with different nature of traffic are considered: (a) a heavily loaded two-lane highway viaduct and (b) a ...

Taylor & Francis2021

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

Scott Walbridge, Matthew James Sjaarda

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

Risk-based methodology to assess bridge condition based on visual inspection

Eugen Brühwiler, Numa Joy Bertola

The visual inspection of existing infrastructure is a critical step for asset management, as the detection and quantification of damage must be useful to prioritise maintenance. In Switzerland, main inspections are made every five years for all road bridge ...

2021

Investigation of fatigue damage in a RC deck slab due to moving loads through long-term monitoring of a road viaduct

Eugen Brühwiler, Imane Bayane

The behavior of reinforced-concrete structural elements under moving loads involves many complex parameters related to material properties, vehicle loading, environmental changes and structural response. It is difficult to generate the real conditions of l ...

Taylor & Francis2021

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

Constructional method of UHPC on steel deck of long span suspension bridge and in-situ experimental test

Jian Zhan

The Second Dongting Lake (SDTL) Bridge is the longest steel truss girder suspension bridge in China, which has a main span of 1480 m. To alleviate deterioration issues in the orthotropic steel deck (OSD), the steel-ultra high performance concrete (UHPC) li ...

EPFL2020

Static and Fatigue Biaxial Flexural Behavior of Strain-Hardening UHPFRC Thin Slab Elements

Xiujiang Shen

Cast-in-place thin layers of Ultra-High Performance Fiber Reinforced Cementitious Composites (UHPFRC) on the specific zones of existing reinforced concrete (RC) bridge decks has been demonstrated to be a technically efficient and economic rehabilitation an ...

EPFL2020

Shear-bending failure modeling of concrete ribbed slabs strengthened with UHPFRC

Eugen Brühwiler

The use of Reinforced Ultra High Performance Fiber Reinforced Cementitious Composite (R-UHPFRC) materials in the strengthening of existing infrastructure has been more broadly exploited in recent years, although the main domain of application pertains to t ...

ELSEVIER SCI LTD2020

International Perspective on UHPC in Bridge Engineering

Eugen Brühwiler

Ultrahigh-performance concrete (UHPC) offers significant potential to address a variety of needs in bridge design, construction, and performance enhancement. Bridge owners have shown willingness to embrace novel solutions that could address specific challe ...

ASCE-AMER SOC CIVIL ENGINEERS2020

Monitoring of the UHPFRC strengthened Chillon viaduct under environmental and operational variability

Eugen Brühwiler

Constructed in 1969, the Chillon viaducts constitute a vital component of the Swiss roadway network. The bridge deck was strengthened in 2015 by means of an Ultra High Performance Fiber Reinforced Cement-based Composite for alleviating the effects of deter ...

2020

Fatigue Damage Factor Calibration for Long-Span Cable-Stayed Bridge Decks

Alain Nussbaumer, Cláudio Alexandre Pereira Baptista

Part 2 of the Eurocode 3 (EN 1993-2) proposes a straight forward fatigue verification method using a single heavy vehicle model (FLM3) and a damage equivalent factor, lambda, to represent the fatigue damaging effects of the real traffic on road bridges. Th ...

SPRINGER NATURE SWITZERLAND AG2019

"Pocket-monitoring" for fatigue safety verification of a RC bridge deck slab

Eugen Brühwiler, Imane Bayane

The fatigue safety of the reinforced concrete (RC) deck slab of a sixty-year-old steel-concrete road viaduct is questioned based on the results of code-based "re-calculation". Since strengthening intervention would lead to major costs, detailed investigati ...

CRC PRESS-TAYLOR & FRANCIS GROUP2019

Design and construction of a railway bridge in reinforced UHPFRC – World’s first UHPFRC bridge on a main railway line

Eugen Brühwiler

On November 11, 2017, the world's first railway bridge built in reinforced UHPFRC on a main railway line lane was put in service. The building project of the Swiss Federal Railways was realized within a replacement project of a double‐lane railway bridge o ...

2019

Flexural fatigue behavior of circular UHPFRC slab specimens

Eugen Brühwiler, Xiujiang Shen

This paper investigates experimentally the biaxial flexural fatigue behavior of thin circular slab specimens made of Ultra High Performance Fibre Reinforced Cementitious Composite (UHPFRC), using ring-on-ring test method. The circular slab specimens repres ...

2019

CHARACTERIZATION OF TENSILE BEHAVIOR IN UHPFRC THIN SLAB USING NDT METHOD AND DIC SYSTEM

Eugen Brühwiler, Xiujiang Shen

Proper test and analysis methods are necessary for characterizing the tensile behavior of strain hardening Ultra High Performance Fiber Reinforced Cementitious Composites (UHPFRC) accurately and representatively. In this paper, the direct tensile tests (DT ...

RILEM Publications S.A.R.L.2018