Guide about Inspection and Repair of Bridges
Introduction
This report summarises the past two to three decades of developments within the field of bridge maintenance. The report intends to overview the principles, tasks, and methods involved in surveying and maintaining bridges.
The report is not a complete guideline for the complex asset management of bridges, but hopefully, it can form a starting point in the seeking of ways to handle proper maintenance of entire bridge structures.
The target group includes civil engineers, asset managers, contractors, and inspectors working within the fields of bridge inspection, condition assessment, asset management, and operation and maintenance of bridges.
Contents
Performance of bridges
- What should be considered in bridge performance?
- What is and how is the performance of a bridge determined?
Maintenance of bridges
- What should be considered in bridge maintenance?
- What is the bridge maintenance plan?
- What information needs to be collected and stored to complete the bridge maintenance plan?
Inspection of bridges
- What type of inspections should be conducted on bridges?
- Who should carry out these inspections?
- What elements should be inspected?
- What should be the methodology for conducting these inspections?
- What equipment and auxiliary means may be required?
- What is structural monitoring and what are its main objectives?
- What is Risk Based Inspections (RBI)?
Diagnosis of bridges
- What is the objective of a diagnosis?
- What data is required to elaborate a diagnosis?
- How should the data obtained be processed to make a diagnosis?
Corrective actions
- Corrective measures if the diagnosis reveals problems
- What emergency actions should be taken when inspections and monitoring reveal a critical problem?
Repair of bridges
- What should be considered concerning the EN 1504 standard?
- General considerations for conducting repairs on bridges
- Concrete repair and protection technologies and other elements
- What post-repair actions should be carried out to ensure its effective implementation?
