COURSE SCHEDULE

8.30 – 9.30 Registration

9.30 – 11.00 Professor Fausto Minelli: Guidelines for risk classification and management, safety assessment and monitoring of existing bridges. Experiences in Northern Italy

11.00 – 13.00 Professor Antonino Recupero: Prestressing in Italian Bridges: the technology behind a nation’s reconstruction

14.30 – 16.00 Professor Giovanni Plizzari: Strengthening Existing Bridges with UHPFRC: from Material to Structure - Case Studies – PART I

16.00 – 19.00 PhD Defenses of: 

• Dr. Anna Bontempi: Structural Assessment of Existing Deteriorated Girders and Advanced Strengthening Strategies: Analytical, Experimental and Numerical Approaches

• Dr. Matteo Lamberti: High-performance concretes for the repair and strengthening of structural elements and infrastructure components - Fiber reinforced concrete incorporating recycled aggregates for sustainable strengthening

9.00 – 11.00 Professor Mário Pimentel: Safety assessment of existing concrete bridges using NLFEA and the global resistance safety factor concept: a case study 

11.00 – 13.00 Professor Yuguang Yang: Shear Assessment of Small-Span Concrete Slab Bridges and Precast Girder Bridges: Experimental Research at TU Delft

14.30 – 17.30 Professor Yuguang Yang: Reuse of Existing Bridge Components in New Structures; Assessment of Balanced Cantilever Bridges: Case Studies

19.30 SOCIAL PROGRAMME - City tour and Happy our in the city center

9.00 – 13.00 Professor Christian Carloni: FRP Composites for Strengthening Reinforced and Prestressed Concrete Structures: Materials, Testing Standards, Bond Behaviour and Design Principles

14.30 –18.30 Technical visit to Valvestino RC arch bridges

9.00 – 13.00 Professor Aurelio Muttoni: Case studies of assessment and interventions on bridges

14.30 – 16.00 Professor Fausto Minelli: Strengthening Existing Bridges with UHPFRC: from Material to Structure - Case Studies - PART II

16.00 – 17.30 PhD Defenses of Dr. Giulia Rossini: Stress-release methods for the structural assessment of bridge girders with an emphasis on shear

20.30 - SOCIAL DINNER: Restuarant La Vedetta in the Maddalena Hill

9.00–13.00 Professor Christian Carloni: Design Examples for FRP Strengthening of Reinforced and Prestressed Concrete Structures: ACI 440, European Codes, Anchors and Confinement

Seminario in italiano per professionisti (3 CFP)

Room B.0.3 - via Branze 43

14.30 – 17.30 LO STATO DELL’ARTE NELLA GESTIONE DEI PONTI ESISTENTI a sei anni dalla pubblicazione delle recenti Linee Guida italiane per la classificazione e gestione del rischio, la valutazione della sicurezza e il monitoraggio dei ponti esistenti

Il seminario è organizzato dall’Ordine degli Ingegneri della Provincia di Brescia in collaborazione con DICATAM e Provincia di Brescia.