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 – 18.30 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

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

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 (3CFP)

Room B.0.3 - via Branze 43

14.30 – 17.30 The state of the art in the management of existing bridges, six years after the publication of the recent Italian Guidelines for risk assessment, safety evaluation, and monitoring of existing bridges

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

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