State-of-the-art on load testing of concrete bridges

State-of-the-art on load testing of concrete bridges

Lantsoght, E.O.L. (TU Delft Steel & Composite Structures; Universidad San Francisco de Quito; Adstren)
van der Veen, C. (TU Delft Concrete Structures)
de Boer, A. (Ministry of Infrastructure and the Environment)
Hordijk, D.A. (TU Delft Steel & Composite Structures)

2017

Load testing of bridges is a practice that is as old as their construction. In the past, load testing gave the traveling public a feeling that a newly opened bridge is safe. Nowadays, the bridge stock in many countries is aging, and load testing is used for the assessment of existing bridges. This paper aims at giving an overview of the current state-of-the-art with regard to load testing of concrete bridges. The work is based on an extensive literature review, dealing with diagnostic and proof load testing, and looking at the current areas of research. Additional available information about load testing of steel, timber, and masonry bridges, buildings, and collapse testing is briefly cited. For the implementation of load testing to the aging bridge stock on a large scale, efficiency in procedures is required. The areas requiring future research are identified, based on the available body of knowledge.

Concrete bridges
Existing bridges
Instrumentation
Load testing
Proof load testing
State-of-the-art

http://resolver.tudelft.nl/uuid:92696c8b-96a5-4783-84c0-d9f3ed972160

https://doi.org/10.1016/j.engstruct.2017.07.050

2019-07-25

0141-0296

Engineering Structures, 150, 231-241

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journal article

© 2017 E.O.L. Lantsoght, C. van der Veen, A. de Boer, D.A. Hordijk