Innovative bridge assessment for developing countries
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Van Der Spuy, P.F.
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Southern African Transport Conference
Abstract
Reliability based bridge assessment has become a standard way of assessing bridges in
developed countries across Europe, North America and Australia. Through clever
collection of load and resistance data, design parameters can be quantified with greater
accuracy. By applying the principles of structural reliability, bridges can be assessed less
conservatively, implying that more bridges can be treated at the same cost of a
conservative code-based assessment. This paper presents some innovative assessment
methods which have been developed elsewhere with the aim to expose local bridge
engineers to the available techniques and to motivate how they can be applied locally
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Papers presented virtually at the 41st International Southern African Transport Conference on 10-13 July 2036