development update for bof 20
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Development update for BOF 20
Slide 2
CIRIA Arch Manual• Now published• Available for free download from
CIRIA web site
Slide 3
CIRIA Tunnel Manual
• third draft produced in November 2006
• steering group approved in December 2006
• awaiting CIRIA peer review• publication late spring/early
summer 2007
Slide 4
Sustainable Bridges• 3rd year completed
– year end reports just submitted to EU
• 1 dissemination workshop held– BAM (NDE)
• 3 further workshops planned (by invitation)– LTU (repair & strengthening) 26/27 March 2007– COWI (assessment) 21/22 May 2007– EMPA (monitoring) 28/29 June 2007
• Final conference (open to all)– Wroclaw 10, 11 October 2007
Slide 5
European Construction Technology Platform - http://www.ectp.org/• 2nd plenary meeting/brokerage event in
Versailles in November 2006– VCE proposal, Quicnet
• FP7 1st call published 22nd December 2006– not a lot of relevance to bridges - later this year?– railway meeting planned for Frankfurt in
February 2007– Dutch national platform/Eurekabuild brokerage
meeting in Rotterdam 22/23 January 2007• client/user advisory group meeting in
Brussels January 2007• Contact made with UK national platform
– membership of support group a possibility
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Other projects (1)• CIRIA
– Manual on the use of rock in hydraulic engineering
• now with CIRIA publications
– Whole life costing across industries• work progressed to phase 2 (Scott Wilson)
– Monitoring of concrete structures (DTI funded)• final report discussed December 2006• Possible CIRIA report as spin off
– Metallic bridges – John Clarke • delay
– Dry stone walls – Ronnie Wilson• delay
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Other projects (2)• Mining related
– Edinburgh University - mine shaft detection– Newcastle University - management of
shallow mine workings• Bath University
– shear resistance of elderly pre stressed beams with transverse post tensioning
• Salford University– soil/structure interaction in arch bridges– radial pinning of masonry arches– acoustic emission testing
• Cardiff University– fatigue in masonry arches
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Other projects (3)• Surrey University
– reliability based bridge inspection frequencies
– fatigue crack growth in wrought iron
• Keele University/SciSite - detection of rebar corrosion
• Edinburgh University - use of GPR on masonry arches
• Parsons Brinckerhoff - proprietary FRP products for use in bridges
Slide 9
Other projects (4)
• DTI– TSET (LSBU etc)– ACLAIM (ESR Technology)– KTN:MBE (CIRIA and BRE)
• Rod Howe and David Patterson (HA)
Slide 10
Watching brief (1)• BSI Committee B/509/1
– BS EN 1317 - Road restraint systems– BS6779 Pt 4 – Masonry bridge parapets
• Edward ?
• Leeds – PhD on FRP/metallic strengthening
• Bath, Bradford & Bristol Universities - low energy lime mortars
• Bath & Southampton Universities – dry stone walls
Slide 11
Networks• Materials KTN
(amf.globalwatchonline.com)• launched 19 January 2006
– SMART.mat (www.smartmat.org)• also launched 19 January 2006• smart composites workshop at IOM3, 25 May 2006• roadmapping workshop at IOM3, 6 June 2006
– NCN (www.ncn-uk.co.uk)• presentation to next BOF?
– NGCC (www.ngcc.org)• New co-ordinating organisation (Net Composites)
• SIMoNET (www.simonet.org)– seminar held 15 November 2006, next
planned for April 2007
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