Development update for BOF 20

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CIRIA Arch Manual• Now published• Available for free download from

CIRIA web site

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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

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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

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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

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Other projects (4)

• DTI– TSET (LSBU etc)– ACLAIM (ESR Technology)– KTN:MBE (CIRIA and BRE)

• Rod Howe and David Patterson (HA)

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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

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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