General Session 1: Digitalization
General Session 2: Sustainability
General Session 3: Long-Span Bridges
General Session 4: Inspection and Monitoring
General Session 5: Evaluation and Assessment
General Session 6: Service Life and Maintenance
General Session 7: Repair and Strengthening
The general sessions contain the following more specified conference topics:
The conference topics will include, among others:
1. BRIDGE MAINTENANCE
- Maintenance strategies
- Inspection and diagnostic
- Health monitoring
- Non-destructive testing
- Field testing
- Historical and Old Bridges
- Application of new tools (e.g. augmented and virtual reality, digital twins, artificial intelligence, unmanned aerial vehicles UAV)
2. BRIDGE SAFETY
- Safety and serviceability
- Assessment and evaluation
- Damage identification
- Deterioration modelling
- Repair and retrofitting strategy
- Bridge reliability
- Bridge robustness and resilience
- Fatigue and corrosion
- Extreme loads (e.g. earthquake, fire, blast)
- Climate change (e.g. floods, hurricanes, waves, tsunamis)
- Advanced experimental simulation
- Advanced computer simulation
3. BRIDGE MANAGEMENT
- Bridge codes
- Heavy vehicle and load models
- Bridge management systems
- Prediction of the future traffic demands
- Service life considerations and predictions
- Life extension
- Sustainability and life-cycle assessments
- Digitalisation in bridge management
- Application of big data for decision making
- Structural System Identification