General Sessions

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