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Technical Reports Road bridges

This page lists technical reports of PIARC in the field of road bridges. These publications are classified chronologically.

  • Large road bridges: management, assessment, inspection, innovative maintenance techniques

    This report deals with the organisation of the management of large bridges, the monitoring systems used on large bridges and specific aspects of the maintenance. It is based on the answers received to a questionnaire disseminated through the World Road Association TC D3 members to owners and managers of large bridges. It describes the management organisation of 10 large bridges, located in several countries and representing different structural types: cable stayed bridge, suspension bridge, large [...]

  • CD-ROUTE

    Minimum Equipment Required CD-ROUTE can be used on PC (386 at least, Windows 3.1, 95 & NT) and Macintosh® (68020 at least), Power Mac®, Mac OS version 7. Minimum equipment required: 16 Mo RAM, a hard disk and a 14'' colour screen (256 colours or more). The program is very easy to install. For more details on CD-ROUTE: AIPCR/PIARC Tel : +33 1 47 96 81 21 Fax : +33 1 49 00 02 02 E-mail : info@piarc.org

  • Study on Rehabilitation Actions on Concrete Bridges

    It is essential to apply adequate rehabilitation methods when damage or deficiency is revealed by inspection. Since bridge structures suffer various kinds of deterioration and damages, many kinds of rehabilitation and strengthening methods have been developed. The objective of this sub-topic is to provide bridge engineers with practical, informative examples of these methods. The working group accumulated technical information on effective ways of rehabilitating various types of bridges. This report [...]

  • Management of Bridges in Australasian and African Countries

    This report presents the results of the questionnaire disseminated by PIARC Committee C11 in 2000, respectively to Australasian countries and to African countries, in view of the seminars scheduled. The aim was to gather information in order to have a better knowledge of the bridge management in these countries, the difficulties encountered and the needs. The questions were about: the stock (bridges, retaining walls), the condition of the stock, the definition of work priorities, organization (who [...]