Project description
News ways to assess retrofitting of existing bridges
First developed for the aerospace industry, fibre reinforced polymer (FRP) composites have proven beneficial in bridge engineering. They have replaced traditional materials for structural elements like girders, bridge decks and stay cables but there are factors that may reduce the level of integration of the FRP system with the bridge. The EU-funded BriFace project will apply structural health monitoring techniques to measure the efficiency of the strengthening measure and quantify these with interface efficiency indices (InterFeis). The project will define the indices. A first in bridge inspection, a long-distant inspection method of guided waves will be used. The findings will be useful for developing bridge design guidelines and an EU strategy on infrastructure safety..
Fields of science
- engineering and technologymaterials engineeringfibers
- engineering and technologycivil engineeringstructural engineeringstructural health monitoring
- natural scienceschemical sciencespolymer sciences
- engineering and technologynanotechnologynano-materials
- engineering and technologyenvironmental engineeringenergy and fuels
Programme(s)
Funding Scheme
MSCA-IF-EF-ST - Standard EF
Coordinator
GU2 7XH Guildford
United Kingdom
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