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Development update for BOF 20

Development update for BOF 20. CIRIA Arch Manual. Now published Available for free download from CIRIA web site. 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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Development update for BOF 20

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  1. Development update for BOF 20

  2. CIRIA Arch Manual • Now published • Available for free download from CIRIA web site Slide 2

  3. 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 Slide 3

  4. 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 Slide 4

  5. 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 Slide 5

  6. 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 Slide 6

  7. 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 Slide 7

  8. 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 Slide 8

  9. Other projects (4) • DTI • TSET (LSBU etc) • ACLAIM (ESR Technology) • KTN:MBE (CIRIA and BRE) • Rod Howe and David Patterson (HA) Slide 9

  10. 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 Slide 10

  11. 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 Slide 11

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