Bridges design and construction
Academic Year 2024/2025 - Teacher: PIER PAOLO ROSSIExpected Learning Outcomes
The course aims to :
- provide knowledge regarding the historical development of bridges and types commonly used in structural engineering
- provide knowledge regarding the construction techniques of bridges
- provide knowledge regarding the actions on bridges
- provide knowledge regarding the main theoretical models applied to the structural analysis of bridges
- provide knowledge regarding the design of bridges, in view of present codes
- provide knowledge regarding the assessment of damage of existing bridges.
Course Structure
Frontal teaching: theoretical lessons and classroom exercises.
If teaching is given in a mixed or remote mode, the necessary changes with respect to what has been declared may be introduced, in order to comply with the program envisaged and reported in the syllabus.
Required Prerequisites
Basic knowledge regarding :
- Structural mechanics
- Design of structures
Attendance of Lessons
Attendance to lessons is strongly recommended as it is consistent with the proposed training model, which aims to encourage gradual learning, active participation of the student in the classroom and dialogue between teachers and students.
Attendance is also recommended as the teacher is expected to carry out design exercises in the classroom.
Detailed Course Content
Theoretical lessons:
- Historical development of bridges
- Types commonly used in structural engineering: girder bridges, rigid-frame bridges, arch bridges, cable-stayed bridges and suspension bridges
- Parts of the bridge: deck, piers, abutments, bearing devices, expansion joints, cables, water drainage systems etc.
- Codes regarding design and construction of bridges
- Loads on bridges
- Design of bridges with composite decks
- Influence lines and influence surfaces
- Torsion in bridge decks
- Local instability
- Lateral-torsional buckling
- Design of bridges with prestressed concrete decks
- Design and check of prestressed concrete beams
- Bearing devices
- Design of foundations, piers and abutments
- Fatigue of members
- Seismic design of bridges
- Constructional techniques
- Methods for the assessment of damage of existing bridges
Practical lessons:
- Design of bridges with composite steel-concrete decks (reinforced concrete slab, longitudinal steel girder, tranverse beams, bearing devices and piers)
Textbook Information
- Ioannis Vayas, Aristidis Iliopoulos. Design of composite steel concrete braidges to Eurocodes. CRC Press, Taylor and Francis Group. ISBN: 978-1-4665-5744-4
- Antonio J. Reis, Jose´ J. Oliveira Pedro. Bridge Design: Concepts and Analysis. John Wiley & Sons Inc, ISBN-13 : 978-0470843635
- Petrangeli Mario Paolo. Progettazione e Costruzione di Ponti-Masson
- Raymond Ian Gilbert, Neil Colin Mickleborough, Gianluca Ranzi. Design of Prestressed Concrete to Eurocode 2, Taylor & Francis Ltd, ISBN-13 : 978-1466573109
- Priestley M. J. N., Seible F., Calvi G. M. Seismic Design and Retrofit of Bridges; John Wiley & Sons; 1996. ISBN: 978-0-471-57998-4
- Normative Tecniche in vigore (D.M.14/01/2008 e ss.mm.ii, Circolare 2/2/2009, Eurocodici)
Course Planning
| Subjects | Text References | |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | Typological analysis of bridges: girder bridges, arch bridges with upper and lower deck, cable-stayed bridges, suspension bridges | - Leonardo Fernandez Troyano. Bridge Engineering: A Global Perspective Hardcover. 2003, Thomas Telford ISBN-13: 978-07-2773-215-6 |
| 2 | Historical analysis of bridges and causes of collapses | - Leonardo Fernandez Troyano. Bridge Engineering: A Global Perspective Hardcover. 2003, Thomas Telford ISBN-13: 978-07-2773-215-6 - Joachim Scheer. Failed Bridges: Case Studies, Causes and Consequences. 2010, Ernst & Sohn. ISBN: 978-3-43 |
| 3 | Parts of a bridge and related construction details | - Notes from the teacher |
| 4 | Methods for construction of bridges | - Members of IABSE Working Group 6. Bridge Deck Erection Equipment ISBN 978-0-7277-6193-4 |
| 5 | Code prescriptions regarding design and construction of bridges | - Norme Tecniche per le Costruzioni, Eurocodes |
| 6 | Actions on bridges | - Norme Tecniche per le Costruzioni, Eurocode 1 - Notes from the teacher |
| 7 | Bridges with steel-concrete composite decks | - Ioannis Vayas, Aristidis Iliopoulos. Design of composite steel concrete bridges to Eurocodes. CRC Press, Taylor and Francis Group. ISBN: 978-1-4665-5744-4 |
| 8 | Theory of influence lines and surfaces | - Notes from the teacher |
| 9 | Uniform and non-uniform torsion, fundamental equation of torsion | - Notes from the teacher |
| 10 | Local stability | - Eurocode 3 (part 1.5) |
| 11 | Lateral-torsional buckling | - Notes from the teacher |
| 12 | Prestressed reinforced concrete bridges | - Leonardo Fernandez Troyano. Bridge Engineering: A Global Perspective Hardcover. 2003, Thomas Telford ISBN-13: 978-07-2773-215-6- Antonio J. Reis, Jose´ J. Oliveira Pedro. Bridge Design: Concepts and Analysis. John Wiley & Sons Inc, ISBN-13 : 978-0470843635 |
| 13 | Design of prestressed reinforced concrete beams | - Elio Giangreco. Teoria e tecnica delle costruzioni. Liguori Editore - Raymond Ian Gilbert, Neil Colin Mickleborough, Gianluca Ranzi. Design of Prestressed Concrete to Eurocode 2, Taylor & Francis Ltd, ISBN-13 : 978-1466573109 |
| 14 | Bearing devices | - Petrangeli Mario Paolo. Progettazione e Costruzione di Ponti, Masson |
| 15 | Notes on foundations, piers and abutements | - Notes from the teacher |
| 16 | Fatigue | - Notes from the teacher |
| 17 | Seismic protection of bridges | - Priestley M. J. N., Seible F., Calvi G. M. Seismic Design and Retrofit of Bridges; John Wiley & Sons; 1996. ISBN: 978-0-471-57998-4 |
| 18 | Analysis of damage in bridges | - Notes from the teacher - Linee guida per la classificazione e gestione del rischio, la valutazione della sicurezza ed il monitoraggio dei ponti esistenti |
Learning Assessment
Learning Assessment Procedures
The gradual learning of the topics covered in the course
will be assessed by the teacher following the corrections of the project work and following the student's participation in class discussions.
The final assessment will be carried out on the basis of the project work and by means of an oral exam on the topics of the course.
Note: the verification of learning can also be carried out in remote, should the conditions require it
Examples of frequently asked questions and / or exercises
- Traffic loads on bridges
- Theory of Courbon
- Flexural verification of steel-concrete composite bridge beams
- Design of shear studs in steel-concrete composite bridge beams
- Shear verification of steel-concrete composite bridge beams
- Lateral torsional stability verification of steel-concrete composite bridge beams
- Methods for construction of bridges