Project
BriViDi - Diagnosis of railway bridges by dynamic analysis under train movement
Funding origin:
Italy
STRIA Roadmaps:
Transport infrastructure (INF)
Transport mode:
Rail
Transport sectors:
Passenger transport
Freight transport
Project website:
Duration:
Start date: 01/01/2007,
End date: 01/01/2009
Status: Finished
Funding details:
Overview
Background & policy context:
Compared to other bridges (roadway or pedestrian), railway bridges need specific analysis due to their peculiarities: heavy bulks in transit (trains) and on the infrastructure (ballasts and railway equipment), speed of trains, fixed loaded axles (rails), great interactions between trains and structure.
Degradation is manly caused by chemical processes affecting steel (corrosion) and concrete (alkali-aggregate reaction).
Objectives:
The Railway BriViDi (Bridge Vibration Diagnostics) research project aims at developing an integrated methodology to evaluate structural integrity of railway bridges, in order to ensure their reliability and safety.
The methodology aims at being:
- Applicable during the operations (without stopping railway traffic);
- Suitable for testing several type of bridges under different operating conditions (high speed trains, passenger trains and freight trains)
- Usable data (collected by industrial instruments)
- Sound and reliable methodology.
Methodology:
The research work was subdivided in three activities:
- Testing of beams according to typical degradation schemes, to mechanical stress and constraints of railway bridges;
- Identification of dynamic properties of data through advanced techniques;
- Modelling of degraded beams.
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