TY - JOUR
T1 - State-of-the-art on load testing of concrete bridges
AU - Lantsoght, Eva
AU - van der Veen, C.
AU - de Boer, A.
AU - Hordijk, Dick
PY - 2017
Y1 - 2017
N2 - Load testing of bridges is a practice that is as old as their construction. In the past, load testing gave the traveling public a feeling that a newly opened bridge is safe. Nowadays, the bridge stock in many countries is aging, and load testing is used for the assessment of existing bridges. This paper aims at giving an overview of the current state-of-the-art with regard to load testing of concrete bridges. The work is based on an extensive literature review, dealing with diagnostic and proof load testing, and looking at the current areas of research. Additional available information about load testing of steel, timber, and masonry bridges, buildings, and collapse testing is briefly cited. For the implementation of load testing to the aging bridge stock on a large scale, efficiency in procedures is required. The areas requiring future research are identified, based on the available body of knowledge.
AB - Load testing of bridges is a practice that is as old as their construction. In the past, load testing gave the traveling public a feeling that a newly opened bridge is safe. Nowadays, the bridge stock in many countries is aging, and load testing is used for the assessment of existing bridges. This paper aims at giving an overview of the current state-of-the-art with regard to load testing of concrete bridges. The work is based on an extensive literature review, dealing with diagnostic and proof load testing, and looking at the current areas of research. Additional available information about load testing of steel, timber, and masonry bridges, buildings, and collapse testing is briefly cited. For the implementation of load testing to the aging bridge stock on a large scale, efficiency in procedures is required. The areas requiring future research are identified, based on the available body of knowledge.
KW - Concrete bridges
KW - Existing bridges
KW - Instrumentation
KW - Load testing
KW - Proof load testing
KW - State-of-the-art
UR - http://resolver.tudelft.nl/uuid:92696c8b-96a5-4783-84c0-d9f3ed972160
U2 - 10.1016/j.engstruct.2017.07.050
DO - 10.1016/j.engstruct.2017.07.050
M3 - Article
SN - 0141-0296
VL - 150
SP - 231
EP - 241
JO - Engineering Structures
JF - Engineering Structures
ER -