Friday, November 5th 2021 the Third Pan-EU CoP Forum was held. This time the event was organized as a Symposium, dedicated to surveying technologies, data-informed safety evaluation and risk management for bridges and tunnels.
The IM-SAFE Symposium “Surveying technologies, data-informed safety evaluation and risk management for bridges and tunnels – From the needs to the standardization” presented the most recent project findings and aimed to collect input from the Community of Practice from all over Europe in order to create a solid basis for future standardization on surveying technologies, data-informed safety evaluation and risk management for bridges and tunnels.
The event provided a varied and engaging program, as described in the details below. Please refer to the links for the corresponding presentations.
Introduction
Surveying technologies
- State-of-the-practice of the most relevant surveying technologies for bridges and tunnels
- Fitness-for-purpose of surveying technologies
- State of standardisation in data collection
Damage indicators and vulnerable elements for bridges and tunnels
- Damage Indicators for main damage processes for transport infrastructure
- Identification of vulnerable elements for bridges and tunnels
- Understanding relation between Damage Indicators and surveying technologies, and their applicability to vulnerable elements
Performance indicators for bridges and tunnels
- Concept of Performance Indicators
- Use of Performance Indicators in practice of the different EU countries
- Understanding importance of Pis for the CoP
Data-informed assessment of structural performance
- Overview on the risk-based, reliability based and semi-probabilistic assessment methods for existing structures
- Current and future use of monitoring data in the structural assessment process and model updating methods
- Risk-based prioritization process for assessment, maintenance monitoring and remedial interventions on existing structures
Risk assessment and risk-based framework for maintenance management
- Best practices in risk assessment and approaches to standardization of risk assessment process
- Challenges of the implementation risk-based maintenance management and condition-based maintenance for bridges and tunnels
- Condition state classification and minimum maintenance levels for transport infrastructure
The IM-SAFE Symposium was organzied by the following experts:
| Agnieszka Bigaj van Vliet, Hendrik van Meerveld, Benjamin Cerar & Diego Allaix | 1 TNO, Delft, the Netherlands |
| Alfred Strauss, Konrad Bergmeister & Lisa Ptacek | 2 University of Natural Resources and Life Sciences, Vienna |
| Giuseppe Mancini, Paola Darò, Monica Longo & Serena Negri | 3 SACERTIS Ingegneria S.r.l., Turin |
| Ana Sánchez Rodríguez, Belén Riveiro Rodríguez, Mercedes Solla & J. Martínez | 4 University of Vigo, Vigo |
| Julius Zach & Patrycja Sanecka | 5 Mostostal, Warszawa, Poland |