Professor Lennart Elgren, Lulea University of Technology, Sweden
ICE Unwin Lecture 2010
Duration: 72 mins
In a sustainable society, we want to use many of our structures for a long time. This will lead to an increased need to assess, repair and strengthen existing structures instead of tearing them down and exchanging them with new structures.
Probablistic methods and Bayesian updating of properties may be ways to increase the quality of our assessments. Professor Lennart Elfgren gives examples on the hidden strength in some type of structures, and on faults that may cause an unexpected and brittle early failure. Examples of methods on how to assess a structure and how to monitor and strengthen it will be given from research work undertaken on railway bridges.
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Sustainable structures - assessment and strengthening with special application to bridges
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