Course Description
Methods for effective bridge maintenance, management, and inspection. The course will focus on bridge repair and rehabilitation issues; bridge management systems, needs of highways agencies, and bridge-related safety and risk issues.
What Do Participants Learn?
- Develop cost-effective strategies for preservation of a group of bridges Identify maintenance or repair needs and select the best countermeasures and applications
- Apply effective management techniques (such as planning, scheduling, monitoring and reporting).
- Describe, identify, evaluate, and document the various components and deficiencies that can exist on bridge components and elements.
- Describe, identify, evaluate, and document the various components and deficiencies that can exist on bridge components and elements
- Discuss the duties and responsibilities of a bridge inspector and define inspection concepts including personal and public safety issues associated with bridge inspections
- Learn about the latest technologies utilized around the world for bridge inspections
Who Should Attend?
- Highway Agency Engineers
- Civil Engineers
- Engineering Consultants
- Contractors
- Technology Providers
What Will the Learning Experience Include?
Phase: 1
Introduce
- Comprehensive pre-program activities include:
- Web-based information forms & surveys completed by attendee.
- Direct consultation with the attendee about the expectations.
- During the training, participants engage in data, activities, and conversations that lead to insight and knowledge.
- Participants learn from expert trainers who have both academic and business experiences.
- Highly applicable training content & instructive activities for adding depth to training topics.
- **A half-day site visit for integrating the experience & plan next steps. Opportunities to provide connections, ideas & support.
Phase: 2
Explore & Practice
Phase: 3
Apply
- Apply & sustain the learning experience by using this ongoing support:
- To ensure participant has new skills or behavior progress.
- Optional, fee-based mentoring & coaching with the trainer.
- Training materials & additional documents (e-books, pdf files, presentations and articles)
- Evaluate your training experience by giving us feedbacks and help us to reach our organizational goals.
- Participant's Evaluation
- Trainer's Evaluation
Phase: 4
EVALUATE
Section One:
- Bridge Description
- Maintenance Features
- Procurement Strategy
- Construction Methodology
- Project Success Factors
- Review
- Q&A
Section Two:
- Corrosion Resistant System for Suspension Bridge Cables
- Environment Inside the Cable
- Corrosion Simulation of Galvanized Steel Wires
- Effect of Relative Humidity
- Specimens at Different Corrosion Levels
- Q&A
Section Three:
- Tensile Strength and Elongation
- Fatigue Strength
- Implications of Deck Replacement
- A Brief Overview of some Access Methods
- Industrial Rope Access Technique
- Case Study
- Q&A
Section Four:
- Benefits of Industrial Rope Access
- Specific Maintenance Issues in Cable-Stayed Bridges
- Bridge Maintenance Manual
- Role of Bridge Monitoring and Future Trends
Section Five:
- Effectiveness of Preventative Maintenance
- Development of Probabilistic Analysis Procedure to Illustrate Effectiveness of PM
- Example of Probabilistic Modelling of Effectiveness of PM
- Note: a site visit can be organized for the 5th day, by request