Steel Impact and Fire Behaviour in Overheight Vehicular Bridge Accidents

EasyChair Preprint no. 1984

Abstract

After bridge impacts or fire events, the main task of engineers would be returning the bridge to traffic as quickly as possible without compromising the structural integrity of the bridge or the safety of road users. The recently published AS 5100.8 provides some guidance for assessment of bridge materials including steel, concrete, masonry and timber. However, the type and extent of required tests depend on the results of the preliminary inspection by specialist engineers and bridge assessment committee strategic decisions considering the criticality of a bridge on the roads network. Therefore, there is a need for an efficient design of testing in order to ensure that the materials properties have not been jeopardised due to the accident within the limited allocated time-frame of bridge traffic closure.

Keyphrases: Bridge Assessment, Bridge Fire, composite steel box girder, impact and fire behaviour, materials inspection and testing, standard australia, steel bridge

@Booklet{EasyChair:1984,
  author = {Hamid Fatemi and Eric Ancich and Chunhui Yang},
  title = {Steel Impact and Fire Behaviour in Overheight Vehicular Bridge Accidents},
  howpublished = {EasyChair Preprint no. 1984},

  year = {EasyChair, 2019}}