COMBRI Design Manual - Part I: Application of Eurocode rules - Part II: State-of-the-

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COMBRI Design Manual - Part I: Application of Eurocode rules - Part II: State-of-the-Art...

COMBRI DESIGN MANUAL

Part I: Application of Eurocode rules

Part II: State-of-the-Art and Conceptual Design of Steel and Composite Bridges

This design manual is an outcome of the research project RFS-CR-03018 “Competitive Steel and Composite Bridges by Improved Steel Plated Structures - COMBRI” [7] and the successive dissemination project RFS2-CT-2007-00031 “Valorisation of Knowledge for Competitive Steel and Composite Bridges - COMBRI+” which have been funded by the Research Fund for Coal and Steel (RFCS) of the European Community. Within the RFCS research project essential knowledge has been acquired to enhance the competitiveness of steel and composite bridges and this has been incorporated in the design manual at hand which has been also presented in the frame of several seminars and workshops. The manual is subdivided into two parts to provide the reader with clearly arranged and concise documents:

► Part I: Application of Eurocode rules.
In the research project the different national background of each partner how to apply and interprete Eurocode rules was brought together and a European melting pot of background information and general knowledge has been created. In order to maintain this valuable information two composite bridge structures - a twin-girder and a box-girder bridge - are covered in this part of the COMBRI Design Manual on the basis of worked examples for which the knowledge is written down in a descriptive manner. The examples include references to current Eurocode rules.
► Part II: State-of-the-Art and Conceptual Design of Steel and Composite Bridges.
The national state-of-the-art in bridge design can be different so that firstly bridge types of the project partners’ countries - Belgium, France, Germany, Spain and Sweden - are introduced. They reflect the current practice in those countries and common bridge types as well as unusual bridges intended to solve special problems and some solutions being part of development projects are presented in Part II of the COMBRI Design Manual [8]. Also, improvements which can be provided to the design of steel and composite bridges are discussed and the possibilities and restrictions given by the current Eurocode rules are highlighted.
Moreover, the features of software EBPlate [13] developed in the research project to determine the elastic critical buckling stresses are presented in its contributive application for bridge design.

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