Workshop Programme

December 9, 2009

8:30 - 9:00
Registration
9:00 - 9:30
Welcome - Authorities and Guests
9:30 - 10:30
DETAILS project: objectives, research programme and main results, Walter Salvatore, University of Pisa, Italy
10:30 - 10:45
Coffee Break
10:45 - 11:30
DETAILS project: the European High Speed Railway Network, basis of design and specialaspects of steel and composite railway bridges, Marcel Tschumi, ex SBB Swiss Federal Railways, Switzerland
11:30 - 12:15
DETAILS project: The new Italian High-Speed Railway Network, Marco Tisalvi & Giovanni Sorrentino, RFI Italian State Railways, Italy
12:15 - 13:00
DETAILS project: The German High-Speed Railway Network, Mr. Rüdiger Patz, Deutsche Bahn
13:00 - 14:30
Lunch
14:30 - 15:15
DETAILS project: The Austrian High-Speed Railway Network, Gerard Presle, OEBB, Austria
15:15 - 16:00
DETAILS project: modern design of steel-concrete composite bridges for HS railways., Wasodeev Hoorpah, Mio, France
16:00 - 16:30
DETAILS project: High performance steels, Aurelio Braconi, ILVA S.p.A., Riva Group, Italy
16:30 - 16:45
Coffee Break
16:45 - 17:15
DETAILS project: Welding and fatigue in high performance steels, Falko Schroeter, DH Dillinger, Germany
17:15 - 18:45
DETAILS project: Algorithms for structural identification and damage detection of steel-concrete composite bridges, Guido De Roeck, KU Leuven, Belgium, Volkmar Zabel, Bauhaus University of Weimar, Germany

December 10, 2009

8:15 - 9:05
INVITED LECTURE: Experimental dynamic testing of bridges, Alvaro Cunha, Faculdade de Engenharia da Universidade do Porto, Portugal
9:15 - 10:00
INVITED LECTURE: Radar-based measurement of deflections on bridges and large structures: advantages, limitations and possible applications, Carmelo Gentile, Politecnico di Milano
10:00 - 10:30
DETAILS project: Application of Operational Modal Analysis in the practice, Reto Cantieni, RCI Dynamics, Switzerland
10:30 - 10:45
Coffee Break
10:45 - 11:15
DETAILS project: Industrial solutions for modelling and testing high-speed railway bridges, Bart Peeters, LMS International, Belgium
11:15 - 13:15
DETAILS project: vibrational analysis and modelling of case-studies, Luca Nardini, Università di Pisa, Italy, Benno Hoffmeister, RWTH Aachen, Germany, Helmut Wenzel, VCE Holding, Austria
13:00 - 14:30
Lunch
14:30 - 15:30
INVITED LECTURE: Vehicle-Bridge interaction analysis, Ladislav Frýba, The Academy of Sciences of the Czech Republic
15:30 - 17:00
DETAILS project: long term monitoring of case studies, Giuseppe Chellini Università di Pisa, Italy, Benno Hoffmeister, RWTH Aachen, Germany
17:00 - 17:15
Coffee Break
17:15 - 18:00
DETAILS project: long term monitoring of case studies, Helmut Wenzel, VCE Holding, Austria
18:00 - 18:30
DETAILS project: Systems and Sensors for monitoring purposes, Christoph Kuendig, GeoSIG Ltd, CH

December 11, 2009

8:30 - 9:30
INVITED LECTURE: Fatigue in steel and steel-concrete HS railway bridges, Yozo Fujino, University of Tokyo, Japan
9:30 - 10:30
DETAILS project: Vehicle-bridge interaction simulations and fatigue analysis of case-studies, Giuseppe Chellini, Università di Pisa, Italy
10:30 - 10:45
Coffee Break
10:45 - 11:30
DETAILS project: fatigue analysis of case-studies, Benno Hoffmeister, RWTH Aachen, Germany
11:30 - 12:30
INVITED LECTURE: Future trends in seismic bridge design: the DBD approach, Michele Calvi, University of Pavia, Italy
12:30 - 13:00
Round table and conclusions, Franco Braga (Chairman), Michele Calvi, Stefano Caramelli, Luigino Dezi, Yozo Fujino, Benno Hoffmeister, Walter Salvatore