Aug 27, 2009 
39 videos 
ARCHES and SPENS Final Seminar – Ljubljana
The seminar was organized by the Slovenian National Building and Civil Engineering Institute, within the EC 6th Framework Programme project CERTAIN that is coordinating a cluster of projects dedicated to road infrastructure research in the NMS and other Central and Eastern European Countries. The main purpose of the event was to present to the international audience the final results of two other EU-projects from this cluster: SPENS (Sustainable Pavements for European New Member States), which research was aiming at finding new construction materials for road pavement engineering and their environmental impacts, and ARCHES (Assessment and Rehabilitation of Central European Highway Structures), which was focusing on more efficient assessment and rehabilitation of bridges. The two three-year projects ended at the end of August 2009.
The seminar highlighted several practical examples of road engineering, such as:
- developments and applications of new materials and technologies in the construction and rehabilitation of road infrastructure, pavements and highway structures
- environmental issues in road engineering,
- optimised assessment of highway structures as a precondition for an optimal use of the available financial resources
- measurements of real traffic loadings and various applications of the data,
- procedures and tools for finding relevant information about the latest developments in the field.
More about the seminar: ARCHES and SPENS Final Seminar
Opening
Welcome and introduction
Dec 14, 2009 2894 views
General Session
Arches/SPENS: The context
Dec 14, 2009 2842 views
A gaze on central European highway structures
Dec 14, 2009 2902 views
Sustainable Pavements for European New member states
Dec 14, 2009 2943 views
ARCHES - Measurements & Loadings
Recommendations for dynamic allowance in bridge assessment
Dec 14, 2009 4383 views
Discussion on Measurements and loadings
Dec 14, 2009 2654 views
Role of measurements and experimental data in optimised bridge assessment
Dec 14, 2009 3073 views
Traffic load models for bridges in Central and Eastern European Countries
Dec 14, 2009 3586 views
Bridge safety assessment and maintenance with the use of monitoring techniques
Dec 14, 2009 3085 views
SPENS - Road Assessment and Monitoring
Road Assessment and Monitoring
Dec 14, 2009 2774 views
Task 2.2 – Non-destructive testing
Dec 14, 2009 3106 views
Guidelines on a Systematic Decision
Dec 14, 2009 2778 views
Guidelines for the environmental assessment of various pavement types including ...
Dec 14, 2009 2835 views
ARCHES - Monitoring and preventing
Soft, diagnostic and proof load testing in routine bridge assessment
Dec 14, 2009 3417 views
Cathodic protection for extending the life of concrete bridges
Dec 14, 2009 5031 views
Discussion on Monitoring and preventing
Dec 14, 2009 2660 views
The use of corrosion resistant reinforcement - the chance for durable concrete r...
Dec 14, 2009 4214 views
Load test results Internet data base - a new tool in bridge assessment
Dec 14, 2009 2777 views
The importance of corrosion monitoring for the durability of structures
Dec 14, 2009 4635 views
SPENS - Materials for road upgrading
Recommendations for modified binder usage in pavement
Dec 14, 2009 2792 views
Evaluation of materials for road
Dec 14, 2009 3028 views
Accelerated Field Tests
Dec 14, 2009 2706 views
Upgrading of asphalt macadam and light asphalt pavements to the bearing capacity...
Dec 14, 2009 3008 views
Laboratory and field implementation of high modulus asphalt concrete
Dec 14, 2009 3370 views
ARCHES - Structures Hardening & Strengthening
Composite UHPFRC-concrete construction for CO2 emission savings
Dec 14, 2009 3204 views
Systematic decision making processes within Bridge Management System
Dec 14, 2009 2828 views
Strengthening with FRP glued materials
Dec 14, 2009 3076 views
Ultra High Performance Fibre Reinforced Concretes (UHPFRC) for rehabilitation of...
Dec 14, 2009 5039 views
Discussion on Structures Hardening and Strengthening
Dec 14, 2009 2648 views
SPENS - Improvement of pavement structure
Application of steel slag aggregate in road construction
Dec 14, 2009 4852 views
A methodology for testing and implementing crushed concrete in road construction
Dec 14, 2009 2710 views
Improvement of Pavement Structures & Long-Term Performance of Reinforced Pavemen...
Dec 14, 2009 2785 views
Practical mix design model for asphalt mixtures
Dec 14, 2009 3461 views
General Session
Encouraging the transfer of knowledge
Dec 14, 2009 2807 views
Implementation Putting research into practice
Dec 14, 2009 2547 views
Next steps in the CERTAIN project
Dec 14, 2009 2790 views
Implementation activities of SHRP2
Dec 14, 2009 3780 views
Discussion on Implementation of Results
Dec 14, 2009 2506 views
Closing
Conclusion
Dec 14, 2009 2369 views