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Special Session:
Austrian experience of using Euroccodes for bridge design
Challenges and opportunities

Workshop „Bridge Design to Eurocodes – Background and Applicatio

ons“ Dr. Thomas Petraschek
 Introduction

Brunngraben Bridge – Styria

single span steel bridge with open rail trac
ck

Workshop „Bridge Design to Eurocodes – Background and Applicatio

ons“ Dr. Thomas Petraschek
 Introduction

longitudinal
g cu
ut

effective span = 14,44 m

rail track

owest line of clearance lowest line of

old structure new structure
+ 630,50
630 50 m + 630,42
630 42 m

Workshop „Bridge Design to Eurocodes – Background and Applicatio

ons“ Dr. Thomas Petraschek
 Initial Situation

- straight bridge with straight and curved railway track

- min. 5000 mm clear width betwe een top flanges
- max. construction height 1220 m mm
- width of top flanges 500 mm
- lack of stiffeners
- span range from 10 – 20 m

[Fink J.,
J Kuuss St
St., NEW RAILWAY TROUGH BRIDGES
BRIDGES, 2007]

Workshop „Bridge Design to Eurocodes – Background and Applicatio

ons“ Dr. Thomas Petraschek
 Statics

principle cross section for a span range of 10 – 20 m

[Fink J
J., Ku
uss St
St., NEW RAILWAY TROUGH BRIDGES
BRIDGES, 2007]

Workshop „Bridge Design to Eurocodes – Background and Applicatio

ons“ Dr. Thomas Petraschek
 Statics

- self weight an dead loads (road bed,

bed sleepers,
sleepers rails)
- load model LM71, SW/2 and “un nloaded train”
- starting and breaking force
- nosing force
- wind force
- temperature
- derailment force
- earthquake force
– defined in EN 1990, 1991 and 19 998 (comprising NAD)

[Fink J.,
J Kuuss St
St., NEW RAILWAY TROUGH BRIDGES
BRIDGES, 2007]

Workshop „Bridge Design to Eurocodes – Background and Applicatio

ons“ Dr. Thomas Petraschek
 Statics

load model LM71 for local dimensionin

ng

[Fink J., Kuss St., NEW RAILWAY TROUGH BRIDGE

ES, 2007]

Workshop „Bridge Design to Eurocodes – Background and Applicatio

ons“ Dr. Thomas Petraschek
 Statics

standard cross section - end supporting

pp g detail

[Fink J.,
J Kuuss St
St., NEW RAILWAY TROUGH BRIDGES
BRIDGES, 2007]

Workshop „Bridge Design to Eurocodes – Background and Applicatio

ons“ Dr. Thomas Petraschek
 Non deformability

additional degrees of freedom

natural mode for

l t l ttorsional
lateral i lbbuckling
kli

[Fink J.,
J Kuuss St
St., NEW RAILWAY TROUGH BRIDGES
BRIDGES, 2007]

Workshop „Bridge Design to Eurocodes – Background and Applicatio

ons“ Dr. Thomas Petraschek
 Secondary moments

bending mom ments for the

transversal bridge direction [kNm/m]

[Fink J.,
J Kuuss St
St., NEW RAILWAY TROUGH BRIDGES
BRIDGES, 2007]

Workshop „Bridge Design to Eurocodes – Background and Applicatio

ons“ Dr. Thomas Petraschek
 Secondary moments

three critical problems

- loading of the web about the weak
w axis
- filled welds are stressed about their weak axis
- much severe detail category foor the weld
[Fink J.,
J Kuuss St
St., NEW RAILWAY TROUGH BRIDGES
BRIDGES, 2007]

Workshop „Bridge Design to Eurocodes – Background and Applicatio

ons“ Dr. Thomas Petraschek
 Detailed planning

transition in direction of force

welding detail
execute free from notches
deck plate

transition in direction of force

execute free from notches
Workshop „Bridge Design to Eurocodes – Background and Applicatio
ons“ Dr. Thomas Petraschek
 Detailed planning

transition grinding
g g
free from notches

welding detail
connection
deck plate to web

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ons“ Dr. Thomas Petraschek
 Standards

Global family of standard

ds for steel constructions

Eurocodes Execu
ution- Materialstandards
stand
dards

EN 1990-EN 1999 z.B. EN

N 1090 z.B. EN 10025-2

Specificcation of Material, products,

Design compo onents testing methods

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 EN 1090-2

S
Specifications
ifi ti and
d dokumentation
d k t ti n

EN 1090-2, 4.1.1: Execution Speciification – General

The necessary information and tech hnical requirements for execution of
each part of the works shall be agre
eed and complete before
commencement of execution of thatt part of the works.
– additional information, as liste
ed in A.1
– options, as listed in A.2
– execution classes, see 4.1.2
– preparation grades, see 4.1.3 3
– tolerance classes, see 4.1.4

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Workshop „Bridge Design to Eurocodes – Background and Applicatio
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 EN 1090-2

EN 1990, Annex B

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 EN 1090-2

?!?

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 Execution

Workshop „Bridge Design to Eurocodes – Background and Applicatio

ons“ Dr. Thomas Petraschek
 Execution

Workshop „Bridge Design to Eurocodes – Background and Applicatio

ons“ Dr. Thomas Petraschek
 Execution

Workshop „Bridge Design to Eurocodes – Background and Applicatio

ons“ Dr. Thomas Petraschek
 Conclusions

Thank y
you for y
your attention!

Workshop „Bridge Design to Eurocodes – Background and Applicatio

ons“ Dr. Thomas Petraschek