Bridge Assessment: A state of the Art Review of the Studies on Material and Elements Degradation, Products and Techniques for Repair and Strengthening

摘要

The assessment of structures in general and of bridges in particular has to be followed by intervention after diagnosis. Therefore the author of this paper collected the main results of the studies to date on the degradation phenomena of materials and structural members and on the most widely employed products and techniques for the repair and the strengthening of prestressed concrete bridges.In the literature there are many and many studies , the present paper, however takes into consideration about 200 specific articles.