mgr inż. Maciej Malinowski | Gdańsk University of Technology

A 120-year-old railway truss bridge over the Bóbr River, Poland, is investigated in this paper from the mechanical and chemical properties of the materials by testing of old steel samples in a lab – through geodetic measurements, bathymetric measurements of the riverbed and dynamic measurements of bridge spans under service load – to the analysis of structural behaviour by finite-element modelling. The mechanical and chemical properties...

The structural analysis of a road foldable prefabricated steel Bailey-type bridge located over the Tuga River in Żelichowo, Poland is investigated in the paper. Interesting and untypical bridge redevelopment performed made a possibility to lift the middle foldable bridge span by 4.0 m concerning the existing state. This paper can provide engineers and designers basis for structural analysis in the field of foldable Bailey-type...

The structural analysis of a road foldable prefabricated steel Bailey- type bridge located over the Tuga River in Żelichowo, Poland is performed in this paper. Interesting and untypical bridge redevelopment performed made it possible to lift the middle foldable bridge span by approximately 4.0 m concerning the existing state. The paper begins with a survey of literature carried out on the investigations of foldable Bailey-type...

The structural analysis of an old steel riveted railway truss bridge located over the Maruska River on the Działdowo – Olsztyn, Poland railway line is performed in this paper to check its behaviour under today’s railway loads. The mechanical properties of construction steel extracted from the old steel bridge are investigated by tensile tests, impact tests through the Charpy pendulum impact V-notch, and an optical emission spectrometer....

The scope of the paper is to give an introduction to the assessment subject matter of steel properties used in old railway bridges. The mechanical and chemical properties of construction steel extracted from old steel bridges are generally investigated by tensile tests, impact tests through the Charpy pendulum impact V-notch, and an optical emission spectrometer. Besides descriptions of the tests, the chosen chemical and mechanical...