- Apply new technologies to extend the life of elderly infrastructure - Improve degradation and structural models to develop more realistic life cycle cost and safety models - Investigate new construction methods for the replacement of obsolete infrastructure- Investigate monitoring techniques to complement or replace existing examination techniques -Develop management tools to assess whole life environmental and economic impact.
Publikationer: Benchmark of new technologies to extend the life of elderly rail infrastructure: Deliverable D1.1 of the MAINLINE Project; Extended Life of Railway Bridges. Results from EC-FP7-project MAINLINE; Assessment of the Strengthening of an RC Railway Bridge with CFRP utilizing a Full-Scale Failure Test and Finite-Element Analysis; Maintenance and Renewal of Concrete Rail Bridges: Results from EC project MAINLINE; MAINLINE: MAINtenance, renewaL and Improvement of rail transport iNfrastructure to reduce Economic and environmental impact; Extending the life of elderly rail bridges by strengthening; Test to failure of a steel truss bridge: Calibration of assessment methods; MAINLINE Project Results - A Summary: MAINtenance, renewal and improvement of rail transport INfrastructure to reduce Economic and environmental impacts; Extend the life of existing railway bridges: Results from EU FP7 project MAINLINE; Tested versus code capacity of existing bridges: Three examples; Kunskapsåterföring av erfarenheter från MAINLINE: Verktyg och metoder för att förbättra den svenska järnvägsinfrastrukturen - SBUF 13139 Slutrapport; Status: Ongoing; Period: 01/10/2011 → 30/09/2014