Essential Interactive Workshops

  • Workshop A: Improving long-term bridge performance
  • Workshop B: Why things should not fall down – Understanding and forecasting stability problems in the analysis, design and construction of engineering structures
  • Workshop C: Developments in bridge design and materials
  • Workshop D: The use of the Eurocodes for bridge design

Pre Conference Workshops: Sunday 11 April 2010

09:00 – 12:00 Workshop A: Improving long-term bridge performance

  • Understanding common bridge deterioration causes
  • Critical analysis of bridge improvement and inspection programs
  • Bridge performance from concept through to execution
  • Innovative technologies and systems from design to construction
  • Bridge monitoring systems
  • Composites in bridge construction

Nidal Odeh
Regional Head of Bridges and Civil Structures
HYDER CONSULTING MIDDLE EAST

13:00 – 16:00 Workshop B: Why things should not fall down – Understanding and forecasting stability problems in the analysis, design and construction of engineering structures

  • Examining stability of piers during incremental and balance cantilever methods of construction
  • Understanding false work stability
  • Exploring structure slenderness and the significance of structure stiffness
  • Eigenvalue and the analysis and design of deck/pier cross heads
  • Assessing numerical stability and premature failure in geometric and material non-linear finite element analysis

Dr. Ali Mahdi
Technical Manager, Bridges and Civil Structures
HYDER CONSULTING MIDDLE EAST

Post Conference Workshops: Wednesday 14 April 2010

09:00 – 12:00 Workshop C: Developments in bridge design and materials

  • Advanced analysis techniques for design
  • Sustainability in bridge design
  • Eurocodes & Euronorms
  • Advancements in corrosion resistant reinforcing materials for concrete

Dr. Ghassan Ziadat
Director of Infrastructure & Regional Head of Bridges, Middle East & India
ATKINS

13:00 – 16:00 Workshop D: The use of the Eurocodes for bridge design

  • Introduction to Eurocodes and how they differ from other standards
  • Loads and load combinations
  • Design of steel and concrete bridges
  • Facilitation of design with computer shell FE analyses
  • Effect on specifications

Chris Hendy
Head of Bridge Design and Technology
ATKINS

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