The objective of the COST TU1406 Training School-Stockholm is to spread the latest knowledge and development acquired by the action in the topic of performance-based assessment of existing road bridges. Besides, the school aims at teaching the most recent knowledge on performance assessment procedures with the adoption of specific goals In particular the COST TU1406 Training School-Stockholm focuses on the findings of WG1: Performance indicators and on WG2: Performance goals.
The WG1 goal was to explore those performance indicators of bridge structures, in the course of international research cooperation, which capture the mechanical and technical properties and its degradation behavior, already partly covered by code specifications. Considerations also include: natural aging, quality of the material; service life design methods; sustainable indicators; environmental, economic and social based indicators, performance profiles.The WG2 goal was to identify existing performance goals (where the term goal pertains to quantifiable requirement and/or threshold value) for the indicators previously indicated in WG1. The performance goals vary according to technical, environmental, economic and social factors.
The training school is co-organised with IABSE in Sweden and will take place preceding the 19th Congress of IABSE in Stockholm 2016. It will cover WG1 and WG2 topics of COST Action TU 1406, which are ”the assessment of road bridges through Key Performance Indicators (KPIs)” and ”the establishment of Performance Thresholds / Goals”.
Organisers: TUD COST Action TU1406 ”Quality specifications for roadway bridges, standardization at a European level (BridgeSpec)” (
http://www.cost.eu/COST_Actions/tud/TU1406) in collaboration with IABSE.
Local Organizer |
Co-Organizer |
Prof. Raid Karoumi
KTH – Royal Institute of Technology, Division of Structural Design and Bridges, Sweden. |
Prof. José C. Matos
Minho University, School of Engineering, Civil Engineering Department, Guimarães, Portugal. |
Dr. Mohammed Safi
FOLKBRO, Sweden. |
Dr. Niels Peter Høj
HOJ Consulting GmbH, Switzerland. |
Trainers list of experts:
• Prof. José C. Matos, Civil Engineering Department, School of Engineering, University of Minho (UMinho), Portugal.
• Dr. Niels Peter Høj, HOJ Consulting GmbH, Brunnen, Switzerland.
• Prof. Alfred Strauss, University of Natural Resources and Life Sciences (BOKU), Institute of Structural Engineering, Austria.
• Prof. Irina Stipanovic, University of Twente (UTwente), Faculty of Engineering Technology Construction Management and Engineering Department, The Netherlands.
• Ing. Radomír Pukl CSc. Červenka Consulting, Czech Republic.
• Prof. Drahomir Novak, Brno University, Czech Republic.
• Prof. Raid Karoumi, KTH - Royal Institute of Technology, Division of Structural Design and Bridges, Sweden.
• Dr. John Leander, KTH - Royal Institute of Technology, Division of Structural Design and Bridges, Sweden.
• Prof. Costin Pacoste, ELU Konsult and KTH - Royal Institute of Technology, Division of Structural Design and Bridges, Sweden.
• Prof. Lennart Elfgren, Department of Civil, Environmental and Natural Resources Engineering, Luleå University of Technology, Sweden.
• Dr. Mohammed Safi, LCC Analyses, Folkbro, Sweden.