TY - CONF A1 - Helmerich, Rosemarie T1 - Wrought iron arch bridge: measurements and materials testing T2 - 12th ICMS - Progress in steel and composite structures (Proceedings) N2 - In 1882, the East-West suburban train viaduct was built through Berlin as part of the public traffic solution in the late 19th Century. Today, the only left over iron arch bridge is a pair of two arches Crossing the Spree river in the middle of Berlin. Before dismantling the former parallel two original pairs of iron arches and rebuilding new arches for the high-speed railway line through Berlin in 1997, BAM was involved in an extensive test program of the heritage iron arch structure. Especially the estimation of accumulated damage in critical details and the verification of the old material properties at early stage was important information to the bridge owners. The testing program included two strain and displacement measurement campaigns, non-destructive testing, materials testing and microscale metallographic analysis of critical details. The measured strain cycles were significant lower in number and size than expected. Most of the cycles were compression stress cycles only. The work was planned in Cooperation with the Berlin consultancy Professor Hilbers that was responsible for the design and calculation of the reconstruction measures. Additionally, after calculation of the possible reuse of the old arches, we compared measured data from strain measurements with the results from calculation. The measured data and the calculated data show a good qualitative correlation. T2 - 12th ICMS - Progress in steel and composite structures CY - Wroclaw, Poland DA - 15.06.2011 KW - Iron arch bridge KW - Strain measurement KW - Displacement measurement KW - Tension test KW - Crack propagation test KW - Magnetic powder test PY - 2011 UR - https://opus4.kobv.de/opus4-bam/frontdoor/index/index/docId/24157 AN - OPUS4-24157 SN - 978-83-7125-202-0 SP - 1 EP - 8 AD - Bundesanstalt fuer Materialforschung und -pruefung (BAM), Berlin, Germany