TY - CONF A1 - Herter, Jürgen A1 - Mehdianpour, Milad A1 - Hille, Falk T1 - Repair of a railway viaduct in Berlin and inspection concepts to extend the service life T2 - Structural faults & repair 2010 - International conference and exhibition (Proceedings) T2 - Structural faults & repair 2010 - International conference and exhibition CY - Edinburgh, Scotland, UK DA - 2010-06-15 KW - Remaining fatigue life KW - Riveted steel bridges KW - Experimental investigations KW - Radiographic inspection KW - Loading tests PY - 2010 SN - 0-947644-67-9 SP - 1 EP - 15 PB - Engineering Technics Press CY - Edinburgh, Scotland AN - OPUS4-21271 LA - eng AD - Bundesanstalt fuer Materialforschung und -pruefung (BAM), Berlin, Germany ER - TY - CONF A1 - Mehdianpour, Milad A1 - Herter, Jürgen A1 - Hille, Falk T1 - Service life extension of a railway viaduct in Berlin T2 - Munich Bridge Assessment Conference - MBAC (Proceedings) N2 - Bridge retrofitting of a section of the Berlin subway which is designed as railway on steel viaduct is presented. Fatigue damage in the superstructure of the over 70-years-old viaduct made an investigation of the damage causes necessary prior to the planning of retrofitting measures. The damage specifically occurred at the inverted arched steel plates of the ballast support elements. Those plates were provided for carrying the track ballast as well as the traffic load. For the retrofitting, the inverted arched plates were unloaded. The superstructure was redesigned into a fixed track system, which is able to transfer the traffic load directly into the substructure. The new rail fastening system made it necessary to verify the structural integrity of single elements as well as of the main system of the existing viaduct. The verification was based on several experimental investigations at BAM laboratory and on-site. Based on the evaluation of all test results the operation license could be issued. T2 - Munich Bridge Assessment Conference (MBAC 2009) CY - Munich, Germany DA - 2009-05-27 KW - Life time extension KW - Fatigue KW - Load test KW - Experimental investigations KW - On-site tests PY - 2009 IS - Paper # T13 SP - 1 EP - 18 CY - Munich, Germany AN - OPUS4-19483 LA - eng AD - Bundesanstalt fuer Materialforschung und -pruefung (BAM), Berlin, Germany ER -