Description
Date: September 1, 2021, 15.00 UTC. Webinar
Estimated Time: 1 hr
Language: Spanish
Summary of the lecture
Over the years, failures and collapses of steel bridges have occurred all over the world. The causes of these failures can generally be found in a combination of factors. Errors in design, construction, assembly, corrosion and fatigue phenomena and/or inadequate inspection and maintenance processes, among other factors, are often found in forensic analysis of the causes of such collapses.
The talk will address case studies of steel bridge collapses. Some of these cases, paradigmatic collapses, describing the causes that led to the partial or total failure of the structure. Finally, for each case described, the lessons learned will be presented.
Sepaker Introduction
Martín Eduardo Polimeni
Civil Engineer, professor, Faculty of Engineering, University of Buenos Aires (UBA)
Martín Eduardo Polimeni is a Civil Engineer from the Faculty of Engineering of the University of Buenos Aires (FIUBA), specialist in Structural Engineering and Member of the Permanent Commission of Steel Structures of CIRSOC.
Professor in the Master “Construction and Structural Design” at FIUBA.
He has worked as a designer on large-scale works, such as the structural rehabilitation of the Marcial Candiotti suspension bridge in Santa Fe, Argentina, the new Mitre and San Martín railway viaducts in the city of Buenos Aires, among others.
Course Content
Course includes
- 1 Lesson
