Head of the project: prof. Ing. Vičan Josef, CSc.

Research team: doc. Ing. Valuch Milan, Dr., Ing. Rakytová Jana, prof. Ing. Moravčík Martin, PhD., Ing. Gocál Jozef, PhD., Ing. Hlinka Richard, PhD., doc. Ing. Koteš Peter, PhD., doc. Ing. Odrobiňák Jaroslav, PhD., doc. Ing. Brodňan Miroslav, PhD., Ing. Pepucha Ľubomír, PhD., Ing. Bahleda František, PhD., doc. Ing. Pitoňák Martin, PhD., Ing. Jošt Jozef, PhD.

Duration: July 2012 – December 2015

Correct evaluation of existing railway and road bridges based on the reliability verification together with the economic calculation of effectiveness of the rehabilitation interventions introduces significant tool for objectification of decision making processes how to choose optimal method of the bridge rehabilitation. Using existing sophisticated tools for experimental and numerical structural analysis, modern methods of engineering or mathematic theory of structural reliability and economic methods for effectiveness expression of the expended financial resources, the new knowledge in the form of innovative and unified European methodology of existing bridge evaluation will be achieved to accomplish bridge life cycle cost analyse in conjunction with financial expression. New unified approach to the bridges evaluation in frame of their management system has to accept the current state of European technical standardisation, which was absent in previous approaches. The assumptions of the application of the newly developed system of bridge evaluation in whole Europe will be created in this manner.