SHORT COURSES

As a prelude to the International Conference on Short and Medium Span Bridges, CSCE is pleased to offer six, half-day, short courses on Tuesday, July 19, 2022.

• Applications of Fibre Reinforced Polymer (FRP) Technology in Bridges
• Life Cycle Cost Analysis of Bridges
• Planning and Design of Integral Abutment Bridges under Service and Seismic Loads
• Design of Soil Metal Structures
• Performance-Based Seismic Design of Bridges
• Ultra-High-Performance Concrete (UHPC) – Design and Construction Material Attributes for Bridges in Canada

All courses will take place at the conference hotel, the Sheraton Centre Toronto.

CEUs/PDHs

To ensure that practicing license holders are maintaining a recommended number of continuing education hours, CSCE will supply registrants in the SMSB-2022 short courses with Continuing Education Units (CEUs) / Professional Development Hours (PDHs) which are valid for these requirements upon completing and passing a quiz at the end of the course.

FEES

* Short course fee includes snacks and beverages during coffee breaks.

Note: If by June 30^th, the registration is not sufficient, the course may be canceled.

SHORT COURSE #1

APPLICATIONS OF FIBRE REINFORCED POLYMER (FRP) TECHNOLOGY IN BRIDGES

July 19th, 8:30am – 12:00pm
Room TBD

Deterioration of concrete bridges caused by corrosion of reinforcing steel is one of the major challenges facing the transportation industry today. Bridge owners and consulting firms are looking for affordable construction materials and innovative approaches and systems that improve life expectancy and reduce maintenance costs of bridges. Thus, over the past decade, there has been a rapid increase in the use of innovative corrosion-resistant fiber-reinforced polymer (FRP) materials for reinforcing, strengthening, and rehabilitating concrete structures, particularly bridges, due to their enhanced properties and cost-effectiveness. FRP reinforcement has been used extensively in different transportation infrastructures such as bridges, parking garages, tunnels and marine structures in which corrosion of steel has typically led to significant deterioration and, hence, the need for rehabilitation. Significant developments by FRP manufacturers, researchers and design codes, along with numerous successful installations, have led to a much higher comfort level and exponential use of FRP products by designers and owners. After years of investigation and implementation, bridge owners in North America have now included GFRP as a premium corrosion-resistant reinforcing material in their corrosion protection specifications. Currently, the Canadian Highway Bridge Design Code and the AASHTO-LRFD Bridge Design Specifications include provisions for the design of concrete bridge members reinforced with FRP bars and sheets. Strengthening and rehabilitation of bridges are needed for a variety of reasons, including deterioration caused by environmental effects, increase in the traffic volume and load, or deficiencies in the original design or construction. Bridge owners need to keep abreast of the latest techniques available for the repair or strengthening of bridge infrastructure. This course will provide excellent exposure to the design and application of FRP reinforcement in new construction and rehabilitation of existing structures.

Attendees of this short course will receive an electronic copy of:

• ISIS Manual No. 3 (Version 2) – Reinforcing Concrete Structures with Fibre Reinforced Polymers (FRPs)
• ISIS Manual No. 4 – FRP Rehabilitation of Reinforced Concrete Structures
• ISIS Manual No. 5 – Prestressing Concrete Structures with FRPs

Thanks to Structural Innovation and Monitoring Technologies Resources Center – SIMTReC (formerly known as ISIS Canada Resource Centre) for supplying ISIS Manual.

SHORT COURSE #2

LIFE CYCLE COST ANALYSIS OF BRIDGES

July 19th, 8:30am – 12:00pm
Room TBD

Through this course, learners will be introduced to life cycle-based analysis that can help alternative design approaches. They will learn how to design a bridge in a way to satisfy objectives other than strength and structural performance, including life cycle economic and environmental performances. The learners will learn how to perform Life Cycle Assessment (LCA) and Life Cycle Cost Analysis (LCCA) considering alternative designs to provide environmentally responsible and cost-effective sustainable design solutions. The course will present an introduction to LCA including information about life cycle phases, inventory analysis, life cycle impact analysis, and potential environmental impact categories. They will learn how to conduct inventory analysis by identifying the resource consumption, energy loss, and waste generation during each life-cycle phase. They will also learn how to conduct life cycle impact analysis by identifying the environmental indicators, choosing the approach of assessment, selecting the relevant calculation method, and quantifying the environmental impacts during each life-cycle phase. The learners will also learn how to interpret these results, compare the life cycle impacts resulting from different design alternatives, and provide an environmental-friendly design solution for different components of the bridge. In addition to that, the learners will be given an introduction to the LCCA, including the components of the cost and the methods of calculation. Through LCCA, the learners will be able to assess the cost incurred during production, construction, regular maintenance operations, post-damages repairs, and end-of-life disposal. They will learn how to assess the seismic damages and evaluate relevant repair costs. The learners will also gain an understanding of how to assess the maintenance cost based on the selected repair/retrofit strategies and maintenance intervals. They will be taught to aggregate the life-cycle costs, compare the life cycle cost resulting from different design alternatives, and identify the cost-efficient design alternatives. Learners will also learn how to combine LCA and LCCA and provide the most enviro-economical feasible solutions to bridge structures.

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SHORT COURSE #3

PLANNING AND DESIGN OF INTEGRAL ABUTMENT BRIDGES UNDER SERVICE AND SEISMIC LOADS

July 19th, 8:30am – 12:00pm
Room TBD

This course is composed of two parts. The first part will provide general information on the planning and design of integral bridges under service and seismic loads and the second part will cover dynamic analysis and seismic design of integral bridges. Integral bridges are rigid frame structures where the superstructure is connected monolithically to a flexible abutment-pile system composed of thin, stub abutments supported on a single row of piles. Therefore, the behavior of integral abutment bridges under thermal, gravitational, and seismic loads is different than that of regular jointed bridges. The first part of this course introduces (i) general planning and design considerations, (ii) implementing proper abutment-backfill interaction behavior in the structural model under thermal effects, (iii) calculation of length limits of integral abutment bridges to evade low cycle fatigue failure of the steel piles (iv)  estimation of live load effects in the superstructure, abutments and piles considering the continuity of the bridge and soil-structure interaction, (v) important soil-structure modeling considerations for the seismic analysis and design of integral abutment bridges. The second part of this short course will focus on explaining the dynamic behaviors of structures. The main objectives of this part are to identify dynamic problems, determine the natural frequencies of structures, establish the equations of motion, stiffness, and mass for structures and introduce the seismic analysis methods for structures. Seismic analyses and design methods adopted in the Canadian codes and standards will be presented and applied to integral abutment bridges. Critical parameters impacting seismic design for new bridges and rehabilitation of existing structures will be introduced and discussed.

SHORT COURSE #4

DESIGN OF SOIL METAL STRUCTURES

July 19th, 1:30pm – 5:00pm
Room TBD

This short course aims to introduce the basic fundamentals and methodologies employed in designing soil metal structures. Special focus will be placed on their unique soil-structure interaction and the effect of the utilized modeling approach on their design. The course will cover the latest details that have been implemented in Section 7 of the new version of the Canadian Highway Bridge Design Code (CHBDC). After participating in this course, you should be able to perform the structural design of buried soil-steel bridges and culverts using the latest state-of-the-art design methodologies. Major emphasis will be on the analytical methods and the problem-solving aspects as related to the design of soil metal structures. This course provides the participant with an opportunity to apply the design procedures to “real-life” challenging design projects.

SHORT COURSE #5

PERFORMANCE-BASED SEISMIC DESIGN OF BRIDGES

July 19th, 1:30Pm – 5:00pm
Room TBD

Losses of bridge infrastructures can have a substantial toll on the economy of a region. Hence, the previous design philosophy of structures that ensure only life safety emphasizing collapse prevention is not enough. The current design philosophy supports the safety of both users and the infrastructure itself. Previous codes were based on force and strength criteria. Later, it was realized that the strength and seismic performance of a structure are not in consensus meaning an increased strength will not necessarily lead to enhanced seismic performance rather it could be detrimental and lead to failure without adequate ductility. Bridges are important assets of a country. If a bridge cannot perform satisfactorily during a hazardous event, this could be a huge economic loss to the owners. If the bridge was designed following conventional force-based design, the owners will not be able to make designers liable for their design. This is another disadvantageous situation that has led to performance-based design where the owners can prescribe performance criteria against different hazard levels while designing those bridges and can make designers accountable for their design. This short course will help attendees understand the design philosophy of the new versions of the Canadian design codes CSA S6-19. They will understand the differences between forced-based design (FBD), displacement-based design (DBD), and performance-based design (PBD).

SHORT COURSE #6

ULTRA-HIGH-PERFORMANCE CONCRETE (UHPC) – DESIGN AND CONSTRUCTION MATERIAL ATTRIBUTES FOR BRIDGES IN CANADA

July 19th, 1:30pm – 5:00pm
Room TBD

Sustainable Development & Infrastructure is enhanced with advanced construction materials. Ultra-High-Performance Concrete (UHPC) is a material technology that provides more tools for Engineers, Builders, Owners, and Stakeholders. Participants will learn about UHPC material properties and how to design Bridge Elements with some examples from material and design professionals in a Canadian context. UHPC is a self-reinforced microfiber concrete with the density of aluminum, which can be placed as a moldable stiff mass or a self-consolidating flowable paste, hydrating to a compressive range of 120MPa to +250MPa, and a high degree of matrix toughness.