www.bris.ac.uk/composites

Testing of Advanced Composites in Civil Engineering Applications

Wendel Sebastian – MA (Cantab), PhD (Cantab)

Reader in Structural Engineering , Department of Civil Engineering

Composites for Life Extension of Bridges and Buildings

Flexural Column Wrapping Shear Reinforcement

Composites in New-Build

Road Bridge Being Craned into Position

Eye-Catcher Building, Switzerland

Lock Gates

Local Tyre Load Fatigue of Composite Bridge Decks

Composite Deck-on-Beam Road Bridge Local Tyre Load Effects on Deck

Field Testing to Quantify Tyre-Deck Interaction

Recording Contact Pressures on Pultruded Deck

Example of Spatial Contact Pressure Distribution

Equivalent Tyre Effect in Fatigue Proof Testing of Decks

Must be Informed by Spatial Contact Pressure Distributions From Field Study

Project (EP/K026925/1 - £1.4 M) Glass Fibre Composites

UniversitiesWarwick (lead)BristolBathNewcastleLeeds

Bristol Uni and Aquamarine LtdOYSTER Wave Energy Converter

Experimental Work by Bristol University

Mixed-mode Interface Test

T-Joint Testing (Wet & Dry)

T-Joints in Sea

Other Projects by Dr Wendel Sebastian

Environmental Chamber Tests in Switzerland with Professor Thomas Keller

Input to UK Design Guide

Dave Hooper

Technical Manager

Guy Pearn

Instrumentation

Joel Ross and Pete Whereat

Laboratory Enthusiasts

Acknowledgements