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COBRAE PAST ACTIVITIES

COBRAE 2008 Annual Members Meeting

With contributions of
University of Plymouth, UK
LightWeight Structures, Delft, Netherlands
Witteveen en Bos, Consult Engineers, Deventer, NL
Technical University Chemnitz, Germany

London - November 19-20
Earls Court EXPO Centre

Download announcment brochure (288 kB)

Lightweight Bridge Decks
Conference - Matchmaking Session - 2 Bridge Excursions
June 18-20, 2008
Hotel Haarhuis, Arnhem, The Netherlands

Click to download Final Announcement Brochure (PDF 352 kB)

Click to download Order Form Conference Proceedings (PDF 26 kB)

Click here to view photo's taken during the Bridge Excursions

Lightweight Bridge Decks is organised by Brisk Events

in close co-operation with COBRAE

COMPOSITE BRIDGE DECKS EXCURSION - KOREA
3 - 7 October 2007
Organised by: COBRAE & Kookmin Composite Infrastructure Inc.

- Visit 5 bridges in 4 days -
- Including a visit to the worlds largest Composite-Deck Bridge -

Click here to view the pictures of the Excursion

COBRAE directs its attention to the following four areas:

External concrete reinforcing with Carbon fibre strips		Composite bridge decks


Internal concrete reinforcing with composite rebar in concrete structures		All composite structural applications

Civil Engineers are known to test the limits of building structures, by going higher, longer or lighter. On the other hand Civil Engineers are by definition very conservative.

To read the full article on Composites in Civil Engineering ..... click here

Picture of delegates of the
LIGHTWEIGHT BRIDGE DECKS
European Bridge Engineering Conference
27-28 March 2003, Rotterdam, the Netherlands