Periodic Reporting for period 1 - BriFace (Novel assessment of bridge retrofitting measures through Interface Efficiency Indices (InterFeis) using a Guided Wave-based monitoring method)

Problem issued: With approximately two million highway and railway bridges, of which almost 10% are characterised as structurally deficient and 14% as functionally obsolete, there is a huge challenge for assessing, repairing and strengthening bridges in Europe and worldwide...