Activities
Upcoming activities (dates are subject to changes, contact the COBRAE office for more information)
2008/2009
COMING EVENTS
November 19-20
Earls Court Expo London, UK
2008 Annual Members and non-Members Meeting
London, 19-20 November Earls Court EXPO Centre

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

Download full programme and registration form (288 kB)

2008
PAST EVENTS
June 18-20
Hotel Haarhuis
Arnhem, NL

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
2007
PAST EVENTS
November 15 PM
Maritime Hotel
Rotterdam, NL
November 15 AM
De Doelen
Rotterdam, NL
 Optional visit to Concrete Day (Betondag)

Please check site regularly for up-dates
COBRAE 2007 Annual Members Meeting.

Download Information & Registration Form - PDF 24k
November 14
Maritime Hotel
Rotterdam, NL
 COBRAE REBAR Symposium and COMPOSITE BRIDGE DECKS ROUND TABLE
'Where and How to Specify Composite Rebar"
"Options for Lightweight Composite Bridge Decks"'
Download Flyer & Registration Form - PDF 450k
3-7 October, 2007
Seoul, Korea
 COMPOSITE BRIDGE DECKS EXCURSION - KOREA
Organised by: COBRAE & Kookmin Composite Infrastructure Inc.
Visit 5 bridges in 4 days, including the worlds largest Composite-Deck Bridge

Download Excursion Flyer & Registration Form PDF 432 K
29-30 March
University of Stuttgart
Germany
 BENEFITS OF COMPOSITES IN CIVIL ENGINEERING
COBRAE World Conference on Composite Bridge Engineering

Click here to continue to the special web page of the Conference

Download final announcement brochure PDF 350 K

Download registration & hotel booking form here

View the list of submitted papers including abstracts here
2006
PAST EVENTS
November 29 - 30.
Barcelona/Lérida, Spain
 COBRAE 2006 Annual Members Meeting.
Including site visits

Download Agenda & Registration Form PDF 52 K

Site visit to the Fiberline footbridge, Lerida Spain
29-30 June
MSR, Rotterdam
Netherlands		 Session by COBRAE on "Light Weight Bridge Technology" at
BridgEneering Conference and Exhibition
http://www.bridgeneering.com
2005
 PAST EVENTS
30 March - 1 April
EMPA, Zurich, Switzerland		 COBRAE Conference 2005
Bridge Engineering with Polymer Composites
27 papers, 2 site visits, one company visit and 2 test demonstrations
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Contact IIFC
The International Institute for FRP in Construction (IIFC) was formed in 2003 to advance the understanding and the application of fibre- reinforced polymer (FRP) composites in the civil infrastructure, in the service of the engineering profession and society. Further information http://www.iifc-hq.org .
COBRAE LAUNCHES A NEW EUROPEAN PROJECT
EUROPEAN COMPOSITE BRIDGES INITIATIVE
The COBRAE Members Meeting on the 21st of November in Rotterdam, NL decided to launch a new European Initiative to increase the awareness of composite structural materials within the European Civil Engineering community. This project has the aim to connect a number of European Road and Bridges Authorities by interconnecting a number of national structural composite engineering projects and exchanging information and know-how between the partners. A special budget over 2003 and 2004 will be made available by Members to enable this project to be implemented.

The COBRAE Members decided that two area's of composite civil engineering applications will be pre-selected for participating in the programme:

A. Design and construction of a bridge with composite deck.

B. Design and construct the strengthening of an existing bridge structure with composites.
Through interaction and exchange of experiences by the participants a full insight can be obtained into the added values of the introduction of this new engineering material and different variants can be tested simultaneously giving conclusive information about engineering data, economics and environmental advantages.

COBRAE will call for a meeting on March 26th. 2003, Hotel New York, Rotterdam, NL, of all European Road Authorities and ask them to participate in this programme by selecting a project in their territory to design and construct a composite bridge deck for a given project type.

An invitation is under preparation and will be issued early January to all major European Road Authorities.

Different Project Types can be selected:

A. NEW COMPOSITE BRIDGE STRUCTURE
- Fixed bridge on composite girders (in place ASSET project, Oxford, UK)
- Fixed bridge deck on steel girders
- Fixed bridge deck on concrete girders
- Draw bridge on steel girders
- Lift bridge on steel girders

B. STRENTHENING EXISTING BRIDGE STRUCTURE WITH COMPOSITES
- Beam reinforcement
- Deck reinforcement
- Column reinforcement
- Combinations of the above

Also various climatic conditions, traffic loading and service requirements can be included into the test programme. Each bridge structure being put in place or strengthening project, shall be monitored and kept under constant scrutiny for a minimum period of 5 years. All projects shall be subject of site visits of the other parties, either during construction, installation or commissioning.

After the commissioning of the last project a full international conference shall be conducted to evaluate the experiences of each of the participants. Two more monitoring meetings will be arranged in the next 3-5 years.

Benefits
What benefits can be expected from this project?
- Experience with composite materials by National Road Authorities
- Exchange of idea’s between participants
- The element of "International competition" encourages new ideas
- Publicity by technical- and other press
- Know-how of the material and application increases for all participating.
- Perhaps the project may qualify for a European subsidy

Interested?

Parties, who wish to indicate their interest at this stage, or who know of projects in the planning phase, may contact the COBRAE office already now. Next issue of COBRAE News will list the interested parties and projects named. COBRAE News will permanent update all readers on the progress made in the initiative.
CONTACT COBRAE:
PO Box 18
3830 AA Leusden
The Netherlands

Tel: +31 33 4343 500
Fax: +31 33 4343 501
E-mail: info@cobrae.org