Retrofitting of Existing, Extant Bridges, Highway Road Bridges in C.G. India

Abstract: The extensive, broad or pervasive damage, harm, illness or disturbance to bridges world over in earthquakes has generated considerable interest among-st/throughout the engineers and researchers, investigator scientist on the seismic design of new bridges and retrofitting of existing, extant ones. Retrofitting of existing bridges is one of the most important things for any type of highway and flyover bridges which are damaged or injured by some reasons. So retrofitting is the process & techniques which is used for the improving or modifying the strength of the structure by addition or subtraction of some equipment's & things. Retrofitting is the most convenient accordingly to cost & working. The main objective of this paper & this study to find out the problem of any type of structure, highway bridges in CHATTISHGARH which are damaged or injured due to some specific reasons.

Keywords: RETROFITING, HIGHWAY BRIDGES, SEIMIC FORCES

Edition: Volume 6 Issue 4, April 2017,

Pages: 2118 - 2121