Zur Weiterverwendung der Eisenbahnhochbrücke Hochdonn über den Nord‐Ostsee‐Kanal

Refurbishment of the railway bridge Hochdonn across the Ciel Canal. This paper gives details of the safety and residual life assessments for the railway bridge across the North‐Sea‐Baltic‐Sea‐canal at Hochdonn showing aspect of traffic development, pre‐damages and repair work and braking loads. The study shows that the structure though designed according to old specifications with simple calculation models that are compensated by adequate structural detailing complies basically with modern requirements for serviceability and ultimate limit states including durability if some additional measures are carried out to take modern standard‐developments into account.     

Die neue Eisenbahnbrücke über den Donaukanal und den Winterhafen in Wien

The new railway bridge across the Donaukanal and the Winterhafen in Vienna. The load tests for the new Winterhafenbrücke performed on September 1, 2008 were the last steps in reconstruction of the railway connection between Donaulände und Donauuferbahn, which was destroyed in April 1945. With a length of 168 m this new single‐line railway bridge, which is designed as a two‐field continuous girder bridge, is the central link and the heart of the project. The bridge spans were realised by triangular trussed girder across the Donaukanal on the one hand and a trough bridge across the Winterhafen on the other. Design, manufacture and assembly of the steel bridge was carried out in different stages and constituted a great technical challenge. The completion of the entire project in September 2009 will be an essential contribution towards shifting commercial transport from the road to the environmentally friendly rail.