Head of the project: prof. Ing. Moravčík Martin, PhD.   

Research team: doc. Ing. Koteš Peter, PhD., Ing. Kotula Patrik, PhD., Ing. Bahleda František, PhD., Ing. Bujňáková Petra, PhD., Ing. Vavruš Martin, PhD., Ing. Kraľovanec Jakub, PhD.

Duration: Janury 2022 – December 2024                             

At present, the aging infrastructure of the road and railway network, of which concrete bridges are an integral part, appears to be one of the key problems that significantly affects the state budgets of the countries of the European Union. In the near past, we have witnessed the tragic event of the collapse of the Morandi bridge in Genoa, Italy, with catastrophic consequences. We can record a similar situation in our country, when there are several emergency situations on bridges almost every year. e.g. Podbiel bridge 2015, bridge over VN Ružín 2017, Trstená bridge 2019, bridge at Kysak 2020 and so on. These are all prestressed bridges built in the 50's and 60's. It turns out that this condition is influenced by fundamental factors that can be defined as an insufficient level of prestress diagnostics in the structure. Therefore, our project is focused on the possibility of monitoring and determining the current level of prestress in the structure, using new theoretical and experimental progressive methods.