Research areas in Structural Engineering
Current projects
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Sustainable Construction in Arctic Climate – Residual prestressing in prestressed concrete structures
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Trough Bridge Project
Concrete trough bridges constitute around 25% of bridge population in Sweden, based on Trafikverket data base, which are mainly railway bridges.
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Characterization of train-induced aerodynamic loads on railway noise barriers
Noise barriers need to be installed along high-speed railway lines to protect nearby inhabitants from the noise pollution caused by the running of high-speed trains.
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Sustainable development through biochar-added concrete
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H2SIPP (Hydrogen Safety and Improved Permit Processes)
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Multiscale studies on corrosion-induced bond deterioration of reinforced concrete
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Kiruna Hospital Building
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Improving Sustainability in Concrete Structures using Corrosion-Resistant FRP Reinforcements: A Shear Behavior Study
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Snow galleries on Malmbanan - Monitor snow build-up and alert when it is time to clean it
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TruBridges
Multi and interdisciplinary method to identify the true capacity of concrete bridges.
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Safe Dams
Dams are large structures and are often made out of concrete, a heterogenous engineered material, and built on natural foundations with notorious variations.
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Development of a proof loading method for railway bridges
Special transports that exceed the line capacity are planned in 2024 along the Haparanda line in Northern Sweden.
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Partial composite action
Creating design guidance for strengthening of steel girder bridges by introducing partial composite action.
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Kalix Bridge: Demolition of a prestressed concrete bridge
European infrastructure built after the end of the second World War has reached, or is near to, the end of its nominal design life. With an older generation of bridges, finding the most suitable demolition process for a specific bridge becomes a priority task where knowledge about the area and possi...
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Digital Twins for asset management of structures
Current inspection and management processes for civil structures are time-consuming and can even be inaccurate.
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Kiruna City – Mining movements induced damage on existing buildings
Mining activities might generate structural damage to the existing buildings.
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Multiscale study on bond-slip failure in trough bridges subjected to fatigue loading
Trough bridges undergo cyclic loading from traffic, leading to fatigue failure over time.
Completed projects
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Kalix bridge project - Condition assessment of existing bridges
Replacing an existing bridge often costs two to three times its present value and it is associated w...
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Sparks from forestry machinery: A possible or impossible source of forest fires?
Sparks from the contact between metal and stone have been widely debated in recent years, both insid...
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IN2TRACK3 - Research into optimized and future railway infrastructure Ground-based photogrammetry
Due to the age of the existing railway infrastructure in the world, damage and deterioration of rail...
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Anchorage to concrete structures
Over the course of time, various anchorage systems have been developed for fastening both non-struct...
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In2Rail – Innovative Intelligent Rail
The In2Rail project is to lay the foundations for a resilient, consistent, cost-efficient, high capa...
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Structural Control and Identification of Civil Engineering Structures
The main target of our research group is to focus on two very important fields, namely structural co...
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Sustainable increase of lifespan for bridges
Large amount of resources has been invested in building and maintaining existing bridges. Over 50% o...
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Prolonging life time of old steel and steel-concrete bridges
The project PROLIFE (Prolonging life time of old steel and steel-concrete bridges ) has received fun...
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Solution for sustainable rehabilitation of reinforced concrete walls
In a reinforced concrete wall building, openings are usually avoided whenever possible in order to d...
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The resistance of a reinforced concrete bridge
Load-carrying capacity of a strengthened reinforced concrete bridge : Non-linear finite element mode...
Fire
The research encompasses a wide range from fundamental material fire behavior to structural fires, aimed at enhancing fire safety engineering.