The 7th International Conference on Material Strength and Applied Mechanics
(MSAM 2024)

Abstract: This presentation regards the dynamic interactions between vehicles and bridge. 3D coupled models to simulate vehicle-bridge interaction (VBI) for estimating its structural responses and impact factors (IMs) will be discussed. By structural health monitoring (SHM), with building information modelling (BIM) of a real bridge, several data can be collected to calibrate the finite element model (FEM). Modified recent analytical equations, which account for the effects of the asymmetric two-axle vehicles, were also developed for this purpose. All these types of models provide the displacements, velocities and accelerations of the bridge and vehicles. From codes and literature, it is shown that a unique IM factor is not found. Also, most approaches underestimate the dynamic responses for bridges. Therefore, the challenge, to design modern resilient infrastructures, consists in fitting the SHM with FEM and analytical solutions to find more appropriate responses. An example for concrete and steel bridge will be shown.

Biography: Dr. Enrico Zacchei is a Senior Engineer and Researcher at Itecons institute, Portugal. He was a Post-doc. at Catholic University of Louvain (UCL), Belgium. He received his PhD from University of Salamanca (USAL), Spain, in co-tutorship with the University of São Paulo (USP), Brazil, in structures. 2º PhD from University State of São Paulo (UNESP), Brazil, in structures. He obtained his Master and bachelor’s degree in civil engineering (structure) from University of Roma Tre (Uniroma 3), Italy. He completed 10 extension courses at USP and UNESP. 15 grants/scholarships, 4 of which for stays in R&D centres: USP (2.5 years), UNESP (8 months), University of Malaga, UMA, Spain (9 months); He won WBI excellence scholarship from UCL (3 months). He has 8 years of technical experience in international companies/institutes (Italy, Brazil, Portugal) and 6 years of scientific experience. He managed 16 technical projects (14 large projects) and 8 funded research projects (5 more than 500k euro). He was the Coordinator of 3 projects. He has published about 30 papers in high impact journals (ISI, Scopus) and has more than 25 participations/presentations at congresses (3 as Invited Speaker). He is the Member of the working group "dams under earthquakes", ITCOLD, Italy; Special Issue Editor and Reviewer Board for Infrastructures Journal (Scopus), Member of the research group "CERIS-Coimbra", Reviewer for 16 ISI journals. He supervised 2 co-orientation of bachelor/master students and is an evaluation member for bachelor’s degree students. He is the Technical committee member (5) and Organizer of Mini Symposia (3) for congresses/events.