Analysis of Selected Life Factors of Wooden Bridges

Abstract

The first part of the monograph contains basic information about the historical development of bridge construction not only from the environment of Central Europe. In the first block, the basic facts about the material, its properties and structure are also given. The main part of the monograph includes the original results of research on real structures and laboratory samples in order to confirm or refute the hypothesis of this work. The research results contain sets of evaluated data mainly from bridge constructions from Central Europe. Regional targeting is deliberate with regard to climate and wood-destroying factors. The monograph brings new approaches to the solution of modern wood-based bridge structures. It is mainly the design, development and testing of wood-concrete load-bearing system for bridges and insulation system for bridge construction. This work is based on historical structural and material facts about wooden bridges and footbridges and on the failures of existing structures, in order to bring a new modern solution for the development of the field of wood-based bridge construction not only for Central Europe.