PURPOSES: The occurrence of unexpected disasters, including fire events, increases as the road network becomes complicated and traffic volume increases. When a fire event occurs on and under bridges, the damage extensively influences direct damage to structures, vehicles, and human life and secondary socioeconomic issues owing to traffic blockage. This study investigated potential fire-hazard risks on bridges of the Korean national route roadMETHODS: The investigation was conducted using field investigation and analysis with satellite pictures and road views from commercial websites and the Bridge Management System (BMS). From the filed investigation, various potential fire resources were identified. The satellite pictures and road views were helpful in measuring and recognizing conditions underneath bridges, stowage areas, etc.RESULTS : There are various potential fire resources underneath bridges such as piled agricultural products, parked petroleum tanks, construction equipment, and attached high-voltage cables. A total of 94.6% of bridges have underneath clearances of less than 15 m. A bridge underneath volume that can stow a potential fire hazard resource was 7,332 m3 on average, and most bridges have about 4,000 m3 of space. Based on the BMS data, the amounts of PSC and steel girders were 29% and 25%, respectively.CONCLUSIONS : It was found that the amount of stowed potential fire hazard resources was proportional to the underneath space of bridges. Most bridges have less than 15 m of vertical clearance that can be considered as a critical value for a bridge fire. The fire risk investigation results should be helpful for developing bridge fire-protection tools.

In this study, the number of fire stations per radius centered at bridges on the national road route was calculated through GIS based on BMS and POI information. The fire risk could be represented as the number of fire stations nearby bridges. The radius was 5km but could be extended to longer distances. The number of fire stations in the northern part of Gyeonggi, Gangwon mountain area, and northern part of Gyeongsang area were smaller than those in other districts.

In this study, we use the general national road's bridge format information to carry out the efficient maintenance services. Especially maintenance method of the operating new-type girder bridges is treated by collecting the information of them

The wind load characteristics are represented by wind speed, wind direction, turbulence intensity, roughness index of terrain, spectral density and so on. In this paper, the wind load characteristics of long span bridges in general national roads are evaluated based on measured data of wind speed and direction.

Consequently, Vehicle-mounted GPR System turned out to be effective on swiftness in the field. In this study, the Ground Penetrating Radar(GPR) mounted a vehicle was tested to evaluate the condition of concrete decks. Vehicle-mounted GPR System's result could be evaluated by comparing with collected cores as a high reliability system

교량에서의 바닥판은 통행차량의 쾌적하고 안전한 주행성 확보하는 역할을 가진다. 동시에 교통하중의 충격 등에 의한 마모 및 전단에 저항하여 상부 구조를 보호하거나 빗물 등의 기타 기상작용이나 화학약품 등 상판의 악영향으로부터 바닥판을 보호하는 역할을 한다. 현재 일반국도상 교량은 총6,248개소로서 이를 효과적으로 관리하기 위하여 현재 차량탑재형 GPR시스템의 도입이 검토되고 있다. 본 연구에서는 교량 및 터널 현황조서 및 기타 국토해양부의 자료를 바탕으로 교량의 재령별, 상부구조형식별, 지역별, 경간장별 바닥판 상태평가등급을 분석하였다. 결과적으로 교량 바닥판 조사 우선순위 결정인자로는 바닥판 상태평가등급, 상부구조 형식, 재령, 연장이 주요 인자인 것으로 도출되었다.

In this research, the comparison and Analysis of domestic Bridge Deck on General National Road has been performed with major variations of Superstructure type, Span Lengths, Located Resion and Ages by using ‘the current status of road bridge and tunnel’ that is provided by MLTM(Ministry of Land, Transport and Maritime Affairs).