The term ‘soil-steel’ structures was first coined in 1976, when the author began his involvement in the first edition of the Ontario Highway Bridge Design Code (OHBDC) in Canada. Since that time, Canadian engineers have been involved in many innovations in the design and construction of soil-steel and soil-aluminum structures, collectively referred to as ‘soil-metal structures.’ The author had been fortunate enough to have been involved, directly or indirectly, in at least some of these innovations. This paper essentially chronicles his journey in the field of soil-metal structures, which covers a span of nearly 30 years, three editions of the OHBDC and two editions of the Canadian Highway Bridge Design Code.
1. Baidar BAKHT Evolution of the design methods for soil-metal structures in Canada 7
2. Timothy J. MCGRATH, Marc C. WEBB (abstract) Calibration of simplified design concepts for long-span metal culverts 23
3. Esra BAYOGLU FLENER, Hakan SUNDQUIST Field testing of a long-span arch corrugated-steel culvert under dynamic and static loads 25
4. Esra BAYOGLU FLENER, Hakan SUNDQUIST Full-scale testing of two corrugated steel box culverts with different crown stiffness 35
5. Barbara BEDNAREK, Adam CZEREPAK Animal crossing built over A2 motorway in Poland 45
6. Adam CZEREPAK, Piotr TOMALA, Adam WYSOKOWSKI Comparison of test and calculation results of corrugated steel plate box structure MP150 53
7. Derek ESSERY, Kevin WILLIAMS Buried flexible steel structures with wire mesh reinforcement for cut plates 65
8. Leszek JANUSZ Application of multi-criteria optimization methods in choosing material solutions for construction of flexible steel culverts 81
9. Leszek JANUSZ, Oleg KAPLIŃSKI Predicting costs of assembly of buries flexible structures 89
10. Leszek JANUSZ, Arkadiusz MADAJ, Krzysztof STURZBECHER Railway grade separation made of corrugated steel plate structure – long term research 99
11. Seung-kwon JEUN, Jong-hwa RHEE An experimental verification of the improved bolting arrangement 109
12. Pauli KUKKONEN Expected service life analysis of steel culverts in Finland 121
13. Jong Ku LEE, Dong HO CHOI, Tae YANG YOON Seam strength of corrugated plate with high strength steel 129
14. Czesław MACHELSKI, Grzegorz ANTONISZYN, Leszek JANUSZ Evaluation of simplifications of 2D models of soil-steel shell bridges 145
15. Czesław MACHELSKI, Jakub MARCINOWSKI Numerical modelling of moving load effect in a soil-steel bridge 155
16. Czesław MACHELSKI, Jan Bernard MICHALSKI, Bernard MICHALSKI Case study of steel shell structure supported on piles 167
17. Arkadiusz MADAJ, Barbara BEDNAREK Internal stresses in helically corrugated steel pipes and pipe-arches 175
18. Hans-Ake MATTSSON, Hakan SUNDQUIST The real service life and repair methods of steel pipe culverts in Sweden 185
19. Lars PETTERSSON, Hakan SUNDQUIST Development of the Swedish handbook for buried flexible culverts 195
20. Roman ŠAFÁŘ, Jaromír ZOUHAR Load test of helically corrugated pipe-arch under railway 205
21. Waldemar St. SZAJNA Numerical model for the analysis of construction process of soil-steel culverts 215
22. Piotr TOMALA, Krzysztof MARKOWICZ, Bogdan BRESCH Elements of the design process of the flexible steel arch over double track electrified railway 225
23. Jan VASLESTAD, Bartlomiej KUNECKI, Tor Helge JOHANSEN Twenty one years of earth pressure measurements on buried flexible steel structure 233
24. Kevin WHITE, Shad SARGAND, Teruhisa MASADA Laboratory and numerical investigations of large-diameter structural plate steel pipe culvert behavior 245
25. Adam WYSOKOWSKI, Justyna GÓRNA, Michał MOŃKA, Piotr TOMALA Comparative full scale tests of behaviour of corrugated steel arch structure placed on corrugated flexible foundations and rigid concrete foundations 261
26. Adam WYSOKOWSKI, Leszek JANUSZ General conclusions based on the testing of various types of corrugated flexible structures in laboratory in natural scale 273
27. Adam WYSOKOWSKI, Anna STASZCZUK, Barbara BEDNAREK Decrease of negative impact of transport infrastructure investments on natural migration of the wild animals 287
28. Andrzej ZACHWIEJA, Arkadiusz BUREK, Dariusz SOBALA As fast as possible – an example of a quick reconstruction of a bridge in difficult atmospheric conditions 297
