Diagnosisandrepairofa_省略_tonemasonryarch.pdf

1 INTRODUCTION The D. Zameiro Bridge is a Mediaeval multi-span arch bridge over the Ave River, near the city of Vila do Conde, located about 40 km North of Porto, in the Northern part of Portugal. The bridge has a humpback pavement, supported by eight stone masonry arches of different spans, (maximum clear span of 13.4 m), as schematically illustrated in Figure . The bridge reaches a total length of 130 m and has an average width of 4 m. All the arches present a semicircular shape except one that is a pointed-arch, most probably due to a reconstruction during the Gothic period or afterwards. The arches are supported by massive piers, endowed with triangular cutwaters at upstream and rectangular cutwaters at downstream, see also Figure . 130 m 13.4 m Figure 1 : D. Zameiro Bridge (upstream view) The bridge, built between the 12th and 13th centuries, is located in a very old path connecting the cities of Porto and Barcelos, being part of the historic Portuguese pilgrimage route from Lisbon to Santiago de Compostela, Spain. It is currently included in a section of the national road EN 306 that has been declassified in the 1970’s, when it was substituted by a variant of the road including a new bridge at downstream. The D. Zameiro Bridge is in the way to be classified as a Portuguese national monument since 1996 (IGESPAR 2008). Diagnosis and repair of a historic stone masonry arch bridge Daniel V. Oliveira ISISE, University of Minho, Department of Civil Engineering, Guimar?es, Portugal Vanessa M. Costa and Jorge F. Sousa Estradas de Portugal SA, Porto, Portugal Paulo B. Louren?o ISISE, University of Minho, Department of Civil Engineering, Guimar?es, Portugal ABSTRACT: The D. Zameiro Bridge is a multi-span stone masonry arch bridge built between the 12th and 13th centuries that crosses the Ave River in a rural area 40 km North of Porto, Portugal. The bridge is composed of eight arches of different span, with a total length o