Guest lecture: presentation of the Tito Bridge by Dr Mojca Jarc Simonič, Project Manager at the ZRMK Construction Institute

In the framework of the course Materials of the Civil Engineering programme, we hosted Dr Mojca Jarc Simonič, Project Manager at the Building Research and Construction Institute ZRMK, who presented a detailed overview of the condition of the Tito Bridge in Maribor; the presentation was also the focus of this year’s Transport and Transport Infrastructure Congress in Portorož from 26 to 28 October.

During the guest lecture, the students were introduced to the detailed history of the Tito Bridge from the very beginning, the techniques and materials used in the construction of the bridge, followed by reports on the description of the structure over certain positions (overpass over Kneza Koclja Street, the prestressed continuous structure over the car park, the corridor and the cycle path), and finally the students were given chronological reports on the condition of the structure over the years (Gerber’s knuckle, damage to the cast asphalt, cracks in the carriageway) and the associated safety assessments.