Determination of Railway Bridges Loading Capacity

Abstract In frame of global European standardization and in consequence of new knowledge concerning existing bridge reliability, the need for revision of the service handbook “Determination of the railway bridges loading capacity” had started up. The new guideline has been worked up by the collective of the Department of Structure and Bridges from the University of Zilina in cooperation with Slovak Railways and other cooperators among academicians and designers. In the presented paper, the attention is paid to the general concept and basic assumptions of the new guideline for determining the railway bridge loading capacity.