Conservation state and structural issues of existing infrastructures: the case of statal road bridges in Campania

The present paper deals with new management policies adopted for the smart handling of the statal road bridge asset in the Campania region, Italy. The research group of the University of Campania “Luigi Vanvitelli”, as member of the FABRE consortium, provided a scientific support to the handling body for applying to a number of current bridges the multi-level approach proposed in the recently enacted Italian “Guidelines for classifying and managing the risk, assessing the safety and monitoring existing bridges”. In the present study, the main outcomes obtained in the first phase of this activity are presented with reference to about 20 bridges. Hence, a characterization of the entire sample of interest (80 bridges) is firstly proposed and then the preliminary outcome obtained during the visual surveys are presented and discussed. The main causes of deterioration and damage phenomena, as well as the general conservation state of existing bridges, can be identified based on the presented results.