Retrofitting methods for orthotropic steel deck plates with category‐1‐damages.
Due to a high increase of traffic load during the last decades orthotropic steel deck plates show more and more fatigue damages in the welded connection between longitudinal stiffeners and steel deck plate (category‐1‐damages). This contribution gives an overview about existing retrofitting methods which have already been applied in pilot projects and currently investigates renovation techniques for retrofitting category‐1‐damages.