3rd Edition. — John Wiley & Sons, Inc., 2013. — 544 p. — ISBN: 0470900660. Up-to-date coverage of bridge design and analysis — revised to reflect the fifth edition of the AASHTO LRFD specifications. Design of Highway Bridges, Third Edition offers detailed coverage of engineering basics for the design of short- and medium-span bridges. Revised to conform with the latest fifth...
Taylor & Francis, 2008. - 608 p. ISBN10: 0415235995 Examining the fundamental differences between design and analysis, Robert Benaim explores the close relationship between aesthetic and technical creativity and the importance of the intuitive, more imaginative qualities of design that every designer should employ when designing a structure. Aiding designers of concrete bridges...
Oxford University Press, 2010, 312 p., ISBN: 0199543593 The Brooklyn Bridge, London's Tower Bridge, Sydney's Harbour Bridge, San Francisco's Golden Gate-bridges can be breathtakingly monumental structures, magnificent works of art, and vital arteries that make life vastly easier. In Bridges , eminent structural engineer David Blockley takes readers on a fascinating guided tour...
CRC Press/Balkema, 2014, 2867 p., ISBN10: 1138001031 Bridge Maintenance, Safety, Management and Life Extension contains the lectures and papers presented at IABMAS 2014, the Seventh International Conference on Bridge Maintenance, Safety and Management (IABMAS 2014), held in Shanghai, China, July 7-11, 2014. This set consists of a book of abstracts and a DVD containing the full...
CRC Press, Boca Raton, FL, 2000, 1964 p., ISBN: 0-8493-7434-0 An international team of experts has joined forces to produce the Bridge Engineering Handbook. They address all facets-the planning, design, inspection, construction, and maintenance of a variety of bridge structures-creating a must-have resource for every bridge engineer. This unique, comprehensive reference...
Second Edition, CRC Press, Taylor & Francis Group, Boca Raton, FL, 2014, 556 p., ISBN10: 1439852073 Over 140 experts, 14 countries, and 89 chapters are represented in the second edition of The Bridge Engineering Handbook. This extensive collection highlights bridge engineering specimens from around the world, contains detailed information on bridge engineering, and thoroughly...
Second Edition. — CRC Press, 2014. — 752 p. — ISBN10: 1439852219. Over 140 experts, 14 countries, and 89 chapters are represented in the second edition of the Bridge Engineering Handbook. This extensive collection highlights bridge engineering specimens from around the world, contains detailed information on bridge engineering, and thoroughly explains the concepts and practical...
CRC Press, 2014, 1394 p., ISBN10: 143981029X This comprehensive and up-to-date reference work and resource book covers state-of-the-art and state-of-the-practice for bridge engineering worldwide. Countries covered include Canada and the United States in North America; Argentina and Brazil in South America; Bosnia, Bulgaria, Croatia, Czech Republic, Denmark, Finland, France,...
CRC Press LLC, 2003. 258 p. ISBN: 0-8493-1681-2. Substructure Design addresses the various substructure components: bearings, piers and columns, towers, abutments and retaining structures, geotechnical considerations, footing and foundations, vessel collisions, and bridge hydraulics. Bearings; Piers and Columns; Towers; Abutments and Retaining Structures; Geotechnical...
2nd Edition. — CRC Press, 2014. — 646 p. — ISBN10: 1439852081, ISBN13: 978-1439852088. Over 140 experts, 14 countries, and 89 chapters are represented in the second edition of the Bridge Engineering Handbook. This extensive collection highlights bridge engineering specimens from around the world, contains detailed information on bridge engineering, and thoroughly explains the...
2nd Edition. — CRC Press, 2014. — 722 p. — ISBN10: 1439852189, Over 140 experts, 14 countries, and 89 chapters are represented in the second edition of the Bridge Engineering Handbook. This extensive collection highlights bridge engineering specimens from around the world, contains detailed information on bridge engineering, and thoroughly explains the concepts and practical...
2nd Edition. — CRC Press, 2014. — 378 p. — ISBN10: 1439852219, ISBN13: 978-1439852217. Over 140 experts, 14 countries, and 89 chapters are represented in the second edition of the Bridge Engineering Handbook. This extensive collection highlights bridge engineering specimens from around the world, contains detailed information on bridge engineering, and thoroughly explains the...
This document consists of a comprehensive design example of a prestressed concrete girder bridge. The superstructure consists of two simple spans made continuous for live loads. The substructure consists of integral end abutments and multi-column intermediate bent. The document also includes instructional commentary based on the AASHTO-LRFD Bridge Design Specifications (Second...
Black Dog & Leventhal, 2017. — 176 p. — ISBN: 978-0316507943. From the best-selling author of Skyscrapers comes the much-anticipated twentieth-anniversary edition of her magnificent chronological tour of the world's most significant and eye-popping spans, now in color and bigger than ever. This visual history of the world''s landmark bridges is updated and expanded since its...
Black Dog & Leventhal, 2017. — 176 p. — ISBN: 978-0316507943. From the best-selling author of Skyscrapers comes the much-anticipated twentieth-anniversary edition of her magnificent chronological tour of the world's most significant and eye-popping spans, now in color and bigger than ever. This visual history of the world''s landmark bridges is updated and expanded since its...
Imperial College + Highway Agency, 2000, 145 p., ISBN10: 0727735411, ISBN13: 9780727735416 Integral bridges have become increasingly popular over recent years. Problems and costs associated with failed expansion joints in conventional bridges not only make integral bridges a cost-effective option but also means they have longer lifespans than their counterparts. The growing...
Routledge, 2015. — 632 p. — SBN 9781466579859. Bridge structures vary considerably in form, size, complexity, and importance. The methods for their computational analysis and design range from approximate to refined analyses, and rapidly improving computer technology has made the more refined and complex methods of analyses more commonplace. The key methods of analysis and...
Springer, Tokyo, 2012, 256 p., ISBN: 4431540458 For long-span bridges, wind action is a dominant factor in their safety and serviceability. A large number of long-span bridges have been built in Japan over the past 30 years, and tremendous amounts of research and technical development have been accomplished in wind-resistant design. This book is a compilation of the results of...
3rd Ed., John Wiley & Sons, Ltd. 2012. – 592 p., OCR. In the family of bridge systems the cable supported bridges are distinguished by their ability to overcome large spans. At present, cable supported bridges are enabled for spans in the range from 200 m to 2000 m (and beyond), thus covering approximately 90 per cent of the present span range. This book concentrates on the...
New York: Oxford University Press Inc., 2010. — 368 p. — ISBN: 978-0-19-957966-2. The Strategy Bridge presents the general theory of strategy and explains the utility of this general theory for the particular strategies that strategists need to develop in order to meet their historically unique challenges. The book argues that strategy's general theory provides essential...
Monograph. — New York: Taylor & Francis, 1999. — 401 p. This is intended as a useful handbook on the subject of bridge hydraulics. Putting things into perspective How a bridge affects river flow Factors that affect the hydraulic performance of a bridge How to calculate discharge and afflux How to analyze flow past piers and trestles
Second Edition, ICE Publishing, 2011, 400 p., ISBN: 0727741136 Concrete remains the most common material for bridge construction around the world, and prestressed concrete is frequently the material of choice. Extensively illustrated throughout, this invaluable book brings together all aspects of designing prestressed concrete bridge decks into one comprehensive volume....
EPFL Press, 2013. — XX, 513 p. — ISBN13: 978-1-4665-7297-3 (eBook - PDF). This English translation of the successful French edition presents the conception and design of steel and steel-concrete composite bridges, from simple beam bridges to cable supported structures. The book focuses primarily on road bridges, emphasizing the basis of their conception and the fundamentals...
Butterworth-Heinemann, 2016. — 339 p. — ISBN: 978-0-12-802069-2 This book provides new tactics for highway departments around the world that are faced with the dilemma of providing improved operations on a shoestring budget. Even after the much needed infrastructure funding is received, the question of which project comes first must be answered. Written by a 20-year veteran...
Spon Press, 2006. – 314 p., OCR. Composite construction, using a reinforced concrete slab on top of steel girders, is an economical and popular form of construction for highway bridges. It can be used over a wide range of span sizes. This guide includes a set of twelve flow charts that summarise the design process following the rules in BS 5400, taking into account the...
SCI P393, Silwood Park, Ascot, 2012. VII, 65 p. — ISBN13: 978-1-85942-204-5. This publication complements two earlier design guides for the design of composite bridges in accordance with the Eurocodes. It recognises that many highway bridges carry roads that are on a curved alignment and the supporting structure follows that curved alignment. The guidance addresses the...
Springer Science+Business Media, Dordrecht, 2012, 221 p., ISBN: 978-94-007-3942-0, 978-94-007-3943-7 Geotechnical, Geological and Earthquake Engineering Volume 21 This book is intended as a contribution to the limited literature related to the seismic behaviour of bridges. It focuses on a topical issue, the use of inelastic analysis methods for the seismic assessment and design...
McGraw-Hill, 2010. — 656 p. This authoritative volume offers up-to-date guidance on the latest design techniques, repair methods, specialized software, materials, and advanced maintenance procedures for bridges and highway structures . Focusing on both traditional and nontraditional design issues, Bridge and Highway Structure Rehabilitation and Repair clarifies the most recent...
Wiley, Hoboken, New Jersey, 2003, 691 p., ISBN10: 0471419605, ISBN13: 9780471419600 This book is intended to be a description of movable bridges of the United States and a comprehensive source of engineering information for bridges of this type. It discusses selection, design, construction, maintenance, inspection, and evaluation of movable bridges. Movable bridges are...
Butterworth-Heinemann, 2017. — 279 p. — ISBN: 978-0-12-804432-2. This book begins with a clear and concise exposition of theory and practice of bridge engineering, design and planning, materials and construction, loads and load distribution, and deck systems. This is followed by chapters concerning applications for bridges, such as: Reinforced and Prestressed Concrete Bridges,...
CRC Press/Balkema, 2013.XII, 301 p. — ISBN: 978-1-138-00112-1 (Hbk), ISBN: 978-1-315-85684-1 (eBook PDF). On Thursday evening, May 23, 2013, the Interstate 5 Bridge over the Skagit River in Washington state collapsed due to impact by an oversize truck, dumping vehicles and people into the water. Fortunately, the bridge is located in a rural area and nobody was killed in the...
Second Edition, CRC Press, Boca Raton, FL, 2014, 351 p., ISBN: 1482227231 Captures Current Developments in Bridge Design and Maintenance Recent research in bridge design and maintenance has focused on the serviceability problems of older bridges with aging joints. The favored solution of integral construction and design has produced bridges with fewer joints and bearings that...
London, Spon Press 2000, 350 p. A bridge may be defined as a structure used to carry loads over an opening, which may take the form of a valley or stream, a road or railway. One way to cross a valley is to build an embankment which effectively closes the opening. Such a structure is not a bridge, and it is important to recognize that the opening crossed by the bridge generally...
Wiley, 1996. — 705 p. Recent earthquakes, particularly the 1989 Loma Prieta and 1994 Northridge earthquakes in California, and the 1995 Kobe earthquake in Japan, have caused collapse of, or severe damage to, a considerable number of major bridges that were at least nominally designed for seismic forces. This behavior led to a marked increase in discussion about seismic design...
Report155 — London: Ciria, 1996. — 155 p. This work guides bridge designers, working for either the owner or a constructor, on how to improve the buildability of common highway bridge structures. Checklists of actions provide a reminder of "conceptual" and "specific" issues related to design for buildability and can be extended to suit individual projects.
Wiley, 2019. — 542 p. — ISBN: 978-1-118-92764-9. A comprehensive guide to bridge design Bridge Design - Concepts and Analysis provides a unique approach, combining the fundamentals of concept design and structural analysis of bridges in a single volume. The book discusses design solutions from the authors’ practical experience and provides insights into conceptual design with...
Biblioflip, 2007. — 37 p. Iron Bridges. Engineering History. Text in English. The book is a short illustrated history of the construction of iron bridges. It is centred in American bridges.
Wilhelm Ernst & Sohn, 2010. – 315 p., OCR. ISBN978-3-433-02951-0. The book contains a systematic, unprecedented overview of more than 400 bridge failures assigned to the time of their occurrence in the bridges' life cycle and to the releasing events. Primary causes are identified. Many of the cases investigated are published here for the first time and previous interpretations...
ITexLi , 2016. — 198 p. — ISBN: 9535126881 953512689X. This book is intended to serve as a source of information for problems related to bridge engineering including sustainable bridge development, traditional approaches and recent advances in highway bridge traffic loading, aesthetic analysis issues in designing a new bridge, applications of various methods for the dissipation...
New York: Bloomsbury, 2014. 137 p. — eISBN: 978-1-62040-911-4. Toward the end of 1964, the Verrazano Narrows Bridge — linking the New York City boroughs of Brooklyn and Staten Island with New Jersey — was completed. Fifty years later, it remains an engineering marvel. At 13,700 feet (more than two and a half miles), it is still the longest suspension bridge in the United States...
McGraw-Hill, 1998. XVI, 1352 p. — ISBN10: 0070629978. This text provides an introduction to the theory and practice of designing modern highway bridge superstructures. Beginning with the history of bridges, it describes various types of bridge superstructures, materials of construction, bridge loadings, and analysis techniques for various types.
American Segmental Bridge Institute. Major Bridge Service Center. January, 2005. 139 p. This document is a draft effort at developing a design example of a precast balanced cantilever bridge design based on the third edition of the AASHTO LRFD Bridge Design Specifications, 2004. In its current form, it is not intended to represent a definitive reference for the design of either...
New York: McGraw-Hill, 2006. — 488 p. — ISBN: 0071459030, 9780071459037. Written for new and experienced highway engineers, this master resource offers the most complete and practical treatment available for every aspect of highway bridge design, rehabilitation, and maintenance. From initial concept all the way to final contract documentation preparation, Bridge Engineering...
McGraw-Hill Professional Publishing, 2 edition, 2006, 488 p., ISBN: 0071459030 Written for new and experienced highway engineers, this master resource offers the most complete and practical treatment available for every aspect of highway bridge design, rehabilitation, and maintenance. From initial concept all the way to final contract documentation preparation, Bridge...
Publication Date: October 1, 2010 This manual is a guide for the inspection, maintenance, and repair of bridges for military installations. It is a source of reference for planning, estimating, and technical accomplishment of maintenance and repair work and may serve as a training manual for facilities maintenance personnel in the Army and Air Force engaged in maintenance...
CRC Press, Taylor & Francis Group, 2010. XIX, 420 p. — ISBN: 978-1-4200-8217-3 (Hardback). Perhaps the first book on this topic in more than 50 years, Design of Modern Steel Railway Bridges focuses not only on new steel superstructures but also outlines principles and methods that are useful for the maintenance and rehabilitation of existing steel railway bridges. It...
CRC Press, Taylor & Francis Group, 2014. XXIV, 549 p. — ISBN13: 978-1-4665-5745-1 (eBook - PDF). Combining a theoretical background with engineering practice, Design of Steel-Concrete Composite Bridges to Eurocodes covers the conceptual and detailed design of composite bridges in accordance with the Eurocodes. Bridge design is strongly based on prescriptive normative rules...
John Wiley & Sons, Ltd., 2009. XXIX, 621 p. — ISBN: 9780470031735. Health Monitoring of Bridges prepares the bridge engineeringcommunity for the exciting new technological developments happeningin the industry, offering the benefit of much research carried outin the aerospace and other industrial sectors and discussing thelatest methodologies available for the management of...
Wiley-Interscience, New York, 1994, 1460 p., ISBN: 0471570974 Covers current design techniques for both allowable stress and new load and resistance factor design (LRFD) approaches recommended by the forthcoming American Association of State Highway and Transportation Officials draft specifications. Addresses the need for repair or replacement of 225,000 U.S. highway bridges as...
John Wiley & Sons Singapore Pte. Ltd., 2013. — 776 p. — ISBN: 978-1118188286. Language: English As an in–depth guide to understanding wind effects on cable–supported bridges, this book uses analytical, numerical and experimental methods to give readers a fundamental and practical understanding of the subject matter. It is structured to systemically move from introductory areas...
CRC Press/Balkema. 2010. – 132 p., OCR. This book, which focuses on the fatigue life of riveted steel railway bridges, is based on three main elements: – A series of full-scale fatigue tests of nine riveted stringers taken from a railway bridge built in 1896. A review of, and comparison with, fatigue tests on riveted railway bridge members that have been conducted in other...
Taylor & Francis Group, London, UK, 2008. 282 p. — ISBN13: 978-0-415-43623-6 (Hbk), ISBN13: 978-0-203-89542-9 (eBook). As widely known, much of the knowledge of today is often based on the failures of the past. Just like in the last century, structural engineers still learn immensely from studying historical failures of structures, such as bridges. In addition, when studying...
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