Bridge Engineering Handbook: Construction and Maintenance

ISBN-13: 9781439852088 / Angielski / Twarda / 2014 / 664 str.

Wai-Fah Chen; Lian Duan

Opis

Construction and Maintenance. The second edition of the bestselling Bridge Engineering Handbook covers virtually all the information an engineer would need to know about any type of bridge, from planning to construction to maintenance. It contains more than 1,600 tables, charts, and illustrations in a practical ready-to-use format, and an abundance of worked-out examples give readers numerous step-by-step design procedures. Special attention is given to rehabilitation, retrofit, and maintenance, and coverage includes seismic design, building materials, and more. Extensively updated and featuring several new chapters, this volume,

Spis treści

Steel Bridge Construction. Steel Bridge Fabrication. Concrete Bridge Construction. Cable-Supported Bridge Construction. Cable Force Adjustment and Construction Control. Substructures of Major Overwater Bridges. Accelerated Bridge Construction. Bridge Construction Supervision and Inspection. Bridge Management Using Pontis and Improved Concepts. Bridge Health Monitoring. Bridge Maintenance. Nondestructive Evaluation Methods for Bridge Elements. Bridge Inspection. Steel Bridge Evaluation and Rating. Concrete Bridge Evaluation and Rating. Rehabilitation and Strengthening of Highway Bridge Superstructures. Rehabilitation of Strengthening of Orthotropic Steel Bridge Decks. Life-Cycle Performance Analysis and Optimization. Bridge Construction Methods. Index.