Bridge Engineering Handbook: Fundamentals

ISBN-13: 9781439852071 / Angielski / Twarda / 2014 / 592 str.

Wai-Fah Chen; Lian Duan

Opis

This 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 1600 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.

Spis treści

Conceptual Design. Aesthetics: Basics. Bridge Aesthetics: Achieving Structural Art in Bridge Design. Planning of Major Fixed Links. Highway Bridge Design Specifications. Highway Bridge Loads and Load Distribution. Railroad Bridge Design Specifications. High-Speed Railway Bridges. Structural Performance Indicators for Bridges. Structural Theory. Finite Element Method. Structural Modeling. Concrete Design. Steel Design. Timber Design. Application of Fiber Reinforced Polymers in Bridges. High Performance Steel. Effective Length of Compression Members. Fatigue and Fracture. Weight Distributions of Highway Steel Bridges. Design and Damage Evaluation Methods for Reinforced. Concrete Beams Under Impact Loading. Wind Effects on Long-Span Bridges. Index.