Highway Bridge Management

ISBN-13: 9780727765543 / Angielski

Graham Cole;Richard Fish

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Highway Bridge Management provides the bridge maintenance engineer and bridge manager with key information necessary to effectively manage highway bridges and other structures. The appropriate maintenance of highway bridge structures is vital to the safe and economic transport of goods and people. The bridge maintenance engineer has to have a skill set of asset management, inspection and assessment techniques, value engineering and prioritisation methods, repair techniques, legal and safety matters and stakeholder engagement. This book contains all the necessary information required to manage a highway bridge effectively and provides information beyond that found in the UK Design Manual for Roads and Bridges. Featuring case studies charting successes and failures, this is a necessary purchase for all maintenance engineers, supervising engineers, bridge managers, client organisations and graduate engineers tasked with performing bridge maintenance tasks, ensuring that all your bridge structures will be fit for purpose for future generations.

Spis treści

1. Introduction • What is a highway structure and a bridge? • What does a bridge do? • Historical context • Development of materials and loading 2. Strategic Management • Legal framework • Economy • Safety • Collapses • Competency • Risk Management • Key roles and competence (client, supervising engineer, inspector, assessor, maintenance engineer etc) 3. Asset Management Framework • Codes of Practice • Value Management • Value Engineering • Risk Assessment 4. Bridge Management • Concept • Holistic approach • Whole life costing • Stock modelling • Deterioration • Management of sub-standard structures • Records 5. Bridge Inspection • Data collection • Process • Safety • Competence • Use of UAVs • Use of Scanning and Digital Photography 6. Post Tensioned Special Inspections 7. Strength Assessment • Purpose • Codes • Levels of assessment and analysis • Investigation • Mitigation 8. Testing and Monitoring • Concrete Testing • Masonry Testing • Metallic Testing • Specialist Testing • Monitoring 9. Structural Health Monitoring Systems 10. Scour • Importance • Process • Detection and monitoring • Risk Assessment • Analysis • Mitigation 11. Masonry Bridge Maintenance Interventions • Issues • Techniques 12. Concrete Bridge Maintenance Interventions • Issues • Techniques 13. Metallic Bridge Maintenance Interventions • Issues • Techniques 14. Maintenance of Specialist Highway Structures • Suspension Bridges • Cable Stayed Bridges • Movable Bridges • Retaining Walls 15. Components • Parapets • Expansion Joints • Bearings • Waterproofing (to include purpose, inspection, defects, maintenance and replacement) 16. Bridge Management Systems and Data Management • Software