Soil-Steel Bridges: Design, Maintenance and Durability

ISBN-13: 9783030347901 / Angielski / Miękka / 2021 / 214 str.

Damian Beben

Spis treści

1. Introduction

1.1. General

1.2. A brief historical outline

1.3. Problems in soil-steel bridges

1.4. Basic notions and definitions contained in the work

2. Selected Issues of Soil-Steel Bridge Design

2.1. Design and construction faults in soil-steel bridges

2.2.Code Requirements and design methods

2.3 Construction of Soil-Steel Bridges

2.4 FEM Analysis

3. Corrosion Problem

3.1. Introduction

3.2 The Formation of Corrosion

3.3 Atmospheric Corrosion

3.4 Ground Corrosion

3.4 Corrosion in Water and Erosion-Abrasive Damages

3.6 Mathematical Model of Corrosion Description of the Steel Shell Structure in the Ground

3.7 Anti-Corrosion Protection of Soil-Steel Bridge

4. Testing and maintenance of soil-steel bridges under service loads

4.1. Introduction

4.2 Testing of Soil-Steel Bridges under Service Loads

4.3. Dynamic Amplification factors in soil-steel bridge

4.4. Deformation of the ground caused by the dynamic load

4.5. Maintenance of soil-steel bridges

5. Recapitulation

O autorze

Damian Beben, PhD, D.Sc., Eng., is Associate Professor at the Opole University of Technology, in Opole, Poland. He is the author of two books and over 140 publications, including 24 articles published in journals covered by the Journal Citation Index. He has conducted invited lectures at universities in Pretoria, Seoul, Salerno, Pavia, La Coruna, Brno, Faro and Zilina. He has received numerous scholarships, including the Foundation for Polish Science (2005, 2006) and the Ministry of Science and Higher Education (2010-2013), and he has been awarded the 2011 Outstanding Reviewer from the ASCE for his contribution to the development of the Journal of Bridge Engineering. He was a member of the scientific committees of over 30 international conferences and seven scientific journals. In addition, he is an expert of the Polish National Center for Research and Development and HORIZON 2020.

Blurb

The primary objective of this book is to provide designers with a set of analysis and design specifications for soil-steel bridges and culverts, also called flexible structures. Brief but informative, this guide is based on a quick look up approach to code applications, design and analysis methods/calculations as well as applications and solved examples. The book addresses the unique aspects of soil-steel bridges: design and analysis as well as examples of applications, numerical analysis and modeling techniques, corrosion and durability problems, service life and maintenance, and impact of moving loads.