Contenido Bridge Engineering Handbook. Construction and Maintenance

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 applications surrounding the subject.

Published in five books: Fundamentals, Superstructure Design, Substructure Design, Seismic Design, and Construction and Maintenance, this new edition provides numerous worked-out examples that give readers step-by-step design procedures, includes contributions by leading experts from around the world in their respective areas of bridge engineering, contains 26 completely new chapters, and updates most other chapters. It offers design concepts, specifications, and practice, as well as the various types of bridges. The text includes over 2,500 tables, charts, illustrations, and photos. The book covers new, innovative and traditional methods and practices; explores rehabilitation, retrofit, and maintenance; and examines seismic design and building materials.

The fifth book, Construction and Maintenance contains 19 chapters, and covers the practical issues of bridge structures.

What’s New in the Second Edition:

•Includes nine new chapters: Steel Bridge Fabrication, Cable-Supported Bridge Construction, Accelerated Bridge Construction, Bridge Management Using Pontis and Improved Concepts, Bridge Maintenance, Bridge Health Monitoring, Nondestructive Evaluation Methods for Bridge Elements, Life-Cycle Performance Analysis and Optimization, and Bridge Construction Methods
•Rewrites the Bridge Construction Inspection chapter and retitles it as: Bridge Construction Supervision and Inspection
•Expands and rewrites the Maintenance Inspection and Rating chapter into three chapters: Bridge Inspection, Steel Bridge Evaluation and Rating, and Concrete Bridge Evaluation and Rating; and the Strengthening and Rehabilitation chapter into two chapters: Rehabilitation and Strengthening of Highway Bridge Superstructures, and Rehabilitation and Strengthening of Orthotropic Steel Bridge Decks
This text is an ideal reference for practicing bridge engineers and consultants (design, construction, maintenance), and can also be used as a reference for students in bridge engineering courses.

Contents

Steel Bridge Construction

Jackson Durkee

Steel Bridge Fabrication

Ronnie Medlock

Concrete Bridge Construction

Simon A Blank, Michael M Blank, and Hamid Kondazi

Cable-Supported Bridge Construction

Junfeng Shi, Tianqing Yu, Yaodong Liu, Yinghua Bai, and Rui Xiong

Cable Force Adjustment and Construction Control

Dajian Han and Quansheng Yan

Substructures of Major Overwater Bridges

Ben C Gerwick Jr

Accelerated Bridge Construction

Benjamin MengPoh Tang

Bridge Construction Supervision and Inspection

Zhihu Cheng

Bridge Management Using Pontis and Improved Concepts

Gongkang Fu and Dinesh Devaraj

Bridge Health Monitoring

Dan M Frangopol and Sunyong Kim

Bridge Maintenance

Sreenivas Alampalli

Nondestructive Evaluation Methods for Bridge Elements

Glenn Washer

Bridge Inspection

Joyce E Copelan

Steel Bridge Evaluation and Rating

Yi Edward Zhou

Concrete Bridge Evaluation and Rating

Murugesu Vinayagamoorthy and Richard Tsang

Rehabilitation and Strengthening of Highway Bridge Superstructures

Xiaohua Cheng, Lian Duan, and Walid S Najjar

Rehabilitation of Strengthening of Orthotropic Steel Bridge Decks

Chitoshi Miki and Hisatada Suganuma

Life-Cycle Performance Analysis and Optimization

Dan M Frangopol and Sunyong Kim

Bridge Construction Methods

Mourad M Bakhoum

Index