Innovative Bridge Design Handbook - Construction, Rehabilitation and Maintenance

As known, each bridge presents a unique set of design, construction, and maintenance challenges. The designer must determine the appropriate methods and level of refinement necessary to design and analyze each bridge on a case-by-case basis. The Innovative Bridge Design Handbook: Construction, Rehabilitation, and Maintenance encompasses the state of the art in bridge design, construction, maintenance, and safety assessment. Written by an international group of experts, this book provides innovative design approaches used in various parts of the world and explores concepts in design, construction, and maintenance that will reduce project costs and increase structural safety and durability. Furthermore, research and innovative solutions are described throughout chapters.

The Innovative Bridge Design Handbook: Construction, Rehabilitation, and Maintenance brings together the specific knowledge of a bevy of experts and academics in bridge engineering in the areas of desi gn, assessment, research, and construction. The handbook begins with an analysis of the history and development of bridge aesthetics and design; various types of loads including seismic and wind loads are then described, together with fatigue and fracture. Bridge design based on material such as reinforced concrete, prestressed reinforced concrete, steel and composite, timber, masonry bridges is analyzed and detailed according to international codes and standards. Then bridge design based on geometry, such as arch bridges, girders, cable stayed and suspension bridges, is illustrated. This is followed by a discussion of a number of special topics, including integral, movable, highway and railway bridges, together with seismic component devices, cables, orthotropic decks, foundations, and case studies. Finally, bridge construction equipment, bridge assessment retrofit and management, bridge monitoring, fiber-reinforced polymers to reinforce bridges, bridge collapse issues are covere d.

Inhaltsverzeichnis:

Section I Fundamentals

Chapter1 The history, aesthetics, and design of bridges

Section II Loads on bridges

Chapter 2 Loads on bridges

Chapter 3 Wind loads

Chapter 4 Fatigue and fracture

Section III Structural analysis

Chapter 5 Bridge structural theory and modeling

Chapter 6 Dynamics of bridge structures

Chapter 7 Risk and reliability in bridges

Chapter 8 Innovative structural typologies

Section IV Bridge design based on construction material type

Chapter 9 Reinforced and prestressed concrete bridges

Chapter 10 Steel and composite bridges

Chapter 11 Timber bridges

Chapter 12 Masonry bridges

Section V Bridge design based on geometry

Chapter 13 Arch bridges

Chapter 14 Girders

Chapter 15 Long-span bridges

Section VI Special topics

Chapter 16 Integral bridges

Chapter 17 Movable bridges

Chapter 18 Hig hway bridges

Chapter 19 Railway bridges

Section VII Bridge components

Chapter 20 Seismic component devices

Chapter 21 Cables

Chapter 22 Orthotropic steel decks

Chapter 23 Bridge foundations

Section VIII Bridge construction

Chapter 24 Case study: the Reno bridge

Chapter 25 Case study: the Russky bridge

Chapter 26 Case study: the Akashi-Kaikyo bridge

Chapter 27 Bridge construction equipment

Section IX: Assessment, managment, retrofit, monitoring and rehabilitation of existing bridges

Chapter 28 Bridge assessment, retrofit, and management

Chapter 29 Bridge monitoring

Chapter 30 Application of fiber-reinforced polymers to reinforced concrete bridges

Chapter 31 Bridge collapse