Summary
Design, rehabilitate, and maintain modern highway bridges. From steel and reinforced concrete design, to highway layout and basic geometrics, to geotechnical engineering and hydraulics, Demetrios E. Tonia's Bridge Engineering: Design, Rehabilitation, and Maintenance of Modern Highway Bridges fully integrates the resources you need to master the entire bridge-design process. Written with unusual clarity--and packed with timely design examples and case studies plus eye-opening sidebars and graphics--it shows you how to: understand bridge structures, functions, types, and applications; design superstructures and substructures for maximum maintainability; design highway components--approach pavements and slabs, structure geometrics and elevations, roadway alignments, and more; kick off the project--from funding to site surveying and coring; manage the design process--contract documents, reports, plans, client interactions, and more; manage the bridge itself--from creating a structure inventory to extending GIS and CADD functionality.
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Table of Contents
PREFACE
Section 1: The Structure
Use and Functionality
Origins of the Modern Highway Bridge
Bridge Designers and Their Projects
The Bridge Engineering Lexicon
Section 2: Project Inception
Project Funding
Types of Design Standards
Site Inspection
Site Survey
Physical Testing
The Inspection Team
As-Built Plans & Other Record Data
Conclusions
Section 3: The Superstructure
Superstructure Types
Deck Types
Wearing Surface Types
Deck Joint Types
Design Loads
Design Methods
Internal Forces
Load Distribution
Concrete Deck Slabs
Composite Steel Members
Plate Girders
Continuous Beams
Protecting Steel Superstructures
Load Rating
Prestressed Concrete
Prestressed Concrete Maintenance
Section 4: The Substructure
Abutments
Piers
Bearings
Section 5: Implementation & Management
The Highway
Contract Documents
Bridge Management Systems
REFERENCES
APPENDIX
ACKNOWLEDGMENTS
ILLUSTRATION CREDITS
INDEX
ABOUT THE AUTHOR
COLOPHON
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