About the Book
Over 140 experts, 14 countries, and 89 chapters are represented in the second edition of the Bridge Engineering Handbook. This extensive collection provides detailed information on bridge engineering, and thoroughly explains the concepts and practical applications surrounding the subject, and also highlights bridges from around the world. 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, and presents 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.
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.
Table of Contents:
Fundamentals Conceptual Design Aesthetics: Basics Bridge Aesthetics: Achieving Structural Art in Bridge Design Planning of Major Fixed Links Highway Bridge Design Specifications Highway Bridge Loads and Load Distribution Railroad Bridge Design Specifications High-Speed Railway Bridges Structural Performance Indicators for Bridges Structural Theory Finite Element Method Structural Modeling Concrete Design Steel Design Timber Design Application of Fiber Reinforced Polymers in Bridges High Performance Steel Effective Length of Compression Members Fatigue and Fracture Weight Distributions of Highway Steel Bridges Design and Damage Evaluation Methods for Reinforced. Concrete Beams Under Impact Loading Wind Effects on Long-Span Bridges Superstructure Design Precast/Pretensioned Concrete Girder Bridges Cast-In-Place Posttensioned Prestressed Concrete Girder Bridges Segmental Concrete Bridges Composite Steel I-Girder Bridges Composite Steel Box Girder Bridges Horizontally Curved Girder Bridges Highway Truss Bridges Arch Bridges Suspension Bridges Cable-Stayed Bridges Extradosed Bridges Stress Ribbon Pedestrian Bridges Movable Bridges Floating Bridges Concrete Decks Orthotropic Steel Decks Approach Slabs Expansion Joints Railings Substructure Design Bearings Piers and Columns Towers Vessel Collision Design of Bridges Bridge Scour Design and Protection Abutments Ground Investigation Shallow Foundations Deep Foundations Earth Retaining Structures Landslide Risk Assessment and Mitigation Seismic Design Geotechnical Earthquake Consideration Earthquake Damages to Bridges Dynamic Analysis Seismic Random Response Analysis Nonlinear Analysis Displacement-Based Seismic Design of Bridges Seismic Bridge Design Specifications for the United States Seismic Design of Concrete Bridges Seismic Design of Steel Bridges Seismic Design of Thin-Walled Steel and CFT Piers Seismic Design of Cable Supported Bridges Seismic Isolation Design for Bridges Seismic Retrofit Technology Soil-Foundation-Structure Interaction Seismic Design Practice in California Seismic Design Practice in China Seismic Design Practice in Italy Seismic Design Practice in Japan Construction and Maintenance Steel Bridge Construction Steel Bridge Fabrication Concrete Bridge Construction Cable-Supported Bridge Construction Cable Force Adjustment and Construction Control Substructures of Major Overwater Bridges Accelerated Bridge Construction Bridge Construction Supervision and Inspection Bridge Management Using Pontis and Improved Concepts Bridge Health Monitoring Bridge Maintenance Nondestructive Evaluation Methods for Bridge Elements Bridge Inspection Steel Bridge Evaluation and Rating Concrete Bridge Evaluation and Rating Rehabilitation and Strengthening of Highway Bridge Superstructures Rehabilitation of Strengthening of Orthotropic Steel Bridge Decks Life-Cycle Performance Analysis and Optimization Bridge Construction Methods
About the Author :
Dr. Wai-Fah Chen is a research professor of civil engineering at the University of Hawaii. He earned his BS in civil engineering from the National Cheng-Kung University, Taiwan, in 1959, MS in structural engineering from Lehigh University in 1963, and PhD in solid mechanics from Brown University in 1966. His interests include constitutive modeling of engineering materials, soil and concrete plasticity, structural connections, and structural stability, and he has received several national engineering awards. In 1995, he was elected to the U.S. National Academy of Engineering. Dr. Chen has authored and coauthored more than 20 engineering books and 500 technical papers. He is editor-in-chief for the Civil Engineering Handbook, the Handbook of Structural Engineering, the Earthquake Engineering Handbook, and the Handbook of International Bridge Engineering (CRC Press). Dr. Lian Duan is a senior bridge engineer and structural steel committee chair with the California Department of Transportation (Caltrans). He earned his diploma in civil engineering in 1975, MS in structural engineering in 1981 from Taiyuan University of Technology, China, and PhD in structural engineering from Purdue University in 1990. His interests include inelastic behavior of reinforced concrete and steel structures, structural stability, seismic bridge analysis, and design. Dr. Duan has authored and coauthored more than 70 papers, chapters, and reports, and is the coeditor of the Handbook of International Bridge Engineering (CRC Press). He has received several awards, including the prestigious 2001 Arthur M. Wellington Prize from the American Society of Civil Engineers.
Review :
"I personally found that this second edition is a real leap forward; the richness of topics, and the selection of contributors make it greatly enhanced. Such an effort and result is only possible when you already start from a high level 'position' as, in this case, the first edition." --Riccardo Zandonini, University Of Trento, Italy "... It covers almost all up-to-date facet of bridge engineering. This handbook is particularly recommended as a reference book for professional engineers worldwide." -- Manabu Ito, Takushoku University, Japan "A marvelous compendium of the state of art of bridge design, construction, and maintenance-relevant to the twenty-first century designer, while paying homage to the significant bridges of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries." --Thomas G. Leech, National Bridge Practice Manager, Gannett Fleming, Inc., Camp Hill, Pennsylvania Praise for the Previous Edition of the Bridge Engineering Handbook Winner of a CHOICE magazine's Outstanding Academic Title award, January 2001 "All elements of bridge engineering and design are addressed in this weighty handbook which is designed to be a state-of-the-art reference work for the industry in the twenty-first century. Editors Wai-Fah Chen and Lian Duan have invited contributions from bridge engineers around the world, and the list of authors reads like a 'who's who' of structural engineering." -Bridge Design & Engineering, 4th Quarter 2000, No. 21 "... first handbook dedicated to bridge engineering ... others cover some of the same ground but not in the breadth and scope of this handbook ... any academic or technical library supporting an engineering department should have this handbook." -W. C. Schnobrich, CHOICE, May 2000
