The second edition of this bestselling handbook covers virtually all the information an engineer would need to know about any type of bridge-from planning to construction to maintenance. It contains more than 2,500 tables, charts, and illustrations in a practical, ready-to-use format and an abundance of worked-out examples give readers numerous step-by-step design procedures. Extensively updated and featuring several new chapters, this volume, Fundamentals, covers conceptual design, aesthetics, planning, design specifications, modeling, design, wind effects, impact loading, fatigue and fracture, and much more.…mehr
The second edition of this bestselling handbook covers virtually all the information an engineer would need to know about any type of bridge-from planning to construction to maintenance. It contains more than 2,500 tables, charts, and illustrations in a practical, ready-to-use format and an abundance of worked-out examples give readers numerous step-by-step design procedures. Extensively updated and featuring several new chapters, this volume, Fundamentals, covers conceptual design, aesthetics, planning, design specifications, modeling, design, wind effects, impact loading, fatigue and fracture, and much more.
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.
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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. Index.
