Bridge Engineering: Design, Rehabilitation, and Maintenance of Modern Highway Bridges

by Demetrios E. Tonias

This sourcebook of bridge designs and codes for the practising civil and structural engineer introduces the various structures and discusses the practical design process in detail. It addresses the fundamentals required in new bridge design and rehabilitation and maintenance for present highway structures. Some of the points included are superstructure design, substructure design, structure geometrics, traffic safety, contract documents, reports and plans. A disk of spreadsheet macros and stand-alone programs to save the reader time in performing the necessary calculations and equations is included.

470 pages, Hardcover

First published August 1, 1994