Highway Bridge Maintenance Planning and Scheduling

Highway Bridge Maintenance Planning and Scheduling provides new tactics for highway departments around the world that are faced with the dilemma of providing improved operations on a shoestring budget. Even after the much needed infrastructure funding is received, the question of which project comes first must be answered. Written by a 20-year veteran with the Kansas Department Of Transportation Bridge Office in design and in maintenance, this book provides Senior Bridge Maintenance Engineers with practical advice on how to create an effective maintenance program that will allow them to not only plan, schedule, direct, and monitor highway bridge repair and rehabilitation projects, but also evaluate all completed work for technical acceptability, productivity, and unit-cost standards.

• Provides the tools and methods for building, maintaining, planning, and scheduling effective maintenance
• Presents experience-based suggestions for evaluating highway bridges to determine maintenance priorities
• Includes methods for evaluating all completed work for technical acceptability, productivity, and unit-cost standards

• Chapter 1: Introduction

  • Abstract
  • 1.1. Bridges in the United States
  • 1.2. Bridge preservation process
  • 1.3. Bridge preservation practices before 1970
  • 1.4. Development of the National Bridge Inspection Standards
  • 1.5. Ongoing changes in practice
  • 1.6. Managing the bridge preservation process
  • 1.7. Scope and purpose of the text
• Chapter 2: Bridge Elements and Materials

  • Abstract
  • 2.1. Classification of bridge structures
  • 2.2. Buried structures
  • 2.3. Elements of span bridge structures
  • 2.4. Bridge mechanics
  • 2.5. Bridge materials
• Chapter 3: Bridge Inspection and Evaluation

  • Abstract
  • 3.1. Introduction
  • 3.2. Bridge inspection in the United States
  • 3.3. Bridge inspections in Canada, Western Europe and South Africa
  • 3.4. Reliability-based bridge inspection
  • 3.5. Inspection techniques and technologies
  • 3.6. Load rating
• Chapter 4: Preventative Maintenance

  • Abstract
  • 4.1. Introduction
  • 4.2. Cost effectiveness
  • 4.3. Maintenance inspections
  • 4.4. Bridge decks and expansion joints
  • 4.5. Bridge superstructure and substructure
  • 4.6. Bridge substructure and waterway
  • 4.7. Approaches and roadways
  • 4.8. Recommendations
• Chapter 5: Substantial Maintenance and Rehabilitation

  • Abstract
  • 5.1. Introduction
  • 5.2. Assessment and scoping
  • 5.3. Repair methods
  • 5.4. Substantial maintenance actions
  • 5.5. Rehabilitation actions
• Chapter 6: Bridge Life Cycle Costing