Innovative Bridge Design Handbook

Each bridge presents a unique set of design, construction, and maintenance challenges so it is important for engineers to have general knowledge in bridge engineering design and construction so they can be familiar with the associated bridge design codes and specifications for detailed analysis and design of bridge elements. 

The second edition of the Innovative Bridge Design Handbook: Construction, Rehabilitation and Maintenance continues to bring together the specific knowledge of bridge engineering dealing with design, assessment, research and construction. Written by an international group of experts, each chapter is subdivided into two parts: the first concerning design issues and the second to current research providing innovative design approaches used in various parts of the world.  The new edition includes new topics such as foot bridges, new materials in bridge engineering and soil-foundation structure interaction.  All other chapters are updated to include the latest concepts in design, construction, and maintenance that will reduce project costs and increase structural safety and durability.

• Completely revised and updated with the latest in bridge engineering and design
• Provides detailed design procedures for specific bridges with solved examples
• Presents a structural analysis including numerical methods (FEM), dynamics, risk and reliability, and innovative structural typologies

Bridge, structural, and civil engineers and designers

Section I - Fundamentals
1. The history, aesthetic and development of bridges

Section II - Loads on bridges
2. Loads
3. Wind loads
4. Fatigue and fracture

Section III - Structural analysis
5. Bridge structural theory and modeling
6. Structural dynamics
7. Risk and reliability in bridges
NEW Soil foundation structure interaction
8. Innovative structural typologies

Section IV - Bridge design based on construction material type
9. Reinforced and pre-stressed concrete bridges
10. Steel and composite bridges
11. Timber bridges
12. Masonry bridges

Section V - Bridge design  based on  geometry
13. Arch bridges
14. Girder
15. Long span bridges

Section VI - Special topics
16. Integral bridges
17. Moveable bridges
18. Highway bridges
19. Railway bridges

Section VII - Bridge components
20. Seismic component devices
21. Cables
22. Orthotropic deck
23. Bridge foundations

Section VIII - Bridge construction
24. Case study: the Reno bridge
25. Case study: the Russky bridge
26. Case study: the Akashi Kaikyo Bridge
27. Bridge construction equipment

Section IX - Assessment, monitoring and retrofit of bridges
28. Bridge assessment, retrofit and management
29. Bridge monitoring
30. Retrofit with composites materials
31. Bridge collapse