Download Bridge Engineering Handbook Superstructure Design By Wai-Fah Chen and Lian Duan

Throughout the history of civilization bridges have been the icons of cities, regions, and countries. All bridges are useful for transportation, commerce, and war. Bridges are necessary for civilization to exist, and many bridges are beautiful.

A few have become the symbols of the best, noblest, and most beautiful that mankind has achieved. The secrets of the design and construction of the ancient bridges have been lost, but how could one not marvel at the magnificence, for example, of the Roman viaducts?

Hand Book of Bridge Engineering

The second edition of the  Bridge Engineering Handbook expands and updates the previous   edition by including the new developments of the first decade of the twenty-first century.

Modern bridge  engineering has its roots in the nineteenth century, when wrought iron, steel, and reinforced  concrete began to compete with timber, stone, and brick bridges.

 By the beginning of World War II, the  transportation infrastructure of Europe and North America was essentially complete, and it served to sustain civilization as we know it. The iconic bridge symbols of modern cities were in place:

Golden Gate Bridge of San Francisco, Brooklyn Bridge, London Bridge, Eads Bridge of St. Louis, and the bridges of Paris, Lisbon, and the bridges on the Rhine and the Danube. 

Budapest, my birthplace, had seven beautiful bridges across the Danube. Bridge engineering had reached its golden age, and what more and better could be attained than that which was already achieved?

Title of the Book

Bridge Engineering Handbook
Second Edition
Super Structure
Design

Author of the Book

Wai-Fah Chen and Lian Duan

Contents of the Book

• Precast – Pretensioned Concrete Girder Bridges
• Cast-in-Place Posttensioned Prestressed Concrete Girder 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

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