Bridge Engineering Handbook : Fundamentals

by Wai-Fah Chen (Editor), Lian Duan (Editor)

The second edition of the bestselling Bridge Engineering 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 1,600 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. Special attention is given to rehabilitation, retrofit, and maintenance, and coverage includes seismic design, building materials, and more. Extensively updated and featuring several new chapters, this volume, Fundamentals, covers aesthetics, planning, design specifications, structural modeling, fatigue and fracture, and much more.

592 pages, Hardcover

First published November 4, 1999