Bridge Engineering Handbook

Wai-Fah Chen is a George E. Goodwin Distinguished Professor of Civil Engineering and Head of the Department of Structural Engineering at Purdue University.Lian Duan is a Senior Bridge Engineer with the California Department of Tansportation, U.S., and Professor of Structural Engineering at Taiyuan University of Technology, China.

Winner of a Choice magazine's Outstanding Academic Title award, January 2001"All elements of bridge engineering and design are addressed in this weighty handbook which is designed to be a state-of-the-art reference work for the industry in the 21st century. Editors Wai-Fah Chen and Lian Duan have invited contributions from bridge engineers around the world, and the list of authors reads like a 'who's who' of structural engineering."--Bridge Design & Engineering, 4th Quarter 2000, No. 21"…first handbook dedicated to bridge engineering…others cover some of the same ground but not in the breadth and scope of this handbook…any academic or technical library supporting an engineering department should have this handbook."--W. C. Schnobrich, CHOICE, May 2000

• Section 5: Construction and Maintenance 46. Concrete Bridge Construction 47. Substructures of Major Overwater Bridges 48. Construction Inspection 49. Maintenance Inspection and Rating 50. Strengthening and Rehabilitation Section 6: Special Topics 51. Applications of Advanced Composites 52. Effective Length of Compression Members 53. Fatigue and Fracture 54. Statistics of Steel Weight of Highway Bridges 55. Weight-In-Motion Measurement of Trucks on Bridges 56. Impact Effects of Moving Vehicles 57. Wind Effects on Long-Span Bridges 58. Cable Force Adjustment and Construction Control 59. Active Control in Bridge Engineering 60. Vessel Collision Analysis and Design 61. Bridge Hydraulics 62. Sound Walls and Railings Section 7: Worldwide Practice 63. Design Practice in China 64. Design Practice in Europe 65. Design Practice in Japan 66. Design Practice in Russia 67. Evolution of Bridges in the United States