Overview
There is growing worldwide interest in designing joint-free bridge structures. This book provides an international review of the subject, drawing on practical experience of designing integral and continuous joint-free bridge decks. By eliminating joints, designers can avoid problems of maintenance of joints and corrosion of substructures. National standards are being revised to encourage joint-free bridge deck designs, and there is a growing need for sharing of experience to ensure that designers understand how to take technical and economic advantage of this approach. This book contains the invited contributions to the Henderson Colloquium arranged by the British Group of the International Association of Bridge and Structural Engineering (IABSE) held in Cambridge in 1993. It provides a wide-ranging overview of current intemational thinking on joint-free bridges covering the following topics: Problems of bridge articulation, Advantages of bridge continuity, Continuous bridges, Integral bridges, Long-length continuity, Retrofitting, Precast beam deck continuity, Soil-structure interaction.
Full Product Details
Author: B. Pritchard ,
D.W. Quinian
Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd
Imprint: Spon Press
Dimensions:
Width: 15.60cm
, Height: 2.40cm
, Length: 23.40cm
Weight: 0.816kg
ISBN: 9780419190301
ISBN 10: 0419190309
Pages: 312
Publication Date: 23 June 1994
Audience:
College/higher education
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Professional and scholarly
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Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly
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Professional & Vocational
Format: Hardback
Publisher's Status: Active
Availability: In Print
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Reviews
an extremely important part of the very sparse literature on continuous bridges. It is a must for all bridge design offices, and dare I suggest it would make good reading for graduates preparing for Professional Review...I can thoroughly recommend this collection of very important papers for not only those interested in but also those who have to design, maintain or strengthen continuous bridges of any type - Proc.Instn.Civ.Engrs.Structs & Bldgs.
"""an extremely important part of the very sparse literature on continuous bridges. It is a must for all bridge design offices, and dare I suggest it would make good reading for graduates preparing for Professional Review...I can thoroughly recommend this collection of very important papers for not only those interested in but also those who have to design, maintain or strengthen continuous bridges of any type"" - Proc.Instn.Civ.Engrs.Structs & Bldgs."
