| Book Name: | Handbook of International Bridge Engineering |
| Category: | Civil Engineering Books |
| Language: | English |
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| Free Download: | Available |
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Book Description:
State-of-the-art and current practices in bridge engineering worldwide are covered in this thorough reference work and resource book. Canada and the United States, two North American countries, are included. Brazil and Argentina are South American countries. Countries of Europe, including Bosnia and Herzegovina, Bulgaria and Croatia, the Czech Republic, Finland, France, Greece, Macedonia, Poland, Russia, Serbia, Slovakia, and Ukraine Countries in Asia, including China, Indonesia, Japan, and Chinese Taipei; countries in the Middle East including Egypt, Iran, and Turkey.
Stone, wood, concrete, steel, and composites are all explored in detail, along with their use in other regions. Slabs, girder, segmental, truss, arch, suspension, and cable-stayed bridges are analyzed here. Specific famous bridges are shown in full color in an inset. It also includes eleven international comparisons of best practices for highway composite girder design. The world’s tallest bridges, the 100 longest bridges overall, and the 20 longest bridge span across a wide range of bridge types and construction techniques, including suspension, cable-stayed, extra dosed, arch, girder, movable bridges (vertical lift, swing, and bascule), floating, stress ribbon, timber, and more.
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Author(s): Wai-Fah Chen, Lian Duan
Publisher: CRC Press, Year: 2013
ISBN: 978-1-4398-1030-9