Bridge Maintenance Safety and Management

Contents Preface 1 Highways bridges maintenance strategies 2 Bridge maintenance 3 Maintenance facilities management 4 Quality assurance 5 Construction 6 Service performance 7 Design methodology of GRS-IBS IndexDesign rehabilitate and maintain modern highway bridges from steel and reinforced concrete design to highway layout and basic geometrics to geotechnical engineering and hydraulics are all explained in this book Written with unusual clarity and packed with timely design examples and case studies plus eye opening sidebars and graphics the book shows bridge structures function types and applications design superstructures and substructures for maximum maintainability design highway componentsThe book is an easy approach pavement and serves as a slab structure geometrics and elevations roadway alignments and more kick off the project--from funding to site surveying and coring manage the design process-contract documents reports plans client interactions and may more manage the bridge itself--from creating a structure inventory to extending GIS and ADD functionality From initial concept all the way to final contract document preparation the book bridge maintenance safety and management presents a clear and detailed roadmap to the entire bridge design process Placing special emphasis on rehabilitation design and maintenance techniques the book is filled with important design procedures and illustrations jacket 304 pp.…