Rainas Concrete Bridge Practice Analysis, Design & Economics, 4th Edition

ThisFourth Edition of this highly successful book is a complete reference onanalysis, design and economics of concrete bridges. Meant essentially forDESIGN ENGINEERS, it is very useful to the Contractors, their Clients and FieldEngineers, it presents a practical and systematic methodology to enable quickand accurate design decisions. A step-by-step approach has been adoptedthroughout the text reflecting the order in which a practicing professionalmight proceed for designing a concrete bridge.

The book contains more than 350 illustrations and photographs, and tablesand charts, and covers in detail the topics such as:.....

• Structural analysis
• Stability of foundations
• Soil mechanics
• Foundation design
• Reinforced and Pre-stressed concrete design
• Estimating safe bearing capacity of soils for Open-foundations
• Caissons and piles
• Maintenance Management System for highway bridges
• Bridge distress reporting — A workman-like approach

Thenew edition has been considerably enhanced with additional chapters on:

• How to select consultants
• Value Engineering

HEREIS A BIRD'S-EYE-VIEW OF WHAT IS COVERED IN THIS TREATISE (which gives anidea about the EXTENT and DEPTH of its coverage):

• Practical structural analysis
• What a bridge is designed against.
• Live loading details around the world
• Structural concrete, reinforcement and prestressing
• The substructure.
• Effect of shear-ratings of foundations and deck geometry on distribution of horizontal forces
• Practical effects of slenderness (second-order theory) in designing tall slender structures
• Earth-pressure relief from soil-mass gripping the foundation below scour level.
• Reinforced-earth structures.
• Practical details of various types of bridge-bearings, bridge-expansion joints and bridge parapets
• The superstructure including cantilever and segmental construction and more
• Load distribution among deck-longitudinals
• Analysis of deck cross section.
• Reinforced concrete design.
• Prestressed Concretedesign.
• Design against shearand torsion
• Short cantilevers and deep beams.
• Axialthrust and any-axis bending.
• Ultimate strength as affected by tendon transformation
• Estimation of torsion in horizontally curved multi-span decks
• Thermal stresses.
• Various construction techniques and construction considerations.
• A quick analysis of vibration effects in bridge decks
• Cable-stayed decks.
• Fire resistance of structural concrete
• Economics and quantity trends in alternative bridge structure schemes
• Some topical reflections on bridge engineering.
• Value Engineering
• How to select consultants Etc., Etc.

With its real-time Practising Professional (not Academic)approach to designing bridges, giving the shortest and optimal paths todesign-decisions, and leading the Designer by the finger – as itwere, this book is indispensable to all Design Engineers and to thoseaspiring to be part of this Profession.

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