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This practicing engineer's guide to bridge decks includes relevant excerpts from current design standards and serves as a comprehensive reference for the evaluation, testing, selection, and examination of design criteria and alternatives for bridge decks. Crucial challenges to civil engineers,...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Bettigole, Neal H.
Other Authors: Robison, Rita
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: New York, N.Y. : ASCE Press, ©1997.
Subjects:
Bridges > Floors.
Ponts > Tabliers.
TECHNOLOGY & ENGINEERING > Civil > Bridges.
Electronic books.
Online Access:Connect to the full text of this electronic book
Table of Contents:
  • Contents
  • Preface
  • 1. Introduction to Bridge Decks and How We Got There
  • Some Historical Notes
  • Standardization
  • New Tasks for Engineers
  • 2. The Economy of Better Bridge Decks
  • Criteria for Better Decks
  • Check the Stresses
  • Coping with Life-Cycle Costing
  • Analyzing Life-Cycle Costs
  • The New York Experience
  • 3. Selection of Bridge Decks
  • The New Bridge
  • Compatibility with the Superstructure
  • Rehabilitation Projects
  • Planning Phase Fiveâ€?Schematic Design
  • Consider the Deck Joints
  • Rating the Joints
  • Drain That Deck
  • 4. Evaluating Existing Bridge DecksConcrete
  • Nondestructive Testing
  • What Can Go Wrong
  • Reporting Deck Conditions
  • Timber
  • Steel Grid Decks
  • Exodermic Decks
  • Steel Orthotropic Decks
  • Deck Joints
  • Treatments and Repairs
  • Deck Overlays
  • Rapid Treatment
  • Breaking Up Old Concrete
  • Preparing Specifications
  • 5. Solid Reinforced Concrete Bridge Decks
  • Standards and Design Procedures
  • Recent Research in Practice
  • Precast Concrete
  • Special Designs
  • Overlays
  • Protecting the Rebar
  • Coating Steel Rebar
  • Cathodic Protection6. The Other Bridge Decks
  • Steel Grid Bridge Decks
  • Basic Design
  • Design Methodology
  • Construction Practices
  • Exodermic Decks
  • History
  • Steel Orthotropic Decks
  • Timber Bridge Decks
  • Glulam Decks
  • Construction
  • Stress-Laminated Decks
  • 7. A Guide to the Guide Specifications
  • Guide to LRFD
  • The Canadian Specs
  • Other Publications
  • Appendix A. Excerpt Bridge Deck Evaluation Manual
  • Index
  • A
  • B
  • C
  • D
  • E
  • F
  • G
  • H
  • I
  • J
  • K
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  • M
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