Highway Bridge Engineering and Rehabilitation
LRFD Load Analysis, Inspection, Foundations, and Maintenance for Modern Civil Engineering StructuresBy Miriam Escobedo
Length15h 59m
About this audiobook
Design it once. Judge it for seventy-five years. This is the bridge engineer's complete working reference.
A highway bridge is designed once and then inspected, rated, and repaired for the rest of its service life. Highway Bridge Engineering and Rehabilitation prepares you for both halves of that career. It begins with the fundamentals of bridge types, anatomy, and project delivery, then builds load combinations under load-and-resistance-factor design (LRFD), computes live-load distribution, and carries a single worked two-span example through flexure, shear, deflection, and fatigue checks so you can see how the pieces fit together on one real structure.
From there the book moves into member and system design: reinforced concrete decks, prestressed girders including losses and end zones, steel girders and composite action, stiffeners and shear studs, bearings, joints, piers, abutments, foundations, and scour. Later chapters turn to the assessment side of the profession. You will learn how chloride corrosion, alkali-silica reaction, and fatigue cracking actually present in the field, how element-level inspection and non-destructive evaluation are performed, how load ratings are computed from as-inspected sections, and how overlays, post-tensioning, and composite strengthening are staged under live traffic.
Whether you are checking a new design or deciding what to do with a deteriorating structure, the book connects code-based analysis to the physical bridge in front of you.
What you will learn:
• Assemble LRFD load combinations and compute live-load distribution for highway bridges
• Check a composite girder for flexure, shear, deflection, and fatigue on a worked two-span example
• Design reinforced concrete decks and detail prestressed girders, including losses and end zones
• Size stiffeners and shear studs, and evaluate bearings, joints, piers, and abutments
• Analyze foundations, scour, and geotechnical behavior, with seismic and extreme-event design
• Recognize how chloride corrosion, alkali-silica reaction, and fatigue cracking present in service
• Perform element-level inspection and non-destructive evaluation of existing bridges
• Compute load ratings and posting decisions from as-inspected sections
• Stage overlays, post-tensioning, and composite strengthening under live traffic
Who it is for: Bridge designers, inspection and rating engineers, public-agency and consulting professionals, and graduate civil engineering students who need one volume that spans LRFD analysis, design, inspection, load rating, and rehabilitation of modern highway structures.
Audiobook details
GenreTechnology
Length15 hrs 59 mins
Narrated byListen with 1,000+ voices
FormateBook with Audio
Publish dateSep 27, 2026
LanguageEnglish
Table of contents
1Highway Bridge Engineering and Rehabilitation
2Foreword
3Preface
4About This Book
5Important Safety Notice
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6Chapter 1: Bridge Types, Anatomy and Project Delivery
71.1 Span Arrangement and Structural System Selection
81.2 Superstructure Anatomy
91.3 Substructure Anatomy
101.4 Slab, Box, Truss and Arch Systems
111.5 Constructability, Staging and Project Delivery
12Chapter 2: Loads and Load Combinations
132.1 Permanent Loads and Dead Load Computation
142.2 Vehicular Live Load: Design Truck, Tandem and Lane
152.3 Wind, Thermal, Braking and Centrifugal Loads
162.4 Limit States and Load Combinations
172.5 Construction and Miscellaneous Loads
18Chapter 3: Analysis and Live Load Distribution
193.1 Influence Lines and Load Placement
203.2 Approximate Live Load Distribution Factors
213.3 Refined Analysis: Grillage and Finite Element
223.4 Multiple Presence, Skew and Curvature Effects
23Chapter 4: Reinforced Concrete Decks
244.1 Strip Method Deck Design
254.2 Empirical Deck Design
264.3 Overhangs, Barriers and Deck Drainage
274.4 Skew, Crack Control and Fatigue in Decks
28Chapter 5: Prestressed Concrete Girders
295.1 Strand Layout, Debonding and Prestress Force
305.2 Prestress Losses
315.3 Release and Service Stress Checks, Flexural and Shear Capacity
325.4 End Zone Reinforcement and Detailing
33Chapter 6: Steel Girders and Composite Design
346.1 Section Proportioning and Classification
356.2 Flexural Resistance and Lateral-Torsional Buckling
366.3 Shear Resistance and Transverse Stiffeners
376.4 Composite Action and Shear Connectors
38Chapter 7: Fatigue and Fracture Control
397.1 Stress Range and Cycle Counting
407.2 Fatigue Detail Categories
417.3 Fracture-Critical Members and Material Toughness
427.4 Fatigue-Prone Details and Retrofit
43Chapter 8: Bearings, Joints and Substructure
448.1 Bearing Types and Movement Demand
458.2 Expansion Joints and Their Failure Modes
468.3 Pier and Abutment Design
478.4 Integral Abutments and Their Behavior
48Chapter 9: Foundations, Scour and Geotechnics
499.1 Spread Footings and Bearing Capacity
509.2 Driven Piles and Drilled Shafts
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