Accelerated Bridge Construction - Best Practices and Techniques

Informationen zum Autor Dr. Khan has more than 35 years of experience as a structural and bridge engineer, project and design manager for transportation and industrial clients. Ali has supervised numerous design projects on behalf of the New Jersey Department of Transportation, New Jersey Turnpike Authority, Pennsylvania Department of Transportation, Maryland State Highway Administration and Washington Metropolitan Area Transportation Authority Klappentext The traveling public has no patience for prolonged, high cost construction projects. This puts highway construction contractors under intense pressure to minimize traffic disruptions and construction cost. Actively promoted by the Federal Highway Administration, there are hundreds of accelerated bridge construction (ABC) construction programs in the United States, Europe and Japan. Accelerated Bridge Construction: Best Practices and Techniques provides a wide range of construction techniques, processes and technologies designed to maximize bridge construction or reconstruction operations while minimizing project delays and community disruption. Inhaltsverzeichnis SECTION 1 INNOVATIVE CONSTRUCTION METHODSChapter 1 Introduction to Modern Accelerated Bridge Construction (ABC)Chapter 2 Recent Developments in ABC Concepts Chapter 3 Research and Training in ABC Structural Systems Chapter 4 Innovative ABC Techniques SECTION 2 RAPID CONSTRUCTION ISSUESChapter 5 Modular Bridge Construction Issues Chapter 6 Rapid Bridge Insertions Following FailuresChapter 7 ABC Planning and Resolving ABC Issues SECTION 3 MODULAR BRIDGESChapter 8 Prefabrication of the SuperstructureChapter 9 Prefabrication of the Substructure And Construction IssuesChapter 10 Alternative ABC Methods and Funding Evaluation Chapter 11 A Review of Chapters, River Bridges and Conclusions

Product details

• Authors: Mohiuddin Khan, Mohiuddin Ali Khan, Mohiuddin Ali (Adjunct Faculty Member Khan, Khan Mohiuddin Ali
• Publisher: ELSEVIER SCIENCE BV
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 12.08.2014
• EAN: 9780124072244
• ISBN: 978-0-12-407224-4
• No. of pages: 656
• Subjects: Natural sciences, medicine, IT, technology > Technology > Structural and environmental engineering; Social sciences, law, business > Business > Individual industrial sectors, branches; TECHNOLOGY & ENGINEERING / Civil / Highway & Traffic, Verkehrsingenieurwesen, Verkehrsplanung, TECHNOLOGY & ENGINEERING / Civil / Bridges, Highway & traffic engineering, Bridges, Highway and traffic engineering