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Bridge Design Book

Bridge Design Book

Bridge Design Book

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I'm looking for a good book on bridge design. I'm an experienced building engineer that is looking for a good book that fills in the number crunching info available from AASHTO, etc. (What, When, Why, How, ...)

RE: Bridge Design Book

BRidge Engineering by Demitrias Tonias is a good beginners book for the typical bridges you'll see the most of.  

W.F. Chen has a three volume set of bridge handbook but I've only seen one so I can't comment.

Xanthakos has a nice handbook but as with all handbooks there is just enough material on a lot of aspects of bridges.

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RE: Bridge Design Book

Ditto on "Bridge Engineering" by Tonias.

I also have the "Bridge Engineering Handbook" edited by Chen; covers a multitude of topics but not much in the way of examples.

There's also "Bridge Inspection & Structural Analysis" and "Bridge Rehabilitation & Replacement" by Sung H. Park - some of the info is a bit dated (1980) but they're still useful and reasonably priced.

www.bestwebbuys.com/Sung_H_Park-author.html?isrc=Google-b-compare-author

"Design of Modern Steel Highway Bridges" and "Design of Modern Concrete Highway Bridges" by Conrad Heins. Both are good books with examples. In the versions published in the early 1980's there were some typos (more than what would be expected;maybe they've been fixed)but they're still good books.

The National Steel Bridge Alliance (part of AISC)  publishes what used to be the US Steel "Highway Structures Design Handbook"

The AASHTO website, www.transportation.org has several examples of LRFD design, including curved steel girders.

You can download some old, but very good,textbooks from www.slideruleera.net/

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